Wow. Это было сильно. А главное - это было только что (прим. пер. копи-пейст - великая весчь). Не надо списывать Шора со счетов. Мэри Сью или не Мэри Сью (прим. пер. - об этом позже), но чувак он правильный. И написал красивую, сильную коду к полусезонной "арке", которая по большому счету не блистала.
House feels uncomfortable talking about personal things for no good reason with a stranger. Even if the person says she needs it. He needs a reason. Everything is rational. When she asks him a question he keeps asking her what she wants to hear. Being irrational she refuses to play by his rules, and bulldozes him into playing by hers.
Some people don't have any problems "opening up". Now, having thought quite a bit about what exactly "opening up" involves, I've come to the conclusion that it basically means telling something about oneself or about one's past. Of course it matters what you say. It's not about your favourite colour or how you lost your virginity - well, yeah, unless that last part matters to you in some big way. Interestingly enough, different things matter to different people to different degrees. What one consideres some serious personal disclosure, for another is just your casual chatting. So, people like House are not prone to give away information about themselves freely, whereas she, the patient, demands it. He doesn't want to talk about "nothing" - has better things to do, doesn't want to talk about somehting that matters - would mean opening up. Tries to figure out what she wants to hear. Thinks he has more or less understood what she needs and practically steps over himself - because there's a reason for him to do it. He picks something that she would relate to - absence of control, helplessness. He mixes it up with a pointless lie to try and make it less significant for him, to make this sharing less real. It's only after they do connect through talk he's accustomed to more that he tells her the entire truth.
And then a different question is brought up, did he really help her? Well, that I'll have to agree with. Bottling stuff up does nothing for you. Release does, for some reason. But still, he questions convention and tries to look past it. He got her to *talk about it*, but being who he is he does not understand how talking can make it better (Doing things changes things. Not doing things... leaves things exactly as they were).
Good stuff. Great character work.
Additional goodies:
Chase doesn't only understand House better than the others, he's actually more like him than Foreman. Sure, both have been shown to be egoistic and cold. But Chase is always quicker to put the doubts away and start a productive discussion, he's been accused of not giving a damn about House or patients - and has in fact confirmed that he cares about his job and that he needs House to learn from, aaand he solved the one of the previous cases House-style, while having an unrelated conversation and while playing with House's toy of the day. And last but not least, what was his advice when House asked him about the "right" answer in this episode? Keep her asleep. Ain't that familiar, avoiding the talking part? Ah, Chase. Every passing episode I love you more.
The dying man needs someone to remember him to validate his life. Taken to the extreme, but true.
THE GEM OF THE EPISODE:
HOUSE: If you believe in eternity, then... life is irrelevant. Same way that a bug is irrelevant in comparison to the universe.
EVE: If you don't believe in eternity, then what you do here is irrelevant.
HOUSE: Your actions here are all that matters.
Ring any bells? But her answer is:
EVE: Then nothing matters. There's no ultimate consequences. I couldn't live with that.
That, people, is what I call weakness. Reeks of egocentrism, too.
THE RUNNER-UP for The Gem of The Episode
EVE: I'm gonna base this moment on who I'm stuck in a room with. It's what life is. It's a series of rooms. And who we get stuck in those rooms with adds up to what our lives are.
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