House: 7x05 "Unplanned Parenthood" - Discussion and Spoilers
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So is there going to be a rotating "Docling of the Week" until 13 comes back?
Is 13 coming back?
Is 13 coming back?
For the most part. They're eventually going to settle on
Yes. Olivia Wilde is taking some time off from the show to film Cowboys and Aliens.
I thought she was also doing Tron?
But, yeah, Olivia Wilde was added to opening credits this season, suggesting she's got a contract with the show, and Thirteen will be back.
I'm surprised how much "hate" there is for her character out there in various fan groups. Part of me wonders if it's not her getting a bit of the "Hate on the pretty girl" effect from lonely or neglected housewives or women just hating on pretty women.
I know she got a bit too much focus in the fifth season with her Huntingtons arc but last season it was toned down a bit and, honestly, I don't see where the hate is coming from on her.
I can't wait to see her back. Now, granted, I'm imposing my own "hot woman" standard on her as that's why want her back and her character neither interests or disinterests me (much like all of the Doclings) but some of that hate out there on her? Sheeesh. You'd think Olivia Wilde had gone out there and punched viewers in the face or shat on their front-yards or something.
Other than a bit too much focus a couple seasons ago she's done nothing really too notable. One character I do think we can do without is Taub. I like the actor but the character just isn't interesting and he offers almost nothing during the DDx's. He's vastly underused so unless they plan on using him more they need to drop him. I don't hate him, he's just not interesting to me.
But, yeah, Olivia Wilde was added to opening credits this season, suggesting she's got a contract with the show, and Thirteen will be back.
I'm surprised how much "hate" there is for her character out there in various fan groups. Part of me wonders if it's not her getting a bit of the "Hate on the pretty girl" effect from lonely or neglected housewives or women just hating on pretty women.
I know she got a bit too much focus in the fifth season with her Huntingtons arc but last season it was toned down a bit and, honestly, I don't see where the hate is coming from on her.
I can't wait to see her back. Now, granted, I'm imposing my own "hot woman" standard on her as that's why want her back and her character neither interests or disinterests me (much like all of the Doclings) but some of that hate out there on her? Sheeesh. You'd think Olivia Wilde had gone out there and punched viewers in the face or shat on their front-yards or something.
Other than a bit too much focus a couple seasons ago she's done nothing really too notable. One character I do think we can do without is Taub. I like the actor but the character just isn't interesting and he offers almost nothing during the DDx's. He's vastly underused so unless they plan on using him more they need to drop him. I don't hate him, he's just not interesting to me.
That was filmed in the spring and summer of 2009, during the hiatus between House seasons.
Ah, okay. That's why I thought she was taking the TO, didn't know about the Cowboys v. Aliens movie. Looking it up, seems like an interesting movie. Favreau certainly piqued my interest in it. As well as, of course, Olivia Wilde.
I remember reading some discussion that they were considering doing more episodes shot with the Canons. This episode looks like it may be one of those it really does give a nice "reality" look to it.
Well, the opening scene had that great free floating shot from House's office, into the ddx room, around the table and back into a close up of House's face. It really looked like a light, small camera shot. And the depth of field in this episode a lot of the time is really narrow. So I'm thinking this is definitely an episode.
So they're not doing it all the time, just occasionally? I've missed the last couple weeks, so I haven't been paying attention.
So they're not doing it all the time, just occasionally? I've missed the last couple weeks, so I haven't been paying attention.
I didn't like the ending. Way too contrived. I mean, presumably she's had the cancer for some time already, much more than nine days. What are the odds that it would just happen to kill her within a day or two of its discovery? A totally artificial outcome to force a melodramatic resolution.
I liked Dr. Chang. Too bad she was just here for a week. Although I could see it coming a mile away that she'd be offered the job and turn it down because of the dysfunctional office politics of House's team.
I liked Dr. Chang. Too bad she was just here for a week. Although I could see it coming a mile away that she'd be offered the job and turn it down because of the dysfunctional office politics of House's team.
The last couple episodes appeared to be shot with traditional cameras, (parts of the season opener may have been shot with the Canons as it took place immediately after the finale and it seemed to have the same look.)
On the episode:
I'll vote this one an "Excellent" as all of the various elements seemed to work. The "Adventures in Babysitting" aspect of the show wasn't quite what I would've wanted out of it (I would've preferred a more slapsticky episode with House and Wilson chasing the child around the house) but ended up working very nicely and as soon as I saw the two of them in bed and Cuddy get up to answer the monitor I knew she'd discover the dime. Twenty-four hours strikes me as a bit long for a dime to make its way through the digestive system (esp. with laxatives in the mix) but whatever. It was a fun.
