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highwire
09-10-2006, 10:09 PM
... this Tuesday will "jump the shark".
reh523
09-10-2006, 10:37 PM
I thought it did allready.........
Mr2sday
09-11-2006, 02:19 PM
It has yet to jump the shark. The episode you are thinking of is when he healed the guy who had picked up a rare shark disease when swiming with dolphins in the south pacific 8 months previous.

Oh wait, I made that up.
TeighVaux
09-11-2006, 02:40 PM
Why do you say you think it will jump the shark ?
Jon J
09-11-2006, 02:48 PM
House is still having minor leg problems so he won't be jumping the shark for a while. ;)
JPriller
09-11-2006, 02:51 PM
Is this about the episode with the space aliens?
highwire
09-11-2006, 05:03 PM
Is this about the episode with the space aliens?


Exactly!
wmcbrine
09-11-2006, 05:17 PM
Edit: This thread should probably be marked "spoilers". So...


I predict that the aliens, won't be. Many "House" promos have been misleading this way. Look what they did with the faith healer. I'd go so far as to say that the promos are always misleading... carefully edited to throw us off.

But if the aliens are real, then yeah, I'll be very disappointed.
jschuur
09-11-2006, 06:40 PM
Clearly the ketamine reacted extremely positively with House's alien physiology and healed his wounds sustained in the battle against the Vlosk on Gor'tak 9. For his own safety he had to enter the Intergalactic Witness Protection program.

Oh, uh... *spoilers*.
ThePennyDropped
09-11-2006, 06:44 PM
Is this about the episode with the space aliens?

Aw, c'mon. Have a little faith. It's got to be someone's dream or hallucination.

I hope it is, at least.
cheesesteak
09-12-2006, 03:51 PM
I'm actually TiVoing this episode. I gave up on House early last season because I hated his character. I keep hearing how good the show is but I just can't watch a show where I hate the guy who's on the screen 85% of the time. The previews and episode description looked so stupid that I thought I'd try again.
sieglinde
09-12-2006, 05:40 PM
At first I thought to put House higher in my SP than NCIS but changed my mind after the first episode of this season. It was lame, not to make a pun.
potters2643
09-12-2006, 05:45 PM
I'm sure the "alien encounters" from the preview are what the patient is seeing, and reality. House doesn't seem the kind of show to turn all xfiles on us in the 3rd season.
jschuur
09-12-2006, 06:02 PM
Does anyone remember the 'alien abduction' episode of Without a Trace and what that turned out to be?

I foresee a rational explanation tonight too.
balboa dave
09-13-2006, 01:19 AM
The only thing jumping the shark is threads based on previews.
MassD
09-13-2006, 08:08 AM
The only thing jumping the shark is threads based on previews.


Bo-yah... balboa wins the internets. Your pipes must be very clean.
sieglinde
09-13-2006, 03:47 PM
The episode did not jump the shark. :)
highwire
09-13-2006, 05:10 PM
Aw, c'mon. Have a little faith. It's got to be someone's dream or hallucination.

I hope it is, at least.

You were right! Not as bad as the promos lead me to believe, but I hate it when the networks mess with my head like that with creative editing! At least it totally didn't suck!

I give that episode 3.5 beers out of 5 beers.
Hunter Green
09-17-2006, 08:37 AM
Spoilers for the first two episodes of this season.

I found myself thinking that I've watched a lot of movies and TV and read a lot of stories and books in my life, so any storyline I see, I can't help think where else I've seen it. I've seen the "we have to lie to our friend for his own good, but he won't understand why", and then "he caught us and now resents us"... but for the first time in a long while, the issues behind that lie seem tricky and unfamiliar, and require some thinking about.

It's easy to say "always tell the truth", and clearly we were supposed to root for House finding out. And I'm certainly not seeing exactly what Wilson intended to accomplish. But one thing is compelling about Wilson's situation: House is, indeed, in a very narrow window of opportunity. And you don't get a second chance to use it.

While it may seem obvious that lying to him isn't the perfect solution, it's far from clear to me what is the right way to help make sure he comes out of this still able to do his job and still happy and healthy. I have no idea what I'd do if I were in Wilson's place, and I suspect most answers that would occur to people would be pat but not really likely to work. And that uncertainty and unfamiliarity is very refreshing.
JTAnderson
09-17-2006, 06:23 PM
I presume this is wishful thinking on the part of someone who doesn't like House.
Sherminator
09-17-2006, 07:01 PM
Could anyone spoilerize or PM me what the boy's ailment truly was?

I couldn't watch the show past the opening credits once I saw him lying face down on the front lawn (the big sissy that I am).
wmcbrine
09-17-2006, 08:23 PM
Could anyone spoilerize or PM me what the boy's ailment truly was?


The root problem was that he was a chimeric twin. (Yes, this is a real condition.)
LoadStar
09-17-2006, 08:57 PM
And more specifically to respond to what was teased in the previews...
It was a neurological condition. He was hallucinating being abducted by aliens.
kmcorbett
09-17-2006, 09:16 PM
And he had a bleeding disorder with hypertension that reduced clotting.
Sherminator
09-18-2006, 04:43 PM
Thanks.
stubbsz
09-18-2006, 10:47 PM
The root problem was that he was a chimeric twin. (Yes, this is a real condition.)


My wife guessed it immediately... then I pushed "info" and the show's called "Cain and Able"... and the kids not got a brother. Didn't ruin the episode for me but I had to deal with a smug know-it-all wife for 30 minutes.
-Adrian