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.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Season One, Episode Nineteen, "Kids" - They Grow Up So Fast
At a swimming and diving meet, one of the judges collapses and is shown to be bleeding from one ear. His lumbar puncture indicated a virulent strain of bacterial meningitis.
House arrives at the hospital, which is dealing with the outbreak could have affected 2500 people at the pool. Cuddy insists that House help out. House comes across a 12 year old diver. She has a fever and a rash that she says she’s had for a week. Despite the symptoms, he doesn‘t think she has meningitis. Cuddy agrees to give them an hour to work on the diver. Although her latest tests show her red blood cells are intact, House orders Chase to check her blood. House realizes one cause of the disorder is unlikely, but possible. House goes to tell the patient she's pregnant. The pregnancy is causing her blood to clot and be shredded by the clot - a rare complication. She admits she experimented with intercourse. He tells her they have to terminate the pregnancy and treat her blood for antibodies.
House interviews candidates for the fellowship but dismisses them all. House goes back to Cameron and tells her he wants her to come back. She says that's not good enough. She says he has to take her out on a dinner date. House agrees.
medicomical relief time! The epidemic creates enough chaos so that house gets thrown off center, which makes his scrambling all the more fun—and, yeah, that he is forced to consider the consequences of his actions. Cuddy: “you want those nurses and dr’s we had to let go? You’re the one that cost this hosp. $100 million”—like they had no budget before this? still and all, how big an ego does it take to carry that weight?
Back to the comedical. The dismissal of the interviewees is abs. classic. “you want to be a non-conformist? Get a haircut and a pocket protector like him (Wilson). Like the Asian kids who don’t leave the library for 20 hr stretches. They don’t care what you think.” Then the Jewish superwoman: from Wilson: “THAT’S OUR HITLER!” His “Producers” quote floored me. I laughed. Out loud. Maybe twice. It actually gave me hope that I will last the run.
Oh, and tell me now? Why do you like chase, even though he is the one who ratted out house? Love is blind but Lust isn’t?
I don't exactly lust over Chase. Just sometimes his sheer cuteness gets to me. I've never had fantasies about him. Sort of like House saying about Cameron that she's like a nice part of art (paraphrase).
is he referring to her degas-like quality of waif-i-ness?
I haven't had direct sexual fantasies about any of the men in that show, although I like it when they take their shirts off.
haven't seen that happen yet. when does cameron?
Don't you think you should take a break? Even I did! Although I watched a DVD at a time, which was about 4 episodes at a stretch.
House interviews candidates for the fellowship but dismisses them all. House goes back to Cameron and tells her he wants her to come back. She says that's not good enough. She says he has to take her out on a dinner date. House agrees.
medicomical relief time! The epidemic creates enough chaos so that house gets thrown off center, which makes his scrambling all the more fun—and, yeah, that he is forced to consider the consequences of his actions. Cuddy: “you want those nurses and dr’s we had to let go? You’re the one that cost this hosp. $100 million”—like they had no budget before this? still and all, how big an ego does it take to carry that weight?
Back to the comedical. The dismissal of the interviewees is abs. classic. “you want to be a non-conformist? Get a haircut and a pocket protector like him (Wilson). Like the Asian kids who don’t leave the library for 20 hr stretches. They don’t care what you think.” Then the Jewish superwoman: from Wilson: “THAT’S OUR HITLER!” His “Producers” quote floored me. I laughed. Out loud. Maybe twice. It actually gave me hope that I will last the run.
Oh, and tell me now? Why do you like chase, even though he is the one who ratted out house? Love is blind but Lust isn’t?
I don't exactly lust over Chase. Just sometimes his sheer cuteness gets to me. I've never had fantasies about him. Sort of like House saying about Cameron that she's like a nice part of art (paraphrase).
is he referring to her degas-like quality of waif-i-ness?
I haven't had direct sexual fantasies about any of the men in that show, although I like it when they take their shirts off.
haven't seen that happen yet. when does cameron?
Don't you think you should take a break? Even I did! Although I watched a DVD at a time, which was about 4 episodes at a stretch.
Season One, Episode Eighteen, "Babies And Bathwater"
First aired on May 10,
2005. Naomi, who is 28 weeks pregnant, suddenly collapses. She is 39 and has miscarried three times.
Finally, the dispute between them comes down to a
showdown before the Board and Wilson gets caught in the crossfire. Naomi has small-cell lung cancer which requires radiation and a C-section first
and the patient refuses that wanting to carry the baby longer to give
the baby a better chance. Later she gets "an embolism. A blood clot."
and she dies but they save the baby.
Wilson is fired because of his support for House; Cuddy has to
decide whether to risk her own career.
This is the last episode to feature Edward Vogler in the series, making this episode the last one of the "Vogler arc".
come Nineveh, come tyre…or as Colbert would say: THE THREATDOWN! Here we are at the crunch—D-Day! Now, I know all the other “house-that-again?” freaks are going to take this in stride--like the board is going to dismiss Wilson in a naked power play? Jumpin’ Jee-Hosni-fat! Why didn’t they just give vogler a rubber stamp when he came in? I was under the assumption that he was given the post of chair by acclimation, not because he bought it.
V: “a man is the sum of his actions…this man is a disgrace to this hospital.” Like nobody there can ADD UP, either? how many f*ing lives he and his ducklings have saved? (the basic plot does bring the metaphor to the fore—hence the title.
But it seems even more ridiculous that vogler would interpose in a surgical matter. C’mon! Suffice it to say, if this is characteristic of their idea of story arcs, I don’t see how I’m going to last for five seasons.)
Fave moment: the two ducks at the door—foreman: “coward!” chase: “child!” …that and the song at the end, Wilco?
This is the last episode to feature Edward Vogler in the series, making this episode the last one of the "Vogler arc".
come Nineveh, come tyre…or as Colbert would say: THE THREATDOWN! Here we are at the crunch—D-Day! Now, I know all the other “house-that-again?” freaks are going to take this in stride--like the board is going to dismiss Wilson in a naked power play? Jumpin’ Jee-Hosni-fat! Why didn’t they just give vogler a rubber stamp when he came in? I was under the assumption that he was given the post of chair by acclimation, not because he bought it.
V: “a man is the sum of his actions…this man is a disgrace to this hospital.” Like nobody there can ADD UP, either? how many f*ing lives he and his ducklings have saved? (the basic plot does bring the metaphor to the fore—hence the title.
But it seems even more ridiculous that vogler would interpose in a surgical matter. C’mon! Suffice it to say, if this is characteristic of their idea of story arcs, I don’t see how I’m going to last for five seasons.)
Fave moment: the two ducks at the door—foreman: “coward!” chase: “child!” …that and the song at the end, Wilco?
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