Monday February 2, 2009
HOU-514
A former cancer researcher collapses in the middle of a cooking class, and the team is forced to reevaluate their own lives when they learn she gave up a promising career to seek personal happiness. Meanwhile, Thirteen suffers adverse reactions from the clinical trials, and Cuddy gives House a dose of his own medicine.
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I thought this was one of the best episodes in a little while, although I have to admit the whole Foreman and Thirteen thing did ruin the episode slightly for me. I think their storyline went a little bit ridiculous this time around, although I thought it was good of House to protect Foreman as much as he could.
Cuddy's tricks on House were amusing, if slightly cruel. It gave a new dimension to House's character as we see him not fighting back, showing personal guilt. It was a lovely piece of acting at the end of the episode with House and Cuddy "playing the roles they feel they have to play". The patient was interesting, although the writers really need to focus on them more! I liked the effect she had on Wilson and Taub (the former actually being a doctor in this episode!), and how they both moved on a bit with their lives. The diagnosis was also brilliant.
A slight problem with the episode is that this was the big 100, and there was no sign of Chase or Cameron, who made the show what it was. A slight insult I think.
Overall, however, a good episode, marred slightly by trivial annoyances the writers seem intent on including these days.
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In this episode of House, the following happens. The team have a patient who used to be a doctor, and who was close to curing a disease. It also seems in this episode that someone is out to get House. First the elevators are down, but they work for everyone else and then someone sets up a trip wire in his office, which he falls over. Foreman soon sees that there is something wrong with 13. After he does a simple test, he tests her about him switching the drugs. Soon 13 is getting worse and so an MRI is ordered for her. During the MRI, Foreman sees that she has a tumour. When Foreman goes home to see 13, we learn that she has now lost her sight. She is taken into the hospital and try to repair what has happened o her as well as trying to make her tumour go away. After tests are run we learn that the woman, who used to be a doctor, is bleeding no-stop due to an operation she had a few months before. 13 becomes better and so she gets her vision back, and the first person she sees is Foreman. Foreman later rings the drug trial company and tells them what has happened.
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This episode was a little different it the interaction of the main characters and is somewhat sad at points. I was getting choked up in the last scene with Wilson; he really misses Amber.
The story is about a lady who was once a leading cancer researcher and is now in a cooking class. She collapses in the middle of the class and ends up Dr. House's patient. Cuddy starts playing some pretty mean practical jokes on House to pay him back for making her come back to work and not take care of her baby. House decides the best way to win this war is to not react to her games.
The clinical trial continues for Thirteen and Foreman has stitched out her placebo for the real drug because it seems to be working for other patients. Thirteen has adverse effects and looses her vision, develops headaches, and develops a brain tumor. House and Foreman perform an emergence procedure on Thirteen to radiate the tumor. The procedure seems to be successful because Thirteen gets her vision back. Foreman calls the drug company in the end and lets them know what had done and he is banned from future trials.
The patient who initially came in has had a multitude of symptoms, mostly bleeding. One side effect was scratching through her skull to her brain. House finally puts it together and realizes that a previous procedure caused some problems, making her bleed out from everywhere. She was currently on her monthly cycle and the bleeding from that was causing the problem. She would require a procedure after her monthly cycle was over to fix the problem and she would be back to normal.
This episode was very special in that it made some of the team members take a second look at themselves and what their motivations were. Well except maybe House.
It was an okay episode...just a little too...well...weak for me.
Love,
Meagan
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I liked this episode, I really did, but I was expecting more on the whole "13 is dying" aspect of it...
All this episode really gave me was that she had (emphasis on HAD) a problem, but it was fixable. Plus, to tell the truth, no one even seemed to care. (Except Foreman...)
Once again, I did like the episode, I just thought it was a little...well...weak.
I'm so sorry if anyone was offended by this, I am just speaking my mind...
I like House A LOT (and I mean a lot!), and I watch it every week, I was just a little bit disappointed in this episode.
Love, Meagan
A former cancer researcher collapses in the middle of a cooking class, and the team is forced to reevaluate their own lives when they learn she gave up a promising career to seek personal happiness. Meanwhile, Thirteen suffers adverse reactions from the clinical trials, and Cuddy gives House a dose of his own medicine. I really am starting to miss the good old days of House. At this point I wonder if the show is ever going to be able to return to the glory that it had in the first three seasons. They have gotten away from the personal side of things, or at least the personal side that we care about. Cameron and Chase have been replaced by what - Foreman and Thirteen? No one cares about Thirteen and the fact that Foreman is with her has made him an utterly useless character. The episode was average, just like seasons five and four have been. The episodes always have some funny moments between House/Cuddy House/Wilson, but beyond that the show has simply lost everything that once made it so addicting to watch back to back to back for days on end.
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