House: 8x05 "The Confession" - Discussion and Spoilers
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Hasn't he already had a patient that could not stop telling the truth?
He had a patient once that was incapable of not not telling truth/inner monologue. But it seems this patient just is as bluntly honest as House is.
Things I want to point out real quick, just started watching the episode on my DVR.
House is going to treat a guy from Hill Valley!
Huh, I guess they are going to continue with an opening title sequence and Teardrop.
Huh, the new doclings got added to the opening credits right away rather than having to wait two seasons like Thirteen, Taub and Kutner did.
House is going to treat a guy from Hill Valley!
Huh, I guess they are going to continue with an opening title sequence and Teardrop.
Huh, the new doclings got added to the opening credits right away rather than having to wait two seasons like Thirteen, Taub and Kutner did.
I'm amazed Taub and Chase want to go back to work for House after the terrible Cuddy incident. I just don't get their reasoning behind that. If my boss did something crazy like intentionally ramming a car into the supervisor's house and got sent to prison afterwards, I would avoid being in the same room with him.
It's possible working with House, especially for Chase, is that much of a privilege.
Good episode but the last scene, the reveal of the remodel project House was working on, seemed a bit broad. It's seems almost impossible that could have been done without Foreman knowing, without getting whatever is directly above House's office knowing (whether it's another office or the roof either way the wall has to go somewhere) and the mechanical sound of door/wall and the greebles on it seemed a bit broad. Slideaway walls can be done and put into houses with out so much mechanical nonsense.
I don't know about Taub but I'm certainly interested to know if they're his kids.
It actually seems if House might respect Foreman more as a doctor, colleague and boss than he did Cuddy. It's unlikely he would have been friends with Cuddy if she wasn't a good doctor but when she became an administrator he stopped respecting her as one -at least it seems the way. With Foreman House seems to more playing with him than usurping authority and running around him to do crazy stuff.
Can't speak on any of the medical stuff, the skin sloughing part was icky and certainly looked painful. When he did the "confession" in the clinic I suspected his "truth-telling" was something. I partly expected his need to tell the truth somehow relieved the illness as it seemed like he only got sick when he lied, or was holding back a lie and he got better when he let a piece of truth out. In fact it seemed like in the clinic scene his jaundice was improving as he "confessed" screwing over all of his customers and friends. (And, man, I wonder how he's going to undo that! Telling all of his customers individually that it was his illness? Put out a public message?)
Park was less interesting in this episode, I think I'd almost rather just her and Adams stayed as his team, this episode had to share too much time between Adams, Park, Taub and Chase and of course a bulk of the attention went to Taub.
Also, Taub being a surgeon, and former plastic surgeon, should certainly allow him to hire a nanny, valet, or someone else to transport his kids around or take care of them when has to work. Certainly he knew if he went back to work for House he'd have less times with the kids.
I partly expected House to be building his own little apartment in the other part of his office, allowing him to better stay there overnight just to screw with Foreman, and I really liked his interactions with Chase in this episode.
I'll grade this episode a "good." I think the series feels more or less back on track in dealing with the medicine and medical mystery and not making the mistake of dicking with personal life stuff outside of the hospital so much like it has the last two or three seasons. (Fifth season dealt a lot with Thirteen's Huntington's, sixth season with House and Cuddy and other issues, and the seventh season House and Cuddy's actual relationship and the fallout from their breakup.)
Good episode but the last scene, the reveal of the remodel project House was working on, seemed a bit broad. It's seems almost impossible that could have been done without Foreman knowing, without getting whatever is directly above House's office knowing (whether it's another office or the roof either way the wall has to go somewhere) and the mechanical sound of door/wall and the greebles on it seemed a bit broad. Slideaway walls can be done and put into houses with out so much mechanical nonsense.
I don't know about Taub but I'm certainly interested to know if they're his kids.
It actually seems if House might respect Foreman more as a doctor, colleague and boss than he did Cuddy. It's unlikely he would have been friends with Cuddy if she wasn't a good doctor but when she became an administrator he stopped respecting her as one -at least it seems the way. With Foreman House seems to more playing with him than usurping authority and running around him to do crazy stuff.
Can't speak on any of the medical stuff, the skin sloughing part was icky and certainly looked painful. When he did the "confession" in the clinic I suspected his "truth-telling" was something. I partly expected his need to tell the truth somehow relieved the illness as it seemed like he only got sick when he lied, or was holding back a lie and he got better when he let a piece of truth out. In fact it seemed like in the clinic scene his jaundice was improving as he "confessed" screwing over all of his customers and friends. (And, man, I wonder how he's going to undo that! Telling all of his customers individually that it was his illness? Put out a public message?)
Park was less interesting in this episode, I think I'd almost rather just her and Adams stayed as his team, this episode had to share too much time between Adams, Park, Taub and Chase and of course a bulk of the attention went to Taub.
Also, Taub being a surgeon, and former plastic surgeon, should certainly allow him to hire a nanny, valet, or someone else to transport his kids around or take care of them when has to work. Certainly he knew if he went back to work for House he'd have less times with the kids.
I partly expected House to be building his own little apartment in the other part of his office, allowing him to better stay there overnight just to screw with Foreman, and I really liked his interactions with Chase in this episode.
I'll grade this episode a "good." I think the series feels more or less back on track in dealing with the medicine and medical mystery and not making the mistake of dicking with personal life stuff outside of the hospital so much like it has the last two or three seasons. (Fifth season dealt a lot with Thirteen's Huntington's, sixth season with House and Cuddy and other issues, and the seventh season House and Cuddy's actual relationship and the fallout from their breakup.)
You must have missed the parts where Taub was fired by House for wanting to take 2 weeks to hire a nanny/find daycare, thus forcing him to start immediately.
