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bironic"Skin Deep" (original pathetic excuse for commentary here)
Every time we see House in bed I cross my fingers that Wilson's there just beyond the frame. One of these days it'll happen. Till then, we can make do with "Desire" fading from House in his bedroom into Wilson at the hospital.
"This is creepy, even for you" could have been a cheesy line, but Jennifer Morrison delivers it really well. I like her anger when House makes assumptions about how Alex is screwed up because she's good-looking. Cameron doesn't get much in that scene, but JM works a lot into what she has to work with.
Chase! Saying "Shocker" and making the bet with House, sealed with the touching of fists. And making fun of Cameron: "Oh, my God! It might be PTSD!"
The clues in this episode were painfully obvious the first time. Not that the diagnosis was obvious (though it was one of the few times I guessed it before it was revealed), just that they screamed (and still scream) CLUE! and it detracts from my enjoyment when it's so obvious the team is missing an important part of the diagnosis.
Man, I love Foreman when he's talking to patients he doesn't disrespect. Explaining the nature and dangers of the rapid detox procedure to Alex's dad was great. And getting two accurate digs in to House: "Your theory has the advantages of being completely unproveable and completely exculpating you," and then warning House about rushing the diagnosis because he's in pain.
One more item in the "House may be a jerk, but he's an effective doctor" category: The clinic patient doesn't want to talk to Cuddy, he wants House.
Arg, the brain biopsy needle looks so wobbly it makes me cringe every time.
...And the wardrobe team strikes again with Romantic-poet!Cameron.
"HOUSE. THIS IS GOD." No comments necessary.
Ha ha, my dad walked in in the middle of the MRI scene and stayed for a few minutes. Just before the cane-smack, he said in re Wilson's Serious Face™, "Is he cross-eyed?" Poor RSL. Does anyone know for sure if he has strabismus?
It still pisses me off that (a) House gets to suggest paraneoplastic syndrome instead of the oncologist and (b) Wilson misses the cancerous testicle. I like thinking it's because Wilson is preoccupied with his disintegrating marriage and House's pain. One day maybe the show's writers will let him be right and/or effective, since he's supposed to be the Boy Wonder department head and all.
Almost makes up for it that he does the biopsy, though. In a sweater-vest, no less.
More roots of "No Reason" – Cuddy saying morphine is "extreme, even for you" (echoing Cameron) and half-jokes that it would start him "down the road to becoming a junkie"; then, when House says he can't go to Wilson because Wilson thinks the problem is psychosomatic, she immediately says she agrees with him. Teaming up against him for his own good.
House close to tears...Wilson's voice has broken so often now that it's getting less effective, but this hasn't lost its power.
"Sex Kills" (original commentary here [with some Boston Legal])
I love this ep. It's slightly out of formula, Wilson gets the secondary plot,* and we've got Adam Busch and Greg Grunberg guesting. Funny how writing fic brings certain episodes particularly close to one's heart (though it's more complicated than that, since the fic probably arises from one's love for the episode to begin with). I adore this one, having watched it a few times before/while writing "Dissonance," and I adore "House vs. God" even more, having watched it a bunch of times before/while writing "Need." [/self-promotion]
*Once again I'm reminded that my love for this show is usually proportionate to RSL's screen time.
Anyhow, on to the play-by-play, skipping stuff mentioned the first time 'round:
Nice subtle foreshadowing with the hearts in the bridge game.
More unconscious-House!brain fodder for "No Reason" – "Then again, I guess your testicles aren't gonna explode either."
House: When guys have brain-crotch problems, it's usually the result of using one too much and the other too little.
Cameron: *pointed look at Chase*
"It seems there are other ways to kill people besides having sex with them." It seems there are show writers hanging out on TWOP and making meta in-jokes in the scripts.
(Said I wouldn't go over stuff twice. But OMGfoosball scene.)
Ha, House winked at Cameron as the elevator doors were closing. Right after "Big sloppy heart beats no heart at all."
Neuberger may be a JERK for what he did to his wife, but he's also one of the strongest and most convincing patient relatives ever on this show.
Chase ("Sex Kills"): "You want us to do a differential diagnosis on a dead person?"
Chase ("House vs. God"): "This is crazy, we're diagnosing a recovery."
Oh, squinty, voice-breaky Wilson. *tear* Seriously, though, do all actors take a class called "Exploitation of lower eyelid muscles for dramatic moments"?
