Episode Post-Mortem: 8x14 "Love is Blind"

[soophelia]

This is the after-airing post. Discuss any and all aspects of the House/Wilson relationship or friendship pertaining to the episode here. Have fun, but be respectful of each other. Enjoy!

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Comments

[menolly_au]

Perhaps Blythe has a birthmark fetish? ;)

LOL! Msybe Blythe auditioned a lot of potential lovers until she found ones with just the right birthmark on their penis? I love it!

I always saw her as the type of mother who swept everything under the rug. Certainly she gave off that appearance in Birthmarks - what with telling House 'the war is over' and urging him to give a eulogy (which I always thought was a ridiculous move on her part, does she not know he hates his father? Does she not know he tells the truth?) I found that the Blythe they painted in this episode didn't gel with that, which is why I had problems with it.

If Blythe is the 'keeping up appearances' type, I just have trouble reconciling that with the many lovers while married, doing drugs, protesting the war, checking the police blotter every day, Blythe they show us here. If she cares enough to protest a war would she ignore the abuse happening in her house? Maybe, but I just can't buy it.

On the bright side, this now provides much fanfic fodder. ;)

Absolutely! I just hope that people do watch it eventually and we get some good fic out of it. I'm annoyed that out of all the episodes to be pre-empted for three weeks this was the one...

[petitecuriosity]

I could be wrong, but I sort of saw Blythe's more provocative behavior as something she did behind closed doors while presenting a more humble "house wife" persona to the rest of the world.

Either way, I'd love to read fic about her.

Absolutely! I just hope that people do watch it eventually and we get some good fic out of it. I'm annoyed that out of all the episodes to be pre-empted for three weeks this was the one...

Exactly! I felt this was the most House focused episode we've had in awhile!