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Dr. Foreman gets the spotlight on House.
We got to see what makes him tick both personally and professionally. He took the lead treating the young con artist who was admitted. Her rough background led to him reflecting at length about his own rise from similar circumstances. And we got to see him interacting with his parents. It was about time that Foreman got some attention, given that the affair between Dr. Cameron and Dr. Chase has been at the forefront as of late.
I'm not trying to come off as bloodthirsty, but it was really satisfying to see the patient die. This show simply isn't going to work for me if I'm too confident that Dr. House and his team are always going to pull a cure out of a hat at the last minute. I don't want the medical version of Matlock. During the last couple of episodes, I had really started to be less satisfied with the show because I no longer felt concerned that patients were in any danger. It had become a matter of when they'd get better, and I wanted it to be a matter of if. Of course, it seems like a bit of a cheat to have a barely contributing member of society die instead of, say, an upstanding mother of two, but that's a minor complaint.
I'm always a sucker for references to earlier episodes. I liked how Foreman brought up Dr. Wilson's legendary ability to deliver bad news. And lupus reared its ever-present head in the list of possible diagnoses.
I thought the ending was an effective little sucker punch, showing Foreman's mother not actually recognizing who he is.
With all of the focus on Foreman, the episode still managed to give Wilson and Dr. Cuddy their due. I liked the scene where Wilson's ex-wife explained Wilson's I-just-want-to-be-a-friend way of bumbling into relationships even as he appeared headed down that path with Cuddy.
I definitely could have done without seeing Chase's apparently weekly offer of his sexual services to Cameron. What the hell?
"Huge ego, sorry" is an anagram for "Gregory House" ... how cool is that?
We got to see what makes him tick both personally and professionally. He took the lead treating the young con artist who was admitted. Her rough background led to him reflecting at length about his own rise from similar circumstances. And we got to see him interacting with his parents. It was about time that Foreman got some attention, given that the affair between Dr. Cameron and Dr. Chase has been at the forefront as of late.
I'm not trying to come off as bloodthirsty, but it was really satisfying to see the patient die. This show simply isn't going to work for me if I'm too confident that Dr. House and his team are always going to pull a cure out of a hat at the last minute. I don't want the medical version of Matlock. During the last couple of episodes, I had really started to be less satisfied with the show because I no longer felt concerned that patients were in any danger. It had become a matter of when they'd get better, and I wanted it to be a matter of if. Of course, it seems like a bit of a cheat to have a barely contributing member of society die instead of, say, an upstanding mother of two, but that's a minor complaint.
I'm always a sucker for references to earlier episodes. I liked how Foreman brought up Dr. Wilson's legendary ability to deliver bad news. And lupus reared its ever-present head in the list of possible diagnoses.
I thought the ending was an effective little sucker punch, showing Foreman's mother not actually recognizing who he is.
With all of the focus on Foreman, the episode still managed to give Wilson and Dr. Cuddy their due. I liked the scene where Wilson's ex-wife explained Wilson's I-just-want-to-be-a-friend way of bumbling into relationships even as he appeared headed down that path with Cuddy.
I definitely could have done without seeing Chase's apparently weekly offer of his sexual services to Cameron. What the hell?
"Huge ego, sorry" is an anagram for "Gregory House" ... how cool is that?