What did you really think of Top Secret?
Well?
What did you think of the first new episode of House that we’ve seen in a while?
Were you thrilled by Top Secret and ecstatically happy that the show is airing new episodes?
I am happy that there was a new episode. My memory is far too good to watch episodes that only aired weeks to a few months earlier.
However, I wasn’t all that thrilled with this show. Speaking from a medical perspective, being a nurse, it was ridiculous. Especially the fact that House walked around for three days without being able to urinate? Excuse me? He would have been in excruciating pain and his bladder would more than likely have burst. Dr. Wilson wouldn’t have prescribed medication to help him pee - he would have called for a nurse to catheterize the poor man.
Believe me, as an ER nurse I end up seeing, and helping, people who can’t pee all the time. Just 24 hours alone of not peeing would result in a distended abdomen and severe pain. Yeah yeah House was taking huge dose of his pain medication … he’d still be in pain. Oh and that quadruple or more dose of Vicoden that he gave himself as he self catheterized (wrong method too) would have probably caused him to OD.
The ex-Marine with his magically appearing tumors or abscesses on the brain? Uhm … abscesses or tumors would have left some signs that they’d been there even if they magically disappeared. There would still be some lesions on the brain that would have shown up during a cat scan let alone a pet scan or MRI.
The show is just getting more and more unbelievable - medically speaking.
What about Cameron and Chase? Taking off to a bedroom to have some fun? Did they really fool Foreman when Cameron actually told the truth? Foreman’s a pretty smart cookie. I really don’t think he’d be fooled. After all, House himself didn’t witness as much as Foreman did and he knew!
So what do you think? Were you disappointed with this episode or not? Why?
Come on, lets talk.
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March 29th, 2007 at 9:18 am
I wasn’t wild about this episode but I always have to go back to the statements David Shore, Katie Jacobs and Bryan Singer have all made about the stories being based on actual cases so I am supposing someone actually had this bizarre thing happen to them! Who can say? The Dr. that writes for Polite Dissent had an interesting recap on this and he gave the medical part a good grade with a few questions added in.
(you asked.)
I did not like the Chase/Cam thing. it is too out of character for Cam even if she is trying to make House jealous she is losing some of her self respect for just using Chase for sex??
I also did not like all the urinal, toilet scenes and self cath!! Yuk! Didnt mind the tubby scene tho
March 29th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Oh yeah, the tubby scene was quite nice.
I wasn’t disappointed in the show, but didn’t see where all the hype about some secret came in. Looking forward to some new episodes, though (all in a row, even!). LOL
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March 29th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
It was a pretty weird episode that’s for sure. I thought they were really playing fast and loose with a lot of things in this episode. I was happy to have them start airing new episodes, but I hope the rest of them are less strange and more interesting.
April 21st, 2007 at 4:11 am
It wasn’t quite “up to par” in my opinion, but I wasn’t at all shocked by any of it. I am, however, disappointed if they portrayed anything medical in a ridiculous way, as you say. I want it to be somewhat accurate.