House: 6x09 "Ignorance is Bliss" - Discussion and Spoilers
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Cuddy, that was cold.
This is one the more interesting POTWs they've had in a while. And did Genius Guy say he was 90 points smarter than his wife? Wouldn't that but her IQ in the 90s?
Wouldn't that make her on the border of being average or a bit on the slow side without being handicaped?
Cuddy's stunt on House was damn cold. Yikes!
Thirteen. Oh... Thirteen.
Wouldn't that make her on the border of being average or a bit on the slow side without being handicaped?
Cuddy's stunt on House was damn cold. Yikes!
Thirteen. Oh... Thirteen.
Two "Aha! Moments" in one episode, and one of the best solutions to the Medical Mystery in a long damn time.
Well done, House. Well done.
Well done, House. Well done.
Okay.... right off the bat, just about .... House makes a joke including a reference to Mike Tomlin, and looks right at Foreman!!(if you haven't yet, look up their pictures). Never mind, I will
That was a good one!Cuddy can be a real serious bitch sometimes...but in a good way. House deserved that.
Loved that Taub pretended to be the one who hit House to impress his wife!
Yeah, the POTW was more interesting than the House story. I'm already sick of House's games with Cuddy.
Good episode, damn I forgot to the poll. I would've voted "Excellent" on it. Just felt like more "classic House" than we've had in a while.
I didn't care for this one all that much. House seemed too back to his old tricks for my taste.
As I was saying last week, I suspect that the deal with Cuddy has mostly caused a relapse in him.
90 to 110 is considered "normal or average intelligence." In fact, 33-50% of the population is in this range.
Terman IQ Range
Classification
140 and over Genius or near genius 120-140 Very superior intelligence
110-120 Superior intelligence
90-110 Normal or average intelligence
80-90 Dullness
70-80 Borderline deficiency
Below 70 Definite feeble-mindedness
Wechler IQ Range Classification
Classification IQ Limits Percent Included Very Superior 128 and over 2.2%
Superior 120-127 6.7%
Bright Normal 111-119 16.1%
Average 91-110 50%
Dull Normal 80-90 16.1%
Borderline 66-79 6.7%
Defective 65 and below 2.2%
http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/IQBasics.aspx
Okay.... right off the bat, just about .... House makes a joke including a reference to Mike Tomlin, and looks right at Foreman!!
Thanks for that - I never would have figured out that reference and would missed out!
I'd go excellent as well. Very vintage House. This season is remarkably consistent.
He wasn't saying she was handicapped. He was saying that when he was functioning at supergenius level, he found her slightly-below-average intelligence to be unbearably feeble. He probably found most everyone to be too slow for him, which may have been part of why he was so unhappy.
Not that I buy that. The whole thing seemed to be embracing a stereotype of geniuses as cold and condescending, and I don't think that's true at all. Maybe it's just that this particular guy was a jerk about it, but it still felt like the episode was perpetuating a derogatory stereotype.
I also found it implausible that it took so long for the team to consider his abandonment of his scientific career as a symptom. I've been watching the show long enough that I expected it to be a symptom from the start; these guys have been living in the show, so they should be genre-savvy enough by now to know what's coming.
The House-Cuddy thing is getting ridiculous. Everyone's lying and manipulating and playing games within games and it's just too byzantine and calculating to be emotionally engaging. And it's not just them. Chase pretended to be mad at House so he could get everyone to stop talking to him about his loss; Taub took credit for hitting House and lied to his wife. They're all so manipulative and deceitful now. It gets tiresome.
But that's why we like him. But my issue is with the other characters. Is it me or they have become worst than him? Cuddy sending him 3 hours away, Chase hitting House just to have the other think is too fucked up to even be approached?
Yeah, back to his same old self after all that hard work in rehab.
I don't think House was quite back to his old self. As he said, he was as much testing the Cuddy-Lucas relationship as trying to end it, and when he determined that it was strong enough, that there was something genuine there, he resolved to leave them be. If anything, Cuddy's behavior was worse than his, at least in proportion to their respective past behavior.
And even if his nice, generous behavior was a ploy to score points with Cuddy, at least he's learned that being nice to people has benefits, and that's progress.
And even if his nice, generous behavior was a ploy to score points with Cuddy, at least he's learned that being nice to people has benefits, and that's progress.
Yeah, Cuddy's behavior struck me as pretty bad in this one. Not that House hasn't more than deserved it, but as for where things were in that episode when she did that, seemed pretty heartless to me. Inviting the guy for Thanksgiving, and then sending him 3 hours to an empty house? Pretty harsh...
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