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[TWoP Nikita]

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A businessman (Michael Nouri) becomes ill days before signing a contract that would relocate his company's labor force to China; Park prepares for her hearing with the hospital's disciplinary committee.

[macbeth]

I really like the new doctor - Dr. Parks. She is quirky and gives a different voice for this show. The other new doctor could be interchangeable with severable other actors on the show.

[YankeesGal]

Boo. This show is losing steam by the second.

[Jay]

I am so torn between the fact that I heart Charlyne Yi and want to carry her around in my pocket, and the fact that her character (and most of the characters on the show nowadays, to be honest) just grate on me like no other. Wilson is my only real constant, at this point.

[CGRealms]

Really enjoyed Wilson's speech to Park explaining House rules. Also enjoyed that House's selfishness resulted in the destruction of a family, rather than everything being okay. I say resulted in, because at the end of the day the patient had to choose, and his pride and autonomy were worth more than keeping his daughter in the fold. And if the China deal fell apart the next day, it wouldn't matter to House since he'd already cashed in his chips so to speak. Depending on how the size of his stock holdings compare to the capitalization of the company, House may have run afoul of insider trading laws, but that's neither here nor there.

LOVED House blowing extra money just so Orthopedics could be absolutely trashed.

[karra]

I almost expected to discover he hadn't bought orthopedics.

[090108joanna]

Really enjoyed Wilson's speech to Park explaining House rules.

Yes, the scene with Wilson and Park was my favorite of the episode. This ep felt flat otherwise, and I thought the first 3 of the season were much better than this one. Maybe this is because it's still a transitional period, before Chase and Taub return. I like Park and thought her breaking down at the disciplinary hearing was a well-done scene, but Adams just isn't very interesting to me. She was good in the prison episode, but since then seems bland and boring. Having her just go through a divorce, with House knowing something was up, could've been a way to make her character more believable, but the actress just doesn't impress me.

House's feud with Orthopedics was good comic relief, though. I loved how the Ortho guy plaster-casted all the objects in House's office, and House's ultimate revenge of buying off Ortho and letting Adams trash the skeleton, etc. But even though bought and paid for, it seems like a ridiculous waste to destroy hospital equipment, and in real life someone on parole would certainly not get away with all the quasi-illegal (and outright illegal) things House did in this episode.

[KariLois]

I can't take this show anymore. I love Hugh Laurie and all, but the new cast needs retooling. I feel like they're grasping at straws trying to keep momentum.

[HyacinthBucket]

Three episodes in and we haven't seen the dreaded House-pining-for-Cuddy scenario yet. I don't want to see that at all, yet I expect that he will have to deal with it in the future. He was full of quips in this episode, and seems to be fairly happy to be back at PPTH. I enjoyed all the manipulations with Park since it all boiled down to the fact that he wanted to keep her. I'm still not sure about Dr. Pretty Doctor yet. I feel that the writers are using her to fill the void left by Cameron's departure. I also think that these young actresses are making House look that much older and more grizzled than ever.

Did Wilson look years younger to anyone else? He looked much more boyish to me, more like what he used to look like in the earlier seasons.

Foreman continues to please me as boss, and I love that he is advising the newbies about House by admitting his own mistakes in the past. I love that he admitted to Park that he was given two weeks of suspended pay. He definitely seems more human this season.

This show doesn't enthrall me as it used to in the first three seasons, but I do think it is starting to look much better without all the "Huddy" drama. I don't miss Cuddy or Thirteen at all, but I do miss Chase. I will be very glad to have him back.

[Driad]

Glad to have Cuddy & Huddy gone, and I like Park. But ...

Foreman's explanation of why he had to call in the neurologist who had been drinking -- You needed a neurologist? Why didn't you look in the mirror? Do TIIC think that deans automatically forget how to be doctors? (Apparently so; witness Cuddy.)

All I want from this (LAST please!) season is for HL to have a chance to show his superb acting.

[annsmith]

I'm actually enjoying this season. I was almost ready to delete this show from the DVR but I like the two new girls and love no more "Huddy". Also I like Foreman so much more now that he is the boss.

I didn't quite understand why the patient decided to go ahead and move his company. I thought at the last minute he would change his mind.

I'm really looking forward to the return of Chase and Taub.

[taanja]

I miss Cuddy. I miss Huddy. I miss 13.
I do not like the new chick. Can anyone say annoying? This show is dead to me now. Too bad.

[Katekins]

Foreman's explanation of why he had to call in the neurologist who had been drinking -- You needed a neurologist? Why didn't you look in the mirror?

LOL. Amen. Good catch, I'd totally forgotten about this.

I was very bothered by the destruction of all the ortho equipment. Just the skeleton would have been fine, but as someone whose job revolves a lot around the exorbitant cost of health care in this country, it made me sick to see so much waste.

I also found it kind of annoying that they made Park's boss not only a butt-grabber but "a hack" as a doctor. Because of course no one who is supposed to be the "bad guy" can be a good doctor. That would be way too nuanced. I did like how they portrayed him as a smart politician, though.

[Prothall]

Yeah, I noticed that about Foreman too. Although, he hasn't done anything more than sit around and look exasperated for years now, so maybe he's forgotten everything.

Speaking of Foreman - was his office always that big? It seemed so much smaller when Cuddy was in there. I know he rearranged the layout of everything, and they might have taken down the wall with the doors to the outer office where Cuddy's assistant was for all of two episodes, but last night it looked huge.

[abbottrabbit]

Foreman's explanation of why he had to call in the neurologist who had been drinking -- You needed a neurologist? Why didn't you look in the mirror?

I had the exact same thought -- I actually yelled "you are a neurologist, you dip!" at the TV.

