House goes to see Cuddy, who has been taking the episode off until now. He needs permission to open up the patient's head and poke around in there. House hits her with his loony theory of the week: the original organ donor had cancer stem cells, which spread around the victims' bodies until they acted like part of whatever organ they ended up in. I don't pretend to understand it, but, ok, sure. House's reasoning is that if the teacher's eyes were bad, her brain should be trying to compensate for them, but it isn't. "It's cancer, but not cancer," he says, so the chemo won't work. Nope, still not following. Just distract me with a pretty CGI illustration and I'll be fine. Cuddy doesn't give in, of course, because House's loony theories are never ever right.
Cuddy expects that House will do something to make POW crash so he can do his experiment anyway, so she posts security guards outside the POW's door. House thinks for awhile and then does the oh-so-obvious thing: he gets the PI to dress up in scrubs and go slip a little something into the patient's IV. It took him that long to come up with that plan? And how dumb are those security guards, anyway?
So Chase, as one of like two surgeons working in the hospital, gets to open up the patient's skull. House is watching from the observation deck and talking to the detective. "Hey, that's the woman whose meds I switched... I could've killed her!" OK, welcome aboard, whatever your name is. You're at least as smart as the rest of the supporting cast. They find the problem, whatever it is (it's not a toomah) and take it out. "You owe me $5000," says the detective. And I say House owes me an hour of my time back.
House goes to debrief the patient. Her eyes and head are bandaged. Did they do something to her eyes? I didn't think so. House says the world isn't that ugly after all. See, when she said the world still looked ugly after her cornea transplant, she literally meant that the world looked ugly -- because the not-a-toomah in her brain was affecting her vision. He unwraps her eyes -- ah, they were bandaged for dramatic effect! -- and she oohs and aahs as she sees the world as it really is. She tells House he looks sad.
House calls the PI and asks to put him on retainer. I was afraid of that.
So for the second week in a row, the whole episode hinges on a throwaway line from the Patient of the Week. Evs. This episode felt really slow to me. No Cameron, five seconds of Chase's eyes (the rest of him was behind a surgical mask), one Wilson scene, one Cuddy scene. Not much from the Houseguests either. I thought that was odd after last week's 13-centric episode. So I'm kinda disappointed; I have to score this one lower than last week.
Did anyone like the new guy, and for the love of Pete, what's his name, anyway?
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Comments (3)
It is difficult for a show of this complexity to maintain it's cutting edge. We just expect so much.
I kind of liked the PI - partly because I'm pretty sick of Wilson, and hoping they'll replace him with the quirky PI. And there is time for the PI character to evolve.
I would like to see more Cuddy... and more about her. It is like watching the old Incredible Hulk show, where there was this fixed formula that the writers wrote each episode around. And it is all about House so it is hard to feel very connected to any other character.
Thanks!
1 of 3 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on September 26, 2008 9:44 AM
I thought you were being unnecessarily kind about the quality of this episode... IMO, it absolutely REEKED.
The only good part was when the patient's bandages get removed and we get that shot of Hugh Laurie's gorgeous orb-like eyes.
Oh, and also the Wilson-House exchange was kind of good.
The PI character might grow on you.
Anyways, due to the disappointment of this week's episode, your recap kind of made up for it. I was laughing the whole way through.
And P.S. what's wrong with writing Gossip Girl recaps?
2 of 3 | Posted by alex_w | Posted on September 26, 2008 5:11 PM
Malignant cancerous stem cells? whuut?
This show is tanking so fast. What on earth happened?
I did some digging. See, if any of us cared enough we would have seen this from last May (TV Squad):
~ FOX is toying with the idea of a House spin off. But you may want to make sure you are properly seated before reading this: the spin-off would not focus on doctors but private investigators!
In his latest "Ask Ausiello" column, TV Guide columnist Michael Ausiello reveals that FOX and NBC Universal are developing a spin-off for the medical hit series House. Next season, a male private investigator will be introduced on House and stick around for a few episodes. If fans respond well to the character, he may get his own series. No more details are given about this "House: P.I." spin-off.~
*vomit*
3 of 3 | Posted by Memememe | Posted on September 27, 2008 10:26 AM