Sorry if I stepped on toes by starting this, but I just wanted to say that I have to miss it tonight. I have to go to a thing at the HS. Poop (damned honor student!)
Please feel free to spoil it–I won’t be able to see it for a week now. 
I say that House and Amber were not having an affair, but that it looks that way for now. Amber must have some kind of rare disease/condition–that’s why she was on the bus with House.
Just a theory.
I cried.
Cuddy at House’s bedside was very touching.
Ditto.
I’m totally depressed, actually.
I’m STILL crying.
House tearing up at the end just wrecked me. And then when Wilson turns away from House’s hospital bed. Gah. My husband laughed at me when I wailed “Now Wilson hates House!” Heh.
Saddest hour of tv I can remember since…well, maybe ever.
I knowwwwwww! (I actually "aww"ed aloud.)
Dude, I know I say it every week, but I can’t be the only one who sees it now… Cuddy totally freakin’ loves House. They really need to explore that further next season.
And, UGH, I cried too. I never cry at TV, and I didn’t even CARE that
Amber was dying,
but goddamn Robert Sean Leonard is such a fucking good actor that I couldn’t even help it.
Also,
poor 13.
ETA: Can someone please explain to me why in the world would
Wilson hate House
?!!?!?!
I cried, too, but I cried for House and his relationship with Wilson than for Amber.
I totally gasped aloud “No!” when they showed that. I wasn’t expecting that at all.
Gah. Wilson can’t stay mad forever. Right?
Blaming House for Amber’s death. If he hadn’t called her for a ride, she’d still be alive. Not logical, perhaps, but not uncommon, either.
A very intense episode, maybe the saddest season finale I’ve ever seen.
I can’t believe that somehow, they made me like Amber.
I haven’t watched “House” much this season, found it disappointing. Decided to give it another try tonight, and OMG - you all are right. This was an excellent, depressing hour of television.
Gives me hope for a rebound in quality next season, this was so well written and acted. also I may stop crying by then.
I managed to watch the last half hour. (did it come out that House had slept with Amber? I remember seeing a preview and in it Wilson yelled that at House).
My goodness. I can only hope that House and Wilson can patch things up. It will take some effort on House’s part–and he needs to make that effort. I liked what he said on the bus re he wanted to stay because on the bus it didn’t hurt. Even with House’s assholery, his honesty does get my admiration.
I about lost it when Wilson and Amber were in the bed together.
And Cuddy in the chair–how poignant. I can’t believe we have to wait until September to find out more.
PS-the medicine was ridiculous to the point of absurdity, but I didn’t care due to the story line.
Agree that it was intense, and very well done. Regarding House and Wilson, though:
I’m not sure I understand the sequence of events leading to Amber’s amantadine poisoning, but wouldn’t she have died anyway if the amantadine was the culprit? I may be confused, but the crash didn’t actually cause the poisoining, did it? House knew Amber taking the amantadine was wrong when he saw it (pre-crash).
I think the crash made it impossible for her to recover from the poisoning, if I understood things correctly. The reason the poisoning spread so quickly was because her kidneys were damaged from the crash. If her kidneys hadn’t been damaged the poison wouldn’t have reached her brain. I think.
See, same here. I don’t see how Wilson can be upset at House for that at all. Did I miss something? Did something about the bus crashing exacerbate it in some manner? 
Edit-- upon reading the post above: Oh. Well, that makes more sense.
I had to go back and rewatch that part, because I wasn’t sure of the sequence, but yes,
[spoiler]Amber’s taking the drug wasn’t the bad ting, it’s the fact that the accident destroyed her kidneys, and dialysis wouldn’t work because the drug bonded with the proteins in the blood and couldn’t be cleaned out. Although that made me wonder if a transfusioin would work, as long as her organs weren’t too damaged.
Anyway, Wilson’s got a good reason to be mad, because CTB wouldn’t’ve been on the bus and wouldn’t’ve gotten her kidneys destroy if hHOuse hadn’t been a self-loathing addict.[/spoiler]
Terribly sad, and I can’t wait until next season to see what new torment awaits House.
StG
But Amber CHOSE to pick up House. She could have easily said no. He didn’t want her there. Wilson will figure this out, but I think this will be the final straw–no more enabling from Wilson. Cuddy will take over that role, IMO.
House has some demons that he needs to face. He exorcized Stacy, now he has to do his dad and his fear of people. He needs to be the friend that Wilson deserves (although I think House is good for Wilson the way he is now already, too. If that makes sense.)
Agreed. I absolutely hated her when she was auditioning to be a member of his team, but adored her with Wilson. She seemed like such a positive step in the right, non-enabling direction and was completely crazy about him.
I cried so hard.
Now I’ll just be on pins and needles about where this’ll go from here. Poor guys all the way around.
OK, so the sequence regarding the amantadine . . . House only cautioned Amber against taking the amantadine in his flashback because he knew her kidneys would be damaged by the crash. Yep, went back and watched it again, too - when House mentions the amantadine poisoning, Wilson says, “The crash destroyed her kidneys, her body couldn’t filter the drugs, she OD’s on amantadine . . .” So, Amber would have been fine if she wasn’t on the bus.Thanks for clarifying, HazelNutCoffee and StGermain.
Oh hell. House and Wilson are in for a tough time indeed.
Amber chose to pick up House, but she was at Wilson’s…House had called Wilson for help, there at the end was the poignant note under the pillow. She did that duty for Wilson, but, perhaps for duty to House.
I loved the fact that Amber got the ultimate diagnosis right away, and it’s cause. The last bus scene with great eye contact was mighty fine.
I cried, too.
I cried, too. Robert Sean Leonard can really give your heartstrings a workout.
This was a great end to a stinker of a season. It gives me hope for this fall.
I was really glad they didn’t go there with the whole House/Amber thing it seemed they were leading up to. As crass and grumpy and self centered as House can be, I just don’t think he would ever hurt Wilson purposely. Even though he doesn’t express it, House knows full well what Wilson means to him.
I thought that Wilson waiting for House to wake up was a sign that their friendship was still solid. He waited to see that House was going to be ok before he went home to grieve for Amber.
How long were Wilson and Amber supposed to be going out? It seems like it’s only been a couple of weeks, but Wilson is far too upset for it to be that new of a relationship.