House’s Chimaera
I’m disappointed in the last episode of House. The one with the kid who was abducted by aliens. They took too long to come up with chimaerism as the reason for the kid’s ‘alien DNA’. It seemed blatantly obvious to me. I was willing to give them the commercial break cliffhanger, but then there’s another whole scene where they’re talking about it and NONE of them come up with it. Then they go through the entire section before the next commercial in blissful cluelessness, and another half section after that. Until finally his brilliant revelation in the parking garage.
I don’t even think it was necessary that it be a big mystery for as long as it was. They could’ve still gone ahead with their cancer-like tagging, surgery, and further confusion over the hallucinations.
I can’t even let it slide as House being depressed and distracted. I mean, come on, surely House on a bad day has to be better than me.
I also don’t think that alien chip in the back of the neck was adequately explained.
P.S. Wilson needs to be smacked.
jun Said,
September 14, 2006 @ 4:59 pm
I didn’t know anything about chimaerism so I didn’t figure it out in advance, but I’ve seen comments from many other people who knew exactly what was happening as the condition had been featured in CSI a couple of years ago.
K Said,
September 14, 2006 @ 8:39 pm
Well, I didn’t know the exact name chimaerism, but as soon as they said ‘different genetic material’ I knew it was some kind of attached twin issue.
Jellyn Said,
September 14, 2006 @ 11:18 pm
I don’t think I watched that CSI, since I don’t usually watch CSI. It’s been on one of those news magazine shows very recently. It’s been on them in the past. I might’ve downloaded a British documentary on it. I think it was on Strong Medicine. In any event, it was hardly a new idea to me. I think all of those cases had to do with mothers who had it and failed maternity tests. So at least this was a new application of it. But the doctors were le dumb.
I remember at least one case where the person looked rather mottled. The DNA was so different that you could point to which parts belonged to which twin.