[Movie] House Season Three

Originally Posted by Dan

Good episode I hope the climax lives up to the build up. Unfortunately I have one annoyance and it is that the writers seem to want us to believe House is indeed an addict it the truest sense, (he doesn’t really need his meds) but looking at the series as a whole an equal argument could be made that house is suffering from pseudoaddiction (where a person with a legitimate pain problem acts like an addict in an attempt to better mange their pain). The fact that House did not detox or need vicoden after his leg magical healed in “meaning” seems to suggest a legitimate pain issue is the root of House's med use and the season 1 episode “detox” is also more indicative of pseudoaddiction. Now I don’t mind having room to interpret House’s behavior, what annoys me is I get the impression that the writers didn’t intend this ambiguity and want us to lean to addict.

So what do you guys think is the addiction true or pseudo?

I have to agree here, Dan. The scene which really brought this to the forefront of my thinking was House feeding his addiction on the stairs. It's sort of a cliche thing to do in regards to taking drugs, and that really made me believe that the writers want us to get away from the strict belief that House is not a complete good guy.

More often than not in literature, film, or TV, the average viewer desires the all-American 'good guy' protagonist. The fact that that's exactly what House is not on many levels (But still is on many different levels) is part of the intrigue that the show makes me feel.

I also thought that tonight's episode was one of the funnier ones in the whole series to date. A couple of the endless dwarf jokes really got me chuckling.

My favourite character (Other than House ) has to be Wilson. I loved that scene in the car where he informs Tritter that he won't be testifying (More specifically I liked what he said about House).

Jam it back in, in the dark.