I thought she was trying not to cry or starting to cry – making those sort of pinchy crying faces. If anything, I think it will strengthen them – he let her into his pain, and she knows that that’s a new thing for him.
My take on things:
It was suicide. House finding that last pic was loud and clear, I thought.
13 was relieved when Foreman took her hand. They are going to be much tighter after this.
The suicide will be the result of some revelation about the parent killer - he will have just found out that the guy died of an aneurysm. My guess is that he was sustained through his grief by hating this guy; he was living mainly to make sure the guy stayed in jail (testifying at all the probation hearings). . . second guess is that it was a mistaken identification and for whatever reason he had not yet recanted his testimony.
House’s guess about Kutner learning to look happy for his adoptive parents will be crucial to our understanding of all this.
I do think it was foreshadowed. I’ve often wondered about his fascination with X-sports. Unusual for a medical doctor who has seen what blunt trauma can do. Even more so when you add that he had seen the gore of his parents deaths. X-sports are usually for people who have no real concept of their own mortality. - UNLESS they have some sort of brain chemistry problem (low seratonin would do it) which prevents them from feeling more subtle emotions. This makes them into adrenaline junkies, because the “thrill” is the closest thing they ever feel to joy or happiness.
He was very isolated, and his Man-Boy heaven was perfectly set up for a person who spends all his time alone. It reminded me a bit of “I am Legend” and the music/video obsession.
Even having been told that MeatLoaf was in it I didn’t immediately know him. I totally bought into him as the character he was portraying. It was a level of acting prowess I didn’t expect from him, I am awed.
House was not offended enough by Wilson’s accusation about being “just in it for the puzzle.” He should have been genuinely hurt by that. Yes, even House, IMHO.
You could be right. I can be a lot like House sometimes. I can be oblivious to basic emotional cues. She was burying a colleague. It would have been natural to cry and for Foreman to reach out.
I wanted to come back in to mention that I liked House greeting Wilson in Kutner’s apartment, telling him, “I’m glad you’re here.” It seems as if House took their conversation a few weeks ago about “observing a social contract” to heart and is looking for ways to come off as less of an ass. Who knows, maybe he’ll go through with a few psychiatric sessions, too, to help him come to terms with not being able to figure out Kutner’s suicide.
House isn’t oblivious to emotional cues, either basic or complex. He simply doesn’t care most of the time.
I read the interview on the House page. The producers state it was a suicide. House is looking for answers and trying anything that lets himself off the hook. Murder is a red herring of House’s design.
Oh god, I hope this is not true.
So they create a show that has a character who stands for rational thought, and that people do things for a reason. (Like I myself do.) Then create a situation where there is something he can’t explain, because not everything happens for a reason in the real world, then watch him go crazy. Only it’s not the real world and they themselves created the situation. Agh.
So they’re really not planning on telling us why Kutner killed himself? That’s extremely frustrating, and might stop me from watching the show.