HOUSE, M.D.: 23. "Acceptance"
Micky DuPree
I'm going to have to find the strength somewhere to stop watching the
_House_ promos. I used to not mind them because I knew they were
misleading, and I therefore considered them harmless. The ones for this
ep. misled me into unfortunate expectations that were not met, though.
They evidently spliced in footage from other, as yet unaired eps. to
fool us. Well, it worked, but it also disappointed, because the idea
that House would offer to assist in the suicide of a death-row inmate
was pretty powerful.
Speaking of random shots of adrenaline, this episode felt rushed, like
they had too much to say in the allotted time (which made it seem a bit
more like conventional network television). They usually have some
frenetic moments and some contemplative moments, and I like the mix.
This episode seemed a little light on the contemplative moments. It
also felt a little bit like a fast-paced second pilot, as if they
expected to have to get a lot of new viewers up to speed quickly and
remind old viewers with short attention spans of just who these
characters are and what their relationships are to one another. I still
liked it, but it wasn't really one of their stand-out episodes. It felt
like they spent a lot of their time reestablishing things that
first-season viewers already knew: House pops pills, mouths off, and
disrespects everyone, Cameron can't break bad news, Foreman has a juvie
record, Chase is the poor little rich boy, Wilson is House's oncologist
buddy, Stacy is House's ex-, and Cuddy is the boss that House has to get
around. I hope the strategy works to build the ratings, but I also hope
they don't feel they have to restate everything every week.
Maybe I'm imagining it, but the photography seemed a bit more like that
of conventional network television too, which is a pity. Yet I'm pretty
sure I've seen the D.P.'s name before.
New writers in the credits. They don't seem to be quite as smart as the
characters they're writing, which led to a few "huh?" moments. They're
also credited as new co-executive producers, so I guess that means
they're "in the room." I'll resist the temptation to dump solely on the
new guys, since David Shore et alia had to have read the script and
signed off on it.
Evidently there's been a major sartorial edict from on high: House has
been wearing too many shirts. Or at least, he's down to just one at a
time now from last season's typical uniform of two shirts under a
jacket.
House saw Stacy with Cuddy and immediately reached for the Vicodin.
Nice touch.
I've wondered for a while now why a department head at Princeton-
Plainsboro Teaching Hospital can't get a secretary, or at least can't
share a secretary with other departments.
HOUSE: J-Date not working out?
O.K., had to look it up. Is this confirmation that Cuddy is Jewish?
HOUSE: You met me at a strip club.
STACY: You are the worst two dollars I've ever spent.
And House seemed to watch Stacy appreciatively as she left the room. I
can see why those two used to get along. The more people can return
House's serve, the better, to my eyes. Half the time it looks like
House is playing handball against a curtain.
"Partypants"? Seemed a bit, well, dumb, not an obvious choice at all,
not even to the discerning mind of House.
When House agreed to barter two extra hours of clinic duty for the
death-row case, I thought that was a major measure of what it meant to
him. I was kind of disappointed that he immediately fobbed them off on
Cameron and that he didn't get caught doing it by Cuddy. (Using
subordinates to fulfill clinic duty surely would have been one of the
first dodges he tried and one of the first things Cuddy expected him to
try, the same way he was on the verge of fobbing the lecture off on
Cameron in "Three Stories" and Cuddy intervened.)
On the other hand, by giving one of the fellows the B plot for a change,
maybe they're letting Hugh Laurie get six hours of sleep a night instead
of only five, which would be a generally good thing. He was probably in
90% of the shots last season. It would be an imminently practical
reason for letting the B plot rotate among all the doctors this season
instead of it always being House who fields it.
House has a backpack?
Foreman and Chase each giving Cameron a pat on the back before clinic
duty was a nice touch.
Clearing away the staplers just wasn't enough. I really can't buy that
a bunch of prison guards that are hyper-worried about a prisoner using
anything and everything for a weapon would stick Clarence in a room with
methanol-based fluid. If he could have managed just a single spark he
could have achieved Sterno inferno. If they couldn't put him in the
prison infirmary, then why not just keep him in his regular cell? What
advantage was gained by moving him into an office supply room?
There seemed to be a movie poster in Wilson's office, but I couldn't
make it out. "Novak." "Hitchcock"? Starts with a B? Nothing obvious,
though Alfred Hitchcock and Kim Novak did work together.
