House: 8x02 "Transplant" - Discussion/Spoilers
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Yeah, I read that and I has sort of the same reaction.
Is it ever an internal battle with him on whether or not to break hospital rules?
Is it ever an internal battle with him on whether or not to break hospital rules?
You know, House going out of his way to not break the rules for once would actually be innovative.
"Chase, schedule an MRI! But first make sure it'll be covered by the patient's insurance company and negotiate a reasonable co-pay. Then notify the patient of the time of their MRI and that'll it'll likely be sometime in the next 4-6 weeks! In the meantime, Foreman I want you to see what drugs are available to help ease the patient's pain and make sure it's one with a suitable generic available!"
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Taub- Patient is dead
House- No!
Taub- Patient is dead
House- No!
Yeah, I read that and I has sort of the same reaction.
Is it ever an internal battle with him on whether or not to break hospital rules?
yeah that's kind of a prerequisite for the show isn't it?And take it a step further by the patient actually BENEFITING from House following the rules.
Chances are good "House" will start a solid hour late tonight due to a long baseball game.
I think Wilson forgave House too easily. I was hoping for a rift between them to last several episodes before it is resolved. I just want House to suffer from serious consequences of his actions outside of his stay in prison. He's still acting like he didn't do anything wrong when he slammed the car into Cuddy's home. Will any form of guilt or remorse hit him? Does he feel sorry that he is the reason Cuddy quit her job?
Well, that was a fairly good episode and I actually sort of like the new "status quo" they built up. I would argue that Foreman isn't in a position to be Dean of Medicine. A few years ago Foreman was deemed "House Light" by Cuddy when Foreman went against his boss's orders and performed a test on a patient. Cuddy said no other hospital would be likely to hire Foreman aside from the person who hired House Classic. A couple years ago Foreman dicked with a medical trial and. It strikes me as a bit unlikely the Foreman would be made dean of medicine. It also seems unlikely to me the board, without Cuddy and Wilson in his corner, would elect to keep House's tenure. But Foreman did say it took a lot to get House "rehired" so it's unlikely he has tenure anymore -which would mean more clinic patients for House.
The mystery of the week was good but I wonder how accurate it is that lungs to be transplanted are kept "alive" like that. It seems more likely to me they'd be kept in the body and the body would be kept alive until all of the organs have been harvested. That they'd be kept in a clear box like that while "breathing" strikes me as odd and I didn't notice any kind of device for feeding the lungs a supply of blood.
I like the new docling (I assume she's going to be one of the new ones) and actually like Foreman as Dean of Meidicne but I doubt that'll hold for long.
The dynamic between House and Wilson was fun especially at the end when they "made up." Good scenes we've not seen for a while with House watching over a dry-mark list of symptoms and doing his thinking either by playing with his cane or his ball. And then getting an "Ah-ha!" moment from something fairly mundane.
I give this episode a "good" and it mostly seems like the series is finding itself back on track, next weeks preview seems to look like this will hold. (Foreman's comments about a restrained budget also seemed to me to be echoing the show's own restrained budget.)
It's possible House is dealing with his guilt in his own way. It's also possible Lisa's leaving the show made any arc of House dealing with the aftermath impossible to do, not to mention the backlash the show got for going that route and the show needing to recover viewers. It seems to mostly want to put as much as that aside and get back to show's core and roots. I, for one, am glad for it. Hell I would've been fine if they completely wrote off what happened at the end of last season as a dream or something because it was that stupid.
The mystery of the week was good but I wonder how accurate it is that lungs to be transplanted are kept "alive" like that. It seems more likely to me they'd be kept in the body and the body would be kept alive until all of the organs have been harvested. That they'd be kept in a clear box like that while "breathing" strikes me as odd and I didn't notice any kind of device for feeding the lungs a supply of blood.
I like the new docling (I assume she's going to be one of the new ones) and actually like Foreman as Dean of Meidicne but I doubt that'll hold for long.
The dynamic between House and Wilson was fun especially at the end when they "made up." Good scenes we've not seen for a while with House watching over a dry-mark list of symptoms and doing his thinking either by playing with his cane or his ball. And then getting an "Ah-ha!" moment from something fairly mundane.
I give this episode a "good" and it mostly seems like the series is finding itself back on track, next weeks preview seems to look like this will hold. (Foreman's comments about a restrained budget also seemed to me to be echoing the show's own restrained budget.)
It's possible House is dealing with his guilt in his own way. It's also possible Lisa's leaving the show made any arc of House dealing with the aftermath impossible to do, not to mention the backlash the show got for going that route and the show needing to recover viewers. It seems to mostly want to put as much as that aside and get back to show's core and roots. I, for one, am glad for it. Hell I would've been fine if they completely wrote off what happened at the end of last season as a dream or something because it was that stupid.
The actress was listed among the regulars, but the regular cast seems to be in flux (no Odette Annable this week), so that's not necessarily definitive. I liked the character, but not the actress; I found her voice, and the way she used it, very unappealing.
agreed.
^ The way she sounded reminded me of Michael Cera. Then this morning, I found out that they dated for 3 years. I like her character.
Good episode overall. I was hoping we wouldn't get another prison episode and we didn't. They did a good job of moving things along quickly.
Also...
- Forman is in charge and I was hoping it would be Wilson, but Forman works.
- The lungs being kept alive in the glass case was an issue for me too. A bit of Bones-like scifi there.
- Not sure how I feel about House's antics and predicament. They seem a bit too heavy, but I'm willing to wait and see if they can recover some of that old charm.
- I figured that Wilson would punch him at some point and then set a date for drinks. I was wrong though. It was dinner.
- I hope that House can make amends with Cuddy even if all we see is House picking up the phone.
Good episode overall. I was hoping we wouldn't get another prison episode and we didn't. They did a good job of moving things along quickly.
Also...
- Forman is in charge and I was hoping it would be Wilson, but Forman works.
- The lungs being kept alive in the glass case was an issue for me too. A bit of Bones-like scifi there.
- Not sure how I feel about House's antics and predicament. They seem a bit too heavy, but I'm willing to wait and see if they can recover some of that old charm.
- I figured that Wilson would punch him at some point and then set a date for drinks. I was wrong though. It was dinner.
- I hope that House can make amends with Cuddy even if all we see is House picking up the phone.
So, they have no explanation at all for letting House practice medicine again, they just do it. I guess he's the Michael Vick of Princeton.
Yeah, the new docling's voice was a bit annoying for me too. It sounded like she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown or something.
On "Polite Dissent"'s review of the episode the blogger said that lungs being kept alive "ex vivo" is possible. Though it was a bit to clean and pristine looking in how it was portrayed here.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXqMsraSb84[/yt]
On "Polite Dissent"'s review of the episode the blogger said that lungs being kept alive "ex vivo" is possible. Though it was a bit to clean and pristine looking in how it was portrayed here.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXqMsraSb84[/yt]
So it wasn't just me then. Not sure if that's her normal speaking voice, or if they made a conscious choice to have her deliberately speak in that extrememly monotone manner, but good grief.
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Charlene Yi is well known as a sort of female Michael Cera. She specializes in awkward, nerdy characters. I like what she brings to the show.
^Okay, but she could stand to get some voice coaching.
That much is obvious. Can she do anything else?