Suspended Disbelief
Son Of Coma Guy - There's a lot of impossibilities here: House manages to wake up a man in a vegetative state for one day, which the guy would rather spend eating hoagies in Atlantic City than helping save his son's life. Meanwhile, Tritter invades various PPTH locations to interrogate the Cottages and freezes Wilson's bank account for absolutely no reason.
this was the repeat tonite, 8pm opposite the repeat of Veronica Mars. so I was wanting to watch both, switching back & forth did not go that well, so I mostly watched VM, but I watched the end of this, missing the end of VM. the near end scene here btw the father & House is moving.
-If we got in the car now and broke the speed limit I still cldn't see my son could I? -No. -Tell him... I don't know. It's my turn to ask a question right? -Not really. You just asked me that thing about the speed limit. ..What do you want to know? -What would you like your father to tell you? -It won't help you. -Try me. -I'd want him to say 'You were right.' 'You did the right thing.' - Yeah. that doesn't help me.
And when the son asks House later what his father said ("He must have given you a message to give me." and I am thinking yeah why didn't he write him something?! give his son a piece of paper he could keep.) House says, He said you were right. You did the right thing.
I'd seen some of this last fall, I remember, and I still wonder as I did then why the father chose to go to Atlantic City not to stay & see his son. ????
~ and, how was he woken up? and it cld only last a day?
well, let's see... from the recap:
The Cottages follow House to Vegetative State Guy's bedside as he prepares a syringe of Levodopa. They protest that the amount of amphetamines he'd have to shoot VSG up with could kill him. House says that he saw the movie Awakenings, based on a true story of a doctor who woke up a bunch of comatose patients using Levodopa. House is no Robin Williams, but he's pretty sure he can do the same thing. Why isn't everyone going around shooting people in vegetative states up with this stuff, then? It's a miracle!
Cuddy and her amazing psychic House-is-up-to- no-good sense walks in and orders him to put it down and stop experimenting on helpless patients. Even if House did accomplish the impossible, VSG would only be awake for a day at the most. That would be torture for both the patient and his family, Cuddy says. So I guess that's why they don't go around shooting people up with Levodopa. Still, if I was in a vegetative state, I'd rather have one day awake than none at all. House says that there's nothing to worry about: the only family VSG has who can sue PPTH is lying upstairs in his own coma. Cuddy runs over to take the syringe away from House, but it's too late: he injects it into the IV. And...nothing happens. Cuddy starts ordering a twenty-four hour watch on the patient and tells House she wants him in her office immediately. She's interrupted by VSG, who says he's starving. Eyes bug out all over the room. Even House looks a little surprised that this actually worked. VSG sits up and says he'd love a steak. So not only are we to believe that Levodopa can temporarily revive patients who have been in a vegetative state for ten years, but those patients are totally normal and appear to have simply slept for one night rather than thirty-six hundred of them. How is he able to talk so well and so soon? The fact is, we're going to have to suspend a lot of disbelief in this episode, but since it's a pretty good one, it's worth it.Back from commercial, Cuddy is flashing a light in VSG's eyes. VSG, by the way, is played by John Larroquette, a.k.a. Dan Fielding from Night Court.
Cuddy gave Dan the clothes he was admitted in, which are remarkably free of soot. Dan guesses that he'll have to buy a new wardrobe since he's thinner and all his old clothes burned up and are ten years out of fashion besides. House says that in the future, we wear "recyclable clothes" that you wear once and then eat. Hee hee hee. It would have been awesome if House had rented a jetpack to fly around in to make the future look even cooler. Although that would probably be inappropriate.
Dan calls House a "piece of work" for not telling him that his awakening is only temporary, which Cuddy spilled the beans about earlier. Dan has a day to live and he's not going to spend it in a hospital saving his son's life. House asks him where he's planning on going: his wife is dead, his home is burned to the ground, and his business was sold off. All he has left is the one person he refuses to see. Dan says he's going to a restaurant that serves the best hoagies in the world and then Atlantic City. House points out that Dan doesn't have money or a car to do these things.
Wilson takes some money out of the hospital ATM. House limps up and takes some money out of his own personal ATM: Wilson, who hands over some cash and his car keys.
House and Dan leave the hospital and walk up to Wilson's car. Wilson hands House the keys and asks him not to eat in his car. .. Dan holds up Wilson's iPod (no doubt packed with showtunes) and asks what an "ip-pod" is. I love it when people are confused about the future. It's my favorite part of time travel movies. Wilson says that he's coming with them and takes a seat in the back. Ha ha! He doesn't even get shotgun in his own car.
I'm surprised that Dan hasn't gone back into a coma at the shock of how high gas prices are these days. I almost do every time I slide my credit card into the pump. Instead, he's furious that M&Ms have new colors and dumped the light brown one. Preach it, Dan! Light brown was my favorite M&M color. Why'd they get rid of it? It always seemed to taste more like milk chocolate than the other colors. House is more interested in Dan's medical history. Dan wants to have fun on his one day of life, not answer all of House's questions. Dan decides that for every question of House's he answers, House has to answer one of his questions. Dan explains that he used to be a successful and powerful factory owner, and this is his way of preserving some of that power.
Back at PPTH, Cameron tells the guys that she took "Wilson's assistant" out for coffee. When did Wilson get an assistant?! He doesn't do enough work to merit an assistant! He doesn't even do enough for anyone to notice that he just took off for Atlantic City in the middle of the day!
In the car, Wilson wants to know why Dan is trying to get as far away from his son as possible. House tells him to zip it; he doesn't need Wilson riling his patient up and endangering his investigation. Plus, the road trip makes for better television.
Wilson and House start squabbling over Wilson's legal difficulties. "What is up with you two?" Dan asks; "keep it up and I will turn this car around!" Actually, that last part was my mother yelling at my brother and me when we fought in the car on the way to Grandma's for Thanksgiving. One year we called her bluff and she never tried that again unless the car ride was to Dairy Queen for treats, when the threat was very real and very scary.
of course, right?
anyway, enough for now. guess I pretty much have the show's answers to my qstns... I've skimmingly read p1-7 as if it was a job I had to do. maybe I'll read the rest p 18 -13 another day... but, jumping to the last page:
House would rather talk about Wilson's determination to get Dan that hoagie he wanted, even though he thought the hoagie was just Dan's outlet for his real feelings about his son. House accuses Wilson of having an addiction to being needed that's worse than House's to Vicodin. Wilson tells House he's the last person who should complain about his enabling tendencies.
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