Oh well. Always nice to see Michael Nouri. The man ages so damn beautifully.

[Doxa]

It's surprising : I thought this episode would be worse, given the fact that the writer has only worked on Prison Break : http://en.wikipedia....ki/Seth_Hoffman :)

[Helena Dax]

I'm enjoying this season. I like the new doctors and the way they deal with House. They don't waste their time complaining about him or trying to change him or hoping for a more mature behaviour. They just assume that House is different, mark their grounds and ignore him most of the time. I mean, the bit about the hamburguers was funny and I can't see Foreman, Taub, Thirteen... doing something like that.

I'm curious to see what will happen when Taub and Chase come back. I haven't been missing them, tbh, Park and Adams are enough for me. I guess Chase and Adams will have an affair or something.

If I knew someone in RL with the same bored, vacant, sad look in Foreman's eyes, I'd be very worried about her/him. What's wrong with that guy?

I LOVED House's mischievous smile at the end. Man, he loves chaos...

[MoeBee]

I cannot stand the new doctors. The woman playing Park needs acting lessons pronto. She's like a high schooler doing a cold read of the school play. I cannot see what the producers saw in her when she was cast. And the other actress is just blah.

[CrashEdit]

I was very confused by some of the scripting, here -- how exactly did House deduce the "thick blood" condition by looking at an x-ray of what appeared to be a hip replacement?

Also, yeah, why did Michael Nouri move his company to China? Was it just for money's sake, damn the family? 1% and all that? If so, I feel bad for Nouri, his character lacked dimension!

[090108joanna]

how exactly did House deduce the "thick blood" condition by looking at an x-ray of what appeared to be a hip replacement?

I think the ortho x-ray simply reminded House that the patient had rheumatoid arthritis, which led him to the correct diagnosis. Trying to figure out the medicine in these shows, and House's thought processes re. the medicine, just gives me a headache. He needs some scenes with Wilson dealing with other subjects entirely -- that's where the fun, angst and drama will always be for me.

[Prothall]

CrashEdit - I seem to recall a line in there about something in the guy's blood being shaped like a "Y", which caused something to happen to something because of his arthritis. House saw the Y-shaped X-ray of the hip replacement, and it triggered his epiphany.

So it wasn't so much the hip replacement itself, but the shape of it, if I'm remembering correctly.

[deb50]

From Cameron, to 13 to jail Doc, the women on this show are judgemental, hectoring, holier than thou nags. In reality, no medical professional could get away with getting up in a patients face the way these people do.

And in what universe does a Doctor, not employed by a hospital, get to go around doing complex expensive tests in a place where they have no priviledges. Same place that keeps a sociopath like House around with no consequences....

Edited by deb50, Nov 1, 2011 @ 3:09 PM.

[pk1]

Also, yeah, why did Michael Nouri move his company to China? Was it just for money's sake, damn the family? 1% and all that? If so, I feel bad for Nouri, his character lacked dimension!

I thought he did it for his daughter, si she wouldn't have to be the last C.E.O of a dead company

[Unspoiled]

Helena Dax, I agree, Foreman needs a hug or some ice cream or something. He's seemingly devoid of contentment, and I had thought he would get a kick out of his new power. I'm pretty curious to find out about how Chase feels about that.
I can see the point of Park becoming emotional during the hearing, but it was unsatisfying, especially knowing the groper had been drinking.
I just want to give this show some oil on its rusty sprockets. Maybe when the boys are back...

[Jay]

I cannot stand the new doctors. The woman playing Park needs acting lessons pronto. She's like a high schooler doing a cold read of the school play. I cannot see what the producers saw in her when she was cast. And the other actress is just blah.

This is really true. As I said before, I absolutely love Charlyne Yi, and think she's hilarious as a comedian (although I know that this is far from a universal opinion), but she's just not very good as a serious actress. The funny thing is, she seems to realize it; she was on Conan recently talking about how she has no idea how she got cast for this show. She's great when she's being herself, but her personality and style isn't a great fit for a show like this.

[Kabota]

The scene where Adams trashes the ortho equipment in slomo was as chalkboard scrapingly dreadful as Cuddy's pullback screech in 9 to 5.

I thought the episode seemed flat. I just don't care for either of the newbies. Too quirky, too cliche, too boring, too poorly acted. YMMV.

Everything just seems visually and dramatically gray. The sets, everything feels drab. Is the lighting different?

[CourtneyLove]

I loved the episode, I could actually understand asian girl, and the hep C joke was kinda awesome.

I also was saying "but you're a neurologist..." to Foreman, but some things on this show were hard to understand...

House needed 200K, so he stole a machine, and then brought it back? I thought they were trying to say he sold it, but.. what happened? Then he got 20K to do some insider trading which made enough to get the band, I mean team back together?

confused...

Edited by CourtneyLove, Nov 1, 2011 @ 5:53 PM.

[marceline]

I checked this episode out online. I'm more convinced than ever that this should be the final season. Have House kill himself then in the final ep have him, Kutner and Amber meet up in the afterlife.

[Solea]

The woman playing Park needs acting lessons pronto. She's like a high schooler doing a cold read of the school play.

That's the point! She's incredibly smart but socially awkward, stiff. Her lack of animation and flat voice crack me the hell up. Maybe it's because I've known a couple of people like this. Brilliant, but somewhat sheltered and repressed; the flat affect the result of little interaction with people outside of family. I think the character is spot on and a hoot.

[thistle5]

I think that Dr. Park's character is fine, but the prison doctor (Adams?) is terrible. She doesn't even work there, so she can swan around all dressed up, with waist length hair flying around-please tie it back. Even Cameron was never this annoying...