tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post3596948327051290453..comments2024-03-25T19:18:14.047-04:00Comments on What's Alan Watching?: House, "Under My Skin": A moment like thisAlan Sepinwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1390405357117346462009-05-06T08:31:00.000-04:002009-05-06T08:31:00.000-04:00When Hugh Laurie says "I always want to kiss ...When Hugh Laurie says "I always want to kiss you" (ok, it doesn't look as good typed as it does remembering the scene in my mind), I just want to melt. Watch it over & over. Fall in love. Hopeless romantic.<br /><br />I may miss Amber - her episodes rocked!OnceADaydreamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12159809833659579650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-39037532012246666022009-05-05T21:37:00.000-04:002009-05-05T21:37:00.000-04:00So, if Cuddy were married and she and her spouse d...So, if Cuddy were married and she and her spouse decided to go away for a night, she would also be a cold, heartless bitch instead of a good mother? PUH-LEEZE.<br /><br />The baby doesn't even know she's gone. Baby will not remember. She has good caregivers. Not seeing her baby for 36 hours is not a crime, does not make for a bad mother, etc.<br /><br />So a single mother is not allowed to have any kind of life outside work and being a mom?K J Gillenwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12023089365553324315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-7679777677149380272009-05-05T20:27:00.000-04:002009-05-05T20:27:00.000-04:00oh, also, the fact that they are no longer focusin...oh, also, the fact that they are no longer focusing on Thirteen is a relief.<br />I don't remember the patient, but I remember that ...she, was at least not so much of an afterthought as many recent POTWs have been.<br /><br />Recently, my brother compared Chuck to Grey's, saying they had a similarity that he approved of.<br />When House goes the Grey's route (the more soap that procedural route) it's not great. Some eps - like when Amber died - I like. The rest, I just get confused as to what show this is.<br /><br />Speaking of...<br />Is Scrubs finale-ing tomorrow?Pamela Jayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06135379188588301400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-67191029098606293442009-05-05T20:22:00.000-04:002009-05-05T20:22:00.000-04:00I think Grey's Anatomy deals better with change (a...I think Grey's Anatomy deals better with change (although not with hallucinations)Pamela Jayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06135379188588301400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-64986492493060980602009-05-05T19:23:00.000-04:002009-05-05T19:23:00.000-04:00Too bad oksr, I stopped watching House before that...Too bad oksr, I stopped watching House before that sceneRLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-27378821936128165462009-05-05T19:22:00.000-04:002009-05-05T19:22:00.000-04:00You can find all music from all House episodes her...You can find all music from all House episodes here<br /><br />www.fox.com/house/features/music/season5.htm<br /><br />As for the episode, I loved the House story. The patient of the week was too gory and suffering for my taste and with no interest.<br />I don't mind Huddy as long as it is nicely written.The Bgthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07745110872360429848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-41834299328170287642009-05-05T18:10:00.000-04:002009-05-05T18:10:00.000-04:00i have a question firs of all im from chile and ...i have a question firs of all im from chile and i dont know write in inglish but y wanna know the name of the song that played in the finale scene when house kissed cuddy ???oskrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-8801735752229016282009-05-05T17:53:00.000-04:002009-05-05T17:53:00.000-04:00I'm not really sure what her sleeping with House h...I'm not really sure what her sleeping with House has to do with anything since I'm pretty sure most people agree that it's both stupid and bound to cause lots of problems. Nobody's arguing that one (that I've seen), the point is that it doesn't make someone a bad mother to have a nanny or babysitter take care of the kid while she's helping someone detox. The sex was irrelevant and after the fact and the time table obviously make believe and not as it would happen in real life, but of the actual time spent taking care of House, she wasn't neglecting the kid for selfish reasons, she was keeping a friend alive. I'm sure everyone will survive the 36(ish) hours Cuddy spent away from the baby.