House: Season 3, Episode 12
A tv post by erin, posted on January 30, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Spoilers from this episode below:
House is back and Cuddy tried to make him do more clinic hours. A hilarious bet and some crazy patients lead to a rape victim collapsing on the floor. She is physically fine, but is CRAZY. She harasses House, is a pain in the ass and after no medical mystery, and deep soul searching, the episode is over. In between, everyone tries to give House advice about his crazy patient, but most of the episode was focussed on the crazy rape girl interacting with House. Also, we ALMOST find out Cuddy’s speciality and we DO find out House’s dad liked to kick the crap out of him. Poor House. Meanwhile, Cameron tries to be a good Samaritan and deals with a crazy homeless person who really wants to be remembered and doesn’t want treatment.
Things that were good
- House is back! Tritter is gone!
- House acted slightly human and almost cared about a patient.
- Houe revealed a deep, dark secret!
Things that were not so good
- Where were Chase and Foreman? They were on set for like 15 seconds each?
- While they were gone, Cameron gets an (annoying) storyline all to herself. Why?
- There was no medical mystery to be solved! I know when they are trying to flesh out House’s character and finally challenge him, the medical mysteries suck (see the broken heart dude with no memory form last episode) but no mystery at all was way worse!
- Cuddy actually thought House had changed! For a woman with a medical degree and runs a hospital, she sure is dumb.
Worth watching if….
You miss House and want a new episode. This episode was the weakest one I have seen in a long time, which is hard to believe since it immediately followed the worst story arc EVER. They tried to develop House’s character, which would be way more fun if it was with his faithful little followers during witty conversation than with a crazy Christian rape victim during a bad philosophical one.
In five words:
Crazy patients make bad episodes.
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Sara K wrote:
I don’t know when I’ve ever laughed so much at something online before. You nailed it on this one. I’ve read tons of forums’ ideas on why this was a bad episode. You got it done in one page. I hated that they made me hate a patient, no less one who had gone through something so horrendous! But I did. The philosophical aspects of the show and House divulging his “big dark secret” really was too overwhelming & took away the natural flow of the show for me. You’re right, if he had revealed a piece of his past to one of his team,perhaps, it may have been a storyline that would stick…because you will never see that patient on the show again. Remember what Cameron said to the patient in the pilot episode when she wondered if she’d see “Doctor House” again to be able to tell him thanks? “He cured you; you didn’t cure him”.
Not sure if he “cured” this one or not. Like House said, “maybe all we’ve done is make a girl cry”. The episode was very black-and-white and they pushed too far too soon to know so much about House’s past. Storylines like this that were alluded to in Season Two’s “Daddy’s Boy” needs to come to us in segments so that there’s a consistency, not an unnecessary story climax following a painful arc.
Posted on 29-Apr-07 at 10:35 pm | Permalink
erin wrote:
Sara K,
Thanks for the comment! Normally my recaps are waaaaaay longer, but this episode made me so mad it wasn’t worth my time. You make some really great points yourself!
Thankfully, House has been awesome these past couple weeks and I’ve forgiven David Shore and his team for this one.
Posted on 29-Apr-07 at 11:07 pm | Permalink