Perhaps we only see them as the same while House is struggling to connect associations to jog his own memory. He KNOWS how important the patient is, but not why. All these resemblances help him to recall, but they might not be her real injuries. I mean, according to the jane doe report she didn't even injure her leg, did she? No bandages in the promos either, I don't think. She had kidney problems and something else we likely don't know about yet, something from before the crash. Amber and House are the same in enough ways that House could find her in his memory by drawing parallels to his own condition. Every single person he looked at on that bus had a head injury, didn't they?
So much of this episode was hallucination and not memory; hard to tell which is which anymore. I tend to figure it is all merely symbolic and just the artistic creative way House's head works.
When I saw House drinking wine at the bar during his hypnosis, I thought that was SO not him, must have been what Amber was drinking- that she was there with him. Maybe they were having a drink and forming some peaceful alliance, or House was finally having it out with her for telling his secret that he told Wilson. House never scolds Wilson for being a dick to him, but he scolds everyone else.I could not begin to figure out why they might meet, but my guess is it is not for something terribly dramatic. The writers do have to be careful not to do much more than flirt with soap style writing. They wade, but can't swim. The main fan base for the show is still rooting for the medical stuff, the formulaic drama approach. Too over-the-top might not be good for the overall health of the show. I don't have the promo in front of me to correct myself if I am recalling it wrong. Mostly just thinking out loud here, but I really think all of Amber's stuff we saw in THIS episode was actually House, and just something to trigger his awareness that he knew something was wrong with Amber BEFORE the crash.
So anyway, I would THINK the promos are more dramatic than the reality, as they always are. The epi will be dramatic, well acted, touching, all kinds of good stuff, but the "General Hospital" type stuff seems unlikely to me. House, the character, is more off the wall than House, the show.
Or maybe the writers all got drunk, whipped out their laptops and said WTF let's go all out. I'm devoted, I will adore whatever they do.
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Date: 2008-05-14 08:30 am (UTC)So much of this episode was hallucination and not memory; hard to tell which is which anymore. I tend to figure it is all merely symbolic and just the artistic creative way House's head works.
When I saw House drinking wine at the bar during his hypnosis, I thought that was SO not him, must have been what Amber was drinking- that she was there with him. Maybe they were having a drink and forming some peaceful alliance, or House was finally having it out with her for telling his secret that he told Wilson. House never scolds Wilson for being a dick to him, but he scolds everyone else.I could not begin to figure out why they might meet, but my guess is it is not for something terribly dramatic. The writers do have to be careful not to do much more than flirt with soap style writing. They wade, but can't swim. The main fan base for the show is still rooting for the medical stuff, the formulaic drama approach. Too over-the-top might not be good for the overall health of the show.
I don't have the promo in front of me to correct myself if I am recalling it wrong. Mostly just thinking out loud here, but I really think all of Amber's stuff we saw in THIS episode was actually House, and just something to trigger his awareness that he knew something was wrong with Amber BEFORE the crash.
So anyway, I would THINK the promos are more dramatic than the reality, as they always are. The epi will be dramatic, well acted, touching, all kinds of good stuff, but the "General Hospital" type stuff seems unlikely to me. House, the character, is more off the wall than House, the show.
Or maybe the writers all got drunk, whipped out their laptops and said WTF let's go all out. I'm devoted, I will adore whatever they do.