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by **Angua** » Tue May 24, 2011 4:28 pm UTC

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Did anyone else find the ending a bit anticlimatic? I was hoping for somehting a bit more dramatic. Also, I was hopign that we'd see the psychiatrist again.

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Driving into a house is anti-climactic? This isn't an action series, remember?

Maybe the psychiatrist will fly down to the Bahamas?

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by **Kaelri** » Tue May 24, 2011 5:17 pm UTC

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The way they had it set up at hte beginning made it sounnd like he'd really flipped - and with Wilson hurt I thought it would be a lot worse.

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by **emceng** » Tue May 24, 2011 5:20 pm UTC

Kaelri wrote:
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The way they had it set up at hte beginning made it sounnd like he'd really flipped - and with Wilson hurt I thought it would be a lot worse.

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...he tried to murder Cuddy and everyone in her house. What in the world constitutes "flipping" where you come from?

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by **Kaelri** » Tue May 24, 2011 5:23 pm UTC

emceng wrote:
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...he tried to murder Cuddy and everyone in her house. What in the world constitutes "flipping" where you come from?

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Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention, but to me that in no way looked like a murder attempt. It was more 'fuck you', instead of trying to kill anyone.

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by **emceng** » Tue May 24, 2011 5:31 pm UTC

Kaelri wrote:
emceng wrote:
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...he tried to murder Cuddy and everyone in her house. What in the world constitutes "flipping" where you come from?

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Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention, but to me that in no way looked like a murder attempt. It was more 'fuck you', instead of trying to kill anyone.

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The last time he (and we) saw the house, Cuddy and her guests were sitting around the table, apparently having a meal or something. House then drove his car into that room at a speed that would probably have killed anyone sitting at that table.

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by **Kaelri** » Tue May 24, 2011 5:36 pm UTC

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Err, I thought it looked like he drove into the room next to the dining room - because he got out, and some of them were still sitting at the table and looked him - right?

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by **emceng** » Tue May 24, 2011 6:31 pm UTC

Interesting, guess I was wrong. Hmm, I liked my inerpretation better though - he looks like less of a dick.

by **ArgonV** » Tue May 24, 2011 8:54 pm UTC

emceng wrote:Interesting, guess I was wrong. Hmm, I liked my inerpretation better though - he looks like less of a dick.

Doesn't mean he is

by **KrazyerKate** » Wed May 25, 2011 3:30 am UTC

I took it as a 'fuck you' move too, similar to when he was smashing Wilson's office stuff. If he were intent on hurting someone, he wouldn't have silently walked past the entire party of people he was angry at without doing anything.

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Driving into a house is anti-climactic? This isn't an action series, remember?

Actually, it was anticlimactic. We have no new information, no new character development. House is still angry, irrational, and reckless. When has that ever not been the case? It's a perfectly fine episode, I never get sick of House's antics, but I feel like I was expected to be surprised and shocked that he would do something like that, and I think I'd be more surprised and shocked if he didn't do something like that. I was expecting something a bit more extreme out of him after preforming surgery on his own leg. I realize that House can't die, but I think that's the only thing that can really take the stakes any higher than they've already been all season.

Also, did this line seem like a Narm to anyone else?

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by **Sheikh al-Majaneen** » Wed May 25, 2011 6:49 am UTC

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since I won't pay for hulu plus.

by **emceng** » Wed May 25, 2011 1:39 pm UTC

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self surgery...I walked away for a moment. Actually, I walked away more when Taub got retarded with the stripper. After Hours was crazy enough that it might be my favorite this season so far
since I won't pay for hulu plus.

Yeah, I had pretty much the same reaction with that second part. Also, since I usually can't remember Taub's name, I mentally tagged him as 'Jewish stereotype'. His storylines have been annoying, and I really don't want to see him back.

by **ArgonV** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:35 pm UTC

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by **Idhan** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:21 pm UTC

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by **Angua** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 11:36 am UTC

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by **KrazyerKate** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:21 pm UTC

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Also, there's something really satisfying about seeing someone take a swing at House when he really deserves it. Does anyone else feel this way?

by **emceng** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 3:20 pm UTC

Wait, the season started on Monday? God damned my poor memory.

by **SlyReaper** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:00 am UTC

Biggest shock of the episode:

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by **Angua** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:37 pm UTC

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by **big boss** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:45 am UTC

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by **Angua** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:48 am UTC

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by **SlyReaper** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:40 pm UTC

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THREAD FULL OF SPOILER TAGS!!! :mrgreen:

by **Angua** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:44 pm UTC

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by **ArgonV** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:48 pm UTC

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by **big boss** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:38 am UTC

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Would your medical license get revoked if you commit a non-doctory crime? I mean, 13 assisted her brother with suicide. I can understand losing a license because of non-approved euthanasia. But the crime House committed wasn't abusing his medical prowess in any way, so would you lose your license for that?

