The Official House Season 2 Thread!

[Deathstroke]

I figured it was time to get this started since the show premieres in a couple of weeks.

Today's update is news that Diane Baker (A Mighty Wind) and R. Lee Ermey (the drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket) have been cast as the parents of Dr. House. They are named Blythe and John.

[Gaz]

Has Jennifer Morrison been fired yet? *crosses fingers*

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Has Jennifer Morrison been fired yet? *crosses fingers*

No, and she better not be.

She's being paired up with Chase supposedly.

[Gaz]

No, and she better not be.

She's being paired up with Chase supposedly.
I'm sorry, but TWOP are right. She shows up, moons over House, basically blackmails him, sees nothing WRONG with that and acts like anyone who does is nuts, and has she ever diagnosed the mystery disease right?

[Ed Cunard]

Would this be a bad place to gloat that I've already seen the first two episodes for work? :)

Morrison's still in it. I don't mind her character so much. I was afraid of Sela Ward's character changing the dynamic, but she's actually made it more interesting for me.

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Would this be a bad place to gloat that I've already seen the first two episodes for work? :)

Yes it would!

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General Hospital's Ignacio Sennicchio (Diego) will guest star on the September 27th episode of the series. He'll be the episode's patient.

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So who watched the season premiere tonight.

I thought the main story was okay, but strangely, I think they wasted LL Cool J's guest shot. He seemed under utilized.

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The season premiere drew 15.7 million viewers!

[zombie]

We don't have cable TV this year, so I'm working on downloading the first episode.

[KenK]

So who watched the season premiere tonight.

I thought the main story was okay, but strangely, I think they wasted LL Cool J's guest shot. He seemed under utilized.

Are you kidding?!? I thought they did an incredible amount with him! I love seeing LL play criminals. I thought he very believeable. You had to love how House tricked him into drinking enough alcohol to counteract the copy fluid he drank.

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Are you kidding?!? I thought they did an incredible amount with him! I love seeing LL play criminals. I thought he very believeable. You had to love how House tricked him into drinking enough alcohol to counteract the copy fluid he drank.

That was good, but that was more a House action than LL having to do anything.

[Deathstroke]

By the way, in next week's episode, the little girl cancer patient was originally going to be played by Dakota Fanning.

[DrewTheXenocide]

This was my first episode of House ever, and I wasn't completely blown away. I wouldn't go as far as to say I was underwhelmed, but from all the praise it got from critics and friends, it was sort of "meh" for me. I'll try to keep watching.

[TheOnlyXTremeFan]

"I could have hit that."

[DF2506]

Best season premiere yet imo (thats including the new shows like Prison Break, Supernatural, Bones, etc).

House is such a great show, imo. This was a really good season opener!

Quotes I liked:

The previously mentioned 'I could have hit that'. lol. hehe.

Also: " Mommy and daddy are fighting, but we still love you. Now go get me some smokes and..." hehehe.

I also liked both plotlines, the one with the prisoner and the one with the cancer patient, though both had a sad ending.

I think Sela Ward is a good addition to the show too. Her interactions with House are really good (liked it when House closed the shades and when he asked 'Can I trust you? ', which of course he got the answer too..)

I'm glad House is back! Looking forward to seeing more episodes! :)

DF2506
" Best new show so far, imo: Prison Break, runner-up: hmm. Either Bones or Supernatural. Not sure yet. Like I said though, House had the best season opener though (although Prison Breaks is a closer runnerup)."

[Deathstroke]

Anyone else catch tonight's episode "Autopsy"?

Damn, that was a fantastic episode. From the stuff coming out of House's mouth that made me laugh to the rather powerful scenes between House and the little girl before the last operation, and between House and his doctor friend after the last operation.

[stealthwise]

Anyone else catch tonight's episode "Autopsy"?

Damn, that was a fantastic episode. From the stuff coming out of House's mouth that made me laugh to the rather powerful scenes between House and the little girl before the last operation, and between House and his doctor friend after the last operation.

I agree, this was an excellent show to follow up the Emmys with. I know that some people were pissed that Deadwood lost to House, but I thought that this episode really showcased why the show was so good. Great humour and loaded with heart.

Also, I'm extremely glad that the overexposed and overrated Dakota Fanning wasn't in this one.

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I agree, this was an excellent show to follow up the Emmys with. I know that some people were pissed that Deadwood lost to House, but I thought that this episode really showcased why the show was so good. Great humour and loaded with heart.

Also, I'm extremely glad that the overexposed and overrated Dakota Fanning wasn't in this one.

I think next year's Emmy clip should be his conversation with the girl in the hospital room. And don't be hating on Dakota Fanning!

[Toreador]

I just cracked up when House saw the guy who tried to perform a self circumcision. The look on House's face when he turned around and saw what the guy did to himself was perfect.

[KenK]

I just cracked up when House saw the guy who tried to perform a self circumcision. The look on House's face when he turned around and saw what the guy did to himself was perfect.

The sound he made was comarable to Hank Hill when he's shocked! It was priceless!

[Deathstroke]

I just cracked up when House saw the guy who tried to perform a self circumcision. The look on House's face when he turned around and saw what the guy did to himself was perfect.

Yeah that was frigging hilarious.