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-17371411037039154912009-05-05T17:52:00.000-04:002009-05-05T17:52:00.000-04:00One thing I've always questioned as someone who do...One thing I've always questioned as someone who does suffer from chronic pain is, despite the fact that he swallows a LOT of Vicodin, in my experience after awhile, you usually build up a tolerance to painkillers. While Vicodin has never been one of mine, when you have to start increasing doses, one of the risks is your breathing and I have to wonder why House hasn't OD'd by now, but then again Vicodin isn't one I've tried, though maybe I should.Edward Copelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12463676135131274426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-28779891468292947762009-05-05T17:34:00.000-04:002009-05-05T17:34:00.000-04:00You do come out of an insulin very quickly with th...<I>You do come out of an insulin very quickly with the administration of glucose. That wasn't unrealistic. The detox, I grant you, was compressed.</I>Yeah, that's totally true, but you don't go *into* insulin shock nearly as quickly as house did, even when injected directly into a vain, and it takes a much bigger dose than shown.<br /><br />A few candy bars within 15 minutes would have prevented the coma.<br /><br />Also, you don't hear electric noises when it happens (although the convulsing was accurate). :-)Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-43943207860443668302009-05-05T16:54:00.000-04:002009-05-05T16:54:00.000-04:00Its kind of funny watching the semantics argument ...Its kind of funny watching the semantics argument about exactly who is looking after Rachel - what you call the person doesn't negate the fact that Cuddy dumped her inconvenient kid on someone else for 36- 48 hours (depending how you calculate the detox). I wouldn't call her a capitalistic bitch myself, I myself think she's simply a colassal idiot with such a f'ed up set of priorities that she's sleeping with her employee. Its a given the fallout will be disasterous & she's only got herself to blame.Liciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04049771344561461122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-44231836096266530332009-05-05T16:21:00.000-04:002009-05-05T16:21:00.000-04:00Alan:
But what, ultimately, are the implications ...Alan:<br /><br /><I>But what, ultimately, are the implications of House's Vicodin detox?...the leg pain will be worse than ever...</I>Cuddy indicated that this might not be the case: The long term Vicodin use could have made his pain worse.Bixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03924119954199649577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-71614489342593824042009-05-05T14:01:00.000-04:002009-05-05T14:01:00.000-04:00I don't know. I have lost some of my enthusiasm fo...I don't know. I have lost some of my enthusiasm for House, the show, and I'm not sure how I can get it back. Even after an arguably good episode, I am still frustrated with the general trajectory of the characters and story as a whole. Like with Cuddy and House, a scene I would have loved to see maybe a season or two ago, was a little underwhelming, in part because of how they've written Cuddy (into a bubbling idiot in this recent season). So even though the performance by the actors were pretty great, the scene at the end didn't feel complete. Though I suppose, that could be the intention.<br /><br />And while I love Amber, maybe Grey's has tainted my feelings on dead character hallucinations; I felt it was unnecessary for the most part, and while much less cringe-y than Denny and great to watch, seemed to be a bit of a clutch for the writers. <br /><br />Though, it was nice seeing the team work out a medical puzzle sans House. I only hope we'd finally get back to seeing the old team, if they are going to stay on the show (and the new, even though I still find them less intriguing characters than the old, if they are going to stay on the show) be doctors and interact with everyone, instead of this whole marriage thing. I still feel they've missed an opportunity when they had both the old and new teams and not have them interact (as doctors AND as colleagues/friends) for most of the season and last's. If they'd integrate the teams a bit more, I might not dislike the new team as much as I do.belindanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-28562637459292752192009-05-05T13:59:00.000-04:002009-05-05T13:59:00.000-04:00Totally missed her using the word "babysitter", th...Totally missed her using the word "babysitter", though that drives the point home even further. When hulu puts it up I'll have to watch that scene again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-61789240109724057282009-05-05T13:15:00.000-04:002009-05-05T13:15:00.000-04:00So the baby sitter working a 12 hour day, followed...