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House Ep 4.3
Oct. 21st, 2007 02:01 pmBelated post about the most recent episode of House (baseball this week).
PLUSES
Very effective (and affecting) patient of the week. Good service dog subplot - they are very remarkable, I read a blog about someone with a service dog and they're just amazing. I did the usual human thing where you worry about the dog when human lives are in danger. This was very cynically illustrated in the movie Independence Day. But the main human patient was good.
Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard - awesome as always. "I love you." Sincere or not, very nice.
Chase's scenes were fun.
MINUSES
Suicidal Clinic Patient - not interesting, or maybe well-developed? I guess it was his effect on House I didn't buy, because as many people have pointed out, the brink of Death's Door should be very familiar to House by now.
So, if they were trying to make a case for House committing suicide (or at least being suicidal), they could have done that, but they didn't seem to be. Which made his "knife in light socket" unprofessional and pointless.
Not sure why "13" was the only one getting static for the miss - looks like Kumar and the boys could also take some responsibility. But honestly, the thing that got to me was - the guy couldn't use his hands, right? So what was with just setting the water down, anyway? Was he going to levitate it to his mouth? And how would he even lift the pills?
Heard some arguments that service dogs also would not eat pills off of the floor, which I do believe, they're so extensively trained. But I don't buy the guy killing his dog, either. He didn't seem like the type to think death was better than unhandicapped life, for dogs or people - he only gave up when the life became worse than death. So I don't see him as complicit, which makes the whole scenario implausible.
Thought Foreman's plot was lame - what I saw of it, I fastforwarded him. If this takes him down a peg I might get back to liking him, but his humorless superiority over House has gotten REALLY old.
PLUSES
Very effective (and affecting) patient of the week. Good service dog subplot - they are very remarkable, I read a blog about someone with a service dog and they're just amazing. I did the usual human thing where you worry about the dog when human lives are in danger. This was very cynically illustrated in the movie Independence Day. But the main human patient was good.
Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard - awesome as always. "I love you." Sincere or not, very nice.
Chase's scenes were fun.
MINUSES
Suicidal Clinic Patient - not interesting, or maybe well-developed? I guess it was his effect on House I didn't buy, because as many people have pointed out, the brink of Death's Door should be very familiar to House by now.
So, if they were trying to make a case for House committing suicide (or at least being suicidal), they could have done that, but they didn't seem to be. Which made his "knife in light socket" unprofessional and pointless.
Not sure why "13" was the only one getting static for the miss - looks like Kumar and the boys could also take some responsibility. But honestly, the thing that got to me was - the guy couldn't use his hands, right? So what was with just setting the water down, anyway? Was he going to levitate it to his mouth? And how would he even lift the pills?
Heard some arguments that service dogs also would not eat pills off of the floor, which I do believe, they're so extensively trained. But I don't buy the guy killing his dog, either. He didn't seem like the type to think death was better than unhandicapped life, for dogs or people - he only gave up when the life became worse than death. So I don't see him as complicit, which makes the whole scenario implausible.
Thought Foreman's plot was lame - what I saw of it, I fastforwarded him. If this takes him down a peg I might get back to liking him, but his humorless superiority over House has gotten REALLY old.
