Comments on: House — Episode 6 (Season 6): “Known Unknowns”

By: Nonny Amos

Nonny Amos — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:42:51 +0000

100th Post, Epic Win

By: epthorn

epthorn — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:09:17 +0000

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/health/27sedation.html?pagewanted=1&em

By: Errick

Errick — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:24:04 +0000

I’m also going to say that the first thing I thought when House showed up at the party was “Rock me, Amadeus!”

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:46:18 +0000

I liked the parallel drawn between Chases actions and Wilson’s proposed speech, espeacially at the end it tied up nicely. (Especially given Camerons dabble with euthanisia few series ago.) House moves towards supressings Wilsons mass confession whereas Cameron moves towards getting Chase to admit. Very interesting stuff.

By: afierysun

afierysun — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:47:09 +0000

This episode just annoyed me a lot for some reason. Lucas and Cuddy- kinda out of the blue, but makes sense in a way.
House didn’t react as I expected him to (throw a fit, start planning a dastardly plot), but I guess that ties in with his new made-over, drug-free personality.

By: Correzione

Correzione — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:54:35 +0000

“Capo di tutti capo” should be “Capo di tutti’ Capi” (Leader of all the Leaders). Last word is plural. Also note the apostrophe after “tutti” (”all the” is “tutti i”, but you can’t have two vowels together, hence the apostrophe).

Sorry!

By: DrEvil

DrEvil — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:44:43 +0000

Perhaps at the time, the gravity of the situation made her wear the metaphorical clinical cap when dealing with House to reassure him that she was doing her best as a doctor and not a friend. She knew Stacey was there to fulfil the other role. You may also recall that Cuddy adopted a similar professional approach with Wilson when Amber was dying.

By: DrEvil

DrEvil — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:27:56 +0000

@Alberto: You make a good point. However, Cuddy’s concern for the patient when advising Stacey (From Harrison Ford’s 1993 classic “The Fugitive”) implies prior knowledge. She cares too much about House for him to be just another patient. House also orders her around no differently, “Go and schedule an OR!” to which she obliges. But the final nail on them knowing each other comes when Cuddy says to Stacey, “There’s a 3rd option. A middle ground” Stacey, “He’s not big on middle ground.” Cuddy agrees “yeah”.

By: Another Med Student

Another Med Student — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:42:05 +0000

Personally, I loved the bringing up of euthanasia. It was about time they’d mentioned it in the House series. I don’t really believe that if a doctor presented such a case in a conference the audience would have reacted like this, but it was not that dramatic.

Good for Chase to tell Cameron the truth – at last. He was getting really tiring.

By: Alberto

Alberto — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:06:36 +0000

@Dr Evil:

Yes, I remember now. But you gotta admit that’s quite too “non-personal” kind of speech considering they were former college mates.

I think that up to that point, the writer hadn’t thought about how House met Cuddy, and let it implicit that they met after that episode.

And considering that Three Stories (the best house episode, closely followed by the two Foreman is the patient and then by the one with Mira Sorvino) was written by David Shore (just saw that at tv.com) and this was written by Doris Egan and Matthew Lewis, five years latter, I think it is simply a matter of inconsistency for the lack of throughly knowledge of the background story.

But it is a very admissible error by the writers, this kind of subtlety introduced in between lines might be easily overlooked indeed.