Living in the Same Apartment for 15 Years: Continuity Errors

Does anyone else just not care when TPTB change the layout of the hospital? I'm not at all trying to criticize the people for whom it matters, but my only criterion is that the set is visually striking, which they have definitely accomplished. It doesn't bug me that much, but I do try to stick to it relatively closely when it comes to play in a fic -- like when I have House playing "elevator roulette" -- see where the elevator takes him rather than pushing a button -- it makes sense that he's not going to end up on the eighth floor, since there is no eighth floor. In terms of watching the show ... I just roll my eyes and go with it. Usually the additions work overall, though. Think of how much dramatic mileage we've gotten out of the balconies since that showed up, and how often we've been able to see House pondering life in the lobby by watching from the inside balconies.

I'd love to do House's apartment as well if you are interested. Oh, please do! I can't for the life of me figure out where's what in his apartment and this has been driving me nuts :evil: for quite some time now! Your wish shall be my command. :) You're my hero!

I've gotten very frustrated with the hospital layout (or more precisely with all the moving walls), so I decided to do House's apartment first. The layout is here. Continuity wise it surprisingly stayed much the same since the beginning of season 2. The rugs move sometimes, the table beside the couch can't quite decide which side it likes best. The TV is occasionally missing and in "House vs God" House somehow got rid of the coffee table and TV and put the poker table in that spot. Other than that sheep's continuity monkeys behaved themselves rather well. I also uploaded a few caps to go with it in this post. If linking to one's own stuff is frowned upon, I'll of course remove the link. Please let me know, mods. I couldn't find this in the FAQs.

To21be, :urock: :thumb up: Thanks! I love to have this, I have this crazy conviction my fanfiction will go much better now (and in any case my silly but oh so sweet fan-House-based-dreams will go much more smoothly... :wink: ).

Cuddy's office: Someone said it was on the same floor as House's? No, You see it on the Pilot to the left of the entrance. Elevators: This ticks me off, they're fake. just rooms, and double sided. It bugs me, sometimes people turn around sometimes they keep facing the same direction. And, what is across from them? More inconsistencies. The answer to that varies. Wilson's office: The balcony appears in season 2, his office did used to be the entrance to the Witherspoon wing? no that's the other end of the hallway. It's entrance to a different one as seen on Daddy's Boy. So you see it there but I recall seeing it in a way so that the doorway is lined up with the doorwa of House's office and the Ducklings' too. Does this make sense to you guys? Another comment: As seen in Damned If You Do- Foreman sits in his home at his table. Notice the table is the exact same on viewed in Rebecca Addler's home (patient) in episode 1 the Pilot.

Cuddy's office: Someone said it was on the same floor as House's? No, You see it on the Pilot to the left of the entrance. It's not in the House universe, but it is on the set. :wink: Elevators: This ticks me off, they're fake. just rooms, and double sided. It bugs me, sometimes people turn around sometimes they keep facing the same direction. And, what is across from them? More inconsistencies. The answer to that varies. I agree it is annoying that they sometimes turn around and sometimes don't. I've vented about that, too. But I can't take offense at the fact that there are different rooms across from the elevators (starting with season 2, after they moved to where they are now), because they are supposed to be on different floors. I think diysheep asked at some point what those rooms are. Sometimes there's an office there, and sometimes it's a janitor's closet (the one that Cameron and Chase were making out in). And behind the walls of that is the MRI and ER set (in the same soundstage as House's office and Clinic. Jeesh, I wish I'd get around to finishing the second studio layout...) Or did you mean, that in season 1 the elevators were leading directly into the corridor to House's office and now they are about 5 meters to the side? Wilson's office: <snip> It's entrance to a different one as seen on Daddy's Boy. <snip> Does this make sense to you guys? Do you mean the door that Cameron is going through to go talk to Wilson after sending Foreman and Chase off? Because that's not supposed to be Wilson's office door, just a doorway to a staircase or something. It's edited in a confusing way, I admit.

