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House M.D. Speculative Synopsis (Spoilers)
A quick-and-dirty recap of Season 7 so far*
"Now What?": Patient hallucinates after consuming toads' eggs
"Selfish": Patient's brother sacrifices his lung to save her
"Unwritten": Patient hallucinates her secret son who died in car crash
"Massage Therapy": Schizophrenic patient off her meds hallucinates. Wilson goes with House to buy a new motorcycle - why? Because he crashed the old one?
"Unplanned Parenthood": Woman delays treatment and dies to save her baby
"A Pox on Our House": House risks his life for his patient
"Office Politics" : Campaign manager sacrifices his job for his boss/secret lover's political career
"Small Sacrifices": Patient has delusions and feels one emotion while expressing another; imitates Jesus as a sacrifice to save his daughter from brain cancer
"Larger than Life": Patient risks his life to save a stranger in the subway
"Carrot or Stick": Patient keeps his fatherhood secret from his son
"Family Practice": Mama Cuddy doesn't recognize sarcasm because of a problem in her hippocampus
"You Must Remember This": Patient has what appears to be a perfect memory due to OCD
"Two Stories": Let's just forget this one ever happened. Except that House hits someone with his car, and "The Princess and the Pea" could refer to sleeping/coma? And it's career day at the school... and next week we'll meet a patient who is working all kinds of lousy jobs because his career has gotten derailed.
"Recession Proof": Patient hallucinates and is sacrificing his health to keep up appearances for his wife. Wilson won't let House drive drunk. House is willing to sacrifice his medical success for Cuddy. He taste-tests a Vicodin... and next week he'll swallow.
"Bombshells": Vivid dreams resemble hallucinations. House sacrifices his hard-earned sobriety to see Cuddy.
"Out of the Chute": Patient sacrifices his thrilling career to save his own life. References to Masters' prefrontal cortex. Also to House having sex with Wilson and eating him... and next week the patient is a cannibal serial killer.
"Fall from Grace": Patient has dysosmia (sniffs one thing and smells another). Secret identity/parentage. He's wanted for 13 unsolved murders in 10 states... and next week 13 returns, having killed her brother.
"The Dig": Haven't seen this one, but as I understand it, the patient has had three secret miscarriages.
Okay. I grant you that this could all be a series of coincidences, writers' collective unconscious, or what have you. But it seems to me that we're seeing three main themes over and over again this season: 1) hallucinations and other examples of brain/memory issues and being misled by the senses, 2) secret pregancy/parentage, and 3) sacrifice. There are also some references to vehicular crashes that might be setting us up for the reportedly filmed accident in front of Cuddy's house in the season finale.
Maybe we can't trust the evidence of our eyes - perhaps House has been dreaming/hallucinating this entire season, because he's in a coma after the accident sustained in the alternate version of "Now What?" (which would also explain GY's references to "dreams within dreams" in "Bombshells"). Maybe the "Gone with the Wind" spoiler refers to Cuddy having gotten pregnant just before the break-up and being put in a situation (accident or illness) that forces her to choose between treatment and saving her baby - and House tricking/forcing her into treatment and losing the baby, which she can never forgive.
Am I crazy? Am I dreaming? Am Imarrying a demon forgetting something important?
*This post made possible by the awesome folks over at Clinic Duty who have done such a great job of transcribing the episodes over the years.
"Now What?": Patient hallucinates after consuming toads' eggs
"Selfish": Patient's brother sacrifices his lung to save her
"Unwritten": Patient hallucinates her secret son who died in car crash
"Massage Therapy": Schizophrenic patient off her meds hallucinates. Wilson goes with House to buy a new motorcycle - why? Because he crashed the old one?
