Re: House season 5
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Originally Posted by Mikah Cerucco
House is fooled. Right.
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Whether or not he's fooled in almost beside the point: in the end, House got what he wanted. Foreman and 13 are effective members of the team again. From House's standpoint they were useless to him in the goo-goo eyes "you drool", "your snore" stage of their relationship, because it inhibited them from disagreeing with one another or even thinking clearly about the cases.
House's ultimatum left 4 possible outcomes (5 if you count what actually happened, which House may or may not have anticpated). In ascending order of desirability (from House's point-of-view):
4. They both quit. Bad from House's perspective, but also the least likely. Yes, both can get jobs elsewhere, but neither will get anything as interesting or prestigious - and that matters to both of them, especially to 13 who wants to "make a mark" in the time she has left.
3. Foreman quits, 13 stays. Foreman is still the better doctor, but at least House gets to keep one of them. And, knowing House, he probably figures Foreman will eventually come back after 13 dies.
2. 13 quits Foreman stays. Better for House. He gets to keep Foreman - who I really think House sees as his protege and eventual successor.
1. The whole manipulative game puts such a strain on their relationship that they break up.
Ideal from House's point of view. He gets both of them back, they become effective doctors again and he gets to prove that there's no such thing as selflessness or true love.
1a. They figure out that the only way they can keep their jobs and stay together is to make it
look like the outcome was 1 and fool House into thinking that they've broken up. As far as House is concerned this is just as good as (1) because to pull it off they can't just reflexively disagree at every turn because that would a) be obvious and b) make them just as useless as when they agreed all the time. Instead they're going to have think very carefully about each proposed diagnosis, agreeing when they genuinely agree, but looking hard for places where they can legitimately disagree.
In short, they're going to have to do just what House wanted them to do in the first place. Assuming House knows what they're doing, he gets the bonus of chuckling inwardly every time they stage a personal disagreement to "fool" him. Hell, the tiny part of House's heart that still works may even have
wanted this outcome, since it solves all of his problems and leaves Foreman and 13 to be happy on their on time.
Now the question is: How long before House just
has to tell Foreman that he saw through his cunning plan all along? (There's no fun in being a genius if other people don't
know you're a genius.
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Regards,
Joe
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My goodness she looks horrid, she went from being really hot in Point Break to looking like she's 70 years old! I know some of that was done with make-up but dayum.
