To be fair, he’s been called “Greg” by a few people. By his parents, by Stacey. And he’s introduced himself as “Greg House” or “Doctor Greg House”.
I noticed the look of some of the scenes, too. When Taub and Thirteen were following the father on his coke run, they reminded me a bit of Stabler and Benson of Law and Order SVU.
And I don’t get the hate for Thirteen. I like Olivia Wilde and I thought they made good use of her screen time on this episode. She showed herself to be a smart, capable doctor instead of being spotlit because of her Hodgkin’s disease or her bisexuality.
It’s Huntington’s chorea. And she is a good actor–I can’t stand the character.
She adds nothing to the team except a focal point for some sexual tension and she gets to be a “bad girl”. I was unimpressed by her superior knowledge re the sliding quality scale of coke, for example. Her lines could be said by Kutner or anyone else. She doesn’t bring anything vital into the cast. She’s boring. Her bisexuality is boring. Her drug use is boring. Her disease, if she has it, while devastating to the people who have it, is boring.
When House and the group were first in the conference room discussing the case and Thirteen started talking back, I enjoyed her attitude. Combine that with my gratitude that she didn’t spend the entire episode mired in angst, and I’m heading towards an actual appreciation of her character. I’m mostly completely indifferent to Thirteen, so ‘heading towards appreciation’ is a big step for me.
I liked the kiss, but I don’t get the previews for next week. Everyone else’s reactions seem waaaaay overblown for just a kiss.
I have a theory, though Next week’s episode will pick up moments later, when one of them realizes they’re being, um, something, and he ends up going back in the house to continue where they left off… because seriously, does one’s coworkers usually lose their minds to hear that you kissed someone to ask if that means you’re dating? And I can see House telling Wilson if it was a simple kiss, but to have it common knowledge like they’re in high school??
I don’t even think that the love of a good woman will mellow House. That is WHO he is, I can’t seem him really changing. Besides, seems as though Cuddy loves grouchy House, why change?
Absolutely agreed. I am quite sure he will ALWAYS be a prickly bastard, and if Cuddy were to enter into any sort of relationship with him, it would be with the knowledge that he’s about as cuddly as a cactus, and the willingness to deal with it.
Smart people tend not to screw up that badly. Smart people are better parents, all else being equal, than stupid people. (After all, is there anything that smart people won’t tend to be better at?) That kid lost out on a good thing. Mom is selfish, and too dim to realize it. That’s the problem.
I think she knew it. I do think she realized that she was keeping the baby for her own sake rather than the kid’s. And you never know, she might be okay. I’ve known people who really straightened themselves out after they had a kid.
Sucks for Cuddy, but House didn’t want her raising a meth baby, anyway. Or getting sperm from a dork. Or getting sperm from someone who wasn’t “someone you like.” I think him being a jerk to her about the kind of mother she’d be was jealously laced with him not wanting to see Cuddy with something less than ideal, and he only knocked it off when the threat was neutralized.
Great episode. I was bothered/distracted a bit by Cuddy’s “medical” domination of the baby-mama, however. I don’t know anything about medical ethics, but surely Cuddy’s acting as doctor to the mother of her to-be-adopted child presented an obvious and impermissible conflict of interest, right?
Of course–and I know House is not exactly a paragon of proper medical ethics either. I think I just had a feeling rather akin to what the average ethical doctor sometimes has when watching this type of show. (Or what the average ethical lawyer might feel while watching Boston Legal, if it weren’t all so much fun!)
He had the chance with Stacy and sent her packing, I guess because he just wanted to win and didn’t want the relationship, or can’t allow himself to be happy, etc. I can’t see him in a real relationship; the last one he had was with Stacy before the chronic pain.
Could one of my fellow fans here refresh my memory on why House initially broke up with Stacy? (I may be the only person alive who liked them as a couple, tho keeping them together probably wouldn’t have been good for the growth of the show.)
They slept together and she decided to give him another chance, since she felt he would always be “the one”. He turned her down because he felt they would be happy for a time, then he would say something to fuck it up and maybe she’d forgive him at first, but that he had already been down that road with her and couldn’t do it again.
I think I just had a feeling rather akin to what the average ethical doctor sometimes has when watching this type of show. (Or what the average ethical lawyer might feel while watching Boston Legal, if it weren’t all so much fun!)