House: 8x01 "Twenty Vicodin" - Discussion/Spoilers
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won't find out in this episode.
Well, House mostly seems to be acting "more like himself" in his interactions with patients/other doctors. Now can this show believably but him back to work?
Yeah. They were named "Wilson."
I never had any major problem with the direction of the character, or the show, until the last moments of last season when they went waaaay too far. They better pay it off and make that craziness amount to something amazing.
Not a bad episode, really.
Still wait to see how all of this pays off and the status quo more-or-less gets re-established.
Still wait to see how all of this pays off and the status quo more-or-less gets re-established.
Just finished the first Season 8 episode with my spouse whom said "Well, they need to make some improvements or I'm done watching it." I don'tthinkI am going to be as harsh. It was slow and rather uneventful, still had a few whitty lines of humor but it was totally sub par for the series. The new character (female Doctor) that we met tonight was interesting enough. I think Icould grow to like hera lot, maybe? It wasn't great, it wasn't good but it wasn't horrific.So I pick bad.
Workin' the old House charm on the ladies, I see. That's the only part I liked. Other than that, I wasn't too keen on the prison stuff and would also like to see how everything gets put back to normal.
^ It's Odette Annable now (I like to call her Odette Animal), and I read that Olivia Wilde will hardly be there. Here's the season 8 news thread with some mild spoilers and links to a few articles.
Gave it a good. Not quite the same without the doclings, but I'm sure that's coming soon.
I LOVED the parole inquest at the beginning - it directly dealt with literally ALL the complaints that people had about the end of the last season. He knew that the kid was at grandma's. He saw that everyone was out of the dining room, etc., etc. It was almost a complete laundry list answering all the gripes that came up on the web about the finale. Well done!
I LOVED the parole inquest at the beginning - it directly dealt with literally ALL the complaints that people had about the end of the last season. He knew that the kid was at grandma's. He saw that everyone was out of the dining room, etc., etc. It was almost a complete laundry list answering all the gripes that came up on the web about the finale. Well done!
I gave it a good as well. At the very least it was different, which for this show recently is saying something. I would have given it an excellent if the last minute had been nothing but House sitting in solitary without ever finding out if he was right or not, but I'm weird like that 
I think the episode highlighted just how unrepentant and unchanged he is by any of these events, which would be a potentially life changing event to any normal person. He would rather risk getting shanked by the prison gang than just give the leader the pills he had in his pocket and didn't need. He'd rather risk losing his parole by proving he was right, than just shutting up and minding his own business. If it was because he truly cared about the patient, it might be understandable, but it was really more about him being right than anything.
He really is an awful person. And yet I love this show. Not sure what that says about me.
He really is an awful person. And yet I love this show. Not sure what that says about me.
I missed the parole hearing thanks to my DVR going out of its mind for exactly that amount of time. 
I saw she changed to her married name in the titles. Brave for an established actress to do that and risk casting directors and producers not knowing who she is! Not that "Odette" is so common in Hollywood
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I saw she changed to her married name in the titles. Brave for an established actress to do that and risk casting directors and producers not knowing who she is! Not that "Odette" is so common in Hollywood
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The black guy helping house was Steve Urkel! LOL totally missed that!
What, who? The patient?
eta: ah, nonsense, he wasn't black of course. Anyway, I didn't notice at all either.
As soon as he started talking I went...
That's Steve Urkel!!!
Best part of the episode.
Oddly enough, IIRC Steve Urkell played as a lawyer in an earlier episode.
On the front of House risking so much to "cure" the patient, we've seen him do this many times before in the past.
On the front of House risking so much to "cure" the patient, we've seen him do this many times before in the past.
Yeah but is he doing it to cure the patient or to show how smart he is? It's kind of hard to tell and it speaks volumes about the kind of person he is.
Early on in the series I thought it was just because he would do anything to save the patient. But with what they've put the character through, I don't get that vibe anymore.
Sometimes it seems to cure the patient, sometimes its to solve the puzzle.
But way back in the first episode of the series Wilson is doing a simple exam of one of House's patients and the two are talking about House himself, whom the POTW has yet to meet.
POTW: "Don't you need to like people in order to be a good doctor?"
Wilson: "Some people do. He's found something else."
But way back in the first episode of the series Wilson is doing a simple exam of one of House's patients and the two are talking about House himself, whom the POTW has yet to meet.
POTW: "Don't you need to like people in order to be a good doctor?"
Wilson: "Some people do. He's found something else."