I guess Stacy's Eighth Amendment argument was "cruel and unusual
punishment."
The speed with which Stacy got the court order for Clarence's treatment
just convinces me all the more that she could have gotten one for her
husband almost as quickly in "Honeymoon."
The Scooby-Doo impersonation was a kick, but given that House has done
it once, I'd expect him to do it more often.
I am a little surprised that Stacy took House at face value when it came
to patient care. From what she said about House lying and browbeating
patients in "Honeymoon," I'd have thought that whenever patient care was
involved, she'd verify everything House claimed.
The strange thing about Cameron's insistence on ignoring the obvious
diagnosis in the clinic patient was that she seemed to think that
diligent differential diagnostic work could actually change the
underlying illness, not just the diagnosis of the illness. If she's
going to treat the truth as the enemy, then why not go whole hog and do
what they used to do: lie to cancer patients and tell them they have
something else?
CHASE: How does an inmate on death row get his hands on heroin?
Breathes there a 26-year-old who has led that sheltered a life? Maybe,
but in this case we're talking about an addict's son who, if anything,
is more cynical about addiction than the norm, not less. I couldn't
swallow this line. It was as if the object was to contrast street-wise
Foreman with naive rich Chase by the most simplistic means available,
and the actual substance (and substance abuse) of his backstory didn't
matter.
The fellows have been fraternizing behind our backs. Cameron somehow
knew Chase was an ex-seminary student.
Geez, how many patients can extubate themselves?
House closing the blinds on Stacy was hilarious, but then he topped
himself by explaining, "Mommy and Daddy are having a little fight. It
doesn't mean we stopped loving you." Then Stacy topped him by heading
him off at the pass.
I've never spotted the circular tattoo on the back of Foreman's right
wrist before, just the one where the thumb meets the forefinger on his
left hand.
So Foreman didn't just get a juvenile record. He also spent some time
in juvenile detention.
Wilson still seems to think that House has some master plan for getting
Stacy back. I see House avoiding her a lot (no other reason to hide in
the comatose patient's room), which would be a strange way to go about
it.
House can get away with a lot of things other people can't, but "Bros
before hos" sounded a little too "whigger" even from him. (Reminded me
of a line from _The Wire_: "Damn, they steal everything.")
I can understand Foreman disliking a patient, but refusing to treat him
because it will buy him only a few hours was derelict.
Strange that Chase didn't pick up on the copier fluid. He piped up with
that option in "Poison." In fact, considering that House usually
notices every detail around him, it was strange he didn't pick up on it
either back when he made his house call.
The label on the bottle that House poured for Clarence (as best I could
make out):
CHASEN'S
150
Not my area of expertise, but if the number refers to the proof, that
was a potent binge, especially given what appeared to be the short
amount of time the booze was consumed over.
CAMERON: I work for one of the top diagnosticians in the country.
Only one of the top diagnosticians? It would be fun to see House butt
heads with one of his peers.
Interesting that the only time we've heard House laugh out loud was when
he was drunk with a multiple murderer. His social life really does
suck.
HOUSE: I could've hit that.
CLARENCE: And you didn't?
HOUSE: Eh.
Don't be so sentimental, House. Tell us how you really feel.
Based on visual and verbal indications, House had a bare minimum of six
shots of booze. Clarence had at least three.
It figured that House in sunglasses signified, not coolness, but
hangover.
HOUSE: State's paying, so go nuts.
That was the second time House told them to soak the government.
I thought I was going to be strong and aloof, but curiosity is finally
eating away at me. What the hell are those overgrown tennis balls on
steroids that House keeps on his desk?
HOUSE: Wilson's a fool. I'm an idiot.
Wilson's a fool for thinking there was a master plan? And House is an
idiot for trusting Stacy?
HOUSE: [Pheochromocytoma] explains everything.
Not quite. I waited through the whole episode to see how the initial
hauntings were going to play out in the diagnosis, but they didn't. I
suppose they could be explained as nothing more than guilt, but the way
they were staged and filmed strongly implied hallucinations on
Clarence's part, even delusions. No one ever tied pheochromocytoma into
hallucinations, and House, who made a point in this episode of insisting
that everything is done for a motive, never moved beyond Clarence's
explanation that he attempted suicide as a control issue, when that
seemed for all the world to be a lie to cover for guilt/delusions of
being haunted.