The POTW stuff was some of the better ones the show, again, has had in a long time with a good drama to it though I'm curious to see on Poilte Dissent tomorrow if the "cancer fighting the cancer" thing is "possible." It strikes me as odd.
The episode title obviously has a double meaning in that both Wilson and House have an "unplanned parenthood" in worrying about Rachel the whole episode and the POTW's daughter getting one at the end of the episode with her new-born sister.
Lisa Edelstein/Cuddy again meets her scantly-clad moments in again this episode as she has every episode this season (not complaing at all, she's a very nice woman but sheesh in every episode this season she's been either naked or scantly clad (in this episode we see her in jammies twice as well as probably one of the deeper cuts in a top I think she's ever had in the second scene where she talks House "into" watching the kid for the night. (After House messes with the radiation thing.)
Our FOTW was nice and I actually think she would've worked out nicely had she not decided to decline, her reasoning on that front seemed forced by plot and odd.
Looks like we're going into a hiatus (I suspect for the World Series) for a couple of weeks and the next new episode will bring us our final FOTW and the one we'll settle on until Thirteen comes back mid-season. (Be interesting to see if she's kept on as a secondary (similar to how Cameron and Chase were in S4 and S5) when Thirteen does come back.)
Excellent episode, really enjoyed it and, again, it really does feel like the show has gotten out of the "slump" it was in last season where the Medical stuff took a back-seat to the soap opera. This year it seems they re-found the balance between the POTW stuff and soap opera stuff they had during the first four seasons or so. (Season 4, IMHO, is an awesome and perfect season that balanced the various aspects of introducing new fellows, the soap opera and the medicine.)
POTW had some great legs and some very lovely feet too.
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Well, she turned it down not because of House's dysfunctional office politics (she even said she knows House is an ass but she also likely understood the benefits she'd reap from being on his team) she quit because she didn't like Taub's behavior and mannerisms in the office because he was too "child like." Which is odd. House acts like far more of a child than Taub does; and if she doesn't like children, working in the NICU seems like an odd choice of profession.
On the episode:
I'll vote this one an "Excellent" as all of the various elements seemed to work. The "Adventures in Babysitting" aspect of the show wasn't quite what I would've wanted out of it (I would've preferred a more slapsticky episode with House and Wilson chasing the child around the house) but ended up working very nicely and as soon as I saw the two of them in bed and Cuddy get up to answer the monitor I knew she'd discover the dime. Twenty-four hours strikes me as a bit long for a dime to make its way through the digestive system (esp. with laxatives in the mix) but whatever. It was a fun.
The POTW stuff was some of the better ones the show, again, has had in a long time with a good drama to it though I'm curious to see on Poilte Dissent tomorrow if the "cancer fighting the cancer" thing is "possible." It strikes me as odd.
The episode title obviously has a double meaning in that both Wilson and House have an "unplanned parenthood" in worrying about Rachel the whole episode and the POTW's daughter getting one at the end of the episode with her new-born sister.
Lisa Edelstein/Cuddy again meets her scantly-clad moments in again this episode as she has every episode this season (not complaing at all, she's a very nice woman but sheesh in every episode this season she's been either naked or scantly clad (in this episode we see her in jammies twice as well as probably one of the deeper cuts in a top I think she's ever had in the second scene where she talks House "into" watching the kid for the night. (After House messes with the radiation thing.)
Our FOTW was nice and I actually think she would've worked out nicely had she not decided to decline, her reasoning on that front seemed forced by plot and odd.
Looks like we're going into a hiatus (I suspect for the World Series) for a couple of weeks and the next new episode will bring us our final FOTW and the one we'll settle on until Thirteen comes back mid-season. (Be interesting to see if she's kept on as a secondary (similar to how Cameron and Chase were in S4 and S5) when Thirteen does come back.)
Excellent episode, really enjoyed it and, again, it really does feel like the show has gotten out of the "slump" it was in last season where the Medical stuff took a back-seat to the soap opera. This year it seems they re-found the balance between the POTW stuff and soap opera stuff they had during the first four seasons or so. (Season 4, IMHO, is an awesome and perfect season that balanced the various aspects of introducing new fellows, the soap opera and the medicine.)
POTW had some great legs and some very lovely feet too.
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Well, she turned it down not because of House's dysfunctional office politics (she even said she knows House is an ass but she also likely understood the benefits she'd reap from being on his team) she quit because she didn't like Taub's behavior and mannerisms in the office because he was too "child like." Which is odd. House acts like far more of a child than Taub does; and if she doesn't like children, working in the NICU seems like an odd choice of profession.
I thought it was a pretty good episode, too, and it felt like House of old. I'm impressed with what they did with House babysitting, because that's one of the plots I knew they would have to break out eventually, and I thought it would be trite and lame. But the addition of Wilson into the mix made it pretty enjoyable.
