Comments on: House — Episode 15 (Season 5): “Unfaithful”

By: ecoli

ecoli — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:45:02 +0000

I got well past this point by now, but I have noticed a pattern in this show: once there and then, a POTW is chosen who doesn’t fit into the diagnosis. Way too many times hereditary diseases showed up too late (in adults where they should in children) and X-linked diseases in women. Is this show short of child actors and male actors?

By: Tommy Turtle

Tommy Turtle — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:46:26 +0000

@ Matthias,

Guten Tag! Your English and spelling are very good. However, please remember that English does not capitalize every noun, as German does. Only proper nouns are capitalized: the names of persons or places (or the language of those places, like English and German), and the first letter of any sentence, of course.

Titles of a person are capitalized if they are part of a person’s name or degree: Mr. Schmidt, Doctor House, Dr. Cuddy. “He is a Doctor of Dental Surgery”– but not if they stand alone. “He is a doctor”, not “He is a Doctor”. (generic).

If you have any more questions about English, a topic dear to me (Mein Deutsch ist sehr schlect), there is a reCaptcha after the copyright notice of the medically-related song parody that is linked in my signature. It will give the e-mail address.

By: Jmo

Jmo — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:54:30 +0000

Wow, I definitely interpreted the scene near the with House and the patient differently than some people. I thought it was well-written, in fact, and is not a “victory” for atheism or religion. House’s look of defeat as he leaned his head against his cane was not because he conceded the argument in some way. Rather, he stated the facts (coincidences happen, and there was a rational explanation for everything), but the patient was still going down a quite recognizable road. Just like the patient had clearly heard the “suffering exists because of free will” argument many times before, it’s no doubt “that sure is a lot of coincidences” is something House has heard a thousand times. Plus, House kind of connected with the patient earlier in the episode. I think he found it disappointing that the patient was now turning to such a cliche line of thought. (Although, it was nicely foreshadowed earlier when the patient seemed to wish he could believe. Perhaps it was because the patient had lost his faith because bad stuff had happened to him, not through rational reflection… so when things got better, he found a reason to believe.) House was defeated because there was obviously nothing he could say to change the guy’s mind. (I mean, if you tell someone, “there’s no reason to think unicorns exist,” and they say, “well, there sure are an lot of legends about them…,” nonverbally saying “those legends *must* have come from somewhere”… if you’ve had these conversations before, and they’ve had these conversations before, then there’s really nothing more to say.) I didn’t think this was a “victory” for any sort of “side.” Just interesting interaction between characters.

For the record (if you couldn’t tell by the fact that I chose unicorns for the analogy), I’m an atheist. ;) One thing I do really like about the show is that it doesn’t have that nasty habit of explaining *nearly* everything but leaving some little spooky thing hanging. Coincidences are just fine, true-to-life in fact. But a lot of other shows/movies will make a point of that one little last unexplained thing at the end, imbue some detail with music or a close-up or whatever it takes to make a coincidence into a… COINCIDENCE. House is a refreshing relief.

By: trlkly

trlkly — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:12:35 +0000

D-r Bulgaria: What you have come up with is not evidence, but merely reasoning. When we do not have all the information needed in a certain instance, such reasoning is useless. You want to argue that the premise is wrong? Fine: There is no Omnimax God as you have defined him. Do you really think this disproves Christianity? Hardly. How about we define omnipotent as being able to do anything logically consistent. Problem solved.

By: Matthias

Matthias — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:20:16 +0000

Thia is my first Reply that I will post (and hopefully not my last). I am from Germany, and I´m not a Doctor. First I have to say that most illnesses of House would never be treated in the fashion that House does, at least not in Germany. Secondly in this Episode the Final Diagnose is not only far-fetched but also impossible. The lifespan of people with that Illness is not more than 10 Years. This Priest however is at least three times that Age. How does that work out??? Very improbable!!
P.S.: Excuse my bad english writing. I´m really not used to it. please correct me if you find misspelled words!! :-)

By: Princess Edamame

Princess Edamame — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:33:22 +0000

I fianly caught this episode, and have to say I was both pleased and offended by the Duran Duran metaphor. Kudos to Kutner (’s writer) for saying they were NewRo, not a hairband. Boo to Thirteen – hair band indeed. Just goes to show she more strongly prefers women. Humph. :)

But there ARE still DD fans out here!!

By: MedicN

MedicN — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:24:09 +0000

One thing I didn’t see you mention, but was like nails on a chalkboard to me was when Kutner, I believe, said “EKG ruled out an MI”. It had been pounded into my brain that a negative EKG does NOT rule out an MI. But I do want to say, I thoroughly enjoy watching House (most of the episodes anyway) and reading your reviews on them. Very nice job, keep it up.

By: Cyrus

Cyrus — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:55:48 +0000

“Religion is not the opiate of the masses, it is the placebo of the masses”

Great line!

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:12:11 +0000

A quick, belated comment from the other side of the Atlantic (i.e. I’m still nowhere near the end of Season 5 yet).

In response to Kate, there has been a lot more religion in this season than previous ones but the comment about the woman in Florida and her cheese sandwich would indicate that House isn’t about to lose the power of rational thought in some sort of epiphany, wouldn’t it?

If I’m wrong on this one (don’t tell me yet) then House’ll be history for me too – but that’d be like turning Mary Poppins into Hannibal Lecter.

By: Gerardo

Gerardo — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:48:51 +0000

Wtf this episode didnt imply at all house needs faith he was only sad cause he was right about the priest and because cuddy didnt want him in the baby naming ceremony, the priest was hoping regain his faith like house said, he only needed an excuse.House still atheist and he never gonna need faith or a belief in supernatural nonsense.