Loved House being back to form in fucking with people without being self destructive.
No, I didn't miss that part.
You'd still think he'd have one set up, could get one over night with his money or, you-know, would have already had one since the babies are six months old.
You'd still think he'd have one set up, could get one over night with his money or, you-know, would have already had one since the babies are six months old.
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"No..."
"No..."
YES! They got my letters and put the opening credits back in.
I think they were holding off on the opening credits until they'd finally assembled the full regular cast.
I found it implausible that it took the team so long to solve the case. I mean, House is usually the first person to suspect a character's behavior of being a medical symptom. You'd think he'd be automatically suspicious of a neurological problem if a patient had a sudden bout of compulsive honesty. And heck, as soon as Bamber's character started confessing all his crimes to his friends and neighbors, I knew he was delusional. It just wasn't believable that someone could be so well-liked and respected and become the citizen of the year if he'd committed that many crimes and betrayals. One spur-of-the-moment infidelity, sure, that could be concealed easily enough, and it happened after the awards ceremony anyway. But a whole persistent pattern of criminal behavior and deceit stretching back years? There would've been evidence. There would've been suspicion. It just didn't fit.
And sure, House might not question the idea that an apparent saint would actually have feet of clay, but surely he'd question why the guy would suddenly feel a compulsion to confess it all, even at the risk of his own life. There's no way that kind of self-defeating honesty fits into House's worldview. So he should've suspected right away that it was a neurological symptom. Instead the script made him overlook the obvious in order to prolong the crisis and let Chase eventually be the hero.
I found it implausible that it took the team so long to solve the case. I mean, House is usually the first person to suspect a character's behavior of being a medical symptom. You'd think he'd be automatically suspicious of a neurological problem if a patient had a sudden bout of compulsive honesty. And heck, as soon as Bamber's character started confessing all his crimes to his friends and neighbors, I knew he was delusional. It just wasn't believable that someone could be so well-liked and respected and become the citizen of the year if he'd committed that many crimes and betrayals. One spur-of-the-moment infidelity, sure, that could be concealed easily enough, and it happened after the awards ceremony anyway. But a whole persistent pattern of criminal behavior and deceit stretching back years? There would've been evidence. There would've been suspicion. It just didn't fit.
And sure, House might not question the idea that an apparent saint would actually have feet of clay, but surely he'd question why the guy would suddenly feel a compulsion to confess it all, even at the risk of his own life. There's no way that kind of self-defeating honesty fits into House's worldview. So he should've suspected right away that it was a neurological symptom. Instead the script made him overlook the obvious in order to prolong the crisis and let Chase eventually be the hero.
The ending scene didn't make a lot of sense, a) Wilson didn't notice the construction work ripping out his wall? and b) who the fuck paid for that?
At first I thought it's just a hidden camera projecting Wilson's office on House's wall in real time.
At first I thought it's just a hidden camera projecting Wilson's office on House's wall in real time.
Yeah, I pointed out above that it made no sense that the guy's honest compulsion didn't spark any kind of interest with House at all.
The ending scene was just too much. I suspect it may have been paid for in part with the windfall House got last week, but even then I doubt he can just hire a construction crew to do whatever he wants inside of a Hospital like that. The wall thing was just very out of "reality" even for this show.
a) House said earlier that he had the construction crew working only at night.
b) It evidently came out of the funds for remodeling his office, as part of the funding he obtained to reopen his department.
My credibility problem is this:
What does the rising wall rise into? It appears to be a rigid wall, so when House raises it, it would presumably rise up into whatever space occupies the floor above them. Not to mention that the actual lifting machinery would have to be there as well, taking up even more space. So what's up there? How can there just happen to be enough unused, empty space on the floor above that he can install this mechanism without disrupting the hospital's operations?
- Chase and Adams... I hope they don't become a couple. Putting the two "pretty people" together is annoying and chiché.
- Apollo's truth-telling didn't come off as a symptom of anything. I thought he was really confessing. I only caught on after he said he killed a bunch of people.
- I liked the little discussion about truth and lies. I too have always thought that if everyone started telling the truth all the time, civilization as we know it would collapse. Too much of our daily lives is built secrets. I also got a kick out of House bluntly pointing out that every guy wants to sleep with Adams, and guys pretending they don't, and her pretending not to notice.
- I was looking at the IMDb and I noticed that there's an actress named Bobbin Bergstrom, who's credited with 117 episodes. She plays a nurse. Never noticed her.
- Apollo's truth-telling didn't come off as a symptom of anything. I thought he was really confessing. I only caught on after he said he killed a bunch of people.
- I liked the little discussion about truth and lies. I too have always thought that if everyone started telling the truth all the time, civilization as we know it would collapse. Too much of our daily lives is built secrets. I also got a kick out of House bluntly pointing out that every guy wants to sleep with Adams, and guys pretending they don't, and her pretending not to notice.
- I was looking at the IMDb and I noticed that there's an actress named Bobbin Bergstrom, who's credited with 117 episodes. She plays a nurse. Never noticed her.
That end scene was one of the funniest scenes in House's history 
I thought the episode was excellent and had a feeling of classic House to it. People need to stop over analysing the joke though its not meant to be anything more than cheap laugh but a dam good one.
Saying that "Taub" is an idiot you need to know if your a dad to both kids.
I thought the episode was excellent and had a feeling of classic House to it. People need to stop over analysing the joke though its not meant to be anything more than cheap laugh but a dam good one.Saying that "Taub" is an idiot you need to know if your a dad to both kids.
But my point is, usually at that point, House would've wondered why he felt it necessary to confess the truth, especially when it endangered his life to do so. Even if House hadn't caught on that the confessions were delusional, he would've found the act of confessing anomalous enough to take a closer look at. So having House overlook that was out-of-character writing.
