House - 5x13 "Big Baby" - Discussion and Spoilers
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Oh, bad Foreman.
Pretty good episode.
And, well, sorry but I like Thirteen even if her storyline isn't doing anything for me.
See you all next week for House's 100th Episode!
And, well, sorry but I like Thirteen even if her storyline isn't doing anything for me.
See you all next week for House's 100th Episode!
Wilson helping Cuddy. Too predictable.
Pretty good episode.
Not a bad episode. Oh look, House's 100th episode will focus on--of course--Thirteen. 
Dude, the show has a huge straight female demo. What are they supposed to do for entertainment? If she doesn't give you a woody it's rather tedious to watch her. 
That was Marissa Flores?? Good grief! There's a whole subgenre of dreadful Mary Sue fanfic about her.
What was House's Trek ref? I didn't notice one.
Good but not great. As per usual the foreteen plot brought it down. I liked the Cuddy scenes because they were realistic in that sometimes adoption mothers have a difficult time bonding at first. Also, did you guys notice that House's leg was still really bothering him like last week?
I noticed. Maybe they'll focus on House's leg once we find out that Thirteen and Forman's romance is thriving. 
Priorities, now. Can't skimp on the lovely Thirteen.
Priorities, now. Can't skimp on the lovely Thirteen.
I noticed. Maybe they'll focus on House's leg once we find out that Thirteen and Forman's romance is thriving.
In an interview with Alan Sepinwall David Shore said he didn't realize how much they've been concentrating on her recently and he said he'll fix it. With luck they'll kill her character off or put her in a hospital bed permanently.
He didn't realize? I call shenanigans on that. Writing staffs plan these things. They plan storyline. Silly me, I thought that the season was going to focus on House and Wilson repairing their relationship after Amber's death on the bus with House. I smell incompetence or plain old network interference or both. The network might have insisted on a hot young female body. Hey, they did it on SPN during season three. That's how they got Bela and, as you know sidious, the audience hated her character with a passion and she was gone after a season.
I keep thinking how terrific that hostage episode would have been had it been Wilson in the office with House. That would have been choice, but no. It had to be her. Why not Wilson? Or Cuddy?
I keep thinking how terrific that hostage episode would have been had it been Wilson in the office with House. That would have been choice, but no. It had to be her. Why not Wilson? Or Cuddy?
But it's easy to lose sight of the shape of the forest when you're busy planting the trees. Sometimes it's hard to notice a pattern you're in the middle of creating, especially in a job as hectic as plotting out a TV season. It's not as simple as "they plan things." Even with an overall sense of the direction you want to take the various characters, you still have a whole team of writer-producers trying to figure out the best way to fill each individual hour, choosing among competing possibilities, winnowing down the list to get a couple of dozen viable, filmable stories. It's not like they have the luxury of crafting a perfect, novel-like outline before they even begin.
And yes, sometimes producers don't realize they're doing something until it's pointed out to them, because they're too close to it. For instance, in the first season of Justice League, the producers got into the habit of having the bad guys take out Superman early on, on the principle that it would prove they were really powerful and dangerous, and so that the rest of the League would have something to do. Which makes sense on a story-by-story basis, but it unintentionally added up to a pattern of Superman being portrayed as far too weak. And it wasn't until after the season was done that they were able to step back, see the problem, and fix it. Because producing a television season is something that happens at a breakneck pace, with little time for reflection.
It did, for a while. But that was resolved in the funeral episode.
You're forgetting that the original team included Jennifer Morrison, who's just as gorgeous as Olivia Wilde. Also that Wilde was part of the cast for the entire previous season as well as this one.
Yes, but Jennifer Morrison can act (IMHO). That makes all the difference in the world. I've got nothing against gorgeous girls, believe me. I'm over in the Kate Winslet threads posting pics to see which ones the guys like. 
It's the capacity of the particular actress and the writing that's a problem for me. With a different actress in the part things might be different.
I believe you when you say writers can get lost because they're too close to the material but....I guess I'm just in a mood. The focus on the character has seemed so extreme that's it's difficult to believe they could have been that unaware, but maybe they were. I had my heart set on lots of House/Wilson and when I didn't get it I got cranky. Still, more Cuddy, Chase and Cameron would be welcome, too. And less foreteen. This is the man who ruthlessly stabbed Cameron with that needle in isolation when he was 24 hours from death? This man is willing to throw his entire medical career away for this girl? This man who didn't even visit his mentally deteriorating mother for years? Thirteen is that captivating?
It's the capacity of the particular actress and the writing that's a problem for me. With a different actress in the part things might be different. I believe you when you say writers can get lost because they're too close to the material but....I guess I'm just in a mood. The focus on the character has seemed so extreme that's it's difficult to believe they could have been that unaware, but maybe they were. I had my heart set on lots of House/Wilson and when I didn't get it I got cranky. Still, more Cuddy, Chase and Cameron would be welcome, too. And less foreteen. This is the man who ruthlessly stabbed Cameron with that needle in isolation when he was 24 hours from death? This man is willing to throw his entire medical career away for this girl? This man who didn't even visit his mentally deteriorating mother for years? Thirteen is that captivating?
The Polite Dissent medical review of this episode is now up.
What's the polite dissent medical review? I haven't been doing the House threads here for that long.
I try and to link to it every episode in the opening post.
It's a guy who does a review of the medicine in the episode.
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