Reality is Almost Always Wrong: Spoiler Discussion Thread

OK, just saw the promo for 97 secs. Eww. Thank "God" the eps always seem to be better than the spoilers. Am I really to believe that House would stick a knife into a socket and go into cardiac arrest, just to "see" what is on the other side? I think he has already made it perfectly clear that he thinks that the other side is random brain-firings of nothing. Once one has made a logical leap to "There is nothing else" it is pretty hard to go back. A POTW caused him to have an epiphany? Please. :roll: I am certain they (everyone involved with the show) will make it all seem wonderful. I have faith. In some things.

I just hope Wilson, actually anyone, slaps the crap out of him.

Am I really to believe that House would stick a knife into a socket and go into cardiac arrest, just to "see" what is on the other side? I've got no problem believing it.

FYI, this is from the fox website, details that weren't mentioned in the episode The Right Stuff, so I posted as a spoiler with a copy here . These are the final 10 candidates. #18 Jeffrey Cole - Specialty: Genetics A religious man with responsibilities, he is both compassionate and principled. He may be a potential lighten rod for House's punishment with his divided priorities. #37 Travis Brennan Specialty: Epidemiology Travelled the globe with "Doctors without Borders" so he's not easily rattled or intimidated. Lacks the need to rely on the latest technology to solve every dilemma. #15A & 15B Twin 1 & 2 Specialty: Pediatric Endocrinology (for both) One half if identical twin doctors. they look exactly alike (at least to everyone but House), but can't ever seem to agree on anything. #6 Lawrence Kutner Specialty: Rehabilitative & Sports Medicine The most enthusiastic of all the potential fellows, but his enthusiasm could be dangerous. A radical thinker, he is the only one who believes House's crazy moves aren't crazy enough. #13 Specialty: Internal Medicine An enigma wrapped in a riddle. She's a competent, young doctor who plays her cards extremely close to the vest. House loves a good mystery. #24 Amber Volakis Specialty: Interventional Radiology Aggressive competitor. Not afraid to "finesse" a situation when necessary, which doesn't endear her to the other fellows. #26 Henry Dobson As the oldest, he possesses life experience and an encyclopedic knowledge of medicine that allows him to keep up with House's line of thinking. #32 Jodi Desai Specialty: Veterinary Medicine Turned her focus to human beings. If she can force a pill down an uncooperative Pit Bull's throat, then she can probably handle anything a human patient can throw at her. #39 Chris Taub Specialty: Plastic Surgery Both shallow and insightful. Left a successful and rich cosmetic surgery practice for an unknown reason, which only causes House to be even more interested in the answer. The Cole character is particularly interesting to me - it implies he might be the single father mentioned in earlier spoilers - prior speculation was that it might be Taub.

I've got no problem believing it. I think that House would do just about anything experiential just to see what it would be like (I have the same "problem"), but checking in on an afterlife he does not believe in doesn't sound plausible. I've got no problem jumping out of a plane. I have no desire to go splatt. Now if it were to turn out that he stuck the knife into the socket because someone told him it was a good "buzz", and the arrest was an unfortunate side effect, that I would believe.

I see your point but there have been instances where patients have gotten him rattled, or thinking, or frustrated on the subject of religion and such and I guess I could see him doing it just to prove that there really is no afterlife. I will say this, I would have an easier time accepting it had House not already been "dead" during his infarction. He's been there, why does he need to go back? On a related note, I really think they throw in way too much religious talk on this show. I get it, House is an atheist and everyone who believes in something more is stupid and weak. Enough already.

#13 Specialty: Internal Medicine An enigma wrapped in a riddle. She's a competent, young doctor who plays her cards extremely close to the vest. House loves a good mystery. God I hope "vest" isn't a Cameron reference. After one episode, I already dislike her, don't give me more of a reason. I know her personality wasn't Cameron-like, but if she's going to fall for House too, please Lord no. And the fact that she won't tell her name doesn't intrigue me, it makes me think if they're not going for the falling for House route, they're going for the long lost didn't know he had a daughter route. Not sure which would be worse at this point.

I see your point but there have been instances where patients have gotten him rattled, or thinking, or frustrated on the subject of religion and such and I guess I could see him doing it just to prove that there really is no afterlife True, but I don't really think the religious patients get him rattled so much as annoyed. Hvs.G? "Climb out of your holes, people!" And, no, proving there is no afterlife is not a compelling reason for someone with beliefs such as House's to kill himself. After all, if he's dead, he doesn't care (No Reason). Proving that there is an afterlife is why people drink the Kool-Aid. But yeah, I agree about the religion-in-the-script thing. Maybe they are just reinforcing his character traits for all the noobs they are hoping to pick up this season.

