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Dr. House has a heart-to-heart.
This was an intriguingly different episode in terms of pace. It started off rather light and playful, then switched to slow and thoughtful. We weren't going to be wowed by the latest obscure disease that the writers dredged up from the New England Journal of Weird Shit. There wasn't going to be a last-second miracle diagnosis. The lead patient did nearly die, but not for the usual reason, i.e., a misguided treatment given by House or one of his team members. It was an episode for sitting back and thinking.
I was glad that House's apparently phony confession turned out to be essentially true. We've been faked out by House often enough.
Dr. Chase, as usual, stepped up to the plate and served up a dose of his classic self-centeredness. Where Dr. Cameron counseled House to tell the lead patient a more positive story, and Dr. Foreman had the opposite opinion, Chase just said to keep the woman asleep. He simply did not want to think about it.
I also enjoyed watching House bribe patients to go away.
I really didn't have a whole lot of interest in the B-story. If we could have learned a little more about the dying man, that might have been one thing. But as it stood, we only had Cameron's struggles to care about. And Cameron has had more interesting things to struggle with. If I hadn't been trying so desperately to figure out where I had seen the actor before -- I was probably remembering him from his X-Files appearance, although he's been in a TON of stuff -- the B-story would have been even less interesting.
This was an intriguingly different episode in terms of pace. It started off rather light and playful, then switched to slow and thoughtful. We weren't going to be wowed by the latest obscure disease that the writers dredged up from the New England Journal of Weird Shit. There wasn't going to be a last-second miracle diagnosis. The lead patient did nearly die, but not for the usual reason, i.e., a misguided treatment given by House or one of his team members. It was an episode for sitting back and thinking.
I was glad that House's apparently phony confession turned out to be essentially true. We've been faked out by House often enough.
Dr. Chase, as usual, stepped up to the plate and served up a dose of his classic self-centeredness. Where Dr. Cameron counseled House to tell the lead patient a more positive story, and Dr. Foreman had the opposite opinion, Chase just said to keep the woman asleep. He simply did not want to think about it.
I also enjoyed watching House bribe patients to go away.
I really didn't have a whole lot of interest in the B-story. If we could have learned a little more about the dying man, that might have been one thing. But as it stood, we only had Cameron's struggles to care about. And Cameron has had more interesting things to struggle with. If I hadn't been trying so desperately to figure out where I had seen the actor before -- I was probably remembering him from his X-Files appearance, although he's been in a TON of stuff -- the B-story would have been even less interesting.