<I>So the baby sitter working a 12 hour day, followed by a 12 hour night shift & then another 12 hour shift because Cuddy's back to work the next day without a break is fine because Cuddy's got money to throw at it?</I>Cuddy clearly said that her nanny left at 7:30, and then that she would call her babysitter when House needed help. She clearly differentiated, so at least two different people as backup caregivers. She's smart enough to have backup available because of her highly demanding job. This means that, yes, she's an executive who has money and planning available to her. This does not make her a capitalist bitch abusing the working class.Rhodanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-12470255345260078282009-05-05T13:12:00.000-04:002009-05-05T13:12:00.000-04:00You know that nannies aren't actually required to ...You know that nannies aren't actually required to be awake the entire time that they're taking care of the child, right? They get to sleep just like parents do. And making the distinction that she (or he...I didn't pay that close attention to the gender of the nanny) was a nanny and not a babysitter is shorthand for letting us know that in spite of the fact that he/she has regular "office hours" they are also on call. They are the nanny. That is what nannies do. It's a lot more fun to complain about what a horrible bitch of a person Cuddy is and how she's the worst mother ever, but she didn't do anything wrong here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-42170999421978609502009-05-05T13:08:00.000-04:002009-05-05T13:08:00.000-04:00Cuddy having lied to House at least three time dur...<I>Cuddy having lied to House at least three time during the series (she said that she hadn't lied to him in 20 years).</I>That wasn't a continuity error - as House explained to her and the audience very clearly, it's a lie to say she's never lied to him in 20 years, so obviously she said that because she wanted to reveal what she lied about exactly 20 years ago.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08542639936741016075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-52999079815944745962009-05-05T12:56:00.000-04:002009-05-05T12:56:00.000-04:00So the baby sitter working a 12 hour day, followed...So the baby sitter working a 12 hour day, followed by a 12 hour night shift & then another 12 hour shift because Cuddy's back to work the next day without a break is fine because Cuddy's got money to throw at it? Yeah, & Cuddy treated her handyman like crap too. Never mind actually spending time with Rachel's about the lowest thing on her so-called mother's priority list. We've seen Cuddy repeatedly forget about Rachel on the slimmest of excuse, most recently when Cuddy went scurrying in to the ER in the middle of the night during House's bachelor party mishap.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-81105701480975492402009-05-05T12:23:00.000-04:002009-05-05T12:23:00.000-04:00I hope the post-insulin scenes are a hallucination...I hope the post-insulin scenes are a hallucination because otherwise there are some large continuity errors, including Cuddy having lied to House at least three time during the series (she said that she hadn't lied to him in 20 years).<br /><br />It was a very good episode for House/Wilson interactions and Anne Dudek was wonderful as Amber.<br /><br />While this new adult interaction between House and Cuddy was pleasant to watch, I'm having a hard time buying into given how childish they were during most of the season. Shore ruins all the ships (House/Cuddy, Chase/Cameron, Foreman/Thirteen) before they get together so that when they actually happen, I find the pairing both annoying and unsatisfying.<br /><br />The medical case remains a sidebar to the soap opera. At least Foreman and Thirteen were less annoying than usual.<br /><br />Chase and Cameron continue to remain isolated from House, which is too bad because House could use more friends than just Wilson and Cuddy.<br /><br />I want to know what Jennifer Morrison did to antagonize David Shore. Or is he trying to ruin Cameron because fans want her back instead of accepting the new team? The missish Barbie whose entire storyline consists of dithering about her relationship with Chase and now creepily keeping the sperm of her dead husband even though she's marrying Chase is a very far cry from the woman who could handle House better than Cuddy did when she took over her job in Big Baby. Doesn't Shore trust people will love House/Cuddy without ruining Cameron?