House: 7x10 "Carrot & Stick" - Discussion and Spoilers
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Me: "Hey it's that kid from Everybody Hates Chris--- Hey, it's Sasha Roiz!"
Good episode.
The P(s)OTW stuff was interesting though the two people who have different skin colors are really related card has been played before. (Season 3 episode where a "mixed"-looking girl and a white man are half-siblings via the same father.) No surprise the disease of the week was a genetic related condition that forced the reveal. (Again, just like in the aforementioned episode where the DOTW was a rare genetic condition unlikely to occur in two unrelated people.)
Far more fun was the B and C plots with House and Rachel and Chase and his Social Networking troubles. House with Rachel at the end was a bit shocking both in House's being "proud" of Rachel and actually.... embracing her at the end when she went in for a cuddle. A credit to the show's writers that House's "change" post rehab/institutionalization and off the Vicodin he really has seemed to have softened a bit and "changed." The stuff with him "training" Rachel to get into the school was sweet and fun. Also loved Wilson inadvertently giving House the "Aha!Moment" for dealing with the kid.
The C Plot with Chase and his (Not)Facebook problems was fun and I suspect we'll see his female foil again. Also hilarious was him being in a threesome with a high-school girl!
Still not impressed with 3M and await Thirteen's return. Any "potential" in 3M's character seems to be gone and wasted. It'd have been more fun if they stuck with the revolving door of FellowsOTW rather than landing on 3M. The clown-dressing, nit-witted medical student.
The next episode looks like it'll be an interesting Emmy Clip Providing/Nielsen Ratings boosting power episode. I suspect, however, the "character changing" dramatic-ism of the preview was over-played. Just a bit.
I rate this Episode a "Good." I still like the "Huddy" relationship and even how House is bonding with the kid.
The P(s)OTW stuff was interesting though the two people who have different skin colors are really related card has been played before. (Season 3 episode where a "mixed"-looking girl and a white man are half-siblings via the same father.) No surprise the disease of the week was a genetic related condition that forced the reveal. (Again, just like in the aforementioned episode where the DOTW was a rare genetic condition unlikely to occur in two unrelated people.)
Far more fun was the B and C plots with House and Rachel and Chase and his Social Networking troubles. House with Rachel at the end was a bit shocking both in House's being "proud" of Rachel and actually.... embracing her at the end when she went in for a cuddle. A credit to the show's writers that House's "change" post rehab/institutionalization and off the Vicodin he really has seemed to have softened a bit and "changed." The stuff with him "training" Rachel to get into the school was sweet and fun. Also loved Wilson inadvertently giving House the "Aha!Moment" for dealing with the kid.
The C Plot with Chase and his (Not)Facebook problems was fun and I suspect we'll see his female foil again. Also hilarious was him being in a threesome with a high-school girl!
Still not impressed with 3M and await Thirteen's return. Any "potential" in 3M's character seems to be gone and wasted. It'd have been more fun if they stuck with the revolving door of FellowsOTW rather than landing on 3M. The clown-dressing, nit-witted medical student.
The next episode looks like it'll be an interesting Emmy Clip Providing/Nielsen Ratings boosting power episode. I suspect, however, the "character changing" dramatic-ism of the preview was over-played. Just a bit.
I rate this Episode a "Good." I still like the "Huddy" relationship and even how House is bonding with the kid.
The way it looked to me was that he reflexively raised his hands, waved them uncertainly as if trying to decide whether to hug her back, and then let them fall to his sides. So he almost but not quite embraced her.
I wasn't too invested in this episode. Call me shallow, but without Jennifer Morrison or Olivia Wilde to look at, I'm just not enjoying the show as much.
I'll toss part of my hat into that ring too. The House/Cuddy/Wilson stuff I enjoy a lot and while Cuddy makes for decent eye-candy, yeah, I need Thirteen back.
