Comments on: House – Episode 5 (Season 4): “Mirror Mirror”

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:19:19 +0000

Could you please stop reffering to Kutner as Kumar? It’s really annoying.

By: Steve R

Steve R — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:06:55 +0000

Just want to point out for the record that Spinaker did a good job tracking Giovannina down, but the italian posting from 6hours 20 minutes earlier from “serialmente” said the same thing in more detail.

By: Skooma

Skooma — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:24:47 +0000

Why is Cuddy even on birth control? Didn’t she spend half of season 2 or 3 trying to get pregnant?

By: Claire

Claire — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:06:48 +0000

to answer Paul’s question:

“But, how does an xray prove or disproved diagnosis of asthma?”

It doesn’t, x-rays of asthmatic patients are usually normal, may show hyperinflation if taken during an attack but a normal x-ray does in no way rule out asthma. in fact no (good) doctor would request a CXR to confirm asthma, their value is to rule out complications (eg pneumothorax) or to exclude other causes of wheezing (eg inhaled foreign body).

By: Twitch

Twitch — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:53:48 +0000

Well Scott, he may not have been psychic, but he had a chance to observe their personalities for several days. But it is a mistake that a Mirror Syndrome patient does not mimic the most dominant personality present but rather the personality most suited for the situation.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:19:20 +0000

Sorry, didn’t see the comment above mine before I posted. Zé Pedro expressed the same concerns

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:17:53 +0000

About the unintentional funniest line, he knew it wasn’t maternal mirror syndrome, given that the patient was a GUY, right? It’d be different if we were dealing with a female who might be pregnant, but a middle aged man is not pregnant, therefore cannot have MATERNAL mirror syndrome. Still a funny line(especially w/ house looking at 4man like he was crazy), but the comment below was a little harsh for the circumstances.
Great review, and thank you for taking the time (it looks like it takes a lot, and a lot of re-watching epis to get this right) to do all this right. I find it very interesting, and would LOVE it if you kept doing them :)

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:28:24 +0000

Just watching this episode now. I miss the old House of Seasons 1 and 2 (and to some extent 3) which focussed more on an interesting formula than often spotty characterization.

Also, why was Wilson performing surgery here? I’d been under the impression that he’s a *medical* oncologist all this time.

By: Zé Pedro

Zé Pedro — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:16:15 +0000

Sorry for the (really really) late post, but this is an (exciting) new website I discovered recently, as a result of my obsessed House research.

I want to talk about your favorite unintentional quote…
Since the patient is a male, it is difficult for him to have Maternal Mirror Syndrom. I am no doctor (only a Languages student from Portugal) but I think that is quite unlikely. If there’s any other Mirror Syndrome he could be referring to, I don’t know. But House’s “come-back” is acceptable.

By: Raz

Raz — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:57:30 +0000

Call me crazy, but I thought the whole point of the patient mimicking Wilson was to show that Wilson is, in fact, the dominant person in his and House’s relationship.

We all assume that House is the dominant one because he’s loud, abrasive and an ass (while Wilson just puts up with it).
But really, Wilson is the one who holds all the cards. House needs Wilson more than Wilson needs House. (which is later shown at the start of season 5).

Sure, this adds to the unrealistic factor that the patient is “magically able to see deep into their psyche” but I think we were supposed to disregard the unrealistic aspect for the soap-opera elements in this episode … I genuinely believe that’s what the writers were trying to portray between House and Wilson.