Comments on: House — Episode 20 (Season 5): “Simple Explanation”

By: hadhafang

hadhafang — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:00:27 +0000

i think kutner was in an existential void…he had no meaning to his life…no1 to go back home to … basically he felt lonely even in a crowd….

By: Lenten 20season | CatchDaBigFish

Lenten 20season | CatchDaBigFish — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:33:25 +0000

[...] Polite Dissent » House — Episode 20 (Season 5): “SimpleBig spoilers in the write up of this week’s episode of House, so don’t read it until you’ve watched the show. Overall, the medicine was good, though I would have liked to have seen more of it. … This was really an episode with a split personality. Half the episode … Eddie is dying of lung cancer related heart failure, [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:49:51 +0000

I like the episode just the way it is.

Kutner seemed like the last person to kill himself, and that’s exactly why it’s the perfect way to write him out of the series. The series is all about rational explanations and finding a reason for everything. Well, here we get something completely out of the blue, completely unexplained and unexplainable. It messes with both the viewers’ and House’s world view.

And he best thing? It’s nothing impossible. Heck, it isn’t even that improbable. It just goes to show that bad things do happen, for no apparent reason.

Now what I’d like to know is what would have happened if someone pointed out to House his hypocrisy. He’s the first to tell people to suck it up when someone close to them dies, and here he is falling apart. Unfortunately, everyone who could confront him about it was affected but Kutner’s death as well.

By: dr.archit

dr.archit — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:29:23 +0000

kutner was the most entertaining member of house’s team. also i remember he always said lines like, “when your life is messed the only way to go is up”. here up is in sense of better, not heaven.
so it was really stupid of writers to write kal penn out with a suicide/murder.
a better alternative would have been to get him in an accident leaving him bed ridden for a long time..maybe comatose and if kal penn ever decides to get back in the show….bring him back in.

By: Nachtigallerator

Nachtigallerator — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:14:59 +0000

Scott & anyone with medical experience,

how did Eddie’s lung biopsy (which I assume he must have had to be diagnosed with cancer) end up positive for cancer when it was in fact a fungus?

By: madeleine

madeleine — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:34:18 +0000

About the Death CAt, Ithink that if a person is thinking aboout suicide and then a cat choses them as likely to die, well, they will be pretty shock and they would believe that they will actualy do it, and they would probably think that ultimately THAt is their destiny.

By: Nonny Amos

Nonny Amos — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:23:26 +0000

SO, WHO’S INTERESTED IN **PROOF** THAT TAUB KILLED KUTNER?

House Season Five DVD
Disc 4
Special Feature: Episode 5.19 “Locked In” commentary by David Foster, Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner
Time in episode… 42:50
(Not sure which quote belongs to whom, but here’s the transcript:)

“Alright, here it is. Season Six spoiler.”
(Yeah. What is it?)
“Taub did it.”
(Aww, man.)
“Taub killed Kutner. It wasn’t a suicide.”
(… That’s terrible.)
“… I shouldn’t have given that away, huh?”
(*chuckles*)

-Nonny Amos

By: Balok

Balok — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:06:03 +0000

A day late and a dollar short, as usual, but, living in wun uv them furrin countries, we get “House” about a year behind the rest of the world. Not that I’m complaining — most American TV shows that make it to my local cable provider are either episodes from 3-5 years ago or are shows that were cancelled after 6 episodes.

Anyway, thanks to the people who mentioned the low lighting. I spent most of the episode wondering if there was something wrong with my TV (or if there was a power failure at the hospital).

As to the people who thought that Taub did it — Taub’s behavior is much more easily explained by his having attempted suicide (which House alludes to in this very episode).

I don’t know if it’s a plot hole or was supposed to be a comment on the state of Eddie and Charlotte’s marriage (sticking together from guilt rather than love), but how could she go to Rio rather than Hawaii and have him not notice? He didn’t ask what hotel she’d be staying in, or try to call her? He didn’t get a postcard from her, or check their credit card bill to see how much she’d spent on the ticket?

By: Alice Moon

Alice Moon — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:04:10 +0000

One final note, having paged through the other responses now, I am not a jerk about suicide. There have been several in my life, so I understand the flat, over affected fakeness of most of the episode. Agree the scene where they found him was done well, but I also found Amber’s death to be incredibly sad and well done, so many of you will think I have no taste, but I think you all have it backwards. The episode was heavy handed and emotionless, not to mention out of character for nearly all involved. I sincerely hope the show improves. I’m stuck watching DVD reruns since my recorder erased my backlog during the season, so I’m not even to the newest shows yet. I WANT THE REAL HOUSE BACK.

By: Alice Moon

Alice Moon — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:54:53 +0000

Mirror patient missed the symptoms because he had none, because no one planned the actor leaving or wrote like they cared. No one even referenced the conversation Taub and Kutner had in a show like five minutes ago, two or three episodes back. Ridiculous. I agree with Mei.