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review of House 7.16

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bones3 said:
That was lame. I truly believe that House wanted to die. He was certainly drunk enough not to be the best judge of his actions. He just happened to land in the pool and was darned lucky that it didn't kill him. Anyone who can say, Bravo, House! You've emerged from this a happy guy! is utterly clueless.
posted 一年多以前.
 
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PaulLev said:
Bones3 - we have different opinions. That doesn't mean that either of us is "utterly clueless," just that we disagree :)
posted 一年多以前.
 
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@bones3 If House wanted to die, he would have finished the job. House has always been against suicide. I believe he once said; "Living in misery is marginally better than dying in it." He is not going to kill himself, and I don't think he has ever tried to either. Not quickly, anyway. Throughout the episode he was looking for a rush. Hookers weren't doing it, the patient wasn't doing it, but jumping a couple stories into a pool did it. It was the fix he was searching for.
posted 一年多以前.
 
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I have just watched the epi, after I had read loads of opinions and posts today. I can tell you that the rush you get from jumping into a pool (be it a swimming pool or rock pool) from a roof, high board, cliff or any other surface is something one cannot accurately explain.

I have done a few bunji jumps (Storms River Canyon & Vic Falls) and let me tell you before you launch of the platform there is a terror that goes through you that is unequalled by anything you will ever face short of death. I have never been that friggin terrified in my life.....You know you wont die, because you are strapped into a harness, you know you will land safely.

But the mere though of it is enough to rob you of breath. I swear your heart feels like it is going to explode out of your chest. But when it is over, I have NO words to explain THAT feeling either.

House did not want to die; (well figuratively I am sure he wants to die, he feels he is dying of a broken heart, but he didn’t literally want to die) clearly nothing he had done thus far had given him the rush he needed. Nothing was numbing the pain. Nothing was working, not the Hookers, Not the Vicodin or the Booze.
But the feeling between stepping of the balcony and landing safely was what triggered it.
He was so desperate to forget, to escape the pain, that the terror his actions could result in blocked the pain for seconds. Then the pure rush of adrenalin at being that much ALIVE is what finally the trick!
After he lands in the pool his euphoria is so short that as the celebration continues he moves away from it. NOTHING is going to numb THAT pain.

He felt nothing from the moment he stepped of the rail to the moment he landed in the pool. He was an emotional vacuum! And that is what he was trying to achieve all along. NOT to feel!
posted 一年多以前.
 
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bones3 said:
House was very, very drunk, and I don't think he was just looking for an adrenaline rush. That was more than a couple of stories, BTW. Most people couldn't fall that far even into a swimming pool and come out unscathed. Especially really drunk. I think he wanted to die but in the end benefited from the adrenaline. And I still think he's very dead inside. My apologies, PaulLev.
posted 一年多以前.
 
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PaulLev said:
No problem, Bones3 :)

About what House was trying to do: his little trick with the arrow and the apple is also relevant. It's another example of House getting a kick putting on his friends, and explains the smile he has on his face when he sees Wilson looking up with trepidation from the ground below.


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