F*ck House's pager, and f*ck the scriptwriters for all the times they've cut short a decent House/Wilson scene with that stupid beeping. (Twice in this ep and the not-fake page in "Histories" come immediately to mind.) Have some guts and let them get somewhere for a change!
Wilson looks so good at the end there. And House proves despite blowing him off earlier in the exchange that went a little too far beyond "helpful advice couched in insults" that he cares about him. Too bad most of it is played for laughs next week. (Will be played for laughs?)
Every time we see House in bed I cross my fingers that Wilson's there just beyond the frame. One of these days it'll happen. Till then, we can make do with "Desire" fading from House in his bedroom into Wilson at the hospital.
"This is creepy, even for you" could have been a cheesy line, but Jennifer Morrison delivers it really well. I like her anger when House makes assumptions about how Alex is screwed up because she's good-looking. Cameron doesn't get much in that scene, but JM works a lot into what she has to work with.
Chase! Saying "Shocker" and making the bet with House, sealed with the touching of fists. And making fun of Cameron: "Oh, my God! It might be PTSD!"
The clues in this episode were painfully obvious the first time. Not that the diagnosis was obvious (though it was one of the few times I guessed it before it was revealed), just that they screamed (and still scream) CLUE! and it detracts from my enjoyment when it's so obvious the team is missing an important part of the diagnosis.
Man, I love Foreman when he's talking to patients he doesn't disrespect. Explaining the nature and dangers of the rapid detox procedure to Alex's dad was great. And getting two accurate digs in to House: "Your theory has the advantages of being completely unproveable and completely exculpating you," and then warning House about rushing the diagnosis because he's in pain.
One more item in the "House may be a jerk, but he's an effective doctor" category: The clinic patient doesn't want to talk to Cuddy, he wants House.
Arg, the brain biopsy needle looks so wobbly it makes me cringe every time.
...And the wardrobe team strikes again with Romantic-poet!Cameron.
"HOUSE. THIS IS GOD." No comments necessary.
Ha ha, my dad walked in in the middle of the MRI scene and stayed for a few minutes. Just before the cane-smack, he said in re Wilson's Serious Face™, "Is he cross-eyed?" Poor RSL. Does anyone know for sure if he has strabismus?
It still pisses me off that (a) House gets to suggest paraneoplastic syndrome instead of the oncologist and (b) Wilson misses the cancerous testicle. I like thinking it's because Wilson is preoccupied with his disintegrating marriage and House's pain. One day maybe the show's writers will let him be right and/or effective, since he's supposed to be the Boy Wonder department head and all.
Almost makes up for it that he does the biopsy, though. In a sweater-vest, no less.
More roots of "No Reason" – Cuddy saying morphine is "extreme, even for you" (echoing Cameron) and half-jokes that it would start him "down the road to becoming a junkie"; then, when House says he can't go to Wilson because Wilson thinks the problem is psychosomatic, she immediately says she agrees with him. Teaming up against him for his own good.
House close to tears...Wilson's voice has broken so often now that it's getting less effective, but this hasn't lost its power.
"Sex Kills" (original commentary here [with some Boston Legal])
I love this ep. It's slightly out of formula, Wilson gets the secondary plot,* and we've got Adam Busch and Greg Grunberg guesting. Funny how writing fic brings certain episodes particularly close to one's heart (though it's more complicated than that, since the fic probably arises from one's love for the episode to begin with). I adore this one, having watched it a few times before/while writing "Dissonance," and I adore "House vs. God" even more, having watched it a bunch of times before/while writing "Need." [/self-promotion]
*Once again I'm reminded that my love for this show is usually proportionate to RSL's screen time.
Anyhow, on to the play-by-play, skipping stuff mentioned the first time 'round:
Nice subtle foreshadowing with the hearts in the bridge game.
More unconscious-House!brain fodder for "No Reason" – "Then again, I guess your testicles aren't gonna explode either."
House: When guys have brain-crotch problems, it's usually the result of using one too much and the other too little.
Cameron: *pointed look at Chase*
"It seems there are other ways to kill people besides having sex with them." It seems there are show writers hanging out on TWOP and making meta in-jokes in the scripts.
(Said I wouldn't go over stuff twice. But OMGfoosball scene.)
