House 3x07 - "Son of a Coma Guy"
That is some damn fine television. I don't even know where to start. Recap tomorrow probably.
ETA: Well, no, that's a lie. I'll start tonight with the smaller stuff. Not touching the patient storyline or the bucketloads of House/Wilson or House's personal revelations or the cover-up yet.
Very glad everything from the preview occurred by the second commercial break and that the rest of the hour went in a completely unpredictable direction. I could hardly believe it when House and Wilson (and Former Vegetative State Guy, hereinafter FVSG [I'm getting to be as bad as House at names the first time 'round]) hopped in the car and headed for Atlantic City. Very glad also that references were made straight off to Awakenings and Terry Schiavo so those could get out of the way.
I wrote down, "Well, that's our argument; at least this time it's cut short by a patient's kid instead of a page" after Wilson confronted House about the stolen and forged prescriptions in the teaser, figuring that'd be the end of that -- but, uh, happily proven wrong there.
Tritter continues to parallel Vogler by cornering each of the Fellows and trying to weasel useful/harmful information about House out of them, and possibly sow seeds of mistrust in the team in the hope that it will benefit him later, by determining and then exploiting their weaknesses. Most interesting to me was his comment to Chase about being forced to cover up something he didn't want to do. Boyd asked a similar question about why Chase does things he doesn't want to in "House vs. God" (also written by Doris Egan), and I was as intrigued then.
Tritter also continues to parallel House by investigating and coming out with stunners like "Everybody lies." Too bad he almost certainly picked that up from someone he interviewed and used it on Foreman for a reason. You know, as opposed to Tritter being just that similar in his beliefs and methods.
House lies a second time about how he and Stacy met. First a strip club, now paintball. Unless they were playing paintball at a strip club. What will he come up with next, I wonder?
Wilson! Love! All the time, everywhere! Snapping at House, cracking jokes about human asparagus, ditching work as the head of a critical department to go joyriding, popping Twizzlers while watching House and FVSG parry verbal attacks in the front seat, ordering people around on the phone to get a sandwich made, holding incredibly intimate eye contact with House, flirting badly with a married woman on purpose, looking amused and impressed and curious at FVSG's questions, trying to stop House from doing whatever his "rat maze of a brain" had come up with to kill FVSG, then caving and covering for him -- Wait, not going to get into the substantial stuff right now. He was wearing my favorite brown outfit. Tie and shirtsleeves and slightly mussed hair and leaning back against walls and mantels and God. Not to mention more new locations to admire him in -- the back of his car (with seatbelt! I find that weirdly attractive), the hotel room, the casino.
...And the rest has got to wait till my brain's processed it all.
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Okay -- Here's more.
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Commentaries - noydb666, Diane Kristine, Pru, *** Doris Egan (episode writer), usomitai, firestorm717
ETA: Well, no, that's a lie. I'll start tonight with the smaller stuff. Not touching the patient storyline or the bucketloads of House/Wilson or House's personal revelations or the cover-up yet.
Very glad everything from the preview occurred by the second commercial break and that the rest of the hour went in a completely unpredictable direction. I could hardly believe it when House and Wilson (and Former Vegetative State Guy, hereinafter FVSG [I'm getting to be as bad as House at names the first time 'round]) hopped in the car and headed for Atlantic City. Very glad also that references were made straight off to Awakenings and Terry Schiavo so those could get out of the way.
I wrote down, "Well, that's our argument; at least this time it's cut short by a patient's kid instead of a page" after Wilson confronted House about the stolen and forged prescriptions in the teaser, figuring that'd be the end of that -- but, uh, happily proven wrong there.
Tritter continues to parallel Vogler by cornering each of the Fellows and trying to weasel useful/harmful information about House out of them, and possibly sow seeds of mistrust in the team in the hope that it will benefit him later, by determining and then exploiting their weaknesses. Most interesting to me was his comment to Chase about being forced to cover up something he didn't want to do. Boyd asked a similar question about why Chase does things he doesn't want to in "House vs. God" (also written by Doris Egan), and I was as intrigued then.
Tritter also continues to parallel House by investigating and coming out with stunners like "Everybody lies." Too bad he almost certainly picked that up from someone he interviewed and used it on Foreman for a reason. You know, as opposed to Tritter being just that similar in his beliefs and methods.
House lies a second time about how he and Stacy met. First a strip club, now paintball. Unless they were playing paintball at a strip club. What will he come up with next, I wonder?
Wilson! Love! All the time, everywhere! Snapping at House, cracking jokes about human asparagus, ditching work as the head of a critical department to go joyriding, popping Twizzlers while watching House and FVSG parry verbal attacks in the front seat, ordering people around on the phone to get a sandwich made, holding incredibly intimate eye contact with House, flirting badly with a married woman on purpose, looking amused and impressed and curious at FVSG's questions, trying to stop House from doing whatever his "rat maze of a brain" had come up with to kill FVSG, then caving and covering for him -- Wait, not going to get into the substantial stuff right now. He was wearing my favorite brown outfit. Tie and shirtsleeves and slightly mussed hair and leaning back against walls and mantels and God. Not to mention more new locations to admire him in -- the back of his car (with seatbelt! I find that weirdly attractive), the hotel room, the casino.
...And the rest has got to wait till my brain's processed it all.
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Okay -- Here's more.
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Commentaries - noydb666, Diane Kristine, Pru, *** Doris Egan (episode writer), usomitai, firestorm717