House 8.17 review: “We Need The Eggs”

[maya295]

Grade: C

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It’s impossible not to catch the obvious parallel of this week’s episode of House with the famous, last line of Woody Allen’s movie ‘Annie Hall’ for it tackles the exact same, rather sad, fatalistic life metaphor: relationships are bound to disappoint since they will never completely fulfill our dreams.  But we

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[stenveny]

House is a fucked-up person who last season became involved with a fucked-up perrson.

He lived under the threat of her emotions changing, a threat made and reinforced quietly but very surely up until the point that they did in fact change in a coup of dissociation. At the same time that she kept reinforcing his hope that the major structures of the relationship were sound, she was also herself steadily moving to the conclusion that they were not without directly addressing them with him as structural problems.

At which point, she did not merely break up but she removed any possibility of healing with her or even to acknowledge the damage except as it pertained to her. ("House is always fine....As much as it hurts, I had the right to break up with you ... I've thought about it a lot and I haven't changed my mind. This is not about what he deserves.... I cannot fix his problem, I am his problem." I could go on

[cuddyclothes]

The odd thing is that the central metaphor is that we go through actual relationships to get the eggs. When in fact the writers got it backwards. Nobody gets the eggs, nor do they actually want them. That's been bugging me for a few days. Alvie had relationships, fucked them up, then went for new ones. But they were all relationships.