House

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"If you're particularly annoying, you may see me reach for this. This is Vicadin. It's mine. You can't have any."

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"If you're particularly annoying, you may see me reach for this. This is Vicadin. It's mine. You can't have any."

"And no, I do not have a pain management problem, I have a pain problem. But who knows. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm too stoned to tell. So. Who wants me?" *noone raises their hand* "Aaaand who would rather wait for one of the other two guys?" *everyone eagerly raises their hand* "Well, okay. I'll be in exam room one if you change your mind."

 

I have all the eps downloaded, even categorized.

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"I need you to wear your labcoat."

"I need two days of outrageous sex with someone oscenely younger than you. Like half your age."

 

"How are we doing on cotton swabs today? If there's a critical shortage, I could run home ..."

"No, you couldn't."

"... nice."

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"If you're particularly annoying, you may see me reach for this. This is Vicadin. It's mine. You can't have any."

thanks for that quote, I put it in my signature line awesome

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"You're reading a comic book." - med student

"And you're drawing attention to your chest with your low-cut shirt. Oh, my bad, I thought we were having a 'state the obvious' contest." - House

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"I'm very competitive."

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"Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth" - Wilson

"Yeah, and tritness kicks us in the nads." - House

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hour and 15 minutes. This week's ep. should kick my fucking ass

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House vs. The Office in the battle of Shows I'm Always Meaning To Watch But Don't. which one youse guys

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I'm hoping you picked House. The Office is a remake of a show that already exists from the U.K. called The Office. I mean, c'mon.

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I didn't watch either. What the hell was I doing from 7 to 9 last night?

[Jericholic82 0]

Great, compelling episdoe this week. This show kicks all kinds of ass right now. too bad the Vogler era is ended.

 

of course this all means that fox will cancel this show after putting it on friday nights, just to spite us.

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Bump due to the sheer unimaginable awesomeness that is last night's episode. If not for the Lost juggernaut, this would've been the best thing on TV all week

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Bump due to the sheer unimaginable awesomeness that is last night's episode.

At first, I thought it was an interesting story, but was vaguely annoyed. I thought it was a little too... I don't know. MTV. A little too much like other shows that pull out a sort of recap/splicing things in/flashback/extra pizzazz during the end of their season. I just thought House was above the fray on that angle. Not that I don't like flashback shows it's just that House was never about flashbacks. It was about one, maybe two cases. Not about jumping around and being full of pop.

 

I mean, don't get me wrong, I liked it. The whole Carmen Electra thing was cracking me up. I adore Carmen, I think she's a sweet girl, and really good about mocking herself. How they cut her down a little with "she's here to be in my fantasy, not be Meryl Streep" or whatever, saying she wasn't a great actress. Thought that was great. And Chase and Foreman with the dog, and the rock/paper/scissors? Priceless. I really liked it. I especially liked the class part, and was extremely jealous that I didn't get to be in that class. I'd love to be lectured to by him.

 

And then House was talking about the believed to be drug addict to that Asian woman (never got a name on her, did we?) and he started pushing her? At first I was like, whoa, alright Dr House, I get you're trying to show them they have to be able to operate under pressure, but you're being a little too harsh, aren't you? And that's when it starts to dawn on me... the leg. Uh oh. And then he calls her useless, and then he calls Anthony Keagan useless (and woah, haven't seen Anthony Keagan in like, 5 years) and then he's yelling at everyone, and Cameron pops her big nose in (sorry, I just didn't think it was appropriate of her to shout out over the class like that) and yells muscle damage.

 

The look on his face. That's when it clicked. Oh, shit. He's not talking about patients. He means him. Though, I did still think at the time he was talking about patients, only that the fact that the leg was in trouble REMINDED him of himself.

 

I gotta say I'm a little confused, after having seen the ep all the way through now, whether or not the farmer and the volleyball player were real, or the visions he saw. Doesn't matter. The episode is now all about House for me, fuck everything else.

