Review of Meaning

In this episode, we see House as being more "normal", almost the type of House that his team, Cuddy, and Wilson always wanted him to be. Whether the ketamine worked, or the pain loss was psychosomatic didn't really matter in this context because he was a "new and improved House", if you will. The team and those around him blew it by constantly asking him WHY he was doing things, taking cases and pushing himself a bit more, as well as meddling into his cases and telling him he was wrong and send the quadriplegic home, instead of letting House be House and do his thing. He ends up curing the quadriplegic, although they kept that secret from him until later, and caused what was the start of House turning back into who he was before the gunshot wound. If they had just let him be, he would've been a better House to be around. Of course, that doesn't fit very well in the context of the show, his flaws and how the people react around him is the major part of the entire show.

I thought it was an interesting idea for the episode in that it showed how everybody around him sometimes treat hims with kid gloves too much, so to speak, instead of taking his word for it and giving him the benefit of a doubt. This is kind of frustrating to see in the episode. Wilson should've known something was going on when House asked him for the prescription of pills, that his pain was returning, and that he was beginning to have doubts in himself. The pain loss probably was psychosomatic, but you would think they would have encouraged it instead of getting into his head and causing him to revert into his old ways. After all, there's a reason why Cuddy gave him the medication after all, after telling House she wouldn't authorize it.