"Unplanned Parenthood": Woman delays treatment and dies to save her baby
"A Pox on Our House": House risks his life for his patient
"Office Politics" : Campaign manager sacrifices his job for his boss/secret lover's political career
"Small Sacrifices": Patient has delusions and feels one emotion while expressing another; imitates Jesus as a sacrifice to save his daughter from brain cancer
"Larger than Life": Patient risks his life to save a stranger in the subway
"Carrot or Stick": Patient keeps his fatherhood secret from his son
"Family Practice": Mama Cuddy doesn't recognize sarcasm because of a problem in her hippocampus
"You Must Remember This": Patient has what appears to be a perfect memory due to OCD
"Two Stories": Let's just forget this one ever happened. Except that House hits someone with his car, and "The Princess and the Pea" could refer to sleeping/coma? And it's career day at the school... and next week we'll meet a patient who is working all kinds of lousy jobs because his career has gotten derailed.
"Recession Proof": Patient hallucinates and is sacrificing his health to keep up appearances for his wife. Wilson won't let House drive drunk. House is willing to sacrifice his medical success for Cuddy. He taste-tests a Vicodin... and next week he'll swallow.
"Bombshells": Vivid dreams resemble hallucinations. House sacrifices his hard-earned sobriety to see Cuddy.
"Out of the Chute": Patient sacrifices his thrilling career to save his own life. References to Masters' prefrontal cortex. Also to House having sex with Wilson and eating him... and next week the patient is a cannibal serial killer.
"Fall from Grace": Patient has dysosmia (sniffs one thing and smells another). Secret identity/parentage. He's wanted for 13 unsolved murders in 10 states... and next week 13 returns, having killed her brother.
"The Dig": Haven't seen this one, but as I understand it, the patient has had three secret miscarriages.
Okay. I grant you that this could all be a series of coincidences, writers' collective unconscious, or what have you. But it seems to me that we're seeing three main themes over and over again this season: 1) hallucinations and other examples of brain/memory issues and being misled by the senses, 2) secret pregancy/parentage, and 3) sacrifice. There are also some references to vehicular crashes that might be setting us up for the reportedly filmed accident in front of Cuddy's house in the season finale.
Maybe we can't trust the evidence of our eyes - perhaps House has been dreaming/hallucinating this entire season, because he's in a coma after the accident sustained in the alternate version of "Now What?" (which would also explain GY's references to "dreams within dreams" in "Bombshells"). Maybe the "Gone with the Wind" spoiler refers to Cuddy having gotten pregnant just before the break-up and being put in a situation (accident or illness) that forces her to choose between treatment and saving her baby - and House tricking/forcing her into treatment and losing the baby, which she can never forgive.
Am I crazy? Am I dreaming? Am I
*This post made possible by the awesome folks over at Clinic Duty who have done such a great job of transcribing the episodes over the years.
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The multiple timelines idea is a really interesting one. Or perhaps multiple 'realities'. Too far fetched? Another possible thing I have been wondering is if there is sort of a reverse hallucination or reverse flashbacks. If House is injured in the final, maybe some of the story that happened in this season were things he had been dreaming/hallucinating/whatever but we don't see the crash until the season is over.
Didn't at one point someone tell the Huddy people to keep an eye out for the beach scenes, that that wasn't a fakeout? maybe that will feature as a dream/hallucination sequence.
Everyone has really interesting ideas and I love the list in this post but I still doubt the season was any kind of hallucination. There might be some little mind games going on though.
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I don't really have anything specific. Just stuff like the watch could be meant as a hint of something (most likely something like that House knew from the beginning his time with Cuddy would be limited). The introduction of Rachel into the viewer's lives is a worry since if they didn't make us like her then killing her would be less meaningful. Like what they did with Amber. So i do worry that might harm her in some way. Flywoman is right that there has been an awful lot of dream/hallucination references this season so maybe there will be something that deals with dreams again in the final. The only other thing that really stands out for me is leg pain. House has had practically none of it. Is that all due to his getting off vicodin? Now that he is clean the leg pain is gone? I wonder if that will show up somewhere as having been a clue of something.
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Yes, we were told that the beach scenes were real. They were filmed for the alternate version of "Now What?" That's another reason that I think what we have been seeing is the "unreal" version.