In 2011, my beloved miniature pinscher Bucky died very suddenly. He had been my soul mate and my psychiatric service dog. Because of my grief, I was unable to leave the house.
Another writer, my friend Carle, decided to help me through this process. I was obsessed with the television show starring Hugh Laurie, "House M.D," about a misanthropic, brilliant, crippled doctor. Carle downloaded the first 5 seasons. Within a few episodes, he was as obsessed as I was. This blog is the correspondence we conducted, episode by episode. With a few digressions.
Carle's entries are in black; my contributions are in blue.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Season 1, Episode 14: "Control"
Plot: A young, high powered CEO of a cosmetic company starts to
suffer intense pain. House quickly diagnoses the problem, but realizes
revealing the truth about it will mean the patient’s certain death.
Instead, he risks his own career to hide the truth and get her the
treatment she needs. During all this, Princeton-Plainsboro takes on a
rich new chairman of the board who has just offered a $100,000,000
donation. He immediately sees House as dead weight and decides to
infiltrate House’s team to get ammunition against him.
another comedical! this is more like it! w/big bizness metaphor! re: Cameron’s method of getting agreement from the other two. house: "did you just read 'the one-minute manager" on soft-position bargaining? it isn't going to work." now house has a libido? OK, help me out on this one: Vicodin? it doesn't suppress the sex drive? (like i would know?) so this is the "vogler" arc? biggie smalls as billionaire. well, the name is...
A BIT O' MALE TRIVIA: in comics, in titles like The Justice League of America and The Avengers and The Defenders and The X-Men (basically any team) every couple years will come out with a Fall or New Year's issue entitled: The Old Order Changeth, or something equally pseudo-latin pretentious. see, they figure the suits have gotten stale and need some new spandex and soap opera to jazz it up. also, a new mission or quest or adventure-to-save-the-world/universe/dimension/reality AND A NEW VILLAIN!
arch-enemies are so groovy, it was about time sherlock house met a match. and this one IS good--that is BAAAD: soft-spoken menace like a thug in an elevator holding a razor to yr ear while he coos in yr ear.
...the name is perfect: germanic and tyrannical too! i mean, is house going to call him "Mein Herr"?
as for the rest? I’m going to check on the polite dissent for the whole thing about the use of emetics (if that is what epicac is) ruining yr heart. if so, i am surprised it hasn't been mentioned in ads aiming at teenage girls who are trying to be waifs. but the whole thing about the hosp. being given up to clinical trials? don't they all do that? seems like no big deal, but i guess it can become one. (like the plotline of ford's "the fugitive" remake.)
PS: ...or even better "MEIN FUHRER!" like Dr. Strangelove!
aha. more2B, huh? and only the mantis people of wolfrilla kill after mating. Then, low-tar cigarettes.
another comedical! this is more like it! w/big bizness metaphor! re: Cameron’s method of getting agreement from the other two. house: "did you just read 'the one-minute manager" on soft-position bargaining? it isn't going to work." now house has a libido? OK, help me out on this one: Vicodin? it doesn't suppress the sex drive? (like i would know?) so this is the "vogler" arc? biggie smalls as billionaire. well, the name is...
A BIT O' MALE TRIVIA: in comics, in titles like The Justice League of America and The Avengers and The Defenders and The X-Men (basically any team) every couple years will come out with a Fall or New Year's issue entitled: The Old Order Changeth, or something equally pseudo-latin pretentious. see, they figure the suits have gotten stale and need some new spandex and soap opera to jazz it up. also, a new mission or quest or adventure-to-save-the-world/universe/dimension/reality AND A NEW VILLAIN!
arch-enemies are so groovy, it was about time sherlock house met a match. and this one IS good--that is BAAAD: soft-spoken menace like a thug in an elevator holding a razor to yr ear while he coos in yr ear.
...the name is perfect: germanic and tyrannical too! i mean, is house going to call him "Mein Herr"?
as for the rest? I’m going to check on the polite dissent for the whole thing about the use of emetics (if that is what epicac is) ruining yr heart. if so, i am surprised it hasn't been mentioned in ads aiming at teenage girls who are trying to be waifs. but the whole thing about the hosp. being given up to clinical trials? don't they all do that? seems like no big deal, but i guess it can become one. (like the plotline of ford's "the fugitive" remake.)
PS: ...or even better "MEIN FUHRER!" like Dr. Strangelove!
Given
up to clinical trials? I'm not sure what you mean. It's a teaching
hospital, so I'm guessing they would have clinical trials. In Season 5 a
clinical trial figures prominently, although not for House.
I almost never go to Polite Dissent, because I know half the medicine is
twisted around for story purposes. (Like the doctors doing everything
themselves. At a wedding in the ladies' room, I met a nurse whose job is
preparing the slides for doctors...the actual job takes two days, and that's
before they see the slides. But having that in there would be like
watching paint dry. That's why it's "show biz."
Hahaaah!
House enjoys tormenting Jewish people, making Holocaust jokes
and such. In one episode he upbraids Wilson for using a lame excuse for
speeding:
"You
lost control of your speed? That's like Hitler saying, I lost track of
the Jews!"
More "Control"
Yeah, he has a libido, he goes to hookers. Unless it's the Flying Nun, I don't think you can have an asexual lead character. Oh, and aliens. Unless they kill their victims after they have sex.aha. more2B, huh? and only the mantis people of wolfrilla kill after mating. Then, low-tar cigarettes.
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