House MD

[wisdomeagle]

Errrr.
[spoilers for tonight's episode]


Well now. I haven't read your reactions. Just one cut-tag saying it was good.

But I, um, was underwhelmed.

First off, House+Stacey are not really interesting me all that much. And everyone was being... very stupid? I felt like going,

Dear House characters,
Remember when I sorted you all into Ravenclaw?

I take it back.

Lots of love,
Ari.

I mean, there was Cameron getting high and having sex, and there was Chase having sex with his drugged-out possibly HIV-positive co-worker and there was Stacey thinking House was being human, and House, just... okay. I completely loved the end of last week when he read Stacey's personal file. That kicked ass. But the way he used that information left me... confused, because it didn't work? And not like I was hoping it would but because... it seemed so ooc? Because knowledge is power, and I think House would be able to think of a cleverer way of getting at Stacey than being all, "You aren't having sex with your husband. I know it with the power of my mind."

The rat, however, was awesome.

As was Wilson. And Cuddy's breasts.

And Cameron and Chase doing the kissing thing followed by sex made me giggle for a good minute. :p

Comments

[invisionary.livejournal.com]

I think House would be able to think of a cleverer way of getting at Stacey than being all, "You aren't having sex with your husband. I know it with the power of my mind."

Actually, I've seen it speculated that House was deliberately trying to make Stacey disgusted with him here. And you know - I think I could see that. Maybe getting so close to what he thought he wanted made him realize he didn't really want it after all.

[neverneverfic.livejournal.com]

see i really liked the chase/cameron sex bit. because i think that chase is pretty much led around by his cock, and i totally buy him fucking her against his better judgement cause he thinks shes hot. also jesse spencer - shirt = drooling meg. i think i'd be pleased with him having sex with anyone, just cause then i get to think about him having sex.

i don't at all buy cameron taking drugs.

and house...yeah, i think that when he stole stacey's file last week he reached the point where i am unable to like him or root for good things to happen to him in any way. i wish stacey had kicked him in the nuts and stolen his cane. and maybe spit on him too. it's possible that some confidentiality betrayals early in life have left me overly sensitive.

[wisdomeagle]

Last night after I went to bed I thought about it some more and realized that this is probably true -- though not intentional on House's part. But I think the parallels with the Patient of the Week are supposed to be like, "Oh, House hates himself and feels guilty so he, too, is trying to kill himself."

[polyartamorous.livejournal.com]

I absolutely adored House for stealing the file last week. It's one of those moments where I realized I would have probably done the exact same thing, and it made me say hello to the Slytherin in me. Oh yes. Which makes me think: Salazar Slytherin was a bit of a bad egg in the "blatant racism" way, but Slytherin in and of itself stands for cunning and ambition, not pure evil. The reason Slytherins are so easily seduced to the dark is because ambition often is drawn to that which looks the most likely to succeed. Being in Slytherin doesn't make one a Dark wizard, but rather easily seduced into being one. Yay, digressions!

I expected him to be stupid about his knowledge, in a way. I loved the way he used his knowledge and then the way he pushed it too far. I think a common theme of these present episodes are on the one hand, as someone else mentioned, House's distaste for himself and his way of subconsciously shooting himself in the balls and on the other hand his inability to know when he's going too far. I think he got so lost in trying to get her to admit his feelings for him that he failed to use any sort of caution (not surprising, if you think about House =) ) and I think sometimes his hastiness can overwhelm his intelligence. He's brilliant, and usually that fact absolutely dwarfes the fact that he doesn't think before he acts. In fact, his heedlessness enhances his brilliance. But now, he's trying to deal with people, and with love. He's pushing things just a bit too far and it's overshadowing his brilliance.

If they do what I hope they do, they'll continue to make House go a bit too far. Sometimes, brilliance just doesn't cut it.

As for the rest.. Hm. I didn't really buy Cameron taking drugs either, like the person who posted above me. At the same time, I can understand how more lurks behind a person than you can see right away. The main patient and her personal impending possible struggle with HIV are, I think, sufficient catalysts for such a drastic change in character. I think it would be difficult at that point (even for someone like Cameron) to not search rabidly for a way out, and drugs were at that point the only thing that looked like it could work. The patient said it works, House says it works. Personally, both were/are lying to her and themselves. But at any rate, I was very suspicious of that entire event before I thought about it, and now I'm less suspicious but more confused as to What The Hell They'll Do Next.

I guess that's my main beef with the episode, which I liked otherwise. I don't know what comes next. I have no clue. I have hopes, as I mentioned in the Sprawling Paragraph About House, but I don't know what exactly they're going to do. Last season was all about introducing us to these people, and now they're extremely intertwined and I don't know where they're going next.

But Cuddy will always be exceptionally hot, and now House has a pet rat.

All is right with the world. Until next Tuesday.

[sweetcommunist.livejournal.com]

I was confused by Stacy. It seems that she would know that there was something behind House suddenly acting like a decent human. I suppose that one could claim that she simply wanted to believe that he changed because she (obviously) still has feelings for him, but this was so sudden. I want to give her more credit than that.