Can anyone explain to me what they were doing when they were sticking a huge needle in House’s brain to get him to remember things? Something about stimulating the hypothalamus? How far from reality is that procedure, anyone know? Can you really achieve total recall of a forgotten event via giant needle in the skull?
I guess I’ll have to be the buzzkill; I wasn’t overly impressed with the episode. I was never particularly invested in the Amber character, and found neither the plotline nor the mad rush into maudlin weepiness credible, even by “House” standards. They’ve teetered into “Very Special Episode” territory before, but this time fell facefirst into it. One more tearjerking background song and it would’ve needed a laugh track.
I half-expected to see House, just before the final fadeout, tearfully confess that he’d never learned to read.
Wow, the slow look of realization on Amber’s face when she wakes up and Wilson runs the whole thing down for her was goddamned Oscar worthy. The entire second half of this episode was just increadible in terms of the acting, everyone was bringing their “A” game.
There’s no denying it any further, Cuddy is madly in love with House. It’s just the way it is.
And I know that were I Wilson I would blame House for the short term while I was crazy with greif, but a drunk called for a ride home, that’s a good thing right? He had no idea the bus was going to get into an accident, you can’t blame him for that, not really. Sure, Amber wouldn’t have been there, yadda yadda, but that’s it.
A few random thoughts:
Was there any explanation why House was getting shitfaced in the early evening? Don’t recall that being standard behavior for him.
And since there was apparently a bus available, why didn’t Amber simply tell him to take it?
The barkeep pulls the guys keys, but keeps pouring him booze?
The actress who played Amber played Booth’s love interest - a sexy lawyer - in an early season of Bones.
Nope, no one else noticed.
Pstt…post 33. 
That’s what I was wondering, too.
I was also distracted by (a) the Obligatory Musical Montages – three of them, no less; I usually have to mute the TV only once per episode, and (b) the thought of how freakin’ dangerous is it to be an attractive female doctor on this show – here we’ve got one dead and one doomed. Evidently they can cure attractive male doctors (Forman) only.
Other than that, though 
I loved it.
Now I feel bad for saying last week that I thought Amber and House were perfectly capable of having an affair.
Great episode, but I thought that waking Amber up for a long heart-wrenching goodbye was over the top. The rest of the ending was well done.
This sucks. I loved the actress that played Amber.
House: Well, her husband can make that decision.
Wilson finding the note was the saddest thing I’ve seen all season. Robert Sean Leonard can do the most wonderful acting without saying a word.
Agreed! That was a great subtle bit of acting that made the scene.
Oh, and fucking Fred Durst was the bartender! Keep rollin rollin rollin rollin! YEAH!!!
Thanks…
I’ve got my fill of coffee now.
That’s like asking if you noticed the big yellow hot thing that comes up in the sky every day. It was a little in-your-face.
It was centered on the screen even…number 13 was leaning to the side so the camera man could have a clear shot.
I thought it was kinda cool.
I don’t think CTB was particularly attractive. She always had that petulant look on her face, and looked like she was smelling something bad.
I think House’s tears were for Wilson more than CTB, even though he probably enough tug-o-Wilson with her.
Eleanor - I wouldn’t’ve chosen to wake her up. That’s just cruel.
StG
IANAD and all that, but a person who’s been medically “frozen”/in complete renal failure + liver failure/had prolonged and refractory ventricular fibrillation does not just “wake up”. In RL, she would most likely have been intubated (to protect her airway among other things) and she would most likely be semi-conscious, if she were lucky. I also look askance at the “look at her eye and proclaim she’s in liver failure” stuff. Yes, scleral icterus is a sign of jaundice and liver damage/failure, but given that she had trauma, both blunt and penetrating, she would have had liver enzymes drawn with her other blood work. But of course, that isn’t as dramatic as someone lifting an eyelid and exclaiming…
I really didn’t mind the nonsense medicine this time because the story line was so good. I do have to :dubious: at the medical experts they have on the show at this point, though. RL medicine is (at times) dramatic enough, but that’s another thread altogether.
Well, this is House. Nonsense medicine is perfectly acceptable in this world, if not par for the course. If the writers need to make the story work out a certain way, reality be damned. For example, if the script necessitated Amber to be saved, they wouldn’t hesitate to cut off her head, transplant it to another bus accident victim’s body, and have House playfully “molest” the original decapitated corpse in front of Amber while she convalesces. The only question is what witty line House would utter as he does it.
Ah, thought of one: “Does it count as cheating if your original body and I have sex? Let’s ask Wilson!”
True, dat.
I think that’s why he had so much trouble remembering it–because his injured brain had these two pieces of information (she had taken the amantadine pills, then her kidneys were injured and unable to filter the poison out of her system). Taken singly neither of these facts is particularly interesting, but when put together, they become very significant. House has the kind of brain that just notes small seemingly insignificant details and files them away for later–in his injured state he realized that there was something he *should *know, but he couldn’t get the pieces to come together. And actually, I believe he did know that her kidneys shut down before they found out it was Amber–before that, she was “Jane Doe #2,” but I think I remember them mentioning the kidney thing. Since his brain knew somewhere in there that Jane Doe was Amber (or at least that she could be, since Amber didn’t show up among the injured at PP), it was trying to put things together.
At least that was how I saw it.
I liked the fact for the first time (even though it is to himself) House Admits he needs Wilson as a Friend and is afraid that Wilson will hate him.
It was House at his most honest and shows him as his most cowardly. Once again trying to avoid pain.
The medicine did make me go :dubious: quite a few times. Like how were the Antibotics supposed to work when there was no circulation.
Still a powerful episode.
With a few annoying bits
(Used the music montages as an excuse to get snacks. I can’t stand the cloying nature of those scenes. I get it… it’s sad… stop over doing it!!!)
The main actors should definitely use this ep. for their Emmy reel. Outstanding performances.