Tonight's Episode

[nightdog_barks]

Well. I think that was one of the most well-rounded episodes in a while, but I'm not sure how I feel about the ending. House chooses happiness? House tries to choose happiness? House thinks he's choosing happiness yet mislabels the particular ladybit he's resting his head on?*

Great banter all around. Interesting sidestory with Foreman and Taub as roommates.

WONDERFUL scene with House analyzing the single Vicodin tablet.

Finally more than three seconds of Wilson, and YAY for taking away House's keys. I'm fanwanking that he drove House to Cuddy's place, because I simply can't imagine House walking X number of miles in the rain.

I'm sure there's more but we're making dinner.


*Vaginas are inside the body. House would've been resting his head on the ... outer bits. Labia majora? *g*

Comments

[topaz_eyes]

Who else thought of "The Softer Side" when House started talking about how being happy makes him a crap doctor?

This felt like a classic House episode. I was ambivalent about House declaring he's choosing happiness with Cuddy over saving patients' lives. Then I decided, the ending was actually manipulative on House's part. And Cuddy's not stupid, she knows she's being played. The expression on her face at the very end said it all.

[nightdog_barks]

YES! I couldn't remember the name of the episode, but I KNEW we've been down this road before! Don't give me anti-depressants, they make me hazy. Or slow. Or something -- I can't remember the exact word he used.

This felt like a classic House episode to me too. I'm ... not sure House was playing her there at the end, but I do think Cuddy must be really starting to wonder if this is all worth it.

[blackmare]

You remember just fine. It was hazy, the word House used. When arguing with Wilson over whether the antidepressants made him happy or hazy. So no, this is hardly the first time we've seen House wrestle with this idea that happiness = losing his edge as a doctor.

There was another time, too. When the patient originally, as it turned out, was only suffering dehydration, but House (because he was happy about something else at the time) conceded to the parents' wishes and didn't insist upon ... it was a CAT scan or something, that would have revealed that the problem they subsequently treated for (and which treatment caused all kinds of Bad Side Effects that sent the team chasing ghosts) never existed in the first place. And House said that if he hadn't been happy that day, he'd have shot the parents down, done the damn test, and everything would have been better.

[nightdog_barks]

I thought there was another episode. Needless to say, House this idea stuck like a ROCK in his head that he can't be happy and a good doctor at the same time.

[blackmare]

I am now hearing Wilson use that metaphor. Simile, whatever it is, telling House that, asking if he's talked to Nolan about it because it is ... it's absurd, House. Seriously.

[nightdog_barks]

He has to have gotten it from somewhere, and I can easily see his dad pressing the view that if you're having fun doing something, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. The whole everything has to be a battle, a struggle, for it to be worth doing.

[blackmare]

Yeah, the military dead-seriousness about everything. I can absolutely see that as a legacy of John House. Perfection! White-glove inspections! No excuses are acceptable ever!

You know ... it occurs to me that it isn't just Wilson who needs House to help him get past the curse of feeling like he's got to be perfect. House needs that from Wilson, too, just in a different way.

[taiga13]

It's weird because he was happy with Stacy, before the infarction. (Or so we've been told.) He was a genius doctor then.
One thing I noticed was another House/Wilson role reversal: Wilson was the one to make the crude comment that shocked the musicians.

[nightdog_barks]

Did he make a crude comment? I have no idea what it was -- my memory is FLEETING these days. *g*

[topaz_eyes]

"The Softer Side" was the kid with dehydration, and House was taking methadone for his pain. The anti-depressant episode was "Resignation," in S3, when House gives Wilson speed in retaliation for Wilson dosing House with anti-depressants.

[nightdog_barks]

Sigh.

Thank you, Topaz. Can't remember anything these days ...