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The second episode of the season brought in 13.5 million viewers this week.

Oh, and Fox has already ordered 2 additional shows bringing the second season order to 24 episodes.

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Cynthia Nixon (Sex & The City) will guest star on a December episode of the show. She'll be a patient who suffers a seizure and faces off with House.

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Another great episode this week in the return to the airwaves after baseball.

I loved the ending when House proved to Cameron how his handicap lets him get away with things not because of anything he does but for the guilt that other people automatically feel. Not too mention that he also made it look like he was doing the apology that Cuddy ordered him to do.

It was priceless, especially the look on Cameron's face.

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Julie Warner will guest star on an upcoming episode of the show as a patient named Margo.

Tom Lenk (Buffy The Vampire Slayer's Andrew) will appear on the November 15th episode as a flight attendant.

[DrewTheXenocide]

So nobody's been watching House since last year? The season finale was very, very weird. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. Whether I'm blown away by the whole episode, or pissed off at how it ended.

[Royal]

Can you spoil it for me please. I got interupted and forgot to pause the DVR.

[DrewTheXenocide]

In the beginning of the episode, House and the gang are dealing with this patient with an enlarged tounge. The damn thing is so huge, he can't even close his mouth. While they're discussing, this other patient comes up to the gang asks for House. He then proceeds to shoot House.

House wakes up to find himself in the ICU, next to the guy who shot him. He was apprently shot by Security. Anyway, it turns out that House treated this guy's wife, but in the process it was revealed that the dude had an affair. The wife got better, but it turns out the affair had nothing to do with it. In the end, the wife killed herself, via running engine in a clsoed garage.

Meanwhile, the swollen tounge guy is just getting worse. There were two select scenes especially, one where his entire eye EXLPODED. The other when one of his TESTICLES BLEW UP IN CHASE'S FACE. Pretty frickin' nasty.

Throughout the episode, House is also having hallucinations, so he can't figure out what's real from what's not. What he does find out, though is that Wilson and Cuddy (sp?) did someething when repairing his bullet wound, to make him not need the cane anymore. He can walk. But the hallucinations are still getting to him, so he entrusts his team to counter him if they sense anything off.

So House decides to use this robot/machine thing to operate on the swollen tounge guy. His team does so, but while they're working on him, House busts in out of nowhere. He starts going that his team has been agreeing with him all along, not differing at all. Something was apparently up. House grabs teh controls to the surgery robot, and slices the patient up. Practically in half. The guy dies, and House thinks that he just completely effed up. Not so.

Next scene, we see House, shot twice, once in the abdomen, once in the neck, being raced to the ER. End of episode. None of it was real. Kind of a crapshoot.

[barbiehead]

I went over to the Fox boards, out of curiosity, and I was amazed to find that the boards were filled with people who didn't understand the episode. It made me scared for humanity.

Did anyone else think the episode was surprisingly graphic? It was like watching a slasher film. I can't believe they can show stuff like that on network tv!

[Bouncing Boy]

I liked the episode. Alot. I wasn't at all pissed about the ending, because...
Rally and I both figured out that it might be all a halucination when he was in Cuddy's office and realized he must be halucinating because she remembered being attacked by him and that was a halucination. We weren't positive it was a dream until the bullet fell out of the guys hand.

[Bouncing Boy]

I went over to the Fox boards, out of curiosity, and I was amazed to find that the boards were filled with people who didn't understand the episode. It made me scared for humanity.

Did anyone else think the episode was surprisingly graphic? It was like watching a slasher film. I can't believe they can show stuff like that on network tv!

Yeah, it was pretty graphic. I had to cover my eyes durring alot of it.

[Deathstroke]

I was kind of bored by the episode. It felt like one of those in between moments issues during Bendis' run on Daredevil.

[DrewTheXenocide]

I was kind of bored by the episode. It felt like one of those in between moments issues during Bendis' run on Daredevil.
That's why I was a bit dissapointed. At House, not at DD (which, I thought, was hella awesome.) It seemed to be a huge cop out to tell me that nothing really happened.

[Patman]

Are you kidding? This episode was chock-full of insight into how House's mind works. It spotlighted his fears (losing his ability to speak, losing his sight, losing his brain power), it revealed his own self-assessment, his perceived relational bonds with Wilson and Cuddy, as well as him still having a thing for Cameron. This is the kind of episode that bear repeat viewing.

[DrewTheXenocide]

Are you kidding? This episode was chock-full of insight into how House's mind works. It spotlighted his fears (losing his ability to speak, losing his sight, losing his brain power), it revealed his own self-assessment, his perceived relational bonds with Wilson and Cuddy, as well as him still having a thing for Cameron. This is the kind of episode that bear repeat viewing.
That part was both creepy and erotic at the same time.

[Deathstroke]

Are you kidding? This episode was chock-full of insight into how House's mind works. It spotlighted his fears (losing his ability to speak, losing his sight, losing his brain power), it revealed his own self-assessment, his perceived relational bonds with Wilson and Cuddy, as well as him still having a thing for Cameron. This is the kind of episode that bear repeat viewing.

All true things now that I think about it. However, I think it would've played better at least to me if it was going on in actual time rather than it all being played out in his head.

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Here's some info on the second season DVD set. (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5719)