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09010014986025448974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-79842918293900510662009-05-05T12:16:00.000-04:002009-05-05T12:16:00.000-04:00House never went to detox with Wilson, he knew tha...House never went to detox with Wilson, he knew that if he went to detox he would be able to cheat and manipulate others into getting a fix and therefor making the detox moot. He decided he would be honest with Cuddy, so he instead went to her for help. I would imagine with his level of narcotic use detox would take several days to weeks until he feel well again, but it is a show, we couldnt have watched all of that.Dannynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-32304343604171214302009-05-05T11:56:00.000-04:002009-05-05T11:56:00.000-04:00The one part of the episode that had me puzzled is...The one part of the episode that had me puzzled is that one minute Wilson is driving House to a detox center then suddenly House is standing in Cuddy's office, which gives me pause about the incredibly quick withdrawal in his place.Edward Copelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12463676135131274426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-29347097737158170522009-05-05T11:37:00.000-04:002009-05-05T11:37:00.000-04:00Oh, come on...let's be a little bit fair to Cuddy,...Oh, come on...let's be a little bit fair to Cuddy, please. She didn't "ditch" her baby. She has a nanny and that nanny just made some nice overtime coin. It isn't like she left her on a park bench and it's not like she didn't have a very good reason. If a friend is in trouble, as House clearly was, and that friend is very serious about getting out of that trouble, as House clearly was, you help them. That's what babysitters and nannies are for. There was nothing irresponsible about what Cuddy did wrt helping House detox, even if it was the most magical detox ever. <br /><br />@dez: the "creepy" with Cameron and Chase is that she froze dead husband's sperm when he was diagnosed (with his permission, so it isn't as if that was actually creepy) and Chase's knowledge of this is driving a bit of a wedge between them. It's just more of Cameron being afraid of committment and more of Chase telling us over and over that he is fully committed to her. While it was neither interesting or surprising, it also wasn't actually all that creepy. Pointless, but not crazy. <br /><br />The diagnosis I'm not even going to touch since I lost interest in it about halfway through what with the House stuff being more compelling. Something about an alergic reaction to the antibiotics (the skin part, at least) and gonnorhea and then they magically saved her hands and feet from amputation using...ask;djfas;l. Yeah, I really did stop listening after awhile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-32257207552072559732009-05-05T11:28:00.000-04:002009-05-05T11:28:00.000-04:00"I know the medicine on this show is often critici..."I know the medicine on this show is often criticized, but...House comes out of his COMA, gets out of bed, throws on his clothes and goes back to work."<br /><br />You do come out of an insulin very quickly with the administration of glucose. That wasn't unrealistic. The detox, I grant you, was compressed. (-:jackienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-38926946093803639662009-05-05T11:08:00.000-04:002009-05-05T11:08:00.000-04:00I didn't love this ep as much as a lot of you seem...I didn't love this ep as much as a lot of you seemed to. Didn't *dislike* it, but I was a little bored about halfway thru, but knew that if I bailed, something would happen in the second half that everyone would be talking about this morning. I wondered when the Huddy hook-up was going to happen, as we're running out of eps.<br /><br />I know the medicine on this show is often criticized, but...House comes out of his COMA, gets out of bed, throws on his clothes and goes back to work. And after a night of detoxing, House is ready to go at it with Cuddy. Okay. WhatEVer.<br /><br />And YES to hoping he had brushed his teeth 50 or 60 times and showered 3 or 4. I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking about that.olucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12047701257768309071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-81224909055181933302009-05-05T11:04:00.000-04:002009-05-05T11:04:00.000-04:00Unfortunately, I was out of it due to illness duri...Unfortunately, I was out of it due to illness during part of the ep and forgot to hit record on the DVR. Could someone please tell me what the patient's diagnosis was? Also, what was the ickiness with Cameron & Chase? Thanks!<br /><br />Of the parts I saw, there was some damn fine acting from Hugh Laurie. I don't mind Cuddy/House, either, but like amysusanne, I sure hope House brushed, flossed, and mouthwashed with industrial-strength Listerine before he planted a kiss on Cuddy. Yuuuuck.deznoreply@blogger.com