House 6x22 "Help Me" - Discussion and Spoilers
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The other desription available was something like "House and his team are called into a medical emergency." So I'm guessing whomever wrote the episode teaser at TV.com was having an off-day for this episode.
Basically, yes. He's too good at what he does to maintain interest in the show without mixing it up. Like Heroes, where they made the characters so over-powered that they have to lose them or limit the powers constantly in order to create any sort of drama or danger.
If House isn't struggling or distracted, he'll be able to figure things out too quickly (or they have to write him 'dumbed down', which doesn't mesh with earlier seasons). showing him having mental/addiction problems, or fighting pain, is all they've got. Like how kryptonite shows up every 5 minutes on Smallville, else Clark wouldn't ever have any problems...
If House isn't struggling or distracted, he'll be able to figure things out too quickly (or they have to write him 'dumbed down', which doesn't mesh with earlier seasons). showing him having mental/addiction problems, or fighting pain, is all they've got. Like how kryptonite shows up every 5 minutes on Smallville, else Clark wouldn't ever have any problems...
The other desription available was something like "House and his team are called into a medical emergency." So I'm guessing whomever wrote the episode teaser at TV.com was having an off-day for this episode.
Could be worse. Could have been "House and his team solve puzzling medical mystery" or "House makes cutting yet scarily accurate comment".
Regular episode.
This is my prediction for tonight's episode: by the end of the episode, it's going to be revealed that the whole "House going to a disaster scene with Cuddy" thing is all in his head and in reality House is among the victims of the disaster which actually happened. In the final scene of the season, House is being treated by medics and realizes to his horror that one of his legs has been severed during the disaster.
I just realized how similar to 24 this show is.
We tune into 24 and watch Jack get physically tortured.
We tune into House and watch him get mentally tortured.
Oh, I thought it was a good episode.
We tune into 24 and watch Jack get physically tortured.
We tune into House and watch him get mentally tortured.
Oh, I thought it was a good episode.
That amputation scene was gut wrenching.
When I saw the promo last week, I was under the impression that Cuddy was going to die.
When I saw the promo last week, I was under the impression that Cuddy was going to die.
HELL YEAH! Huddy Forever!
I thought for a moment the season was going to end with House relapsing. Thank god I was wrong.
I wonder what's wrong with Thirteen.
I thought for a moment the season was going to end with House relapsing. Thank god I was wrong.
I wonder what's wrong with Thirteen.
This is the best show on TV and Hugh Laurie is the best actor on TV right now.
This episode was awesome, excellent, A+, super, fantastic, all of that and more.
Gripping, emotional, and... wow. House's "care" for the POTW, his outburst with Forman after she died and then him breaking down at the end almost going back on the Vicodin, giving it up for Cuddy.
Simply. Awesome.
I'm guessing something related to her Huntingtons.
This episode was awesome, excellent, A+, super, fantastic, all of that and more.
Gripping, emotional, and... wow. House's "care" for the POTW, his outburst with Forman after she died and then him breaking down at the end almost going back on the Vicodin, giving it up for Cuddy.
Simply. Awesome.
I'm guessing something related to her Huntingtons.
Good final scene. Assuming in the first five minutes of next season they don't undo it by saying Cuddy was acting like that just to stop House from going back to drugs. I don't think they will.
I was gripped by the episode, but thought the final three minutes or so sent it completely off the rails. I did a "Wot?" House going back on the Vicodin would have made more sense (and developed more logically from the preceding fifty minutes). I'm still wot.
I think it's more powerful him giving up the Vicodin -which has been shown to us time and time again over the years to be more for emotional pain and distraction than his physical pain- for Cuddy.
They played the "leg card" very well in this episode too.
Man, this was a great, great episode.
They played the "leg card" very well in this episode too.
Man, this was a great, great episode.
The whole episode was shot on one of those cameras? (Or possibly several of them.) That is pretty damn impressive. Great picture on it and gave the episode an "intimate" feel to it.
It was excellent, very moving. House has been so detached and uncaring for so long that to see him actually making a connection and caring about a patient was very potent and touching. This is the breakthrough we've been awaiting for six years. Okay, it seems it almost fell apart when Hannah died, but I didn't really see it that way. It hurt him so much because he genuinely cared, and that's a huge step forward for him. And maybe it finally made him realize that it's worth the risk of pain to connect to another human being rather than retreating into a bottle of one sort or another. Emotional pain is preferable to physical pain, because it has meaning. Because it's a connection to someone.
That's exactly what it did. If you compare this episode to the usual, you'll notice it had a much shallower depth of field. There was very little leeway in it's focus, creating deeper (pun not intended) intimacy. There were a few shots where I feel it was a little too shallow...at the beginning in Cuddy's office, it seemed impossible to keep them both in focus. But overall it was used to great effect and was truly impressive for a $3000 camera.
I actually found myself wondering if the final scene was a drug induced hallucination. It just seemed off, Cuddy conveniently showing up when she did, confessing her love, when hours before she was adamant about not loving him.
Color me suspicious.
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