House Giveth and House Taketh Away

[deelaundry]

In episode 2, House's selfless actions meant Wilson's patient got an organ donation she needed, and she lived. In episode 3, House's selfish actions meant Wilson's patient didn't get an organ donation, and she died. I didn't think we'd get so direct a negation of House's good acts of the last episode. Huh.

I wonder if Wilson ever found out that it was because of House that his patient didn't get the kidney.

On the funny side, my favorite line of the night was Park, to Adams: "What do you want me to do with these? Give them away? Wear them while you masturbate?" LOLOLOL, I didn't expect that out of Park but I'm damn glad she said it. She's awesome.

I like Adams fairly well, but she was being an asshole to Park. You don't force things on people who don't want them.

David Shore said the show's writers don't have a show bible, but I suspect they have a show "parking lot" where they put ideas for subplots they come up with for different characters but didn't use. I also suspect this is why they created Taub to be a married cheater -- so he could take on Wilson ideas they didn't get to before his divorce -- and why they made Adams a trust fund baby -- to give her some Chase rich-kid-slumming themes.

It seems obvious to me that hiring Olivia Wilde was a quid pro quo marketing deal (we put you on TV weekly, you mention us while doing magazine covers and movie premieres) but overall Thirteen wasn't awful. I liked how she went off the show.

Hooray for Thirteen riding off into the sunset with a woman. Hooray for Thirteen kissing her girlfriend in the hospital as warmly and casually as an opposite-sex couple would kiss and embrace.

Comments

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

This, yes. It had always bothered me the way they seemed to play WHOOOHOO GIRL-ON-GIRL with her, pandering to the straight male viewers instead of making her sexuality just a genuine part of her characterization.

So I was both shocked and pleased that they got it right this time. I thought she had about the best exit of anyone who's left the show. They didn't kill her or have her get involved with and then dump a regular character. They let her leave amicably, to go be happy elsewhere. How refreshing.

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

Exactly what I thought, but much better said!
I liked that her exit was because she chose to be happy. On this show you see people making the same bad choices over and over again. I hope they don't bring her back just to show us her Tragic Death.
So far Park is my favourite fellow aside from Kutner. She's still learning who she is and it's not who she was raised to be. It's genuinely interesting to watch.

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

It definitely makes me wonder how much the producers' relationships with the other actors influenced their treatment of the characters.

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure I follow you, here? Care to expand that thought a bit?

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

Eh, this is pure speculation. I just recall my best friend remarking that the producers must have been really pissed when Kal Penn decided to leave so abruptly to work for the White House, so they made sure he could never come back by killing his character off. And I've heard (unsubstantiated) speculation that Jennifer Morrison was marginalized and finally dismissed in an ugly way because she wasn't getting on well with other members of the cast and/or production team.

Whereas everyone seems to LOVE Wilde.

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

Makes sense to me. Apparently it is not a happy set.

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

Really? That's the first I've ever heard of it supposedly not being a pleasant set; every person I ever read (like, not cast but basically 'little guys' who'd worked there) said it was a good place to be. And there was never any of the kind of stuff you'd hear about off the set of, say, Grey's. Which show I never even watch, and yet I had heard repeatedly of the problems.

Am I just sheltered or something?

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

sorry, but I really dislike her. she can't act her way out of a paper bag and I don't understand why she's so popular. I don't even think she's attractive.

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

When I said "everyone," I was referring to TPTB, not fans.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

fair enough. i still can't comprehend why she's so popular, but then there's a lot of celebrities I don't understand the popularity of (cough cough gaga)

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

LOL

I have been following this and smiling. Thirteen got a LOT better over time, for me, and I ended up liking her. But I'll admit I don't get the appeal of Olivia Wilde as an actress, generally. I think it's because her eyes read as very expressionless to me.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

In startling contrast to Hugh, who has WONDERFULLY expressive eyes.

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm a Pollyanna, because all I ever thought was: they needed a way to abruptly write Kutner out, and they'd already killed Amber in a crash, so that wasn't going to work; and they just seized upon something that would work and would also add substantially to House's Giant Mountain of Angst.

What happened with Jennifer Morrison, who knows. Yes, her character got shoved to the sidelines, but then so did Chase's and most everyone else's for a while, when the whole Survivor thing took over the show and then we had New!Fellows and just too many regulars to keep track of. I'm aware of the engagement and breakup with Jesse Spencer, so things must have been a bit weird on set for that reason, but I wasn't there, so. *shrugs*. I do think her departure was, for whatever reasons, handled very poorly.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

she already got involved with and then dumped Foreman, though.

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

Yes, but what I meant was, that wrecked relationship wasn't the reason she left, the way it was for Cameron and (so unfortunately) Cuddy.