There seemed to be a continuity hiccup. Cameron's husband previously
died of thyroid cancer, not brain cancer.
I'm sure a lot of people would prefer a doctor like Cameron, but shit,
man, if I'm dying, tell me NOW. I've got plans to make, and they don't
include holding my doctor's hand because SHE'S the one with issues.
This B plot was the deluxe expanded director's cut version of Cameron
being unable to tell the dead baby's parents the bad news in
"Maternity." Since she did actually spit out the news in the end this
time, I hope this means that we'll all finally be allowed to move on
from this tiresome character point.
It was a little theatrical, but I liked the shot of House, Foreman, and
Chase bathed in green light as Clarence was going into the MRI.
I'm a little surprised House didn't slip Clarence a Vicodin before the
MRI to make him hold still. Or maybe people would have gotten
suspicious if Clarence hadn't been crawling out of his tattooed skin.
I can see why House might view Foreman as not thinking outside of his
own box in being more forgiving of biological contributions to
criminality than of environmental contributions to criminality, but
that's not the same thing as hypocrisy as long as Foreman is consistent
about where he lays blame. I'd expect House to have a better command of
the meaning of the word.
HOUSE: It doesn't absolve him.
Mitigation/commutation isn't necessarily or even usually absolution, and
I'd expect both House and Foreman to know the difference regardless of
their positions. Not the series' best writing. I can easily see House
disapproving of Clarence's failure of reason to keep biology in check.
I was nevertheless expecting House to share more of his opinion on
curing someone in order to execute him, if only because House isn't the
least bit shy about sharing potentially unpopular opinions. For him to
suddenly turn up reticent struck me as strange.
I like "Hallelujah," but I think this is the fourth time I've heard it
placed in a movie or TV show and I think it's lost a lot of its impact
through overexposure.
-Micky
--
"Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned."
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
David Johnston
MDu...@theworld.com.snip.to.reply (Micky DuPree) wrote:
>There seemed to be a movie poster in Wilson's office, but I couldn't
>make it out. "Novak." "Hitchcock"? Starts with a B? Nothing obvious,
>though Alfred Hitchcock and Kim Novak did work together.
Only on Vertigo.
Chuck Olson
"Micky DuPree" <MDu...@theworld.com.snip.to.reply> wrote in message
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> Disjoint observations on the 9/13/05 episode. Spoilers abound.
snip
> Maybe I'm imagining it, but the photography seemed a bit more like that
> of conventional network television too, which is a pity. Yet I'm pretty
> sure I've seen the D.P.'s name before.
>
>
It sure looked like FOX's old semi high definition - - I thought they were
over that, but evidently the bean counters had their say. They just don't
have any pride - - I'll take CBS when I want to see something nice.
GluedToTheScreen
> Disjoint observations on the 9/13/05 episode. Spoilers abound.
>
[snip a whole lot of stuff]
Wow... that's some summary you did there! Has to be near the length of the
script!!
Part of what I like about House, however, is the constant barrage of info.
Glance away and you'll probably miss some good comment, look, or gesture.
> New writers in the credits. They don't seem to be quite as smart as
> the characters they're writing, which led to a few "huh?" moments.
Didn't notice that... but did notice that the episode didn't quite have the
same feel as the old ones... maybe it was all the recapping as you mentioned
elsewhere. House was still House, though, and so it felt familiar enough.
It was a good episode, just not quite as good as I had hoped.
I'll watch again, though... maybe they'll gain some momentum.
> The Scooby-Doo impersonation was a kick
Definitely a good chuckle.
>
> Geez, how many patients can extubate themselves?
>
Ooooooo.... it hurt just to watch!
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FDR
"GluedToTheScreen" <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Micky DuPree wrote:
>> Disjoint observations on the 9/13/05 episode. Spoilers abound.
>>
>
> [snip a whole lot of stuff]
>
> Wow... that's some summary you did there! Has to be near the length of
> the script!!
>
> Part of what I like about House, however, is the constant barrage of info.
> Glance away and you'll probably miss some good comment, look, or gesture.
Sometimes I have to rewind the DVR to catch something I didn't hear. Well,
more like a few times an episode.
Stan Brown
with...
