House M.D. Speculative Synopsis (Spoilers)

[flywoman]

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 I marrying 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.

Comments

[justjuly4.livejournal.com]

Flywoman, you've done great job, compiling the list. I was reading it, saying WOW and OMG every two sentences (or even more often). I've found out a few things I never noticed watching the episodes. You're very attentive (I mean careful) to noticing the details and making conclusions!
*really I'm sending your virtual applauds*

Your theories are complicated and very-very impressive, unfortunately, I don't have any theory, but I hope Huddy won't reunite at the end of 7S. I think it might be possible that the relationship and the break-up were real, but the jump from the balcony didn't end well, leading to a coma. So Dominica never happened, 13's story was in House's had (explaining his own attitude to euthanasia and so on)... Thinking about that, the car crash in the last episode would wake him up.

Also, I support the idea that the car crash might be a flashback. It is possible, but I hope it wouldn't come to be true, because if it was a flashback, Huddy would still be together...

Lack of leg pain bothers me very much during the whole season! I'm trying to find an explanation, apart from "Cuddy's love/sex cured him", but fail. May be it's just nothing but a bad script?!

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

Thank you, although believe me when I say that I am probably one of the least observant mortals on the planet. And I actually should give the awesome folks over at Clinic Duty their due for letting me read through the transcripts and compile this list in MUCH less time than it would have taken me to rewatch the episodes.