Tonight's Episode

[nightdog_barks]

Well. I think that was one of the most well-rounded episodes in a while, but I'm not sure how I feel about the ending. House chooses happiness? House tries to choose happiness? House thinks he's choosing happiness yet mislabels the particular ladybit he's resting his head on?*

Great banter all around. Interesting sidestory with Foreman and Taub as roommates.

WONDERFUL scene with House analyzing the single Vicodin tablet.

Finally more than three seconds of Wilson, and YAY for taking away House's keys. I'm fanwanking that he drove House to Cuddy's place, because I simply can't imagine House walking X number of miles in the rain.

I'm sure there's more but we're making dinner.


*Vaginas are inside the body. House would've been resting his head on the ... outer bits. Labia majora? *g*

Comments

[blackmare]

Well, House would always go for the word with the most shock value.

Gotta say, Hugh Laurie plays "blitzed halfway to Jupiter" amazingly well. I've got a mixed reaction to that ending as well. I mean ... on the one hand we see House trying really hard to choose happiness for himself, but on the other, he's drunk off his ass when he's trying, and we've seen that his tendency to self-destruct and see his own happiness as detrimental to other people and to his skills. And those beliefs are going to screw him up, I think.

[nightdog_barks]

Hugh Laurie does Drunk just incredibly well.

SO MUCH LOVE for Wilson finding him in the bar. It does make me wonder how many he had to search before he found him in that one -- from the name on the window (door?) it was a new one, not Sharry's.

[blackmare]

I doubt House will ever go back to Sharry's.

This place, I think was closer to home, a place Wilson would have known to look. I find something tremendously comforting about Wilson being so very Wilson. It's silly, but it substantially improved my evening.

[nightdog_barks]

It did mine, too, and it was most welcome since I was having an oddly blue day.

:-)

[blackmare]

Must be going around. I had a very weirdly down day, too, and now I am happily working on my doggie portrait, which is going well.

It was also wonderful to see House talking to Wilson the way he did. Drunk or not, that was a huge deal for House. Nice to see the two of them still close enough to have those kinds of conversations, but still the same guys they always were, too; such conversations probably only happen when alcohol is involved.

[taiga13]

Just finished watching and you were right, it was terrific.

[pwcorgigirl]

The name of the bar was Berta's -- the third reference to a Bert in the episode: Bert & Ernie, Burt the patient, and then the bar.

As well as Hugh Laurie plays knee-walking drunk, it was kind of sad (at least to me) that he could only talk about the weight of each patient's death to Wilson when he was plastered. And the same for telling Cuddy she's worth it. It's as if he can only let his guard down chemically, and then most people won't take him seriously because he's drunk.

There was a nice timeline tidbit dropped in this episode: Cuddy's been running the hospital for 15 years, which would mean she was there two years before House, if her long-ago line about five years being long enough for House to sulk means that he was employed at PPTH during those five years.

[nightdog_barks]

I thought it was Berta's, or Barta's, or something short and beginning with a B like that. I kept having thoughts after that of Wilson driving to all the bars he knew of, circling around the parking lot looking for House's car, and driving on to the next one. Some of them were probably awful dives where he would've gotten the fisheye for walking in wearing a tux.

Heh, I heard that 15-year bit, but I figured it would just get dropped out of the continuity stream sometime anyway. *g*