> Sometimes I have to rewind the DVR to catch something I didn't hear. Well,
> more like a few times an episode.
Why not turn on closed captioning on your TV? That's what I do,
because there seems to be a LOT of mumbling in series the last few
seasons. The frequent rock soundtracks don't help either.
--
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http://OakRoadSystems.com/
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ANIM8Rfsk
the_sta...@fastmail.fm wrote on 9/14/05 9:35 PM:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:45:09 GMT in rec.arts.tv, FDR favored us
> with...
>> Sometimes I have to rewind the DVR to catch something I didn't hear. Well,
>> more like a few times an episode.
>
> Why not turn on closed captioning on your TV? That's what I do,
> because there seems to be a LOT of mumbling in series the last few
> seasons. The frequent rock soundtracks don't help either.
We do that for West Wing, although the paraphrasing makes me crazy.
--
You Can't Stop the Signal
Micky DuPree
In article <77idnW9NMI8...@comcast.com>, "GluedToTheScreen"
<nob...@nowhere.com> writes:
: Wow... that's some summary you did there! Has to be near the length
: of the script!!
It's my gift, and my curse. :)
: Part of what I like about House, however, is the constant barrage of
: info. Glance away and you'll probably miss some good comment, look, or
: gesture.
I know. After watching the best that TV has had to offer in the last
ten years, it's hard to be satisfied with drama that you can get
everything out of on just one viewing anyway.
:: New writers in the credits. They don't seem to be quite as smart as
:: the characters they're writing, which led to a few "huh?" moments.
:
: Didn't notice that...
It's one thing for the writing to make a medical mistake or some
continuity error pertaining to a plot detail. I don't actually have a
big emotional investment in whether Cameron's husband died of thyroid
cancer as originally reported in "Fidelity" or of brain cancer as
reported in "Acceptance." It's sloppy, but it doesn't change the
underlying characterization. These nitpicks are often interchangeable
with other plot details that could have been substituted in had the
writers been made aware of them before filming. They're not substantive
problems.
But when intelligent, thoughtful characters can't use the words
'hypocrisy' and 'absolve' with a full appreciation of their meaning,
then the actual meat of the story is suffering because of the writers'
deficiencies. I'm trying not to be alarmed that the rest of the
writers' room signed off on that. One script does not constitute a
pattern, after all.
: but did notice that the episode didn't quite have the same feel as the
: old ones... maybe it was all the recapping as you mentioned
: elsewhere.
To one degree or another. It's a heavily plot-driven show, and yet when
you examine the plot choices made, they're often cleverly engineered to
illuminate character before the hour is over. Usually there's a little
reflective or discursive time in which the illumination of something
that we did not previously know about the characters takes place. Apart
from learning that Foreman doesn't seem to like gangstas any better than
homeless people (which is really just an extension of his lack of
sympathy for the socially disadvantaged), I didn't see a lot of
illumination in "Acceptance." At the point where we might have learned
more about House, he uncharacteristically withheld his opinion, despite
admitting that everyone has one ("I think you fit inside the subset of
'everyone'"). Oh sure, we learned that House doesn't think that biology
is destiny, but that wasn't much of a stretch. Or maybe it was supposed
to be and I just thought it was obvious in a character who believes in
the supremacy of reason. Hm. Have to think about that one.
Anyway, I think that the denouement should have been a lot more
complicated than it was, but House's withholding further comment shut
that down. We know that House doesn't believe that the pheochromocytoma
absolved Clarence of blame. But the implication was that House didn't
believe in execution either. It's possible to argue in favor of the
commutation of a death sentence to life imprisonment without the
possibility of parole. Why couldn't House see his way clear to doing
that? Because he thought it would have been a lie to say the
pheochromocytoma was responsible for any part of Clarence's behavior?
But House has lied to save his patients before, sometimes even from the
consequences of their own actions. So what was different about this
case? Was House unwilling to lie to save a murderer's life even if he
thought that the law was wrong? We know House has no regard for
statutory law or medical codes of conduct if he thinks they're morally
wrong or not in the best interests of his patient, so that can't be it.
Sorry, the writers seemed to treat it as an either/or question. Either
you think that Clarence's medical problem absolves him and he should go
free, or else you think that Clarence should be put to death, with no
middle ground. And yeah, I'm acutely aware that Stacy once said of
House, "He's not big on 'middle ground,'" but since he made Chase do an
episode's worth of penance for the Vogler incident rather than either
forgiving him immediately or firing him, I think it's safe to say that
House sees some value in middle ground.
