For anyone who is keeping up with House, I just got "Euphoria" parts 1 + 2 on reruns. So -- does Foreman just have his right and his left permanently switched? The hell? Do they ever deal with this?
They don't really deal with it. The next episode showed him being stymied by the coffee maker and not allowed to deal directly with patients and trying to recheck his knowledge against his fact cards. But that was as far into it as they got. I agree with the WTF. I still don't get the season finale either...
Supposedly it was a temporary thing that is working itself out.
That human brain sure is an amazing thing!
I really hated this episode becasue there is not way it would take the CDC that long to get someone there or to have the cops body autopsied if it meant saving Forman's life. It just irked me!
"Working itself out"? I know the brain is plastic, but it's not like you could just cross wires up there and end up with right and left switched. That kind of trauma is much too bizarre and specific to be so easily rectifiable.
If it's just "working itself out," why end the episode that way at all? It had this dun dun DUN! quality. If they don't address it ever again, WTF?
What bothered me about the CDC in this is that they'd put a guard on the body but nothing at all on the apartment. Everyone completely ignores any sort of hazard protocol at the apartment, and not just at the end either. It's a funny thing about bio-suits, but they don't do they're job if you don't sterilize them before you take them off. Also, what's the point of putting everything in a biohazard bag to avoid contamination if House is just going to rifle through it? Rrrrrg.
The format of this show irks me sometimes. Don't get me wrong -- I love Hugh Laurie and watch it anyway -- but it's all medical plot babble. Why does it take two episodes instead of one to solve this case? Cause the writers decided to have House screw up more often than usual. No real underlying reason. They could spin it out as long as they like.
That's House for you. If you watched it for any sense, you'd be driven mad (oh, the irony!). My sister the doctor was enraged and annoyed by how stupid it all was, and she saw one of the lesser-annoying/ridiculous medical wrongness episodes (she was pissed because House said a woman had cancer based on one test that's fairly inconclusive and that no one outside of the medical profession would have known was the case, as opposed to the evil organ donation board--go read TWoP about that, it's hilarious--or things like this).
If you watch House for the Laurie, that's all you need to get through the stupidity.
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Date: 2006-08-16 02:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-16 01:01 pm (UTC)That human brain sure is an amazing thing!
I really hated this episode becasue there is not way it would take the CDC that long to get someone there or to have the cops body autopsied if it meant saving Forman's life. It just irked me!
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Date: 2006-08-16 02:11 pm (UTC)If it's just "working itself out," why end the episode that way at all? It had this dun dun DUN! quality. If they don't address it ever again, WTF?
What bothered me about the CDC in this is that they'd put a guard on the body but nothing at all on the apartment. Everyone completely ignores any sort of hazard protocol at the apartment, and not just at the end either. It's a funny thing about bio-suits, but they don't do they're job if you don't sterilize them before you take them off. Also, what's the point of putting everything in a biohazard bag to avoid contamination if House is just going to rifle through it? Rrrrrg.
The format of this show irks me sometimes. Don't get me wrong -- I love Hugh Laurie and watch it anyway -- but it's all medical plot babble. Why does it take two episodes instead of one to solve this case? Cause the writers decided to have House screw up more often than usual. No real underlying reason. They could spin it out as long as they like.
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Date: 2006-08-16 02:47 pm (UTC)If you watch House for the Laurie, that's all you need to get through the stupidity.