House: Alone
By fred | September 30, 2007
(S04E01) I haven’t mention the return of the greatest show on TV, House, but I think I should say a few words about it. Not only because it’s House, and it was - as one could have expected - absolutely brilliant, but also because after expressing my fears about how the season might go, time to see whether or not it was justified.
Because as you know, last season ended with the complete team leaving House, and the hospital. Chase was fired, Cameron & Foreman resigned. And as much as I love them, I think my ideal choice would be for them not to come back. But they will, eventually. Which, as I told, is a stupid TV cliché, and I really wish House would have been above all that, and done better.
So let’s see how they actually did it.
To sum up this episode and how it was made in one word, I would have to go with awesome. Jesus I’m so happy the show’s back, it definitely is a must-see, the highlight on all the TV week, hands down.
The medical mystery was pretty rockin’, it was a solid one, tough to find out, and in the end I had absolutely not see it coming. I also liked the fact that, as far as we’re concern, House did not save his patient. I mean of course, there was a body swap and it’s not really his fault, and the girl he was actually treating will live. But usually on the show not only does he eventually figure things out, but the patient lives, too.
It’s not often that the final diagnosis comes in too late, or that there’s just nothing that can done done. Happens, from time to time, but it’s an exception. And while not exactly there, this episode didn’t end with the traditional “happy ending” either, it was somewhere in the middle, and I really liked that.
The way to get to the resolution was, as always, simply awesome to witness. And while it would have been pretty odd to see House investigate on his own, as demonstrated, he might be the amazing and brilliant doctor he is, he needs others to bump ideas with, he needs the assistance of a team to stimulate his mind and throw new ideas so that he can figure out what’s really going on.
He needs a team, but he doesn’t want to hire a new one. So during this episode, he just tried to use anyone he could, including a janitor. A pretty funny plot line, which resulted in one of the most hilarious line of this episode, as the janitor said, as an inside, recurring joke : “Maybe it’s lupus”
Now if you didn’t roll on the floor on that one, then you must not be watching House for long, or there’s a problem with you.
Another subplot that was pretty funny too : the kidnapping of the guitar. Wilson can be an evil, evil man at times. And no matter what, House never ever lets you see a weaker side of his, instead he goes on to erase your TiVo and kidnaps one of your patient. You gotta love the guy.
Question: Do you really think Wilson is that evil, that he actually destroyed the guitar. I’m petty sure he did not. House could have, and he did erase Wilson’s TiVo, and maybe House may have an influence over time on Wilson, but I really doubt he went that far.
