House: 7x02 "Selfish" - Discussion and Spoilers
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On the topic we had last week re: the opening credits.
Hugh Laurie has first billing, Lisa Edelstein (Cuddy), Omar Epps (Forman), Robert Sean Leonard (Wilson), Peter Jacobson (Taub), Jessie Spencer (Chase) and Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), appear to be "equally billed" in alphabetical order.
Hugh Laurie has first billing, Lisa Edelstein (Cuddy), Omar Epps (Forman), Robert Sean Leonard (Wilson), Peter Jacobson (Taub), Jessie Spencer (Chase) and Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), appear to be "equally billed" in alphabetical order.
House: "So this call is purely expositional."
A good episode and felt more like the medical-mystery show of old that I fell in love with oh so many seasons ago.
Favorite line: "You have a bad case of natural causes." and House's other interactions with the CLINIC PATIENTS (!!!!
) was awesome and funny. Great, great stuff.
Good episode but I hope to see more from House and Cuddy's relationship than just sex. If that's all they have (and we know they have more, we've been shown it, and, well... new couples tend do get it on a lot) they're in trouble. I hope to see more out of their relationship together.
Good DDx scenes, good House/Wilson scenes, good House/Cuddy scenes, good House/Docling scenes, good medical mystery/POTW stuff. Good episode. Has promise that this season will be more like House of Old.
Excellent rating from me.
Nice continuity thing: House still has the scar on his left shoulder/clavicle from the building collapse.
A good episode and felt more like the medical-mystery show of old that I fell in love with oh so many seasons ago.
Favorite line: "You have a bad case of natural causes." and House's other interactions with the CLINIC PATIENTS (!!!!
) was awesome and funny. Great, great stuff.Good episode but I hope to see more from House and Cuddy's relationship than just sex. If that's all they have (and we know they have more, we've been shown it, and, well... new couples tend do get it on a lot) they're in trouble. I hope to see more out of their relationship together.
Good DDx scenes, good House/Wilson scenes, good House/Cuddy scenes, good House/Docling scenes, good medical mystery/POTW stuff. Good episode. Has promise that this season will be more like House of Old.
Excellent rating from me.
Nice continuity thing: House still has the scar on his left shoulder/clavicle from the building collapse.
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Except that L doesn't come before J, so it's not entirely alphabetical. It might be two separate alphabetical sequences of three apiece following Laurie, but it's hard to be sure whether a sample of only three is intentionally alphabetical or just coincidentally so. In the case of the final three, it's most likely alphabetical because that's the only plausible explanation for why Jacobson would be billed before the more senior Spencer. But Edelstein, Epps, and Leonard have all been with the show from the beginning, so there's no clear evidence one way or another.
Er, rather...
Yeah, there seems to be two sets of credits. Anyway.
It was good episode.
Yeah, there seems to be two sets of credits. Anyway.
It was good episode.
Excellent episode.
Loved the return of the clinic. Loved the PotW - especially the way the son made the decision, not the parents. Loved the insecurity in the House-Cuddy professional interaction.
It just seems strange that now that her name is in the credits, 13 is missing in action... *g*
I haven't been entirely satisfied with this show since season 5, but it looks as if it finds its way again. I'm definitely looking forward to the next episodes.
Loved the return of the clinic. Loved the PotW - especially the way the son made the decision, not the parents. Loved the insecurity in the House-Cuddy professional interaction.
It just seems strange that now that her name is in the credits, 13 is missing in action... *g*
I haven't been entirely satisfied with this show since season 5, but it looks as if it finds its way again. I'm definitely looking forward to the next episodes.
Last season was just a mess of episodes Katie Jacobs wrote with her ticking biological clock fueled heart fluttering. The story ideas were from the cover of the trapper-keeper she had in high school. If we control her love-starred eyes from writing romance episodes turning this series into the genital-rubbing nightmare that's Grey's Anatomy and back into the medical-mystery drama it was the first five seasons then we'll be back on track.
Last season was a mess, I watched it again on DVD recently has it was just, ugh. Some nice moments, a couple good episodes, but the medical stuff was absent and that's what's most fun for me, watching House be a doctor.
Last season was a mess, I watched it again on DVD recently has it was just, ugh. Some nice moments, a couple good episodes, but the medical stuff was absent and that's what's most fun for me, watching House be a doctor.
I've no misogyny.
I do, however, think that Katie Jacobs is a crap producer/writer for this show as her episodes and stories are more often than not trite quasi-romantic drivel that has little connections to this show's premise on why I started watching it.
If we have more episodes like last night it'll be great. More episodes like we had two weeks ago? Not so much in the greatness department.
I do, however, think that Katie Jacobs is a crap producer/writer for this show as her episodes and stories are more often than not trite quasi-romantic drivel that has little connections to this show's premise on why I started watching it.
If we have more episodes like last night it'll be great. More episodes like we had two weeks ago? Not so much in the greatness department.
Insults against a person are not valid criticism of that person's work. And yes, blaming your dissatisfaction with a writer's work on her "ticking biological clock" is definitely sexist.
Two seasons ago, rather.
OK that makes a lot more sense.
Last night was like a classic feeling to it. Was handled well.
I may have even meant "two episodes" now that I look at it and read it, counting this episode as "one." Since while last episode was good it was just too filled with rommance stuff like last season was (which wasn't good, IMHO.) Two seasons ago (season 4 -for clarity) I think the series was the best it's ever been.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that the mom of the POTW ("Claire") was played by Stephanie Courtney who, despite many film, TV & stage credits, is probably best known as "Flo" from the Progressive Insurance commercials. Wish she'd had more to do...
Fantastic episode. Wonderful character interactions, great moral dilemma, hilarious clinic case, and a promising direction for the House/Cuddy relationship.
That being said, does anyone else think it's a bit odd we haven't heard House and Cuddy refer to each other as Greg and Lisa?
That being said, does anyone else think it's a bit odd we haven't heard House and Cuddy refer to each other as Greg and Lisa?
