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1. Er. I already knew that today's episode would be longer than usual, but I do hope that's not because it's all in slow-motion? ;-)
2. Is it really appropriate to talk to your colleague about her health situation in a waiting room stuffed full of patients?
3. *g* Love House's casual "What seems to be the problem?" after the PotW-to-be comes in with the hostages.
4. Er, did the PotW a. know he'd be treated by House (he said he 'wanted the best doctor in the hospital', he didn't ask for House specifically), and b. research his diagnosing habits, given how he's prepared his flat for the doctors to search it? Or is searching through patients' accommodations some fixed part of any medical diagnosis that I'm not aware of?
5. I kinda wonder where Chase ran off to.
6. The truth is out there?
7. The group-of-people-tied-together walking scene amuses me. And reminds me of an old Garfield comic where Garfield, Jon, Odie, Random Guy and Little Old Lady and eventually also a lamppost end up trapped together by a - window blind, I think? - that somehow wrapped around them.
8. You know, teen hostage boy is an idiot to hang around crazy hostage taker for a second longer than he had to.
8b. But I guess he didn't expect the brilliant doctor to be even more of an idiot and hand the loaded gun back to the crazy guy.
8c. And I do hope House is aware of the fact that Thirteen and teen hostage boy are should by all rights kill him once this is over. Giving the crazy guy back the gun, seriously? If House wants to risk his life that's his own business, but for heaven's sake at least send everyone else out before doing something this phenomenally stupid!
8d. That doesn't mean that I want to hear Thirteen psychoanalysing about it, though.
9. "Her kidneys are shutting down because of the drugs you made her take."
No, House. He may have made her take the drugs, but he could only do so because you handed him back his gun while other people were still in the room. Everything that happens afterwards is just as much on your head as it is on his.
10. Seriously, stop the psychoanalysing. Making the slightly crazy PotW commiserate with oh-so-tragic poor heroine Thirteen isn't going to make me like her any better.
11. Okay, and now for a rant.
Overall, the episode had its moments, though far too much Thirteen and too little… well, everyone else for my taste, really, but the ending had me come close to yelling at the screen.
So in the end, the police walk off with the now-healed or at least diagnosed hostage taker, and… that's it. Er. Shouldn't they have a little chat with House as well, seeing as he's the one who gave the guy back his gun? I don't see how the police could not know - even if Thirteen was somehow messed up enough in the head to neglect to mention that her boss just almost got her killed, there's still teen hostage boy, and I see no reason why he wouldn't tell the cops about the madman who voluntarily handed the gun back to the hostage taker and put them all back in mortal danger again. So why, exactly, is House not getting arrested on the spot? Didn't that make him an accomplice?
See, when I watch a TV show or read a book, in order for me to stay interested in the story I've got to be able to feel at least some empathy with the protagonist(s) - doesn't mean I have to like their actions and behaviour or even their personalities (because liking a character =/= liking a person). I'm not expecting the characters I read about/watch to be saints (because where's the fun in that?), but I do want their rather less-than-saintly actions to have consequences, and when I'm getting the impression that the entire universe surrounding a character is bending over backwards to let them get away with anything because they're the star of the show/book, it annoys me to no end. House, in fact, has already gotten away with a lot over the course of the series, to the point that one has to wonder how the guy still has a job, let alone a license to practice medicine, but this week's episode takes the cake. This isn't him being his typical jerkass self and being rude to patients, colleagues and the world in general just on principle, or even him pretending to have cancer to get his hands on narcotics, or stealing his best friend's prescription pads, forging his signature and jeopardising his career. He hands a loaded weapon back to an obviously unstable and stressed-out man who has already shot one person and forced another to take drugs that are highly dangerous to her, putting the lives of the two other people in the room with him in grave danger and making him directly responsible for any kind of damage the last drug did to Thirteen's health, and for what - to satisfy his curiosity? And the fallout from this is… nothing?
In short, at the end of the episode, he should have left the hospital in the back of a police car right next to hostage taker guy - not stand in Cuddy's office chatting with her about whether or not it's a good idea for them to go to the prom together and walk off grinning to himself because he managed to pull her pigtails.
