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 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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