: House was still House, though, and so it felt familiar enough. It was
: a good episode, just not quite as good as I had hoped.
Familiar, funny in places, occasionally touching, so yeah, it was a
pleasant hour. Still, I'd rank it as the worst episode they've done so
far, with the exception of the A plot to "Poison." Fortunately, the bar
has been so high that "second worst" is still fairly entertaining, but a
steady diet of this would not be appointment television.
: I'll watch again, though... maybe they'll gain some momentum.
Ah. Unfortunately, I found that the flaws were more noticeable the
second time around. Or did you mean that you'll watch the episodes to
come?
-Micky
KenM47
>On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:45:09 GMT in rec.arts.tv, FDR favored us
>with...
>> Sometimes I have to rewind the DVR to catch something I didn't hear. Well,
>> more like a few times an episode.
>
>Why not turn on closed captioning on your TV? That's what I do,
>because there seems to be a LOT of mumbling in series the last few
>seasons. The frequent rock soundtracks don't help either.
I do that a LOT too.
Ken (Brooklyn)
Micky DuPree
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Watched it again. This is the first episode since the A plot to
"Poison" that gets worse instead of better on subsequent viewings.
The more I think about House not running the reason for Clarence's
suicide attempt to ground, the more it bothers me. It's not that House
didn't notice the anomaly.
HOUSE: [To Clarence] Tell me something. I've been trying to
figure this out. Why does a guy who's on death row
suddenly try to off himself? I know you drank that
copier fluid.
HOUSE: I'm not buying that Clarence was trying to take control
of his life by suicide. Healthy people don't kill
themselves.
FOREMAN: Healthy people don't kill other people.
HOUSE: Guy just filed an appeal in a state that hasn't
actually killed anybody in about thirty years.
CHASE: What if it wasn't suicide? What if it was an escape
plan? Drink enough methanol to get transferred to a
hospital, try to escape from here.
HOUSE: Excellent. It explains everything except the symptom
that got him here. His heart went nuts before he got
stuck in that storage cell and chugged a toner martini.
I think there's something going on in his head.
But that was the last time that House considered the problem of what got
Clarence to attempt suicide. He tackled the problem of why Clarence
killed his fourth victim. He even gave Clarence an involved speech
about how "Doctors love anomalies" and how he's "interested in things
that don't fit," and yet he left the suicide motive hanging. He never
tied hallucinations/delusions/guilt/suicide to the pheochromocytoma.
It's been a recurring character point that House is almost incapable of
just walking away from a loose end. Even though he didn't need
Clarence's suicide motive to make the diagnosis, it should have at least
bothered House that he didn't nail it down.
The more I think about it, the more I really hope Cuddy cracks down on
House's use of a subordinate to fulfill his clinic hours. Unless House
has a nurse on his side fudging his hours (fat chance, no friends made
there either), this plot point is incongruous as anything other than a
temporary blip. It had to have been one of the first dodges that House
tried when he had the fellows sitting around doing nothing (e.g.,
"Paternity"), and it also had to be one of the first things Cuddy would
have looked for. She made a big deal out of how she felt that working
in the clinic made House a better doctor ("Occam's Razor"). For House
to suddenly start getting away with it now would make House look like a
fool for not trying it sooner and it would make Cuddy look like a fool
for letting him do it now.
I hope the remark about Foreman being a car thief was just glibness on
House's part, since as far as we know, the origin of that was merely a
joke by Cameron in "Honeymoon." According to the pilot, Foreman was
busted for breaking and entering, not car theft.
Chase's naivete about addiction bothers me more with subsequent viewing
too. He seems to have been in the U.S. a while (though when he could
find the time in his short life, I don't know). But even if he weren't
that familiar with the U.S. nor with death row, getting drugs in long-
haul prison is supposed to be pretty rampant in developed countries, and
Chase has previously been represented as *hyper*vigilant and even overly
suspicious on the subject of addiction. He was convinced (perhaps
correctly) that Lucy the quasi-schizophrenic in "The Socratic Method"
was managing to get booze even when her caretaker son wasn't giving it
to her. He was convinced (incorrectly) that all her non-schizo problems
could be traced to alcoholism. Chase was suspicious of Hank Wiggen's
substance abuse problems in "Sports Medicine" and was the first one to
suss out how Hank's cadmium poisoning was probably brought about via
cheating on his addiction recovery with weed.
