"What Now" post-ep meta/crack.

[lit_luminary]

Title: Fourth Wall Cracked
Author: lit_luminary
Rating: PG-13
Characters: House, Chase (friendship).
Summary: A little crack, a little meta: characters in character watch their out-of-character counterparts. Cue the banter.
Warning: Spoilers for 7:01.

Comments

[cuddyclothes]

Poor House! Poor Chase! Forced to watch themselves be idiots. Especially House. Nicely done!

I have a rant over on my LJ directly from the mouth of House's leg--wait, it doesn't have a mouth--you know what I mean--I think I'm having an attack of Wilson.

[lit_luminary]

Thank you. I'd have liked to work Wilson in, too, but he wasn't present enough to have much to complain about, and his presence would have made for a very different plot.

And yes, poor House especially. If _I_ watched with a vague sense of nausea, it must have been so much worse for him. The least I could do was give him room to complain.

(I read the rant from the mouth of the leg, actually. Fabulous work, as ever, and the perfect complement to my own indignation over the issue. 'Hello! Chronic pain patient here! Anyone listening?' Oh--and the additional perspective of the neighboring territory was genius.)

[cuddyclothes]

Thank you! I'm not a chronic pain patient, but I have chronic conditions, and to see such an important one airily dismissed...I agree with the leg.

[lit_luminary]

I have no personal experience with that kind of pain, but a mentor I was very fond of deals with it every day, and I have friends with chronic conditions as well. And nothing annoys me more than when the House writers take a moment to point the Scolding Narrative Finger and go, "Addict!" or ignore the physical realities involved with said conditions: it's disrespectful not only to House and the story they're writing, but to all the people who can empathize with his experiences only too well.

All right, television isn't obligated to be completely realistic. But could we have a bit less blatant denial of medical fact, please?

[cuddyclothes]

My psychiatrist and another doctor told me that "conversion disorder" does not exist and is an outdated Freudian concept. Sure, your mind influences your body, but not to THAT extent. I had a mini-stroke and lost the use of my left leg. My doctor said "conversion disorder," the physical therapist said "mini-stroke" and that my right brain wasn't sending any signals. It's a lot better now.