Episode Post-Mortem: 7x07 "A Pox on our House"

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[foxke-lafra.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who utterly loathed this episode? This might have been the episode that actually makes me quit watching. Hated it.

Most of the characters were terrible - where was Cuddy for the first 2/3 of it? We've seen her heavily involved in dealing with major hospital epidemics/emergencies before. In previous seasons she would have been down in isolation the entire time - maybe getting a bit underfoot in the process, but weighing in as a valuable negotiator between House and the CDC. Instead, her role here was as solely the girlfriend - there wasn't any part here of her being the competent Dean of Medicine.

3M - boring, irritating, and the biggest Mary Sue ever. Are they trying to set things up to eventually do a spin-off for her? Because she was the only one actually coming up with ideas this week - even House didn't really have anything, and he seemed to keep deferring her, and since when does House defer on anything relating to medicine? I also continue to be really, really bothered by the whole "she's still a medical student" thing - it completely distracts me from anything that might be positive about her character, because it's completely implausible that she would be there in the first place.

The team - it's a shame that Chase must have finished the crossword earlier, since they all appeared to be horribly bored the whole time. They contributed nothing to the episode - only 3M had any ideas, and she was the only one pushing along the DDX and advocating for the patient (I think 3M complained at least twice that shouldn't they be DDXing alternatives?). The crew could have replaced them with cardboard cut-outs, since they didn't seem like much beyond that.

Was totally not invested in the patient story at all. Of course it wasn't smallpox. I'm not a doctor and even I can tell you that there's no way you're going to get smallpox from a 300 old jar. I did like the CDC guy - he behaved exactly the way he should have, and I'm not sure why the show was going for the "he's egotistical and in it for the glory" angle. He's CDC - his job is to contain possible medical catastrophes and proceed based on the most plausible course of action, not follow the Housian brand of medicine of administering medication for possible diseases willy-nilly - it works for House and his team, but no way would any other doctor proceed that way.

I did like Wilson and Sam in this ep. Sam is growing on me - she's a little crazy, but she's honest about who she is and her short-comings, and that's attractive. Also, frankly, she seems like someone who would be largely fun to be around, minus the occasional drama and moments of thoughtlessness (and anyone is going to have that occasionally). I can see why Wilson would be drawn to her - fun and a little crazy is a large part of what he finds appealing about House.

Wilson was adorable. Some of the most endearing scenes he's had on this show have been with kids. I don't buy that he didn't find out about the House crisis at all, though - it seems like Wilson has a way of keeping tabs on House and his whereabouts at all times. I'm sure word would have gotten around the hospital quickly once CDC showed up and the place got locked down that there was something big going down, and I have to think that pretty much the whole hospital would have automatically assumed that House's department was in the middle of it (them being the diagnosticians and all and therefore the ones most likely to be dealing with a disease that calls in the CDC). And in that case, Wilson would have gone looking for House to make sure he wasn't doing anything stupid.

I still don't want the relationship to last, though - I especially want there to be an addressing of Wilson's past fidelity issues, since I'm not sure I see evidence that he's changed so that he won't eventually find his jollies elsewhere. And please, please do not give them a baby - we already have one baby on this show who is pretty much a non-entity, no need for more.

On the whole, it was a stupid, infuriating ep. House and Wilson alone do not a show make when they have no interaction for more than 30 seconds.

I hate what they've done to this show. Ditch the relationship drama and little girl already - it's the only way to save the show at this point.

[ellarvi.livejournal.com]

This episode was this close to make me quit watching, but I seem to have more patience than I thought. However, judging by how things have been going on in H/W land, maybe next week's episode will do the trick. :/