House: Emancipation
By fred | November 19, 2008
(S05E08) After being MIA for a little while, last week we were reminded of Cameron existence as she was very much involved in the case, and pretty much felt like she was back on the team, working with House again. What this really showed was that for over a year now, House has been working with new people – well, except for Foreman who somehow got stuck back with House — leaving the original one, Chase and Cameron, with close to nothing to do.
This has always been an issue for me, because as much as I loved the original team, it just felt wrong to knew they were still around, and sometime see one walking by, but without them having much to do. House has moved on, and i really wish the writers would either find a way to integrate them back into the show, or let them go as well, so we can move on too.
Of course the title of this week’s episode can refer to our patient of the week, a pathological liar, but it was really about Foreman. Foreman decided that he wanted to get involved in other things, because watching over House is getting boring for him. Which is understandable, as he’s not really part of the team, he just watches over and makes sure everything goes fine, or not too offtrack.
But while him working on a case of his own was a nice way to get Chase & Cameron in the episode, and reunite the original trio back working a case all together, I have to admit that I didn’t like that whole plot very much. For one, because we all know that what makes this show so great and why we tune in each week isn’t the medical mystery, and the mind-games and character study we get every week, courtesy of the one and only Gregory House.
If we’re out to have a bunch of doctors doing their own thing on their own, working a different case and whatnot, they might as well do it on another show. If House is never going to screw with them and play with his minions, it really takes lot of the fun out of the equation. And it really didn’t help that this case seemed way too easy, I mean did it really take that much and one Eureka moment to figure out that big brother might have been feeding the kid too much vitamins ?? Somehow I feel this could have been a clinical case for House, figured out in seconds.
Ah yes, clinic hours. I do miss the times where House was forced to do some clinic hours and had to actually deal with patients. He figured everything out, even things the patients didn’t came for (e.g. your husband is cheating on you), but it was always a lot of fun… I wish Cuddy would force him right back there from time to time.
Anyways, I’m not exactly sure where they’re going with this, but I don’t think I would like it much if every episodes were toinclude two stories/cases, one for House and one for Foreman, even if he was working back with Chase & Cameron.
Back on our weekly case, and House’s leitmotiv has never been any more valid than today : everybody lies, constantly. Especially this week, where the patient kept lying and lying some more to cover up her lies. When her parents were dead it was Kutner who was sympathetic to her, sharing that he too lost his parents when he was a kid. Kutner was more than willing to believe she was telling the truth, that from the start, and even went as far as to change her treatment and go against House’s orders just because he believed she wasn’t lying.
