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I almost couldn't be bothered to watch House, but in the end I did.
I still love the POTW stuff, but the whole rest of it is just boring me still. They had managed to make me care about House and Wilson and Cuddy again by the end of last season, and all that either disappeared over hiatus for me or else wasn't carried over by the writers (I actually suspect the former). I started watching because I love mysteries and medical dramas, and if I keep watching, that is going to be what keeps me. Ah the legacy of season three.

wendy I was totally thinking of you while watching Fringe. Clearly they imagined that lots of people weren't going to spend time watching the two hour premiere, because every other line was a re-cap of what happened in the first episode. It definitely stays on my fall lineup though.
I want, SO FREAKING MUCH, for JJ Abrams to do a little research into the way the heart works. Alias, Mission Impossible, Lost, Fringe... the list of shows/movies in which characters' hearts are restarted by insane and impossible methods by people who should know better never seems to end. Though last night's shocking asystole is a common 'error' made on TV, so is possibly more excusable than the complete and instant recoveries his other characters have made when the combination of tears, declarations of love, and a timely blow to the sternum have been applied to their often many-minutes-dead chests.

*takes a moment to be pedantic*
An automated external defibrillator is used in cases of life threatening cardiac arrhythmias which have led to cardiac arrest. The rhythms the device will treat are usually limited to:

* Ventricular fibrillation (shortened to VF or V-Fib)
* Pulseless Ventricular tachycardia (shortened to VT or V-Tach)[1]

AEDs, as with all defibrillators, are not designed to shock asystole ('flat line' patterns) as this will not have a positive clinical outcome. The asystolic patient only has a chance of survival if, through a combination of CPR and cardiac stimulant drugs, one of the shockable rhythms can be established, which makes it imperative for CPR to be carried out by any lay rescuer prior to the arrival of a defibrillator. from wiki (easily accessible to anyone, including tv producers) (emphasis mine)

Having said that, Joshua's defib was fucking cool.

The show is a mess. But it's a hot mess, and a whole world of crazy fun. They chew through the scenery, make ridiculous leaps of 'logic', and treat fiction like it's science and science like it's fiction. It completely whisks me away from RL, and for that I thank it.

and now I really must get cracking on the homework due tonight.