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House returns from its Holiday/Winter Hiatus Monday night. About damn time!
House Medical Reviews
House returns from its Holiday/Winter Hiatus Monday night. About damn time!
House: 7x09: "Larger Than Life" - Discussion and Spoilers
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House just Godwin'd his own show. Classic.
(And this is the first meaningful DDx scene we've had in a long time.)
Godwin: To bring Hitler, needlessly, into a conversation.
House used a magic marker to draw a Hitler-like hairsytle and mustache on the bus stop's picture of Taub.
Meaningful DDx scene:
It's been a while since there's been a DDx (Differential Diagnosis) with House taking symptoms and possible diagnoses and writing down (usually it's done on the white board, here it was done on the bus-stop window.)
This has been a good episode so far. 3M continues to wear silly outfits and be annoying but the B-plot with House and the mom has been funny. Candice Bergen playing Cuddy's mom is a great casting choice.
So the school has an outbreak of chicken pox which you are supposed to get the shot. Are they all Hindu?
Still was BORING and that makes for bad TV.
The chicken pox vaccine is fairly new and wasn't likely widely available, or administered, when the POTW was a child. As for the outbreak at the daughter's school it's likely the vaccine isn't required at her school. And of all of the cases House has taken an adult case of chicken pox, or the lack of mandatory vaccination at the kid's school, this is hardly the most unrealistic one.
I enjoyed this episode personally.
Chicken-pox vaccine is only 70-90 percent effective, and the immunity can wear off over time.
And maybe he was home-schooled.
I'm getting tired of "House believes being good is an illness" stories. It's reached the point of caricature. It's also a failure to understand statistics. A commonplace behavior (like risk aversion) isn't a universal behavior. There doesn't have to be an anomalous explanation for a variation from the average.
Ironic, by the way, that the guy being touted for his act of bravery was played by Matthew Lillard, who's known for playing noted coward Shaggy Rogers in the Scooby Doo live-action movies and the current animated series.
And I'm disappointed that Taub decided on divorce. I thought he was coming toward acceptance of her right to have a friend, and toward not being such an insecure jerk about it. But I guess in a way he's trying to do right by her, giving her freedom to be happy.
Cuddy's Jewish? Did we know that before?
Yep. Been mentioned a lot since the first season. (Or at least hinted at.) House even chides her for being on "J-Date" (A Jewish singles dating site) at one point. I believe a necklace she wears is of a Hebrew symbol and, well, not to be indelicate but she "looks Jewish" (and Lisa Edelstein herself is Jewish.)
Well, his wife was "cheating on him" in a pretty bad way. I know that's an odd thing to say but Taub's cheating was just the physical act of sex. His wife was cheating on him emotionally this other guy she was talking to on line was helping her with problems and she was opening up to him. In a previous relationship I was cheated on both ways. The physical acts didn't hurt me nearly as much as her being with this guy, sharing things with him and having fun with him.
Also when he said he wanted the divorce it seemed she was agreeable to it to admitting that their marriage wasn't anything to be kept. They're two philanderers in their own ways in a childless marriage. Why are they staying together?
I actually think the divorce is the most loving thing Taub's done for his wife. He dosn't know what his life will be like without her, and it scares him, but he thinks that she'll be better off if they end the marriage. It's one of a few unselfish things he's done.
True.
I know you are an old guy, but the vaccine has been around since 1995, it's mandatory to get the vaccine in order to go to most schools.
The point was the episode was mind numbingly boring! The lame ending just made it worse.
If 32 is old then, yeah, I'm old.
And "mandatory in most schools" isn't the same thing as "mandatory in all schools."
If the POTW is my age then he likely went all through school without ever being required to have it.
My problem is that the kid should have had it and she didn't? That's lame.
It's federal law to have the shot in public school for years now, I have no clue about private schools.
Still the episode was bad LONNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG before the ending. It's a sad day when Candice Bergen can't save a show.
It's federal law to have the shot in public school for years now, I have no clue about private schools.
Still the episode was bad LONNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG before the ending. It's a sad day when Candice Bergen can't save a show.
The chicken pox vaccine is not required by law in the U.S. Nor is any vaccine for that matter.
there is no federal law for chicken pox vaccine.
and since often two doses are required and the later dose isnt given until after the child is four..
shrug..
That's ridiculous. He was a friend. Just because they're married, that doesn't give Taub the right to forbid her from having male friends. That kind of behavior, trying to prevent your partner from having a social life outside of your relationship, is a textbook warning sign of an abusive relationship. I know this because I dealt with such a situation once, as the friend being shut out, and I consulted with professionals, therapists who deal with abuse. It's a form of emotional domination, trying to deny your partner from having a life of her own and reduce her to merely an extension of your life. It's unhealthy and it's wrong.
Taub's wife had every right to friendships outside her marriage, and Taub was a selfish, controlling jerk for being jealous about it. And the only reason she needed to turn to a friend as a confidant is because Taub was unable or unwilling to rebuild the mutual trust they needed so he could fill that role himself. Instead he's been insecure and paranoid and distant. If anything, he's the one who betrayed her emotionally by not giving her the companionship she had a right to. It's because Taub recognized this that he finally came to his senses, stopped trying to own her, and let her go.
Because they love each other. People can be bad for each other but still love each other. I didn't see her as accepting it as casually as you insinuate. She was clearly saddened and hurt by the idea, but Taub made it clear that he was doing it for her, letting her go as an act of love so that she could be happy. If you think he was punishing her for "cheating," then you profoundly misread the whole scene. He was setting her free because he loves her so much. And she recognized that, which was why she didn't get angry. But I don't think it was something she wanted. She wanted to make the marriage work -- to "balance our miseries," as Cuddy put it. She drew on an external friend for comfort in order to give her the strength to keep doing that, to keep working on her marriage. And she made sure to keep it a long-distance friendship so that an affair was out of the question. It's absurd to call that cheating. On the contrary, it demonstrates great loyalty, that she was willing to do all that for the sake of preserving her marriage despite how unhappy she was.
Pretty much what I was getting at. She was having an emotional affair with this other guy. Sharing secrets with him, solving problems in her life with him, etc. That's got to sting pretty bad. In fact, it does.