House: 6x21 "Baggage" - Discussion and Spoilers

[Trekker4747]

From TV.com:

House tells Dr. Nolan about the case of a woman who had amnesia and a disease, and how he had to help solve both mysteries.

House Medical Reviews

Tonight is the penultimate episode of the season.

If you want to see the opening pre-credits scene of next week's season finale click HERE.

 

[T'Baio]

Wow...those Canon's take good footage. Miracle of modern technology.

 

[Hermiod]

^They invited Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.tv to the set while they were shooting on the Canon 5d. She had loads of footage ready to include in an update and then, for some reason, she was suddenly told not to use any of it.

 

[Brent]

I had to look up "penultimate"

 

[Trekker4747]

:not getting the Canon's [sic] talk*

 

[Hermiod]

:not getting the Canon's [sic] talk*

The season finale was shot entirely using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II SLR, the basic price of which is about $2,500 - ridiculously cheap given the prices of the equipment they normally use. Its small size allowed them to film in much smaller spaces than normal, vital given the storyline involved.

 

[T'Baio]

Trekker, they shot the finale on the new Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR. Big deal, as House is usually shot on Super35, showing how serious the director of photography is about image quality, and is one of the biggest things ever shot with an SLR camera.

http://www.canon.ca/inetCA/products?m=gp&pid=865

21.1 megapixels, full frame sensor use, so you don't need any adapter to get the full visual spectrum of certain lenses. Shoots full HD. Pretty impressive.

 

[Kira's Mom]

I haven't watched much of House lately- I guess I'd better tune in tonight!

 

[Christopher]

Wow, I hope they never shoot Star Trek with a Canon camera, because then fandom will implode.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Andre Braugher makes House a billion times better.

Good episode. It feels portentious, with House crashing emotionally.

 

[Joe Washington]

Good episode. The only episodes I always had an eagerness to watch this season are the episodes involving Dr. Nolan. I love how House and Nolan play off each other. I had a feeling that the exploration of House's psyche would lead to his feelings for Cuddy. I thought for a second House would even try to listen to Nolan on the subject of Cuddy. But I can see why he reacted the way he did because he's unwilling to deal with his emotional hurt that is fueling his drinking problem. I hope this isn't the last we see of Nolan.

 

[Velocity]

it seemed like there were more commercials than show tonight. I had a hard time keeping track of what was going on.
However, I do like the Major Tom commercial...the countdown starts..4...3...2...1.

 

[Christopher]

Nice to see Dr. Nolan again, and the episode helps illustrate why I wish we'd seen more of him this season. It's interesting to see House in therapy, and I like it when they do episodes like this that play around with flashbacks and narrative structure. (Especially when Nolan said Taub wasn't there and Taub just turned around to leave.)

I wouldn't have recognized Zoe McLellan as the amnesia patient if I hadn't seen her name in the credits. The short red hair really changes her look. And the patient was less the focus this week than usual.

 

[Trekker4747]

I love when they mix up the narrative and style of story-telling (Three Stories, The Mistake, House's Head, and the episode with the guy who they thought was brain-dead and the episode was mostly from his POV all being notable examples.)

An excelent episode, great to see Nolan again and getting more of a look at what's going on with House and how he is dealing with things. Next week's episode looks awesome.

 

[watermelony2k]

love the style of this episode. felt like a stage play, and come to think of it, it could've been presented as such!

 

[Captain Shaw]

I thought this was episode 20?
So is the the final?

 

[Hermiod]

^As with last week, there's some debate over whether the first episode of the season counts as one or two episodes.

If it counts as one, this is 6x20, if it counts as two this is 6x21.

The season finale is next week.

 

[Arrqh]

This really underscored for me that Nolan was a big missed opportunity this season. House walking out on therapy would have been much more impactful if we had actually seen his therapy all season instead of just having it implied to us. And it would have made the season that much more interesting and different. Ah well.

 

[Christopher]

^Well, Andre Braugher is one of the leads on the TNT series Men of a Certain Age, so it wouldn't have been practical for him to appear on a more frequent basis on House. Of course, they could've cast someone more available in the role of Nolan, but several of House's executive producers have worked with Braugher before (David Shore on Hack, Paul Attanasio on Homicide and Gideon's Crossing, Katie Jacobs also on Crossing), so I can understand why they'd want to work with him again and why they'd want to cast a really strong player as House's therapist.

 

[AJBryant]

They always count double-long episodes as two, because in syndication they're broken into two separate ones anyway.