And yeah he seemed half-hearted in the "hug" with Rachel at the end (and we've seen him act this way before to an unexpected show of affection (see: the second episode of the second season at the end with the cancer girl. In there the POTW, a young girl with terminal cancer whom House saves from a blood clot in the brain by performing an "autopsy" on her, gives House a hug at the end on her way out. He sort of gives a look and reaction like he doesn't know what to do with his own arms before the girl finishes the hug.) House clearly has "trouble" with forms of affection like this (which would be consistent if "really does" have Asperger Syndrome) but he still seemed to be receptive of Rachel's affections.
As you said, the B/C stuff was the best part of the show. (Just like last week.) Really, the POTW have become the low-point of the show these days.
I liked the POTW stuff better than the sitcommy stuff with Chase and House/Rachel. It was interesting to see Caprica's Sasha Roiz playing a character who wasn't a mob assassin. And I like the way Masters is allowed to be both right and wrong, to occasionally misunderstand things or get taken advantage of but still be able to stick by her optimism and prove it to be a strength a lot of the time, rather than just being treated as childishly naive. The rest of the cast has become so cynical, amoral, and House-like that it's refreshing to have a character with principle (though I'm shallow enough to still want Thirteen back because she's so much hotter).
Pretty good episode. Better than last week.
Really? Well maybe. But usually the side stuff is really good--especially the House/Wilson stuff.
I really think someone needs to write a stage adaptation of The Odd Couple for Laurie and RSL. Those two are just so good together.
^Usually, but not this week. I really don't care about Chase's shallow sex life, and I don't think a 2-year-old makes a particularly engaging foil for House (although, granted, they are about equal in maturity).
And, err, The Odd Couple was originally a play by Neil Simon, so I don't see why anyone would need to write a new adaptation when there's already a perfectly good play available.
And, err, The Odd Couple was originally a play by Neil Simon, so I don't see why anyone would need to write a new adaptation when there's already a perfectly good play available.
Well, sort of, got that the couple times when House and Wilson lived together (first in House's apartment following/during Wilson's latest divorce) and then again when House was "required" to stay with a friend following his stay in the hospital (when he and Wilson lived together in CTB's apartment and later in the condo Wilson got.)
I'll be honest, i was pretty bored with this episode. In fact, i've been very disappointed in this season overall. I like Huddy. I miss Thirteen. But what i miss most is House/Wilson bantering. I love their relationship above all others and there has been so little of it this season.
Interesting about how House was "training" Rachael. A similiar thing was done in one episode of The Big Bang Theory (training her like a dog), so it lost a lot of its humor for me.
And i agree with what some others said: i don't give a hoot about Chase and his shallow sex life. Chase originally was an interesting character, he's become nothing but a waste of air IMO.
Interesting about how House was "training" Rachael. A similiar thing was done in one episode of The Big Bang Theory (training her like a dog), so it lost a lot of its humor for me.
And i agree with what some others said: i don't give a hoot about Chase and his shallow sex life. Chase originally was an interesting character, he's become nothing but a waste of air IMO.
Here's a thought: Bring back Thirteen, keep Masters, dump Chase. Heck, while you're at it, dump Taub and bring back Cameron. It's Gregory's Angels, with Foreman as Bosley.
As for House "training" Rachel by giving her treats, I like the way it backfired on him by making her fond of him, rather than simply motivated to perform correctly. Not surprising that he didn't see that coming.
As for House "training" Rachel by giving her treats, I like the way it backfired on him by making her fond of him, rather than simply motivated to perform correctly. Not surprising that he didn't see that coming.
I'd rather not see Cameron back. I'm beyond bored and over with her character and her always preaching holier-than-thou stuff to House. But dumping Taub sounds good to me I don't think he offers much but I also don't think 3M offers anything either.
Dump Taub, dump Masters, keep Cameron gone, keep Chase, keep Thirteen, keep Forman and bring in someone new.
^Yeah, but Cameron's hot. That's pretty much the entirety of the reasoning behind my (facetious) suggestion.
Yeah, Cameron is hot... sorta. More so before Jennifer went back to her natural hair-color. I didn't like her much as a blonde and after a while she just started annoying me as a character.
