Thirteen just needs to go. She's flat. She's boring. She is flat and boring, agreed. She's drop dead gorgeous, so no newsflash as to how she got the part. I don't know if she has anything interesting to offer as far as an actor. I thought the same thing about Cam and Chase when I first started watching the show. Now they're written better, at least in this ep. Cam seems lively compared to 13. She seems sedated.

Yeah, I was worried for the dog, too. I also wonder exactly why Chase agreed to run the -*test*-('"). (And, the spoilered among us found out what House meant by a doctor not working at the hospital) Was it because Amber said she found his motives more interesting? And, if her assumption of his motives are true and they are interesting, will they explore it? If they do, I'm guessing not in any detail for the next few episodes, but maybe at some point.

Can we call this episode Everybody Dies? I cried during the dog scene :cry: Wilson can say that House hasn't been to the afterlife because he really hasn't - he hasn't really died for good. The writers obviously know what happened in Three Stories and I think the visions House had then are exactly the reason he would try to experience it again. Think about it: House is an atheist, so he's 99% sure there's nothing after you die. But, he's had that one experience... That's got to cause him a lot of doubt about his assumption of 'nothing being there'. So he wants to make sure what he told the patient is true.

I thought chase agreed to run the -*test*-('") to piss off house, and prove him wrong if she turned out to be right.

yes, but I don't think the rest of the ep was lazy, they needed it to balance just how dark & depressing an ep this is. think about it, two patients dead, also the dog, multiple medical mistakes by the team and House on Cuddy's watch. They really went for a grand slam there. There was a lot of good stuff there and it isn't the darkness I find lazy, it's the stupid stuff like Wilson first saying House "hasn't been there so doesn't know" and then turn around and basically say, "you've been there twice, why did you have to do this?" and the utter illogical idiocy of Cuddy blaming House because he "hired" 13 but not seeming to remember that she made him hire a team and that, if it's his fault for hiring 13, then logically it's Cuddy's fault because she hired House. gah! And all cut-throat bitch's hijinks just didn't work for me. Is that supposed to make me like her or think she cool or something like the sexscades did for Cam/Chase? It just made me hate her. I think they were going for cheap, easy shots rather than the grand slam, especially with the House near death again, the I love you and the dog dying. Why bother with substance when you can just have House stick a knife in a socket and be rescued by the la-*test*-('") heart throb? And wake up to say he loves Wilson. Cheap and lazy appeal to sensationalism imo. I'm not saying there was nothing of any substance in this episode, I could have just done without the Most Shocking House Ever effect every quarter hour.

I think the "I love you" was real, but that House wants Wilson and TPTB want the audience to be able to dismiss it as a joke if that's what they're comfortable doing. Whether the "real" was platonic or not, that I'll leave for the analysts. ITA, the way he said it was so House. My thoughts on the opening was "OHMYBOB! She's going to hit the dog!" I was actually a lot more worried about the dog than the guy. Me too, I was like "NO! Not the dog. Take the guy instead." I was cheering Wilson on when he yelled at House about telling the patient there was no afterlife. It doesn't matter if there is or isn't. The patient had some hope and that's what mattered. I was cheering too. Let the man believe what he wants to believe. What good will it do to have him believing nothing's out there? As I've said before, I know House attacks anything and everything about people but when he attacks religion it just gets under my skin.

isn't Cuddy supposed to be one of THREE female Deans of Medicine in the USA? The things I do for you, cat... (shuffles off to transcripts site) That's what she said in 'Mob Rules': "There are three female Chiefs of Medicine at major hospitals in this country and we all got there using our feminine wiles." She was being sarcastic, but for Cuddy herself I'm starting to believe it's true - and that makes me sad.

Im so glad Chase got to be funny and snappy tonight. Very fun to watch him. So glad he's still around. Foreman was pretty miserable but that's what the part called for. I don't think Omar was sub-par. I was cheering too. Let the man believe what he wants to believe. What good will it do to have him believing nothing's out there? As I've said before, I know House attacks anything and everything about people but when he attacks religion it just gets under my skin. Me too. Hate the whole atheist thing. It produces a major visceral reaction with me. but I'm a christian so no surprise there. And isn't wilson a jew? don't they believe in afterlife? But he could be a "secular jew" I guess.

After seeing what Foreman's boss did, can we all appreciate Cuddy a little more? Nope? Just me? Allrighty then.

Yeah foreman's boss was a stone cold B!! Hey I'm gonna fire you for saving a patient!!