It's Tuesday night: fans know that this is the greatest night of the week.
Why?
House M.D.
Despite the debatable quality of the third season, I've still been pretty loyal to the show. So this evening I watched the new episode, found it decent, and more or less thought nothing of it.
But then I read a post on this site (it's here if you're interested) and had a sudden epiphany, like the ones House miraculously has every episode. Something happened in the episode that now forces me to think: "Whoa--subliminal message?"
In this episode, to be brief, a woman just over five weeks pregnant was dying because of some abnormality in the development of the baby (or "fetus," as House insisted upon calling it). House kept insisting that the only way to save the mother was to perform an abortion. The mother refused.
Cuddy, having desired to have children of her own, of course wanted to save both the mother and the baby; she tried test after test despite House's insistence on the abortion.
The team finally figures out the problem is in the baby's under-developed lungs. They perform exploratory surgery; they open the uterus, drain out the amniotic fluid, and then this happens:
The baby reaches a tiny little hand out of the uterus and takes hold of House's finger. Camera shot stays there for about a minute, with House staring down at the hand, until Cuddy calls back his attention.
In the middle of the surgery, the mother's heart stops; House tries to cut the umbilical cord (which would be a form of abortion, essentially) until Cuddy restarts the mother's heart. Both mother and baby survive and are healthy--there's even a shot at the end of the episode when the woman actually has given birth and now takes care of her son. And during her recovery, House now refers to it as a "baby."
So I ask: is this coincidental; am I just overthinking this?
Or is it possible that this is a subliminal message against abortion?
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*Misfitmaryjane*
omfg I love that show and was totally in love with house until you found out how depraved he really is, god to fake cancer to get some meds, that's low even for him
I was more struck by how unchallenged House's pill-popping goes; even though a mini-series' worth of episodes denounce his drug use, it's not like it ends him, everything kind of goes back to normal and his relapse goes unchecked.
Given that it's produced by such a conservative network, I wouldn't be surprised if it was meant to generate sympathy (or at least a gray area) around certain addictions that some conservatives have shared with House.
And yeah, I'm sure it was against abortion, too-- Rupert Murdoch? Come on :)
I can see what you mean, and I would have to say it all goes back to the media influencing society.