Powerpoint Review Of Risky Business

[damigella]

What I liked

• House's rant against patriotism. Extra points for mention of Uganda. Reminded me why I watch this show at all.

• House grabbing Foreman's butt and the latter's lack of reaction, showing that sexual harassment isn't about sex but power.

• House helping Parks. Wilson helping Parks.

• Wilson seeing through House's motives and telling him so.

• Park asking Wilson about House.

• Park keeping her job.

• House speaking Mandarin.

• House making Cousin Itt joke.

• Andrews being wrong.

• No more ortho. I hated the noise.



What I didn't like

• The superficial treatment of the whole social issue.

• Park having to excuse and humiliate herself (instead of defending her actions rationally) in order to keep her job.

• Adams making House do extra clinic.

• Adams criticizing the POTW then pressuring his daughter.

• Adams smashing ortho. I don't accept "but X told me to" as an excuse even from my nine-years-old.

• Adams.




What I didn't get

• House stealing fron Wilson.

• House making Adams smash ortho.

I tried to fix these in a fic.

Comments

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

When it said Powerpoint presentation I thought there were going to be pictures (pout)

What was the Cousin Itt joke?

Park having to excuse and humiliate herself (instead of defending her actions rationally) in order to keep her job.

Yes, didn't like that myself. She had to react emotionally (like a woman you see). Personally I think in the real world that the whole thing would have been swept under the carpet, sexual harrassment case dropped if assault case dropped.

Also I wonder if *Foreman's* little hearing was in the same format (five doctors sitting in an intimadory behind a long table, defendant sitting on a chair in front of them all).

Adams making House do extra clinic.

• Adams criticizing the POTW then pressuring his daughter.

• Adams smashing ortho. I don't accept "but X told me to" as an excuse even from my nine-years-old.

• Adams.

So, basically just Adams then :) I didn't mind the extra clinic hours (although its silly, why would you want House anywhere near the clinic - its a law suit waiting to happen) but yeah Adams lecturing patient/daughter is just...no. And you know how I feel about the smashed up Ortho lab....

House stealing fron Wilson

I'm sort of neutral on that one - it's a very House thing to do, although it does show he still takes Wilson for granted, so no progress there. I thought the stealing of the laser-whatever-it-was was stupid though.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

Cousin Itt mentioned in:
Low self-esteem can be brought on by exposure to one's relatives. Nice clothes and anger… Classic symptoms. Family gathering. You were late the other day 'cause you were having breakfast with Grammy Adams or Cousin Itt. And she was nagging you about finding a husband.
[Text courtesy of the lovely people at clinic_duty, who published this one super-fast.]

I wonder if *Foreman's* little hearing was in the same format (five doctors sitting in an intimidatory behind a long table, defendant sitting on a chair in front of them all).

Of course not. Nothing of the kind happened to Andrews either. What's worse, that's RL (and as you said, normally Park would be asked to drop her charges and all would be swept under the carpet).

She had to react emotionally (like a woman you see).
Yes. I think one could see the fume out of my ears in most of Northwest Europe, but of course not in Australia :).

I thought the stealing of the laser-whatever-it-was was stupid though.
I figured out he just used it as pawn to get cash. It would be possible in Italy, if you know the right people, I'm sure. I just "misheard" the value. I'd expect House knows several shady characters.

Stealing from Wilson would normally be okay, but now it felt so wrong. As you remarked over at writerdot's, Wilson once gave him exactly the same amount just by him asking. The writers seem to have no clue about what happened in previous seasons. Plus, stealing and then giving back, thus giving yourself away? WTF? It's not stealing in my book, just stupid.

I did like the prank, though, because it had a nice sense of symmetry: light preventing orthodoc from working just like sound prevents House from working.