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Afterworld..

June 1, 2008 at 9:41 am | Posted in Something that you watch... | 1 Comment

A lot of series have appeared lately. Heroes, House, Prison Break etc. But one caught my interest recently; Afterworld.

Afterworld is an animated series, showing about 3-5 minutes per episode. It’s about the life of a person, Russel Shoemaker, who survived a weird phenomenon that happened when he was asleep. He woke up the next day and went down the stairs (the elevator stopped working) only to find out that noone was at the lobby. Of course, it was rather weird to find not even a single person in a 5-star hotel lobby. Even worse, no one was seen as he walked around the town for two weeks.

To those who’d like to watch, please enjoy this series as it’s easily available in YouTube and appreciate his thoughts and feelings as he slowly finds out the cause of such incidence.

Tears at night…(spoiler alert for House s4e16)

May 20, 2008 at 6:11 pm | Posted in Something that you watch... | 6 Comments

I was in my room. I looked at the bottom right of my laptop screen. It was 1:28pm.

At that time, I was watching House’s final episode of its latest season, season 4 episode 16. An episode, I should say, worth my tears.

In this episode, House experiences a short term memory loss because of an accident which, Amber, Wilson’s (his best friend) girlfriend is also involved in. Even with fractures in the brain, Wilson desperately begged to risk House’s life by generating the memories back using electric shocks, in order to analyse any signs or symptoms that she may had. At that moment, her body was kept at low temperature to give some time for House’s team to develop a diagnosis.

The idea of generating the lost memories using electricity was already suggested by House himself. But Dr. Cuddy, his superior whom he likes to torture, denies it due to his present condition. I was impressed that he actually went through it although Wilson cared more on saving Amber’s life than risking House’s. He understood how he felt. Of course, he was partly to be blamed since Amber being on the bus is his fault in the first place. But my post isn’t meant to talk about this.

Take a good look at this.

That’s Wilson hugging Amber.

No, those aren’t tears of joy.

The electric shocks successfully generated House’s memory during that incident. It turns out that Amber has ‘flu’ and was taking ‘Ametidine’ for it. Renal failure occuring after the accident, fails to metabolise those drugs, causing tachycardia, v-fib and finally liver failure (so the story goes!). Ametidine poisoning is an unfortunate case since according to House, the drugs can bind to protein making it not removable even after ‘flushing out the drugs’.

Despite the theory, Wilson is given a chance to tell Amber about her condition or more or less, say ‘goodbye’. This is the saddest part (to me) as he had to be the one to turn off the ‘bypass’ (something that acts as her heart). Can you imagine the feeling? Also, the feeling as he goes home and lie on the bed alone, again. And only to find a note saying “Sorry, I’m not here. Went to pick up House”, signed with her name.

Man, the feeling…

An episode worth my tears….Miss you pig pig