Lisa Edelstein said in a couple of interviews that she had more input in 5 to 9. In one of them she said that she could tell David Shore that the things Lucas does don't make him come across as adorable and that any woman would want to kill him. I think that we should take that into consideration when talking about Lucas. The thing he did that I hated the most was that he prevented Cuddy from contacting the nanny. But I had the impression that we were supposed to think that nothing was really wrong with the baby and he could see that, so in his eyes Cuddy was worried for no reason and he was trying to help. And I think that it's not supposed to be as wrong as it actually is. Then I read that he was either evil and sleepy or a complete moron. Same goes for the pranks.

Something else I remembered, concerning Lucas and how we and the other characters on the show judge his actions: Does anyone remember that production/rehearsel sheet or script page (not sure what exactly it was) from "Known Unknowns" that got posted on twitter, I believe? It contained short descriptions for a few scenes at the resort, among them the scene at the restaurant with Cuddy, Wilson, House and Lucas and it said "House likes the way Lucas spoke the truth". This has always puzzled me, because in no way did I get that feeling from the scene. I always thought House looked really hurt and embarassed, and he also shot Cuddy those disappointed and reproachful looks (Wilson too, looked rather taken aback to me). And I believe I'm not the only one? I think some people even suspected that it was a calculated move on Lucas' part to show up House, disguised as accidental nervous blabbing. So what do you think happened, did they change the tone and meaning of that scene when they finally shot it? Or was the hurt reaction something HL himself added to the scene? (but then his take on the scene wouldn't be a simple addition, but a contradiction of what the script said...) Or maybe what they mean is, that House likes the fact that Cuddy knows the truth, i.e. that she was his saviour in his hallucination (but he's also hurt in that scene that she told Lucas)? Makes me also wonder on how many other occasions did we misinterpret a scene completely...or did we?

I think whatever that was (I don't follow spoilers very much, so I never saw it) is probably similar to the couple of bits that leaked out during the first season -- very early drafts used for casting or location prep or what have you that were completely refined, rewritten or maybe (as in a couple of scenes from both "Three Stories" and "The Honeymoon") dropped altogether. Each script goes through multiple drafts before they're finally locked down on the day of shooting. (And of course in the case of "Help Me," the only people who had the final scene for that were the director/actors/writers/producers.) Following the writers on Twitter, they'll talk about the number of times they revise before it goes to David Shore for his input, then revising it again, doing potential revisions once the director reads it (due to logistics of shooting and their input) having a version for a table read which may be revised yet again once they "hear" the dialogue, etc. A location scout may have had an early version of the script when he/she went out to check out places to shoot the scene -- but the scene is tweaked sometime before the actual shoot.

Yeah, maybe you're right, although it does look like it's taken at a later stage of the production process, so I thought it rather unlikely that they would change the basic meaning of a scene at that point, since it's usually in a context to the whole storyline. Here's a link in case anyone wants to take a look at it: Photo

From the Satisfaction thread He's far from the misogynist who isolated himself from patients that we first met in the pilot, and House's gradual move from that to the person who really wants to be "better" has been a fascinating watch -- yet still retains that innate "Houseness" of a man who drops the facade on occasion, from the pilot when he tells the patient that he wished he'd died to "Help Me" when he admits that he should have let them amputate. ETA: Thinking of the juxtaposition of the "I wished I'd died" self-reflection/revelation of the pilot to "I wished I'd let them amputate" of "Help Me" reflects the slow evolution of the character throughout the seasons, I think, and also one of the things I enjoy about this show. Neither is a happy statement, obviously, but in "Help Me" we have a character reflecting on the darkest moment of his life and wishing he could change it because he actually wants to find something to live for, v. the guy who wished he hadn't woken up in the pilot. House: There was plenty they could do, if they made the right diagnosis, but the only symptom was pain. Not may people get to experience muscle death. Rebecca: Did you think you were dying? House: I hoped I was dying. I've never interpreted that as House wishing he hadn't woken up from the coma. I thought he was telling Rebecca that the pain of muscle death was so extreme that, during the three days he went undiagnosed, he hoped he would die so the pain would be over. I do see the juxtaposition you refer to but, for me, it's "Help Me" and "Three Stories." In "Three Stories" he insisted "It's my leg." and "They're not cutting it off." Even at the beginning of "Help Me" he snarled that he was the only one there who knew the value of a leg. Obviously he sees the parallel between his case and Hanna's situation, with people trying to take the right to make a decision away from her. But during the episode, especially after Cuddy yelled at him, House apparently really thought about his case for the first time in years in light of how the pain had changed him and decided he made the wrong medical decision about himself.

"Three Stories" was definitely the more direct through line in terms of House thinking about his leg. I'd gone with the pilot just because I was comparing the first time House talks about it and the last (or most recent) time. I do think that House has been ruminating over his attitude about his leg for some time, at least subconsciously, and that it's only the inner journey he makes throughout season six that allows him to finally come to a new understanding of what it's meant, and of course given the right situation with Hannah to actually voice that. That's one of the things I enjoyed about them having taken House through the trials of the sixth season -- forcing him to face a lot of truths about himself, about his past (including his relationship with his father), about his friends (Wilson will never leave him, no matter what) about his fellows (helping Foreman reconcile with his brother, trying to push Taub in the right direction) -- that he would have been much happier in the past just ignoring or denying. Not that he didn't feel these emotions in the past. We've seen enough of him in private to deduce that they're there. But he's at a point now where he's willing to act on them.