Ha, House winked at Cameron as the elevator doors were closing. Right after "Big sloppy heart beats no heart at all."
Neuberger may be a JERK for what he did to his wife, but he's also one of the strongest and most convincing patient relatives ever on this show.
Chase ("Sex Kills"): "You want us to do a differential diagnosis on a dead person?"
Chase ("House vs. God"): "This is crazy, we're diagnosing a recovery."
Oh, squinty, voice-breaky Wilson. *tear* Seriously, though, do all actors take a class called "Exploitation of lower eyelid muscles for dramatic moments"?
F*ck House's pager, and f*ck the scriptwriters for all the times they've cut short a decent House/Wilson scene with that stupid beeping. (Twice in this ep and the not-fake page in "Histories" come immediately to mind.) Have some guts and let them get somewhere for a change!
Wilson looks so good at the end there. And House proves despite blowing him off earlier in the exchange that went a little too far beyond "helpful advice couched in insults" that he cares about him. Too bad most of it is played for laughs next week. (Will be played for laughs?)
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Date: Jul. 26th, 2006 03:09 am (UTC)Is it that awful ruffled shirt? A fanfic should be written as to how she got that travesty of a garment and why she continues to wear it.
House close to tears...Wilson's voice has broken so often now that it's getting less effective, but this hasn't lost its power.
House has broken down all of two times that I can think of (3S and this), but how many times has Wilson? B&BW and where else?
Once again I'm reminded that my love for this show is usually proportionate to RSL's screen time.
Mine is distressingly predictable when correlated with H/W screen time, but that translates to about the same thing, since whenever Wilson is on screen, the "I love House, he loves me" subtext is present.
Oh, squinty, voice-breaky Wilson. *tear* Seriously, though, do all actors take a class called "Exploitation of lower eyelid muscles for dramatic moments"?
Yes, but I think its official name is "Not Wearing Your Contacts 101." ;)
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Date: Jul. 26th, 2006 03:17 am (UTC)Just to clarify, I meant Wilson's voice breaking, not necessarily him losing it altogether. Off the top of my head, the wobble happens again in "House vs. God" a few times, and... really any time he gets overly emotional in the latter half of this season.
H/W correlation definitely, since as you point out that comprises most of RSL's screen time, but also Wilson with Grace ("House vs. God"), and Wilson with Cuddy (whatever the episode was called where they go on their painful date), and Wilson with Cameron (see previous discussions), and Wilson with Foreman (a few weeks back when he's seeking advice on dealing with House), and...
I think its official name is "Not Wearing Your Contacts 101." ;)
Hee, that too. The myopia is practically tangible sometimes.
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Date: Jul. 26th, 2006 05:24 am (UTC)That's because his budding romantic relationship with House is so topsy-turvy!
H/W correlation definitely, since as you point out that comprises most of RSL's screen time, but also...
What I meant by H/W screen time = RSL screen time is that I find most Wilson time even when House isn't in the scene exudes H/W.
The myopia is practically tangible sometimes.
*touches eyeball* Eww, squishy.
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Date: Jul. 26th, 2006 04:13 am (UTC)Oh yes. *sigh*
I was reading the slash=OOC post last night (it's on f_w now, in case you haven't seen), and thinking, 'Have you *seen* House and Wilson together?' Neither of them actually read gaygaygay to me, the way some characters do (Sirius Black), but together? They are so very gay for each other. *g*
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Date: Jul. 26th, 2006 05:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Jul. 26th, 2006 12:34 pm (UTC)Now, I realise your username is probably some clever melding of ironic and Byron, but every time I see it a little voice in my head insists - 'isn't it bironic? Don't you think?'. OK, I feel I have thoroughly embarrassed myself enough for one day :)
Hope you have a lovely day!
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Date: Jul. 26th, 2006 12:58 pm (UTC)Confession time: Alanis Morissette sang a little in my head too when I came up with the name, and she still occasionally pops in for a visit. I think it's unavoidable when she's become so associated with the word "ironic." (Heck, even House quotes her.)
You know, I've been thinking about doing a little survey of people's usernames -- where they came from and what they mean. D'you think people would be interested?
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Date: Jul. 26th, 2006 01:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Jul. 26th, 2006 01:06 pm (UTC)Okay, long way to go for that point.
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Date: Jul. 26th, 2006 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Jul. 26th, 2006 01:48 pm (UTC)