I also think the wrap up of the POTW's case was a little forced and coincidental, but things like that happen a lot on House...even in the best episodes. (For the record, I still think "Three Stories" is the best episode they've ever done.)
I also think the wrap up of the POTW's case was a little forced and coincidental, but things like that happen a lot on House...even in the best episodes. (For the record, I still think "Three Stories" is the best episode they've ever done.)
"Three Stories" is certainly in my top episodes. But the "House's Head/Wilson's Heart" episodes at the end of the Fourth Season? ... Wow. Some awesome stuff in those episodes.
The mother dying seemed contrived too but, yeah, every show pulls that card out from time to time and this isn't even the first time this show has done it. There's been a few times House has taken on a case for the most superficial or benign of reasons and it ends up being taken just before the patient hits the bottom. It's contrived but one of those TV tropes we deal with.
And I always figured a House with the baby episode had to be done too and I was looking forward to it. Adding Wilson into the mix just made that much greater.
The mother dying seemed contrived too but, yeah, every show pulls that card out from time to time and this isn't even the first time this show has done it. There's been a few times House has taken on a case for the most superficial or benign of reasons and it ends up being taken just before the patient hits the bottom. It's contrived but one of those TV tropes we deal with.
And I always figured a House with the baby episode had to be done too and I was looking forward to it. Adding Wilson into the mix just made that much greater.
I could never get into the "House's Head/Wilson's Heart" stories. For two reasons. One, I've always hated "it's all in his head." In any show or story. Secondly, I fucking hated Amber every second she was onscreen. And not in a "they did a good job, she was supposed to be annoying" way, like say...Sherry Palmer. I just hated the character and thought she was boring.
Now that you mention it, she got a lot less naked this week than in every other episode this season. I mean, yeah, some scanty outfits, but downright modest compared to previous weeks where they really pushed the limits on TV nudity.
Didn't seem odd to me. On the contrary, I find it hard to believe that anyone would be willing to work in the insanely toxic environment of House's team.
Uhh, yes, which is why I said "of House's team," not "of House." Chang had far more interaction with the team than she did with House.
House doesn't like anybody, and he works as a doctor.
And maybe she didn't always dislike children. I can understand how someone whose profession requires dealing with large numbers of distressed children on a regular basis could grow sick of them.
Well, I wouldn't call the House's/Wilson's Head stories as "all in his head" because elements of it did take place in reality with dips into House's delusions/dreams. I didn't like CTB either but, for me, somehow they made me feel for her -mostly Wilson- in the the second part of the two episodes. It's heart breaking where during the ending montage we see Wilson going home (to Amber's apartment) see her note for him (that she was going to pick-up House) an he just curls up in the bed and cries.
The emotion of the two episodes worked as well as the final "dream" scene with House on the "purgatory bus" where he talks to CTB and says he can't handle Wilson hating him.
Just touching, powerful episodes for me. But, yeah, Three Stories is a pinnacle, awesome, episode. Three Stories, House's Head, Wilson's Head and last season's finale are what I would consider the show's best episodes. I may even put the fourth season episode "Frozen" (where House treats a woman hurt at the South Pole) in there as it has some good moments but doesn't quite pull on the chords as strongly as those others.
I think the episode(s) I liked the least was the Sixth Season opener (with house in the asylum) as it just seemed like corn-ball typical "insane people in an asylum" stuff. But it's an episode I guess that "had to be done" in order to wrap up the 5th Season's finale.
Well team implies she had problems with Chase and Forman too. I took it she only had problems with Taub. But, again, if she didn't like children, or child-like behavior, she would've quit because of House eventually anyway.
Yeah she was a bit less naked this week than the past weeks. (I think there was only one other episode where it was only suggested (like in scanty pajamas or bed sheets or something) But it's almost become a trope for this show. Naked (or Scantly Dressed) Cuddy. For six full seasons its been low-cut blouses and a couple teases here and there (her getting the fertility injections, the strip tease) but for the most part just low-cut tops. Now? Either naked or in skimp PJs every episode. I hope this trope stays.
And I hate customers.
Well, not all customers but the bad ones out weigh the good ones.
Just anecdotally, nothing necessarily to do with this character, but I knew a woman who worked as a nurse in a NICU and saw some heartbreaking stuff (as you can imagine) mostly in the realm of kids born addicted to crack/with complications due to very poor care during pregnancy. But she still loved kids, she even said her job made her more loving of children. She hated seeing it, but she did it because she cared so much for the kids.
It would've been interesting for the FOTW in this episode to be around for at least a full episode and see her with House as the two's loathsomeness for patients would've played off each other nicely.