Who the fuck is Chase to decide who lives and dies? I guess it works because it’s a TV show but that was fucked up.
My DVR cut off near the very end so I have a question
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[details=Spoiler]WTF Happened to Chase?? I saw the convo with him and Foreman in the locker room, then later on Foreman was looking at some paperwork, but I never got to see if he dimed him out.
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what happened
Spoiler
Foreman bunred the sign in sheet for the morgue.
Damn, if they keep this level of quality up the rest of the season, House might just win another Emmy. The show is retardedly awesome as of late!
Man … I missed it last night because I was watching the game, just finished the episode and, Oh my god. That shit was wonderful, real talk though got mad respect for Chase now. I always felt he was a bitch with no backbone lol
Me too! After all of these years Chase is finally interesting.
that’s what i’m saying, fuck this episode for real. chase is a clown, chase catching feelings bcuz the dictator called cameron out on her bullshit was laughable. i’m not feeling the little morals being dropped in house at all, between “meds are the answers to your psych problems” and chase injecting himself into world conflict he knows nothing about it, i’m borderline disgusted. they need to get back to the basics, cuddy parading around that hot ass and house wildin’ out…i did like house fixing the guy’s shadow hand problem by force though.
Don’t mind Chase having some balls, but it seemed to come out of nowhere, and it seems pretty out of character. Meh. Maybe that talk about taking action and doing what you believe in convinced him to do that.
So Chase merced him? Holy shit epic. 
This episode made me think House turned into Dexter
yeah they need to get back to basics. moar cuddy pls
They should get back to basics.
In other words, kick the nub squad the fuck off the show and permanently bring back Cameron and Chase.
What moral? I don’t think what Chase did was meant to be a ‘good’ thing at all. The fact that Foreman decided to cover up for him doesn’t mean that in the show’s moral universe ‘it was the right thing to do’. Foreman had to make a decision for himself, just like Chase and Cameron both did.
That’s what made the episode good.
“You broke up with her? it’s not like she’s the hottest woman in the world” lol
smart one by the writers
Kind of hard talking about morals in this case. Would it be moral to stand by idly when really, you have the power to possibly put an end to his crims?
If I were confronted with a situation like that I wouldn’t know what was right and wrong. And Chase didn’t interject himself in an international conflict, that was done for him when he was given responsibility over the mans life and subsequently over the lives of the people the patient was planning to exterminate.
i think it was clearly meant to be a good thing. the show starts off with him somewhat indifferent as shown by his interactions with the ex-child soldier…then the issue is pushed into his face when he stops the assassination attempt and learns the (alleged) whole story…and then he does the “right thing” and theoretically saves millions of lives by killing the “evil dictator”.
if there aren’t any reprecussions next episode i’ll be somewhat disgusted.
the moral thing would be to follow his oath and do his job. chase isn’t some international investigator or judge, he’s a doctor that heard a sob story and decided to essentially execute his patient bcuz of it.
I don’t see how doing nothing nothing when you have the power to do something is moral. I personally don’t care much for oaths and promises if keeping them means some terrible shit is about to happen, I call that extenuating circumstances.
So yeah, It’s not that black and white to me if you are in the position to make a difference. I don’t know what I would do but if killing him is immoral because you’re taking a life, letting dude kill a whole bunch of other people when you have a chance to stop that from happening is also immoral. It’s a gray area.
It’s all fiction but I think it’s a an interesting subject.
I don’t think it was ‘clearly meant to be a good thing’. I think the writers shot for ambiguity for two main reasons.
- The scriptwriters (through Foreman I think) articulated forth a very compelling argument for why it was the wrong thing to do- because Dic-Vader had put his hands in the lives of the doctors. Hence both morality and ethics are brought into play- its the wrong thing to do because you don’t betray the trust of someone who puts his life at your mercy, its the wrong thing to do because it goes against the very foundation of medical ethics.
In fact, the argument was so strong, that I was absolutely sure that Foreman would report Chase- and like you, I would be disappointed if they didn’t show repercussions to both Chase and Foreman, but I think they will, even if its just them feeling guilty and turning on each other. I would also be disappointed if they didn’t show House realising what happened, which would bound to at least lead to a bunch of good scenes.
- Dic-Vader was played by James Earl Jones (someone charismatic and hard to hate) and written as a very human character with very human motivations, deeply flawed as they may have been. Both dimensions make him a very sympathetic character. If they wanted to make offing him ‘clearly’ the right thing, it would have made more sense to make him someone who was totally unsympathetic.
Oh yeah. House imitating Dexter was indeed very sick.
I’m not sure how you can see chase’s actions written as “clearly good.” A guy just murdered a man who was about to kill thousands of people and the tone at the end was still “Chase, you done fucked up now.” Yeah, Chase is a doctor who just murdered his patient. Are you angry at him or the writers? I think the moral conundrum is interesting, and this ep. could lead to some of the juiciest plots in the shows history. I don’t think it’ll happen because besides the “Amber death” I think this show is bad at following up old plots.
I think it’s funny how the speech that Darth gave Chase about how his wife was weak actually motivated Chase to kill Darth off. Oh, the irony.
Me personally, I have mad respect for Chase. I’m no international investigator, and I don’t think I could merc James Earl Jones with my own hands, but I would definitely write his name in my Death Notebook.