House's Head vs Three Stories vs No Reason
I’ve been very very very curious that Jesse Spencer said in a last interview about the season finale being like Three Stories INSTEAD as being like No Reason. I’d think that because the hallucination/dream themes, No Reason is more similar. So I wonder WHY he said like Three Stories?? This isn’t a theory, but me trying to figure out the similarities between both episodes.
What’s real in both episodes? 3 Stories: Cuddy trying to convince House to do the lecture, Stacy’s conversation, all the scenes in the lecture hall, House conversation with Wilson on the break, the last scene: House leaving a message to Stacy on the phone. House’s Head: Some people think that nothing or very little in the last episode was real, but until we see Wilson’s Heart and we are proved wrong, let’s say that in HH the reality was: (in order, and from House’s POV) in the stripper club and when he got out and see the accident (maybe), all the scenes in the ER, all the scenes in the conference room, the MRI and the conversations with Cuddy and Wilson, House in the cafeteria? doing notes, Foreman/13 treating the driver, setting the tank for the sensory depravation test and what follows after Foreman and the others open the tank, in House apartment w/the nurse and all that follows (the phone call etc), back at the hospital and the air bubble crisis, back at House’s apartment and when he said to Cuddy he saved the wrong person and what follows, the preparation of re-enactment on the bus, House coming back after the CPR and the 1 min or so of the rest of the ep.
What are memories? In 3 Stories: All the scenes where House is a patient. In House’s Head: What follows the hypnosis: the bar and face of the bartender, and in the bus, the emo guitarist picking at his nose, the 2nd time in the apartment tying the red strip to the Mystery!Woman’s thigh and what follows (“I’m cold”, “stay with me”), the actual crash of the bus and everything that happens in the aftermath.
What are hallucinations/fantasies/unreal or fictional situations? In 3 Stories: Carmen Electra is obviously a fantasy lol, the drug addict/farmer/volleyball player are fictional too, so all the scenes with C,C&F that involved them (DDx, treatments, in the farm) are not real, when House’s heart stops and what he sees. In House’s Head: the 2nd time on the bus when he speaks to the House!driver and the Mystery!Woman, Cuddy’s striptease, in the apartment when he said to MysteryWoman “Why are you stalking me?” and that first part of the conversation that follows, a flash of a necklace: Cameron, in the place she was sitting doing the comment about stimulation, triggers a flash, and Cameron!passenger saying something about her chest brings House’s attention (or another flash) to a necklace. BTW, I don’t think that the necklace is a memory because Amber wasn’t wearing one; the amber necklace was a clue of House’s head to reaching into the memory of “Amber”.
Both episodes (3 Stories and No Reason) could be compared to House’s Head in terms of: Real vs not real/fantasy/hallucination. Other than the farmer, volleyball player and drug addict! House AND Amber, ALL having a right leg injury I don’t see another connection, it just could have easily been similar to No Reason as well. In fact, I think in No Reason we saw into House’s head more than in 3 Stories.
This is the first episode of the season I have ever wanted to watch again, and for obvious reason lol!, House's Head is a very complex place to explore. After next episode I'm reserving my judgment about this season. Maybe all it's not lost, I can hope.
What’s real in both episodes? 3 Stories: Cuddy trying to convince House to do the lecture, Stacy’s conversation, all the scenes in the lecture hall, House conversation with Wilson on the break, the last scene: House leaving a message to Stacy on the phone. House’s Head: Some people think that nothing or very little in the last episode was real, but until we see Wilson’s Heart and we are proved wrong, let’s say that in HH the reality was: (in order, and from House’s POV) in the stripper club and when he got out and see the accident (maybe), all the scenes in the ER, all the scenes in the conference room, the MRI and the conversations with Cuddy and Wilson, House in the cafeteria? doing notes, Foreman/13 treating the driver, setting the tank for the sensory depravation test and what follows after Foreman and the others open the tank, in House apartment w/the nurse and all that follows (the phone call etc), back at the hospital and the air bubble crisis, back at House’s apartment and when he said to Cuddy he saved the wrong person and what follows, the preparation of re-enactment on the bus, House coming back after the CPR and the 1 min or so of the rest of the ep.
What are memories? In 3 Stories: All the scenes where House is a patient. In House’s Head: What follows the hypnosis: the bar and face of the bartender, and in the bus, the emo guitarist picking at his nose, the 2nd time in the apartment tying the red strip to the Mystery!Woman’s thigh and what follows (“I’m cold”, “stay with me”), the actual crash of the bus and everything that happens in the aftermath.
What are hallucinations/fantasies/unreal or fictional situations? In 3 Stories: Carmen Electra is obviously a fantasy lol, the drug addict/farmer/volleyball player are fictional too, so all the scenes with C,C&F that involved them (DDx, treatments, in the farm) are not real, when House’s heart stops and what he sees. In House’s Head: the 2nd time on the bus when he speaks to the House!driver and the Mystery!Woman, Cuddy’s striptease, in the apartment when he said to MysteryWoman “Why are you stalking me?” and that first part of the conversation that follows, a flash of a necklace: Cameron, in the place she was sitting doing the comment about stimulation, triggers a flash, and Cameron!passenger saying something about her chest brings House’s attention (or another flash) to a necklace. BTW, I don’t think that the necklace is a memory because Amber wasn’t wearing one; the amber necklace was a clue of House’s head to reaching into the memory of “Amber”.
Both episodes (3 Stories and No Reason) could be compared to House’s Head in terms of: Real vs not real/fantasy/hallucination. Other than the farmer, volleyball player and drug addict! House AND Amber, ALL having a right leg injury I don’t see another connection, it just could have easily been similar to No Reason as well. In fact, I think in No Reason we saw into House’s head more than in 3 Stories.
This is the first episode of the season I have ever wanted to watch again, and for obvious reason lol!, House's Head is a very complex place to explore. After next episode I'm reserving my judgment about this season. Maybe all it's not lost, I can hope.