Saviors

House Season 5 has been quite hit and miss for me so far, however this episode encapsulated the entire feel in a 45 minute segment. Ideas were well controlled, others were flying quite wildly. Some story lines were superb, others dragged for quite a long time. The patient of the week was, for once, quite an annoying character, which provided a welcome change for me, as patients are often seen as quite morally superior.

Suffice to say, the acting was as ever, up to a high standard. The ending provided a superb twist, which would have been made even more effective with some foreshadowing. Medicine was tenuous to say the least, but concluded in a fairly House-esquire manner.

This episode helped tie together the abrupt departure of Penn with the end of the season looming. 7/10 - enjoyable, not the best, but entertaining nevertheless. Perhaps Cameron / Chase scenarios were overplayed, but still a good filler for the ending of the season.

A young guy has made it his life's work to be an environmental protester. The beginning scene has him chained to an earth mover. When the person next to him begins to faint, she is unchained, but he goes into distress. Now he is in the hospital, preaching about all the evils of everything, from the water, to the flowers used to decorate the rooms (commercial flowers use pesticides). Like so many of House's patients, he has numerous, hard to diagnose symptoms.

Back at the ranch, Cameron is filling in for the now deceased Kutner because she owes House a favor. He, of course, begins to mistreat her, throwing her to the wolves, asking her to figure out what is wrong with our guy. Meanwhile, she is having some issues with Chase romantically which is causing her discomfort. People around her think she may be in love with House because she keeps being unavailable for a vacation with Chase.