Comments on: House — Episode 2 (Season 6): “Epic Fail”

By: Alice

Alice — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:24:48 +0000

Does anyone have insight on the new filming technique being used? Epic Fail had a totally different look, not only from previous seasons, but from this season’s first double episode.

And would some of those scenes show up in 3-D? They had the look (and, crap, I have glasses!) but I didn’t test it out.

By: biochemist

biochemist — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:04:21 +0000

A question for the MDs out there. Patient’s neck swelling is finally explained as a reaction to iodine in the MRI contrast agent. I know that iodine is used as an xray (CT) contrast agent, but is it also used in MRI, which is based on a very different principle?

By: KenP, Game Developer

KenP, Game Developer — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:52:03 +0000

I’m glad very little time was spent on the game because the small amount that was annoyed me. It gave me a very tiny taste of what doctors go through watching the show as a rule.

While Lee & Roy may have been a reference to Leeroy Jenkins, the term the developer used was “janky”:
Poorly constructed or of poor quality

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Janky

By: Ryan von Fiedler

Ryan von Fiedler — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:17:53 +0000

As a game designer, I have to say that the trouble they went through to make Vince’s “game” really pissed me off. This has to be the most work someone has put into making a fake game, yet at the end of the day it still looks nothing like a real video game.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:07:14 +0000

“His mother would have had to have had Fabry’s”
Not necessarily. The gene for Fabry’s is recessive, so his mother could carry it on one X-chromosome but not the other, and thus not develop the disease. However, it is true that a woman with Fabry’s Disease would definitely pass it on to any sons she had, and all her daughters would be carriers, as she would have to have the double-recessive form to develop the disease.

By: Emma HOUSE ADDICT!

Emma HOUSE ADDICT! — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:43:32 +0000

Is it just me or has Season 6 of House been, so far a little pathetic? I just cant take to this “New House” He has very few lines, and is no longer sarcastic and witty, and has lost the general nastiness, we all love. I say bring back House, as he was, no more of this new, boring House, as it truely is an “Epic Fail”

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:24:14 +0000

I’m astonished by Foreman’s firing Thirteen. Surely sacking someone who’s doing a fine job professionally in order to smooth over your personal relationship with them is unethical and grounds for a lawsuit? Foreman’s basically saying “I would rather dismiss you for no job-related reason than stop sleeping with you”.

Am I missing something there?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:36:29 +0000

The writers of House gave Thirteen Huntington’s because it is much more dramatic than if she had Fabry. Fabry disease can be managed medically (enzyme replacement therapy) and if she had begun treatment early enough – she may never experience any symptoms of her the disease. There is no way around the Huntington’s affecting her. All that can be offered is symptom management. Don’t get me wrong – I would LOVE for Fabry to have a front burner story line like that, as it is a major part of my life but once she begins treatment and her symptoms begin to fade – there is minimal “dramatic” potential. Just my additional “two cents”.

By: Mia

Mia — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:58:58 +0000

About Foreman firing Thirteen — I wonder if what he meant was that he was firing her from the diagnostic department, with the expectation that she would return to the job she was doing while House was on leave (in the emergency department, I think)? That would put the “firing” closer to garden-variety stupidity rather than breathtakingly idiotic, as firing her from the hospital altogether would be.

I realize this question will probably be answered in the next episode — but I haven’t watched it yet.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:03:13 +0000

I was wondering how they would finally get rid of what’s left of the second team (Taub/Thirteen). For at least two seasons now, the opening credits have never had those actors’ names, nor have they shown the characters. I’ve been wondering when they would admit the second team was an epic fail and go back to formula, with Chase, Foreman and (the always irritating) Cameron.