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flywomanA 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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Date: 2011-04-15 02:44 am (UTC)My thought was that House has been in a coma since an accident near the end of the alternative version of "Now What?" and that the crash at the end of the season would effectively bring the real and coma timelines back into register - that is, he would regain consciousness after the dream crash and find himself back in the real timeline.
I'm confused about the watch now - I was convinced for a while that it would show up once the two timelines got back in sync, and not only was that not the case, but he didn't start wearing a watch again right after the break-up - it took several more episodes. Why do you think that was? (I do think, though, that the end of Huddy was planned from the beginning.)
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Date: 2011-04-15 03:30 am (UTC)--A definite possibility, but then that means Huddy was a hallucination. I thought DS said they didn't want to do that to fans again--do a repeat of Both Sides Now. That's why I was spinning an alternative. I did hear that a woman is taken away in an ambulance, so House may be okay.
As to the watch, I had forgotten, House didn't wear the watch until The Dig. We had the arc, then House going to extremes with the dive into the pool and the green card marriage. I didn't watch The Dig, but it sounds like he may have reached acceptance about losing Cuddy. The watch could mean "it's time" to return to his regular life. Or how about eternal love can't be measured? ;-)
Should have said earlier that I'm impressed and intrigued with the thought you put into finding the three themes. It appears too deliberate to be a coincidence. In previous seasons there were little hints leading up to the finale, but they were salted into conversations. House saying, "I don't sacrifice self," and the reference to Dark Victory in 4x12 Don't Ever Change foreshadowed his decision to try DBS and Amber's death. TPTB could have approached the reveal differently this time. It takes into account GY's cryptic tweet.
Whoops! Pardon me. Commented in the wrong place. Fixed it
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Date: 2011-04-15 03:35 am (UTC)Thirteen did mention Lucas in "The Dig." That might have just been to illustrate how long she had been gone (because she leaves in "Now What" and House's team doesn't find out until the following episode that House and Cuddy are dating), or to increase the shock value of her finding out that House was dating Cuddy. I'm unsure of what it could mean though. It's possible that the mention of him was more significant, maybe indicating some sort of discrepancy in the timeline.
Also, last episode, was Cuddy mentioned by anyone other than House? Or was the relationship between House and Cuddy mentioned at all by anyone other then House?
I'm wondering about what all have been hallucinations this season and what haven't...
I'm wondering if the new watch is indicative of the start of a new timeline...
Random thought, but is it possible that instead of Cuddy finding House in "Help Me," he actually took a bunch of Vicodin, hopped on his motorcycle, drove to Cuddy's house and crashed in front of it?
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Date: 2011-04-15 03:42 am (UTC)I was wondering that too... but then my brain hurt so I stopped.
It's possible that the mention of him was more significant, maybe indicating some sort of discrepancy in the timeline.
I was wondering about that, which is why I asked you about it on Tuesday. One speculation (for which I've seen no evidence) is that the rumored wedding will actually be between Cuddy and Lucas when we're restored to the original timeline.
Also, last episode, was Cuddy mentioned by anyone other than House? Or was the relationship between House and Cuddy mentioned at all by anyone other then House?
I haven't seen it yet...
Random thought, but is it possible that instead of Cuddy finding House in "Help Me," he actually took a bunch of Vicodin, hopped on his motorcycle, drove to Cuddy's house and crashed in front of it?
Based on everything I've read, I think that "Help Me" happened and that House and Cuddy slept together. I think that if there are multiple timelines, they separated in "Now What?"
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Date: 2011-04-15 04:52 am (UTC)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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Date: 2011-04-15 04:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-15 05:08 am (UTC)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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Date: 2011-04-15 10:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-15 10:56 am (UTC)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.