/end rant
2. Is it really appropriate to talk to your colleague about her health situation in a waiting room stuffed full of patients?
3. *g* Love House's casual "What seems to be the problem?" after the PotW-to-be comes in with the hostages.
4. Er, did the PotW a. know he'd be treated by House (he said he 'wanted the best doctor in the hospital', he didn't ask for House specifically), and b. research his diagnosing habits, given how he's prepared his flat for the doctors to search it? Or is searching through patients' accommodations some fixed part of any medical diagnosis that I'm not aware of?
5. I kinda wonder where Chase ran off to.
6. The truth is out there?
7. The group-of-people-tied-together walking scene amuses me. And reminds me of an old Garfield comic where Garfield, Jon, Odie, Random Guy and Little Old Lady and eventually also a lamppost end up trapped together by a - window blind, I think? - that somehow wrapped around them.
8. You know, teen hostage boy is an idiot to hang around crazy hostage taker for a second longer than he had to.
8b. But I guess he didn't expect the brilliant doctor to be even more of an idiot and hand the loaded gun back to the crazy guy.
8c. And I do hope House is aware of the fact that Thirteen and teen hostage boy are should by all rights kill him once this is over. Giving the crazy guy back the gun, seriously? If House wants to risk his life that's his own business, but for heaven's sake at least send everyone else out before doing something this phenomenally stupid!
8d. That doesn't mean that I want to hear Thirteen psychoanalysing about it, though.
9. "Her kidneys are shutting down because of the drugs you made her take."
No, House. He may have made her take the drugs, but he could only do so because you handed him back his gun while other people were still in the room. Everything that happens afterwards is just as much on your head as it is on his.
10. Seriously, stop the psychoanalysing. Making the slightly crazy PotW commiserate with oh-so-tragic poor heroine Thirteen isn't going to make me like her any better.
11. Okay, and now for a rant.
Overall, the episode had its moments, though far too much Thirteen and too little… well, everyone else for my taste, really, but the ending had me come close to yelling at the screen.
So in the end, the police walk off with the now-healed or at least diagnosed hostage taker, and… that's it. Er. Shouldn't they have a little chat with House as well, seeing as he's the one who gave the guy back his gun? I don't see how the police could not know - even if Thirteen was somehow messed up enough in the head to neglect to mention that her boss just almost got her killed, there's still teen hostage boy, and I see no reason why he wouldn't tell the cops about the madman who voluntarily handed the gun back to the hostage taker and put them all back in mortal danger again. So why, exactly, is House not getting arrested on the spot? Didn't that make him an accomplice?
See, when I watch a TV show or read a book, in order for me to stay interested in the story I've got to be able to feel at least some empathy with the protagonist(s) - doesn't mean I have to like their actions and behaviour or even their personalities (because liking a character =/= liking a person). I'm not expecting the characters I read about/watch to be saints (because where's the fun in that?), but I do want their rather less-than-saintly actions to have consequences, and when I'm getting the impression that the entire universe surrounding a character is bending over backwards to let them get away with anything because they're the star of the show/book, it annoys me to no end. House, in fact, has already gotten away with a lot over the course of the series, to the point that one has to wonder how the guy still has a job, let alone a license to practice medicine, but this week's episode takes the cake. This isn't him being his typical jerkass self and being rude to patients, colleagues and the world in general just on principle, or even him pretending to have cancer to get his hands on narcotics, or stealing his best friend's prescription pads, forging his signature and jeopardising his career. He hands a loaded weapon back to an obviously unstable and stressed-out man who has already shot one person and forced another to take drugs that are highly dangerous to her, putting the lives of the two other people in the room with him in grave danger and making him directly responsible for any kind of damage the last drug did to Thirteen's health, and for what - to satisfy his curiosity? And the fallout from this is… nothing?
In short, at the end of the episode, he should have left the hospital in the back of a police car right next to hostage taker guy - not stand in Cuddy's office chatting with her about whether or not it's a good idea for them to go to the prom together and walk off grinning to himself because he managed to pull her pigtails.
/end rant