Nitpicking 8.05 The Confession
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menolly_auWay back in the dark ages when I was a rabid Star Trek fan one of my favourite books was The Nitpickers Guide to Star Trek. The book pointed out all the plot holes, inconsistencies and general absurdities of the series in a loving and sometimes amusing way.
So in the spirit of that, here are some nitpicks for the latest episode of House.
Here, let me give you my liver
Okay, Bob (POTW) is a big man in Cedarville, he coaches the little league team, he owns the only gas station, he has the requisite wife and two kids, he does charity work, he's a great guy! No wonder when he needs part of a liver urgently the whole town turns up to PPTH to be tested. Right? Yeah, except a Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a big deal, the donor dies in one out of every two hundred cases. It takes up to three months to recover from the operation. My family can have as much of my liver as they want - the guy who fixes my car or coaches my kids? Not so much.
LDLT is, in fact, established in the House world to be a Big Deal - you may remember the women in Sleeping Dogs Lie, where Cameron was aghast at the prospect of a donation from one of the women. See also the case of Tucker, House & Cuddy were shocked at the idea of nice-guy Wilson donating part of his liver to his friend. This isn't like giving blood folks.
Of course, life in Cedarville may be so incredibly dull that a life threatening operation seems like a pleasant diversion - who knows?
I have an insane urge to tell the truth - wait, isn't that usually a symptom?
So, our nice guy Bob starts confessing to every sin under the sun, including ripping off all those people from Cedarville who are trying to give him the liver he needs to survive. This is the guy who was quite happily cheating on his wife and lying to her about it. Could this sudden urge towards honesty be a symptom? After all, we've seen it before, House has many times insisted that any sign of behaviour that doesn't fit with his own world view is a symptom, including honesty (everybody lies after all). But no, not this time, all five doctors engaged on the case missed it. It's not until Bob confesses to being a serial killer, and possibly involved in the JFK assassination that Chase begins to twig that something might be wrong. Ah well, House might have had his mind on other things, such as remodeling the hospital to suit himself. Speaking of which...
What's a little wall between friends?
House came into some money last week. As it turns out it was apparently a LOT of money, he has funded his entire department consisting of five doctors including himself (for how long? a year? three years? forever?), purchased a whole room of Orthopedic equipment and a baseball bat, found another office for the Orthopedic people, and now he has had some major work done on the conference room. And we're talking MAJOR work here, a large section of wall, sliding up at the touch of a button. Wilson apparently hasn't noticed the wall to his office being replaced with this new one. Foreman has been worrying about what House has been up to but hasn't actually gone to the workmen and asked them what they were doing. This isn't House's apartment when he can have bits and pieces done to it whenever he likes, this is a place of work, a hospital, pretty sure there would be a LOT of paperwork involved in such a building effort.
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alternatealto pointed out in the episode post mortem - where the heck is the wall going anyway? Up through the floor of the fifth floor, straight into the middle of someone else's office? Wouldn't there be a hole in their floor? And wouldn't the people on the fifth floor have noticed this going on?
The case of the seven year fellow, or I'd rather be surfing
I'm given to believe that the average fellowship lasts 2-3 years. Yet here is Chase, signing on for his 7th? 8th? year of being abused by House. Apparently while House was rotting away in prison Chase was off surfing for a year. Oh well, he's an Aussie, what else could you expect? It's not as if he could take over diagnostics while House was away or anything.
It's a tough job but someone has to do it
Oh, that Foreman, he's such a great guy. It's not that he wanted to be Dean of the hospital but 'someone had to run this place after Cuddy left'. Yep, it's a major teaching hospital on the East Coast, it's not like there would be candidates with actual experience in hospital administration, lining up to apply is it?
Okay, that's all I got :) Comments, additions, corrections, alternative theories welcome. Anybody else have any nitpicks? I'm sure there's more :)
So in the spirit of that, here are some nitpicks for the latest episode of House.
Here, let me give you my liver
Okay, Bob (POTW) is a big man in Cedarville, he coaches the little league team, he owns the only gas station, he has the requisite wife and two kids, he does charity work, he's a great guy! No wonder when he needs part of a liver urgently the whole town turns up to PPTH to be tested. Right? Yeah, except a Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a big deal, the donor dies in one out of every two hundred cases. It takes up to three months to recover from the operation. My family can have as much of my liver as they want - the guy who fixes my car or coaches my kids? Not so much.
LDLT is, in fact, established in the House world to be a Big Deal - you may remember the women in Sleeping Dogs Lie, where Cameron was aghast at the prospect of a donation from one of the women. See also the case of Tucker, House & Cuddy were shocked at the idea of nice-guy Wilson donating part of his liver to his friend. This isn't like giving blood folks.
Of course, life in Cedarville may be so incredibly dull that a life threatening operation seems like a pleasant diversion - who knows?
I have an insane urge to tell the truth - wait, isn't that usually a symptom?
So, our nice guy Bob starts confessing to every sin under the sun, including ripping off all those people from Cedarville who are trying to give him the liver he needs to survive. This is the guy who was quite happily cheating on his wife and lying to her about it. Could this sudden urge towards honesty be a symptom? After all, we've seen it before, House has many times insisted that any sign of behaviour that doesn't fit with his own world view is a symptom, including honesty (everybody lies after all). But no, not this time, all five doctors engaged on the case missed it. It's not until Bob confesses to being a serial killer, and possibly involved in the JFK assassination that Chase begins to twig that something might be wrong. Ah well, House might have had his mind on other things, such as remodeling the hospital to suit himself. Speaking of which...
What's a little wall between friends?
House came into some money last week. As it turns out it was apparently a LOT of money, he has funded his entire department consisting of five doctors including himself (for how long? a year? three years? forever?), purchased a whole room of Orthopedic equipment and a baseball bat, found another office for the Orthopedic people, and now he has had some major work done on the conference room. And we're talking MAJOR work here, a large section of wall, sliding up at the touch of a button. Wilson apparently hasn't noticed the wall to his office being replaced with this new one. Foreman has been worrying about what House has been up to but hasn't actually gone to the workmen and asked them what they were doing. This isn't House's apartment when he can have bits and pieces done to it whenever he likes, this is a place of work, a hospital, pretty sure there would be a LOT of paperwork involved in such a building effort.
And as
alternatealto pointed out in the episode post mortem - where the heck is the wall going anyway? Up through the floor of the fifth floor, straight into the middle of someone else's office? Wouldn't there be a hole in their floor? And wouldn't the people on the fifth floor have noticed this going on? The case of the seven year fellow, or I'd rather be surfing
I'm given to believe that the average fellowship lasts 2-3 years. Yet here is Chase, signing on for his 7th? 8th? year of being abused by House. Apparently while House was rotting away in prison Chase was off surfing for a year. Oh well, he's an Aussie, what else could you expect? It's not as if he could take over diagnostics while House was away or anything.
It's a tough job but someone has to do it
Oh, that Foreman, he's such a great guy. It's not that he wanted to be Dean of the hospital but 'someone had to run this place after Cuddy left'. Yep, it's a major teaching hospital on the East Coast, it's not like there would be candidates with actual experience in hospital administration, lining up to apply is it?
Okay, that's all I got :) Comments, additions, corrections, alternative theories welcome. Anybody else have any nitpicks? I'm sure there's more :)
