Words and Deeds - The second half of the season begins
It seems that everyone is anticipating the return of House tonight in the first new episode of the season. I’ve had people telling me that they hope the show gets off the Tritter story line, and others tell me that they are loving it.
How do you feel about the on going side story with House battling the disgruntled detective who believes that House is addicted to his pain killer Vicodin and is determined to prove that House is an addict?
In the last episode of the fall season, which re-airs this evening at 8 p.m. House went to Tritter to accept his offer of taking a rehabilitation deal, but Tritter having discovered Houses final forgery (signing a pharmacy sheet to take possession of a patients narcotic medications) nixed the deal and now House is going to have to go to trial.
What will happen next? The new episode Words and Deeds airs at 9 p.m. this evening. Will House end up doing jail time? Will his physicians licence be suspended? And what about Wilson? He ended up ratting out his friend House, but he too will end up with legal troubles. He lied for House when he knew that Dr. Gregory House had stolen his prescription pad and written his own prescriptions for Vicodin.
Will Wilson and House ever be friends again?
Why Wilson has ever been House’ friend I’ll never understand. Over three seasons we’ve seen Wilson for the most part give in to every demand that House has put upon him - from little things like House stealing his lunch, to barging into Wilsons office when he’s consulting with a patient, taking money, borrowing money and never paying it back.
House has done very little for Wilson himself, and now his actions have threatened Wilsons professional career. Wilson on the other hand allowed himself to be used by House for all these years, but now he’s finally be pushed too far.
It will be interesting to see how the various story lines play out:
- Tritter and House: Jail? Rehab? Loss of Medical License?
- House and Wilson:
- Their friendship is at all time low - can it be repaired?
- Will the dynamics of their friendship change if it does survive?
- If their friendship is irrepairably damaged how will that affect the dynamics of the show over time?
I’d love to hear what you think might happen with the show and Dr. House in particular over the remainder of this season.
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January 9th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Great post! I think that the friendship between them will hit a real rocky spot. But, I think there are “genuine” feelings between them. I would like to see House just a tad more friendly to Wilson. Just some signs that it isn’t always so between them. I remember the episode where Wilson was staying with House and House kept playing the practical jokes on Wilson.. finally at the end of the episode House’s cane breaks because Wilson sawed it in half. That was a true sign of their friendship.
The line with Tritter just irritates me to no end. First, House does have an addiction, but he also lives with constant pain. I don’t want the show making it seem like chronic pain sufferers are all addicts. My mother has several illnesses and to make it through the day she often has to alternate between different pain medications. So, it’s a touchy subject with me and I don’t want to see it going to far.
January 9th, 2007 at 10:20 am
“How do you feel about the on going side story with House battling the disgruntled detective who believes that House is addicted to his pain killer Vicodin and is determined to prove that House is an addict?”
This is a subject too close to home for me.
I get tired reading the numerous fan comments about how House is an addict, because I don’t think he is.
Many would laugh at that, but here’s the scoop: Not everybody who uses strong drugs every day is an addict. I used to think the same way these fans did; “Oh, House is such an addict…he should just go to rehab, blah blah…” I was even conflicted when the whole storyline with Tritter came about.
That was before I was prescribed my own “strong drug” to counteract the constant, chronic pain that I’ve had all my life. Before this prescription, I’d been taking Tylenol with Codeine, which they say is addictive; but for me it was something that dulled the physical pain and maybe made me a little loopy for the first ten minutes after I took it. I can’t take it anymore because my doctor’s concerned about the effect it has on my kidneys/liver (I’ve had organ failure in the past). So she prescribed me morphine.
Yes, morphine. I have a legal prescription for pill-form heroin. Did I want it? No, because I’d taken morphine pills before and they made me sick, so I’m extra sensitive to morphine. My doctor put me on a low dose, but even still I was hesitant to take it. Desperation at not having anything else to ease my pain (be it joint or muscular; I also suffer from sever migraines) lead me to take my first dose.
It works beautifully and doesn’t “get me high”; however since it IS morphine, a body becomes chemically dependent on a constant supply, otherwise you go through withdrawals. I -must- take it on a regular basis on the clock, or I end up really, really sick.
So now I understand what House’s fuss is all about. I don’t take the drugs to escape my reality; I take them because they -keep- me functional in this reality. Can I do anything (I do design work), can I concentrate when I’m in pain? No, I really, really can’t. Can I do anything when I’m on my meds? YES. Morphine keeps me at the kind of functional level that people who are pain-free are at most of the time. There are no other drugs (and believe me, I’ve tried them all, including Vicodin) that will help me the way that the morphine does.
I understand House, now. I fully believe that were he a real person, he wouldn’t be an addict; he would be just like me.
January 10th, 2007 at 5:43 am
Rashenbo - did you catch last nights episode? House and Wilsons friendship might have a few more bumps to go through but they made great headway towards reviving their friendship in last nights episode.
Wow, I really liked Words and Deeds. I’m going to be writing a re-cap later on today. Watch for it.
January 10th, 2007 at 6:07 am
Jack, I completely understand where you are coming from. I for one would never have said that House is an addict - although some of his behaviour, particularly in the last few new episodes certainly was drug seeking addict type behaviour. I’m an ER nurse and unfortunately I have encountered drug seekers.
Don’t get me wrong - even as a nurse I don’t automatically think that someone coming in in pain, and suggesting what drug works best for them (not a good way to start if you don’t want most nurse and docs to think you are a drug seeker) is a drug seeker. I prefer to think, and often am proven right, that the patient has been in pain for quite some time and knows better than we do what works best for them. Unfortunately those that truly are drug seekers make it much harder in the hospital or medical clinic setting for those who really are in pain to not be judged.
Another reason why I understand your point of view is that I too suffer from chronic pain. I have Crohns disease and my pain has been relentless for the last two years. I’ve been off work for the last 13 months as a result of this illness and pain.
I take some very heavy duty drugs that are supposed to help control the pain that I’m in, and you know what? Even though I am taking the same drugs as you are they are not working well for me at all. I even wear a fentanyl patch too. I certainly don’t want to have to take these meds, and I might even stop at some point in the near future since they aren’t working well, but one thing I know for sure is that I am not addicted to them.
Anyway, as someone suffering from chronic pain, and as an ER nurse I can understand both sides of the story. Just wanted you to know that you aren’t alone, and that not everyone watching House go through his pain thinks he’s an addict.
January 11th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
House is one of my favorite shows on TV, but we always tape the shows and watch them at another time. So, I haven’t seen the new episode yet.
I do think, if they’re not really careful, the writers are going to “jump the shark” with this detective side story. It’s not so much the idea of House being accused of forging prescriptions, etc., because he did.
There’s just something about the way they started the story that didn’t ring true for me. I just didn’t get the feeling that Tritter was that angry, and I was completely blind sided by his vindictiveness. Maybe I was half asleep that night, and it was just my lack of attention, or maybe the writers really didn’t lay enough ground work to make his character believable.
If I saw that first episode with Tritter again, I might not think that way. So, what do you think? Did they lay enough groundwork to make him believable, or is it just me???
January 17th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
I thing Wilson is something of a doormat. There is no reason for him to be so dedicated to House. Maybe he’s secretly gay and has a crush on House? Perhaps his various liasions with patients are just beards for what he really wants…lol.