there’s no doubt that house likes cuddy. the part i take issue with is cuddy liking house. like you said, she’s got qualities that makes her unattractive to a lot of men. despite that she manages to find lucas, who is quite a bit more ideal a candidate for husband and father than house. she gives up lucas for house? why? to add another dash of “wtf” she follows through on her decision after catching him with drugs?
another bit of unreality, you said it yourself. she’s forthright and no-nonsense. EXACTLY! why would she play these cat-mouse games with House? to spare his feelings, you say. ok. very well. that means she’s not interested in house, right? oh but she is? then why doesn’t she say so? to spare his feelings you say… i mean it just seems like if cuddy did like house, she would tell him. if there were reasons to choose lucas over house, she would tell him those as well. house plays games. cuddy doesn’t have time for that.
the point is that cuddy the character is set up to not love house. house the character is set up to tragically love cuddy. cuddy loving house is completely contradictory. it means that she’s loved him all along, and for the past 5+ years bit her tongue as her biological clock ticked away. either cuddy isn’t as sane as her character mandates, or that final scene was an irrevocable mistake.
unless… it’s a DREAM SEQUENCE. in which case, it’s an irrevocable mistake of a different nature.
edit: oh yeah. triage. no, i totally get that. trauma relief must be traumatic in its own right. but, does house really have to be there? sure he has a great ability to be emotionally detached to his patients but he’s also walking with a cane in an unpredictably dangerous disaster zone. surely there are other doctors available? and cuddy as an ADMINISTRATOR is there? she has medical training but her job is behind a desk now. this is like phil jackson deciding to suit up for the lakers in the 4th quarter and taking magic johnson along with him.
Or…people don’t have as much control as they like over who they fall in love with. You heard Cuddy in the episode: “I love you. I don’t want to, but I do.” (paraphrased). Even she sees that loving House isn’t going to be a bed of roses. She knows she’s probably signing herself up for, at best, a pretty bumpy ride. But sometimes you just fall for somebody for no discernable reason. It happens all the time in real life. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Whether it does in this case remains to be seen, and hopefully will make for an interesting Season 7.
i’m not saying cuddy CAN’T fall in love with house but based on how they’ve written the show, it seems unlikely that cuddy loves house. i mean, cuddy has working with house for close to 10 years now. she’s KNOWN house for about 20 years. nothing in these two decades has cuddy done ANYTHING to show that she’s interested until now. you figure that such a forthright person such as cuddy who’s use to taking what she wants would have done something by now.
that is unless, cuddy developed feelings for house over time. if that’s the case, these feelings were developed recently? why? because house is sober from pain pills? if that was the case, you figure she would have pounced on House when his leg was cured after the ketamine (sp?) treatments a few seasons back, and the love would have evaporated when she found House with pills at the end scene. anything else?
i dunno. maybe i’m reading too much into it, but this ending just seemed totally written backwards. they wanted house and cuddy to be together at the end of the season, and now they’re forcing the jigsaw pieces to fit.
Season closes with him on the bathroom floor, debating whether to take the pills but never seeing the resolution.
First scene next season. House’s speech to the patient in the season finale made him realize that his is also “only a leg”, and how much it has affected how he lives his life. He has had his bad leg removed. Short cut to some CGI footage or a stand-in so that we can see the prosthetic. He no longer has the need for painkillers and the rest of the season plays out the question of whether the rest of him can become whole again. Whether he will become happier and easier to deal with, or whether he remains aloof because he likes the way it can be used to wield power.
But alas, no. They jumped the shark when Cuddy showed up. Once again they took a show with an alternative plot device and turned it into the stereotypical TV show. Quirky lead characters just happen to work in the same office with their soulmate and hook up despite several years of constant feuding.
It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if both Cuddy and Wilson married their partners and House had to cope with not being the center of attention any longer.
If you click on the image there is a picture of the woman buried in rubble that could almost have been taken from the House episode. I remember reading about her shortly after the bombings. I think they said they used dental anesthetic to help ease the pain.
The poor woman. I can’t even image what it’s like to live through something like that.
I’m pretty sure I read an interview with them last time where they claimed it was not a hallucination and it turned out to be a hallucination. I don’t trust them.
He said he’d waited too long when he thought that it was crush syndrome and Hannah had had a blood clot. It was after he’d administered the clot-buster and it didn’t work that he realized that she’d had a fat embolism. Crush syndrome was time-sensitive, a fat embolism wasn’t.
Okay, fine, but could you just punch me in the face and knock me the hell out first then, please? I think I really would rather die than have someone cut my leg off with no anasthesia.
At this point the ending can’t be a dream sequence or hallucination anymore as far as I’m concerned. If it was, they would have had to reveal it in this episode. Leaving everyone thinking otherwise in a season finale until the next season starts would be in bad taste.
The thing that bugs me the most about the ending is that it’ll again be House deciding not to take the pills because of someone else. Even though Cuddy said that she wasn’t going to stop him from taking the pills, her presence and her predictable reaction if he did take them becomes a major cause for House not going back on drugs.
Instead of relying on Wilson like before, he’s now relying on Cuddy. What if the relationship doesn’t work out, and he goes back to not having anyone to lean on again? I think House deserves a little bit of happiness, and I didn’t want to see him go back on the drugs. I did however want to see him make the decision, instead of being coaxed into it by Cuddy’s presence. It would have been nice to see House flush the drugs by himself, because he doesn’t want to go back. It just seems like a very unhealthy start for a relationship.
I’m not a huge fan of Huddy in the first place, but I would have been ok with it had it been done differently. It goes from “I hate you” to “I love you” way too fast.
House still had drugs hidden, and had no trouble remembering where they were; which means that he was never comepletely committed to sobriety. He drank. He stopped his therapy. He went to take the drugs, and only stopped because he was offered a substitute (relationship/sex with Cuddy.) Yeah, I’m guessing this doesn’t end well.
If it does end well, it would be a disservice to society because those are several major no-no’s right there.
The only way I see it working is if he goes back to therapy, and makes the decision to put off the relationship for a year. Which really wouldn’t make good TV; we all got over that watching Moonlighting.
Does an addict really get sober on his own? The addicts that I’ve known who have gotten sober only managed because they made healthy relationships while avoiding their drug scene friends. Relying on relationships is a big part of how addicts manage to quit using drugs. Instead of using the drugs to feel better they lean on their friends.
Doesn’t work like that. On TV, everyone is instantly knocked out when convenient, but in IRL you need to keep hitting them until they’ve got brain damage more or less.
from what i’ve heard/read, a big part is to admit you’re powerless and put faith in a higher power - two things that house most certainly cannot do. i think drugs will be with the show until the bitter (and fast approaching imo) end.
Does anyone know how long the show will last? For some reason I’m thinking that next season will be the last, but I’ve realized I don’t know where I got that idea.
For the record, if House had his leg cut off, I have no doubt he’d have phantom pain for the rest of his life, House being who he is.
Yeah, I meant capital “R” relationship. Friendhsips are vital.
I’ve known quite a few sober Agnostics, and a few sober Atheists.
Hosue never built a support network outside his existing enablers. Now he’s essentially lost one, (Did wilson even have a cameo in the finale?) and is starting a "R"elationship with the other. And he’s fired his counselor.
Here’s hoping it turns out well somehow. Id’ love for this series to end with him happy, and the writers keeping us interested for as long as they can with just the medical mysteries. . .