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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Ur-House
posted by clake at 9:33 AM
Wondering whether House, MD was due to return to new episodes sometime soon, I checked the Fox website yesterday to find that they are rerunning pilots of some of their series this week, including dear old House. So last night, Klake and I tuned in to the pilot episode of the show. It was a lot of fun to see the introduction of the characters and themes of the series, as well as the differences in production from the later series as we know it. The pilot uses completely different sets that the subsequent series, which makes a lot of sense, as when you're filming a pilot you don't have a lot of cash for building huge, pretty sets. The music is different in an almost imperceptible way, as well as the cinematography, making it look a lot more like an independent film. This effect isn't better or worse than the later episodes, just different - and I very much enjoyed seeing something different.
Character-development-wise, Dr. House starts out even more lazy and grumpy that he is later on. It seems that his injury has caused him to sink into a self-pitying funk which causes him to barely do anything at all at work. The hospital is keeping him on entirely because of his reputation as a diagnostician, hoping that eventually they'll be able to motivate him to, like, actually do work again. Here we see the first instance of Cutty forcing House to make up lost clinic time, introducing the now-familiar motif of House instantly diagnosing people based on remarkably few symptoms and expressing his disdain for their ignorance. It was really nice to see that, as this season hasn't had much of House in clinic. (I think this is good, as it gives room for other plot elements to breathe, and will make it even more fun when we do finally see House in clinic again, which we certainly will.)
Dr. Wilson, ever the Dr. Watson to House's Sherlock Holmes, manages to entice House out of his self-absorbed uselessness and into self-absorbed usefulness with the intriguing case of a woman who spoke gibberish and passed out, but whose symptoms do not agree with stroke/tumor/other usual suspects. And the game is afoot!
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