Comments on: House — Episode 8 (Season 5): “Emancipation”

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:39:56 +0000

if the older brother thought more would make Jonah stronger
chances are that Evan took more himself and so Evan should have had Iron poisoning aswell

By: nik

nik — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:42:11 +0000

You wrote shocking a flatline will do nothing but increase the problem.
I’m curious what to shock but a flatline. (I’m no sort of medical student, just interested)
nik

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:05:11 +0000

Not sure if this has been addressed in the comments, but why would they consider gonococcal endocarditis when the echo was normal?

By: gs

gs — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:18:23 +0000

I didn’t get the pot connection. Sure, people can “freak out” when smoking pot, but that’s not a medical condition, and is the heart rate increase when “freaking out” even referred to as tachycardia?

Or can’t the writers tell the difference between a bong and a crack pipe?

By: Thinks_Daniel_Is_A_Dick

Thinks_Daniel_Is_A_Dick — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:51:45 +0000

Daniel — so KV’s question was answered last week, too. you don’t have to be a dick about it

By: macie

macie — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:20:49 +0000

Haha, i love reading your reviews, Scott, as well as the other people here. Some of you are just too critical. :) I still love the show, and medical issues aside, i want Cameron and Chase to have more screen time. I really do miss their interactions with House. I also love Wilson and House interactions.

Continue with your interesting reviews!

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:42:42 +0000

A 16-year-old factory FOREMAN? yah right. It’s remotely possible she could have gotten a job on the line or some menial, entry-level job, but no way could she have accrued enough experience/seniority to become a foreman. I thought she was just a young-looking woman, maybe late 20s early 30s in the opening sequence. When the differential team presented her as a 16-year-old, my first thought was “16?! in charge at a factory?! are you kidding me?” but perhaps there are no hollywood writers with blue-collar backgrounds… ;) hah.

I was also confused by the little boy’s giggling, which was never explained as far as I can tell…

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:46:09 +0000

I was actually refering to the fact that Thirteen is finding a weird sense of fulfillment in her manipulation of the well meaning girls she brings home. The last scene in “Lucky Thirteen”, for me at least, was a clear broadcast of saying “I hate what I do, but damn it, I’m good at it”. I think there’s a lot of potential for her to bring the manipulation skill to a whole new front.

In case I’m not being clear (and re-reading that last paragraph leads me to believe I’m being a little obtuse), let me eleborate a little.

One of the things I picked up on was House’s breaking down of why Thirteen acted like she did. She wasn’t just going out and sleeping with anyone in some sort of reckless downward spiral. She was looking to control someone to feel more in control of her own situation. Well, that ability to control people (and looking the way Thirteen does, it can’t be too hard), could potentially make an awesome plot vehicle. I think she has serious villian potential, I mean, all the best villians you can identify with, or at least that’s what early Italian film makers believed.

By: Stephen M

Stephen M — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:41:30 +0000

The only way that they could do anything remotely close to a realistic time frame in this show would be to make it like 24, with a whole season being dedicated to an interesting and reasonable disease or some such, and have the doctors need to provide around the clock diagnosis and care, lest the patient die by morning. The whole season would be in “real time”, and allow for more drama as the patient is flatlining, stroking out, seizing, etc., and the nurses take a few minutes to actually get to the room.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:32:09 +0000

Three things:

1. Couldn’t they have determined Arsenic Poisoning by looking at the patient’s fingernails?

2. The way the older brother doted on the younger one suggested guilt to me. I would’ve leaned on him.

3. Did you check out that Cracked link I emailed you?