2.10 Failure to Communicate

2.10 Failure to Communicate
From tv.com: While attending his editor's retirement party, a journalist collapses and hits his head on a desk. When he regains consciousness, his sentences are garbled and incoherent, so he is rushed to Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. With House and Stacy stranded at an airport due to bad weather, the team is forced to solve the case with House helping out over the phone.

This one is on TV right now! I still hate Stacy, but I do so love watching the old team go through their paces. And the patients are really interesting. ETA: But Sela Ward does do an awesome line reading of "god I miss that curry!" :lol:

I absolutely adore this episode. I love that House steals the ball from the kid. I love that House buys coffee for Stacy. I love that he "diagnoses" Stacy. The adorable scene in the hotel room. Makes my heart melt. Michael O'Keefe is fantastic in his role as the patient. His delivery of those aphasic lines is spot-on funny. "Of golf!" for "Of course!" and "I dissuade the tonal category!" for presumably "I resent that implication" (or something to that effect). Great stuff. I just can't get past the fact that they went to the trouble of flying to Baltimore. Would have been a 2.5-hour drive from Princeton.

I absolutely adore this episode. I love that House steals the ball from the kid. I love that House buys coffee for Stacy. I love that he "diagnoses" Stacy. The adorable scene in the hotel room. Makes my heart melt. One of my favorites. But I'm a House/Stacy supporter. Big time. There's so much about this episode that I enjoy, besides the obvious of course. =) Oh, and I doubt that House would enjoy being cramped in a car for two and a half hours. Better sticking him in a roomy first class cabin with some leg room than making him drive. (B/c if Stacy didn't want to be on the same flight with him, it would have taken some serious convincing to get her to give him a ride. Though, that would have made for a fun trip. Hee.)

Yea, but I'm pretty sure that both the Newark and Philadelphia airports are about a one-hour drive from Princeton. So if you're going to drive one hour to an airport to fly like a half hour... you may as well just drive the 2.5 hours and save the extra time and hassle of the airport. I wish they had set this in a different city, but I realize that they tried to keep it to reality with Medicaid being located in Baltimore.

Actually, the most sensible thing would have been train. They'd have to change trains in Philadelphia. Amtrak has a few Princeton/Philadelphia trains and the whole trip would be about 2 hours. NJ Transit to Philadelphia also has a ton of trains -- people commute from Princeton to Philadelphia -- and then they could grab any Amtrak train to Baltimore. Because the NJT trains are local, they'd have to add about an hour to their travel time.

Yea, you don't have to stand around in a security line at the train station. But then, House and Stacy couldn't have been stranded at the airport in a snowstorm. So the whole conceit of the episode required them to be at an airport. I just wish they had sent them to a city further away. Would have made more sense.

Ha. Yeah, you two are right. Train sounds most sensible. *sigh* Still love that episode, though.

Love Cameron getting mad at him for continuing to talk after the wife entered the room. Like she was blaming him for not being sensitive to her presence even though he was on the phone. Eesh! But yeah, House is wonderful in that episode and I liked Stacey's getting House into her room, getting her first taste of curry and then watching it all fade away with the clarion call of the case, so she's reduced totwirling the cane while he was chaning focus from her to the case. It was cool that she finally came down and joined him. It was very cool to see her so fascinated with him when he was solving the case over the phone: you could see that she found his intellectual passion for making the diagnosis compelling, like watching a virtuoso violinist play a sonata. Those two did have great chemistry and she did seem like someone he would genuinely enjoy spending time with, unlike any of the other females on the show (except maybe Cate). Too bad she really didn't know her own mind and lacked the strength of character House had thought she had...

Love Cameron getting mad at him for continuing to talk after the wife entered the room. Like she was blaming him for not being sensitive to her presence even though he was on the phone. Eesh! But yeah, House is wonderful in that episode and I liked Stacey's getting House into her room, getting her first taste of curry and then watching it all fade away with the clarion call of the case, so she's reduced totwirling the cane while he was chaning focus from her to the case. It was cool that she finally came down and joined him. It was very cool to see her so fascinated with him when he was solving the case over the phone: you could see that she found his intellectual passion for making the diagnosis compelling, like watching a virtuoso violinist play a sonata. Those two did have great chemistry and she did seem like someone he would genuinely enjoy spending time with, unlike any of the other females on the show (except maybe Cate). Too bad she really didn't know her own mind and lacked the strength of character House had thought she had... I thought they had chemistry until the plot got them together, and then, not so much. I thought the undercurrent of chemistry in Three Stories worked better than most episodes where they had more or less laid their cards on the table. That arc could have been developed a lot differently, and better use made of the Stacy character. As it is, she came off looking really bad, wanting to have her cake and eat it too. I'd have expected more for the supposed great love of his life - she just seemed selfish.

I'd have expected more for the supposed great love of his life - she just seemed selfish. But House is very selfish. I guess someone who didn't look out for herself first would get steamrollered in a relationship with him. But one of my favorite Stacy moments was when, having automatically accepted that she was being abandoned for the case, she comes down to bring him the phone recharger. His putting work ahead of the relationship was obviously a very familiar pattern to her. (And, to be fair, based on her relationship with Mark and the one-night honeymoon, she probably put her career first too.) ETA: Moving my general comments on Stacy's personality to the S2 thread.

I have comments that go beyond this one episode, so I'm going to take them to the Stacy thread. :) Oops! I see there isn't one!

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