Elevators: This ticks me off, they're fake. just rooms, and double sided. It bugs me, sometimes people turn around sometimes they keep facing the same direction. Most hospital elevators I've seen have front and rear entrances, with different doors used to access different areas. For instance, normal rooms might be accessed through the "front" door, but gurneys exit through the rear to access the surgical suites. (Sometimes with a special pass code or key to exit through that door.) So if House knows he's going to be exiting a rear door, he's not going to turn around. Nothing odd there, at least to me. But then of course, on sets all elevators are fake, so ...

So if House knows he's going to be exiting a rear door, he's not going to turn around. Nothing odd there, at least to me. I think the point of offense here was not that the elevators have doors on both sides but that sometimes House/whoever turn around and are heading the right way to go directly towards House's office... and sometimes they don't turn around and are still heading the right way to go directly towards House's office. :? But I guess it's almost unavoidable, since they have made big and small changes to the set over the years and have different directors that block scenes in a different way. And in the end it's more important that it looks good and not that they please obsessed fans, who will notice these things and be annoyed. :wink:

Most/many hospitals have one centrally located bank of elevators. There may be another bank nearby that the public doesn't see -- garbage, laundry, maybe patient transport. That way they only have to have the machinery in one place. PPTH obviously isn't like that. I don't remember ever seeing more than a pair of elevators (Safe might have had a slightly bigger bank.) So they might not always be on the same ones. If you are on the ground floor on the left side of the hospital and you are going to the 4th floor on the right side you can: a) take the elevators on the left side and walk across when you reach the 4th floor. b) walk across the lobby and take the elevators on the right. c) walk a little, take a centrally located elevator then walk a little more when you get to the 4th floor.

So, someone there has an elevator's fetish? Wilson's office: <snip> It's entrance to a different one as seen on Daddy's Boy. <snip> Does this make sense to you guys? This always bothers me :? I know it's probably just an editing problem, but the fellows left House's office and Cam was going directly to Wilson's, she made her intention clear. That door shouldn't be there... And in Insensitive Wilson's office seems to be in a corner... The PPTH layout always makes me think about an Echer's drawing :shock:

I think, though I am not sure that where Wilson's office is now used to be a corridor leading to the Witherspoon Wing: that wing really gets around. But Lully's right: Wilson's office is now/currently/has been for a while in a little culdersac with chair on their side. His office is next to the conference room which is next to House's office - and a balcony connects all three - unfortunately on the outside shots of PPTH there are no balconies. And I agree - Echer mixed with the TARDIS. It's the Chapel and the balcony conference room that are bugging me - they seem to be swapping sides.

A medical error. I was doing a first aid course and I asked the instuctor about Foreman's nipple tweaking in the Methadone episode. She laughed.

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hee hee, DIYsheep, I can just imagine your instructor laughing hard: nipple-twisting has been forbidden for a long time in medicine. I think they poke a person's shoulder muscle or something if they want him to wake up now. Another medical error which I dislike. Last few episodes, Chase pushed a syringe into the patient's IV tube, and the liquid was full of bubbles. Argh. You can't do that. Bubbles means patient gets air bubbles in the bloodstream. Bad for the patient. I was always taught to be careful about air bubbles when injecting rats. Don't imagine people are any different.

Actually, small air bubbles are injected all the time. It takes about 40 inches of IV tubing filled with air, running into a central line, to be really bad (although that could be really bad!) Also, the nipple twist is considered kinda cruel (and demeaning) and other ways to check for responsiveness are encouraged. But doctors will use whichever method they prefer, "forbidden" be damned. I once knew a neuro doc who would use an open safety pin on the inside of a nostril! OUCH!!

My dad pointed this out when we were watching The Softer Side. Wilson says something like "You shaved!" and says basically the same to Cuddy. But he's got to shave sometime because he always has a stubble, not a beard. As I'm typing this I realize it sounds a little silly, but I thought I'd point it out so, yeeaaahh... :dunno:

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