 

When Seala showed up, I had a huge smile on my face because I love her. But I can't help but think "bitch" for coming to him. Without him even knowing she's married? Bitch. Bitch, bitch, bitch. I'm sitting there chanting this, and I'm like "right on" when he blows her off. Millions of doctors, you have to pick the one whose heart you broke? Now, keep in mind, this is before I know the backstory. And I even gotta say Wilson peeved me a bit with trying to push him into doing it. I don't know whose friend he was first, but to me his loyalty should lie with House. It should be "I think you're making a mistake, but if you can't do it I totally understand" instead of, fucking, "she loves you, she just can't stand to be around you." I loved how he cringed through that line, like it physically hurt him to say it to House, Robert Sean Leonard did a good job, but... still. I wish he hadn't said it. Cause ow. But. Then again. Don't know the backstory yet.

 

Then we get to the backstory. Misdiagnoses, laying dormant for four days, might have to cut the leg off, he doesn't want them to. She pleads, she begs for him to do it. The risks are too high to just keep a leg. She uses his own stubborness against him, bringing up what he would say to a patient (and yes, that's exactly what he'd say to a patient, except he'd say it meaner), etc. But he's being stubborn, and wants to keep his leg, no matter what the cost. And can I blame him? Nope. But she loves him, and wants to keep HIM, no matter what the cost to his leg, and can I blame her? Nope. Well damn. We're at a quandry here.

 

And then she makes what had to be the hardest decision of her life... going behind his back and deciding to do the midway surgery. Ugh, that had to be hard to decide. And I honestly can't say I wouldn't do the same thing. I mean, it's his LIFE. And it's quite possibly as simple as LEG OR LIFE, and ya know what? Life, man. I choose life for the man I love. And if he's pissed at me? Too fuckin' bad. That's just too fuckin' bad, cause I'd rather have you hobble around being a crabby old cripple, than be DEAD because you're fucking STUBBORN.

 

But. As him? Were I him? I would probably never forgive her. Never. Every time I looked down and couldn't move my leg. Every time I felt any pain. Every time I took a pill. Every fucking time I stood up, sat down, lied down, took a piss, picked up my cane, drank water. Fucking every second of every day, I'd be reminded of what she did to me. Cause coming from his perspective? She did it to him. And yes, he probably knows, deep down in his heart, she did it FOR him. But. Yeah. In your bitter moments. In your moments of pain. You're gonna BLAME someone. Think the what ifs. The what if it would have worked out alright. The what if it wouldn't have killed him. The what if she hadn't done this, how different would my life be right now?

 

And when she says she's sorry, and he says you have nothing to be sorry for? Broke me. Totally, completely broke me. Can you believe that? I blame it on the hormonal imbalance I experience about a week after my period, cause it's been about the right amount of time. Also, I blame it on Hugh's wonderful amazing and entirely awe-some acting.

 

And, just to make a comment here... no wonder Cuddy loves him so much. No, I don't mean romantically. Maybe she does love him like that, too, but I mean emotionally. She just loves him. She's protective of him, she risks her job, her livelihood, to save him. And I still don't know if he worked there before or after the leg thing, but... she was his doctor. And she's got to partially blame herself. She's got to. For not diagnosing it. For doing the surgery that Seala (whose character name I've forgotten already) ok'd KNOWING that House didn't want it. For the pain he's in. For the loss of his leg. Just. No wonder.

 

I gotta say, I am no longer thinking she's just a bitch. That decision she made, while it very well might be the decision I would have made, would break them. It would absolutely break them. She killed their relationship with that. And to me, it's kind of a blameless kind of thing. Because I do not fault her for doing it. And I do not fault him for being bitter/angry about it. It's just... the way it happened, right or wrong. And I do still think she should have gone to a different doctor? Well. I don't think she's as much of a bitch for coming to him as I did at the beginning.

 

It also gives me a little bit of insight as to why he's so jumpy when it comes to treating patients. It's always kind of bugged me, how he gets one idea in his head and he treats it before knowing for sure. Well. If one person had thought just one day, two days sooner, about his leg being because of what it was, then maybe he'd still have his leg, his girl, and his life. So yeah. No wonder he's "risky" with treatments. He's trying to prevent it from happening to someone else.

 

My only regret for this episode is that I didn't get to see Wilson in the flashback. I would have liked to see him by House's bedside, or at the operating table. Something. Oh well.

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I'm actually kinda glad they did something different. They'd gotten pretty formulaic, with the "no, it's only 8:36, they've got another thing to go through before they've got it" bit. The episodes with Vogler broke that up somewhat, and then this one did so fantastically.

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simply put: HOUSE RULES!!!!!!