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House 4.9, "Games"
Remember Wilson's speech in "No Reason" when he described how patients who've gotten false positive results and then find out later that they're actually healthy don't get happy, they get depressed? It seemed like he forgot all about that when he delivered the "good" news to his patient tonight and expected the guy to be all smiles.
Then I remembered he was a hallucination in "No Reason," and so he wouldn't remember that at all.
But, honestly? I got scared when not-terminal-guy looked Wilson in the eye and said he was suing him for a lot of money. My mind flashed to Wilson trying to cut some kind of under-the-table deal, or letting the guy blackmail him into regular long-term payments, or going to court and somehow losing the case. I was scared for him, in a way I wasn't scared during Vogler's or even Tritter's arcs. The patient-villain wasn't threatening House along with Wilson, so it was possible within show rules for him actually do damage.
And then, that argument! That glorious argument! "You think you can cure pain!" "You think you can avoid pain!" "You have to control everything!" "You feel responsible for every patient who walks into your office!" The genuine bitterness, the essential conflicts that've poisoned their friendship since the infarction. I care about you. Leave me alone. Don't give in; don't give up. Don't let other people let your guilt destroy you.
Still don't quite get Amber, but I felt awful right along with her when she got fired. Those tears—those were good, sympathetic tears. And I liked that she went back to the patient to try to learn how not to care. I think everybody on the show would like to know.
Thank goodness Thirteen got to stay after all. I'm liking her, suspenders and accurate diagnoses and pixie looks and all, and like Cuddy said, it wouldn't have been fair for the team to be all male. Taub's got intriguingly thorny ethics, and Kutner should be good for comic relief and occasional good ideas. They should make an interesting team once they start really working together instead of playing the hiring game.
Punk rocker's seizure goes in the top five funniest patient moments list, along with things like the bicyclist's floppy collapse in "Spin" and... other stuff I'm forgetting.
Not much point bringing up the patient/House drug addict connection, since the writers made all the points for us. Theme of caring vs. not caring (House, House's patient, Amber, Wilson), ease of death vs. difficulty of life (House, House's patient, Wilson's patient). Theme of people not being what you expect, even if you expect the opposite of what's expected (Amber's not always just a bitch; the patient's both and neither a worthless addict nor a bleeding-heart Peter Pan; Wilson's patient isn't as grateful as he'd hoped; House continues to defy categorization; etc.).
Dunno, what else? Chase has thighs. House looked nice with his arm across the back of the couch in the beginning. Liked Cuddy's silk shirt. Chuckle-worthy meta comments about mood music and... something during the scene where House was doing an ultrasound on the patient's chest. House went snooping in Wilson's desk drawers and played a nastier than usual trick on him. House called Wilson "Dr. Wilson" and lounged behind him, smirking. House got in another dig about Foreman being gay and/or a girl. Lovely House/Cuddy flirtations. Wilson had another male patient. Am so relieved he isn't being sued for massive amounts of money for trying to do his job.
So now we have to wait until January? I guess that's a combination of the holidays, "American Idol" starting back up, and the rapidly dwindling pile of airable episodes.
Then I remembered he was a hallucination in "No Reason," and so he wouldn't remember that at all.
But, honestly? I got scared when not-terminal-guy looked Wilson in the eye and said he was suing him for a lot of money. My mind flashed to Wilson trying to cut some kind of under-the-table deal, or letting the guy blackmail him into regular long-term payments, or going to court and somehow losing the case. I was scared for him, in a way I wasn't scared during Vogler's or even Tritter's arcs. The patient-villain wasn't threatening House along with Wilson, so it was possible within show rules for him actually do damage.
And then, that argument! That glorious argument! "You think you can cure pain!" "You think you can avoid pain!" "You have to control everything!" "You feel responsible for every patient who walks into your office!" The genuine bitterness, the essential conflicts that've poisoned their friendship since the infarction. I care about you. Leave me alone. Don't give in; don't give up. Don't let other people let your guilt destroy you.
Still don't quite get Amber, but I felt awful right along with her when she got fired. Those tears—those were good, sympathetic tears. And I liked that she went back to the patient to try to learn how not to care. I think everybody on the show would like to know.
Thank goodness Thirteen got to stay after all. I'm liking her, suspenders and accurate diagnoses and pixie looks and all, and like Cuddy said, it wouldn't have been fair for the team to be all male. Taub's got intriguingly thorny ethics, and Kutner should be good for comic relief and occasional good ideas. They should make an interesting team once they start really working together instead of playing the hiring game.
Punk rocker's seizure goes in the top five funniest patient moments list, along with things like the bicyclist's floppy collapse in "Spin" and... other stuff I'm forgetting.
Not much point bringing up the patient/House drug addict connection, since the writers made all the points for us. Theme of caring vs. not caring (House, House's patient, Amber, Wilson), ease of death vs. difficulty of life (House, House's patient, Wilson's patient). Theme of people not being what you expect, even if you expect the opposite of what's expected (Amber's not always just a bitch; the patient's both and neither a worthless addict nor a bleeding-heart Peter Pan; Wilson's patient isn't as grateful as he'd hoped; House continues to defy categorization; etc.).
Dunno, what else? Chase has thighs. House looked nice with his arm across the back of the couch in the beginning. Liked Cuddy's silk shirt. Chuckle-worthy meta comments about mood music and... something during the scene where House was doing an ultrasound on the patient's chest. House went snooping in Wilson's desk drawers and played a nastier than usual trick on him. House called Wilson "Dr. Wilson" and lounged behind him, smirking. House got in another dig about Foreman being gay and/or a girl. Lovely House/Cuddy flirtations. Wilson had another male patient. Am so relieved he isn't being sued for massive amounts of money for trying to do his job.
So now we have to wait until January? I guess that's a combination of the holidays, "American Idol" starting back up, and the rapidly dwindling pile of airable episodes.