God I hope "vest" isn't a Cameron reference. After one episode, I already dislike her, don't give me more of a reason. I know her personality wasn't Cameron-like, but if she's going to fall for House too, please Lord no. And the fact that she won't tell her name doesn't intrigue me, it makes me think if they're not going for the falling for House route, they're going for the long lost didn't know he had a daughter route. Not sure which would be worse at this point. Why do people keep thinking that she's going to be House's daughter? That's fanfic at it's worst. Maybe after it's revealed that she's his daughter she can find out she's sick and that he's the only person who can save her and then, on his way to the hospital to see her, he collides with a car and is in a horrible accident and, omg, Cameron was in the other car and they're both in comas in the same room and... I will say this, I would have an easier time accepting it had House not already been "dead" during his infarction. He's been there, why does he need to go back? I'm gonna guess that there's a little bit more to it than just what we saw in the advert. There's always that one little thing that gets into House's head. And if they can show me that that one little thing wormed it's way in then I could buy that a guy that's already died once and a guy that was shot and hallucinated days of events in the span of a minute would be compelled to see what it was all about. That said, it wouldn't surprise me to find that he was doing it because he wanted to see what it physically did to him, i.e., he's trying to solve the case by testing his own body for reactions. Whatever the case, I'm just glad to find out why House's hand is burned in that one promo shot. On a related note, I really think they throw in way too much religious talk on this show. I get it, House is an atheist and everyone who believes in something more is stupid and weak. Enough already. I don't think that's what we've been shown at all. At least it's not what I've gotten from it. House *might* be an atheist, but I don't think it's ever been so cut and dry that House is right, everyone else is wrong, House is 100% firm on his beliefs and the rest of the world are idiots. I think House's lack of faith has been questioned many times. I think House has questioned it and that even for him it's not etched in stone. I also think they've carefully shown us that as well as the fact that neither Chase nor Cameron, the other two for whom religion and beliefs plays the biggest role out of the six, are "right" or "wrong". I'm impressed with how the show has handled religion and the various different viewpoints on the show. I think that religion and beliefs are interesting and important subjects wrt shows about doctors and medicine and science.

And the fact that she won't tell her name doesn't intrigue me, it makes me think if they're not going for the falling for House route, they're going for the long lost didn't know he had a daughter route I'm calling shenangians on this whole not knowing her name thing. Okay, if she as the doctor in the ER then afterwards he would have gone back and asked for the brunette doctor who treated the gunshot wound on Thursday(for instance) and someone would go..oh yeah that's Julia...otherwise he had to see her name on a resume The burn on hand...I am going to guess we know where the volt came out of his body.

Well, she wasn't the doctor in the ER (unless you were just using that chick as an example), but I agree with your point. House knows her name. House generally knows the name of whoever he's pretending to not know. He just doesn't care. What difference does it make to him that she'd rather go by 13? The thing I enjoyed about her "call me 13" is that she doesn't want or care for her fellow doctors to know it.

I don't see House's experiment with near death as TPTB giving us angst as in "Oh no! House almost dies!" Or that it has happened too many times. The other times things happened to him,he didn't have any control over either situation.This time, from what little we have been shown,he is performing an experiment on himself for his own reasons,which we don't know yet.It seems totally in character for House. I agree that House knows 13's name as well as everyone elses and a lot more about all of them. He knew Scooter had no medical license. He gives the impression,for some reason known only to him,that he doesn't bother to know things because they don't interest him,or he just doesn't care. But I think he always knows more about a lot of things than he lets people see because he truly doesn't care what people think about him.

I don't see House's experiment with near death as TPTB giving us angst as in "Oh no! House almost dies!" Or that it has happened too many times. The other times things happened to him,he didn't have any control over either situation.This time, from what little we have been shown,he is performing an experiment on himself for his own reasons,which we don't know yet.It seems totally in character for House. Agreed. Also, if we believe House, he did have interesting experiences with the whole 'death' thing before: the visions in Three Stories and No Reason. So I can totally see him trying it out again, just to see what would happen. Especially if he was bored.

Am I really to believe that House would stick a knife into a socket and go into cardiac arrest, just to "see" what is on the other side? I think he has already made it perfectly clear that he thinks that the other side is random brain-firings of nothing. Once one has made a logical leap to "There is nothing else" it is pretty hard to go back. A POTW caused him to have an epiphany? Based on the preview, I'd say that the PotW prompted him to complain to Wilson, who then prompted House to execute his little experiment. It wouldn't be unusual for House to question his stance on a particular issue because of something Wilson said. I'm definitely in the minority, it seems, but I'm really looking forward to next week's episode. I think there's a lot of potential to delve further into House's character. I just hope that's how it goes.

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