As I tried to point out in my previous thread, when I saw her in Bones, showing plenty of leg and cleavage, I still thought there was something unattractive about her face.
May just be personal preference, and reflect unrealistic expectations caused by TV, film, and fashion, but there you go.
Heck, I readily acknowledge that she is far more attractive than most women I see on the street. But unfortunately for her, she is compared to women in her chosen field.
Didn’t the husband say that the first principle is to protect life though? I have ZERO knowledge of Jewish (Talmudic?) law, but I thought I had heard that before - that all of the 631 comandments were trumped by the concept of protecting life.
Damnit. Now I see that Liberal beat me to it 5 posts ago.
I don’t recall anybody ever calling Wilson by his first name. If his own parents showed up, they’d probably called him “Wilson” too.
Every now and again, House calls him “Jimmy”. And the too funny “Bob” of this week. Yes!
I think it’s 613 commandments (I guess Moses had more to say–perhaps he ran out of clay tablets?)
notices which poster took the “rational” hijack. Decides to just let it go.
I don’t think CTB needs to look like a supermodel–if anything, I also find 13 unattractive (except her eyes). The Polar Expedition doc was extremely attractive, as was the pt who had been raped last season. I think CTB is costumed and made up (especially the hair) to enhance her physical flaws in a subtle way. Her hair color alone (like Cameron’s this season) is the wrong tone and shade for her skin color. It makes her look washed out.
More to say? That dude never shut up. He’s got five whole books of that stuff.
I had a friend in high school that everyone called by his last name. Some people didn’t even realize it was his last name.
Heck, you could call his house, ask his dad for “Lastname”, and he’d put down the phone and yell “Lastname! Answer the phone!”
The moral? Never name your kid Michael.
Was she one of House’s minions that got fired, like Chase and Cameron?
Echoing. I really don’t get it. She’s attractive to me, despite the evil-bitch makeup they slather on her and the evil-glare direction she receives. But then, maybe I’m just old.
A note on IMDB claims her real name “will be revealed” as “Remy Hadley,” but the accuracy of that - given that, so far as we are aware, no more scripts are completed - is highly dubious. It’d also be a weird choice on a show that gives its characters names you might actually expect adult human beings to have, like “Gregory House” or “Lisa Cuddy” or “James Wilson,” as opposed to the names that Hollywood types want to give their children, like “Remy.” So as it stands, she is “Thirteen” and nothing else.
That’s where I must have gotten that from. I thought I had lost it.
Yes. She was one of the finalists in the 40 candidates interviewed to replace the original team. From the start, she has been solely about winning and doing others down. She is abrasive, obnoxious, and needlessly caustic. IMO, she is just like that, but also she is (was?) trying to meet House where he lives. I think her reasoning was that if she met him rude for rude, he’d respect her. House does respect some people, but he’s not dumb and sees right through her. Also, I agree with Cuddy, who said in “Finding Judas” that House holds back and does have standards of decency re his treatment of others. Impatient with diplomacy, contemptuous of most social niceties, House still has places where he “will not go”. CTB does not understand this salient fact and it will be her undoing. Or at least I hope so. House will mock a stupid idea, but usually allows whomever to at least express that idea. CTB is more proactive in her jerkishness–she insults indiscriminately.
Sorry, got a bit carried away here. I do have a life, really! 
There was another MAJOR self-referential joke in this ep-- where Wilson admitted that he was in love with House and that they were a couple. I thought that was a big old 
to all the House/Wilson 'shippers out there. Who said there aren’t in-jokes in this show? I was bouncing up and down on the couch when he said that. Much hotter than the thought of Cameron/13, though obviously my preferences are showing here.
At work, about 2/3 of my coworkers call me by my last name. I hate it. It’s not like my first name is that hard to say or remember.
You know, I actually like CTB’s personality. The manipulativeness, amorality, all of it. I think it’s hot.
I’m a sick man. I need help.
I think you’re projecting. That’s a joke that any two straight-and-secure-in-their-sexuality men might make to each other; you shouldn’t infer any awareness of slashfic from it.
The actual self-referential joke was when Cameron told House he couldn’t have cable for the coma guy and thus was “limited to what you can watch on the broadcast channels” and House said “I’ll be okay on Tuesdays…”
Obviously I can’t PROVE it was a nod to slash fic, but I still think it was far too blatant to be a coincidence. I think the writers know about the slash fic (they do live in the world) and were giving it a little nod. And I think you’re wrong about the joke being “anything secure men would joke about.” Saying “we’re a couple!” is not standard fare among straight men IMO. Most straight men best friends would not go there. YMMV, etc.
Yeah, that was the OTHER self-referential joke.
I am going to have to agree with Fiver here. This reminds me of the forums on Television Without Pity anytime anything sounds anything like things discussed on the forum people call it a shout out. In this case, it’s just the obvious thing to say when you compare the similarities between CTB and House. I think it is funny and I think it is quite a stretch to consider it a nod to slash. If you want to consider it self referential, that’s cool, but I will disagree with calling it MAJOR. 
It’s not a joke that all straight men would go to automatically, but most straight men in that sort of situation probably would. I mean: How often are men going to question other men’s dating habits so closely? Of course, it would lead to that sort of joke. They have played with the House/Wilson pairing before in this season, I just don’t consider it a nod to slash fiction when they write jokes and situations that are a function of the relationship the two have. In fact, I would almost argue that the relationship they have created between the two is why the slash exists in the first place. I don’t go all the way to arguing it, because I haven’t seen enough the show to know if they always acted in such a couples way.
I thought this episode was a lot of fun. It seems to me that the new team is getting into a comfort level, both in terms of the reality of the show and in terms of what the viewers think of them (This viewer at least.) I started watching the show this year, with some forays into the reruns on USA, so I might have an easier time adapting to the new team. But, I think they are all marvelous. I loved the bisexual reveal scene between 13 and Foreman. “It would have worked better if you just said no.” And, the fact that he really didn’t care.
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I didn’t understand where the question came from, though. Did I miss something that prompted him to ask her that? Why would he even bring it up? I thought it came out of the blue and it seemed false to me, like they were just throwing it in for the “ooooo!” value.
I got the impression that he was just saying the first shocking thing he could think of that she could be hiding, and he happened to hit on the right one. Out of the blue was kind of the point.
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Yeah I think he just plucked it out of thin air because his line was, “A denial would have worked except for the long vacant stare.” Meaning, I presume, that he would have accepted it at face value.