I'd imagine you would still lose your license for any felony, how many people want a doctor who is a felon? If i knew my doctor was I'd probably change.

by **Angua** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:53 am UTC

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by **SlyReaper** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:51 pm UTC

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by **modularblues** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:17 am UTC

Suspension of disbelief must be exercised when watching these shows anyway...

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by **SlyReaper** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:30 am UTC

Uh yeah... she doesn't appear in the second episode, and it doesn't look like she'll do so in future episodes either.

Instead we got a shy mousy Asian intern for House to eventually ruin.

by **ArgonV** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:48 am UTC

SlyReaper wrote:Uh yeah... she doesn't appear in the second episode, and it doesn't look like she'll do so in future episodes either.

Instead we got a shy mousy Asian intern for House to eventually ruin.

Dude, that is Dr Park :wink:

by **SlyReaper** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:17 pm UTC

Oh, I thought Dr Park was the prison lady.

by **big boss** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:41 pm UTC

Park is one of the most Asian names ever.

by **Angua** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:11 pm UTC

Well, my grandfather who was indo-caribbean had the last name of Clarke. Sometimes people change them to fit in to their new country.

by **Idhan** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:59 pm UTC

Park is both a somewhat common WASPy name and a very common Korean name. Although "Park" may not be quite as common as a WASPy name as "Parker." Other variants include "Parke" and "Parks." (Rosa Parks' ancestors were probably not owned by a Korean master.)

As for the latest PotW:

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by **Mighty Jalapeno** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:21 pm UTC

Can someone help me get a decent-quality image of the boats from the House, MD intro? I figure this is the best thread to do it in!

by **big boss** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:34 pm UTC

Idhan wrote:Park is both a somewhat common WASPy name and a very common Korean name. Although "Park" may not be quite as common as a WASPy name as "Parker." Other variants include "Parke" and "Parks." (Rosa Parks' ancestors were probably not owned by a Korean master.)

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I realize that his behavior was supposed to be "sick," but what got me is that he did very "logical" (if slightly nutty) applications of basic Peter Singer-ish utilitarian benevolence when it came to comparing himself vs. some other cause (e.g., 1/4000 chance of death in self vs. 1/1 chance of death in Wilson's patient with renal failure), but he never seemed to bother doing comparisons of the various causes. Being a true charitable maximalist doesn't just require that you pick between Medecins Sans Frontières and granite countertops for your kitchen -- it requires that you pick between Medicins Sans Frontières and Oxfam too -- no matter how many millions you have, you can't give the same dollar twice to two charitable causes. Given that his illness seems to have warped his priorities, but not his basic ability to think lucidly, it's weird that this never even comes up, especially considering that he considers endowing House, who runs an extremely wasteful practice in bang-for-buck utilitarian terms. (Didn't Vogler (accurately) point out a while back that the Department of Diagnostic Medicine does something like treat 30 patients a year with four physicians?)

Since you brought it up, I was wondering what everything thinks on the issue of an extremely good, yet expensive medical team that helps ~30 people a year versus spreading that money out to help more people. On the one hand if the money was spread out the hospital would probably be able to help many more people, yet on the flip side we can probably assume all the people House and his team successfully would have very little hope of recovery seeing as there isn't many other heavily funded diagnostic departments in the area (and even if there were such other departments available, one could make the same argument that they should be de-funded as well for the good of society.)

by **SlyReaper** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:58 pm UTC

I kind of think of their jobs as sort of half-and-half real doctoring and medical research. Because I bet they publish many more papers than any other similarly sized medical team, even if it's not actually shown, simply by virtue of the interesting nature of all the cases that come their way. It's the only way I can think of to justify their jobs.

by **Shifter** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:37 pm UTC

SlyReaper wrote:I kind of think of their jobs as sort of half-and-half real doctoring and medical research. Because I bet they publish many more papers than any other similarly sized medical team, even if it's not actually shown, simply by virtue of the interesting nature of all the cases that come their way. It's the only way I can think of to justify their jobs.

And House is meant to be kind of a 'big deal' within the medical community, which he wouldn't get to be just from people hearing of this doctor that does crazy shit so ye even if the writers haven't considered it I'm gonna say that papers are being published. Just to let the show make more sense.

by **Isaac Hill** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:23 am UTC

In addition to the 30 or so cases a year, there's also clinic duty. We just don't see the assistants doing that often, if ever, because it probably wouldn't be that entertaining. At least two episodes have mentioned House's team publishing papers:

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by **big boss** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:25 am UTC

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by **SlyReaper** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:17 pm UTC

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