I'm sure that despite the teenaged Chase removing all the booze from the
house, his alcoholic mother still managed to get her hands on some,
which is why I find it unbelievable that he would be *that* incredulous
that where an addict has a will, there's a way. (I mean, sheesh, don't
they watch _Oz_ in Oz? :) )
I could have sworn there were times in the past when one of the fellows
was allowed to use the markers and write on the whiteboard. But I could
buy an argument that this is a new House rule.
Considering that House yelled at Chase for making an unintentional,
nonfatal mistake in "Control," I'm all the more surprised that House
didn't blast Foreman for deliberately standing around waiting for a
patient to die in "Acceptance."
On further reflection, it's even stranger that House didn't remember
seeing the copier fluid in Clarence's cell. Given the debacle they
created in trying to diagnose the poison victims in "Poison," I'm also
surprised he didn't have Chase bring a sample back with him to make
sure. I'm surprised House ran no tests to confirm the presence of
methanol/formic acid in Clarence's system. (Methanol doesn't show up on
a tox screen?) He just rolled the booze into Clarence's room and
proceeded on two concatenated hunches.
: HOUSE: Wilson's a fool. I'm an idiot.
:
: Wilson's a fool for thinking there was a master plan? And House is an
: idiot for trusting Stacy?
This was the only way I could get the line to make sense, but then I
realized they were probably reaching for something else and screwing up.
House was probably saying that Wilson was a fool for urging House to do
something to get Stacy to trust him. House was probably saying that he
himself was an idiot for trusting Stacy as a way to get her to trust
him.
But in both cases -- the case where House lied to Stacy and the case
where House told Stacy the truth -- House was expecting Stacy to do all
the giving while he did all the taking. In both cases he wanted Stacy
to violate the terms of her job in exchange for nothing in return.
House's thinking may be clouded where Stacy is concerned, but he's not
so idiotic as to think that people are suddenly going to start liking
him when they get nothing but grief out of the deal.
Watching this episode is like watching a character who is House and yet
not-House. This version of House is just persistently somewhat off,
persistently less intelligent and less consistent than the portrayal
that has come before.
Watching it again, it makes even less sense that Clarence wasn't doped
up for the MRI, if not for humanitarian purposes, then to make him hold
still during the procedure.
_House_ routinely employs a radical amount of time compression to gloss
over dull parts and skip to the interesting parts, especially in the
denouement (since the correct diagnosis is usually the dramatic climax),
sometimes to the extent of depicting weeks of treatment or physical
therapy in a matter of seconds with very little acknowledgement that
time has passed. Sometimes the only way to tell that the current scene
takes place on a different day from the last scene is the fact that the
characters have all changed clothes. However, they seem to have
dispensed with even that nod to pacing in "Acceptance."
Since everyone was still wearing the same clothes, we seem to be
expected to believe that Clarence had *two* major surgeries in a single
day (the removal of a foot of necrotic bowel and the removal of a tumor)
and was considered well enough to walk out of the hospital on his own
and return to prison. I can maybe buy that Cuddy expedited the surgical
schedule to get Clarence the hell out of her hospital as fast as
possible, but Clarence's recovery seemed a little fast to achieve dead
man walking without assistance. Time may not be a fixed construct, but
it still would have made more sense for Clarence to make the trip back
to the prison the same way he left it: on a gurney.
Now to watch the tape of tonight's episode.
-Micky
Micky DuPree
: Stan Brown <the_sta...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
:: Why not turn on closed captioning on your TV? That's what I do,
:: because there seems to be a LOT of mumbling in series the last few
:: seasons.
: I do that a LOT too.
Same here. I don't trust my aging ears to catch everything, but I also
don't trust actors not to mumble, nor sound mixes not to overlap
dialogue with other sound elements. CC will sometimes identify the
sources of offscreen dialogue for you which may not be readily apparent
as well as identifying pieces of music. You can also sometimes get
clues as to earlier drafts that made it into the CC but got cut from the
rest of the episode.
-Micky
w...@wfzimmerman.com
We always have CC on. So much for missing those key lines!