Taiga, I just re-watched it and here's approximately how the dialogue goes: Thirteen's just noticed Taub picked up two bags from the pharmacy. Taub: Nothing wrong with helping out a colleague Thirteen: You're trying to boost your points by prescribing drugs for House. Taub: Never said you were the colleague.

I'll probably be the last, as usual. Damn time-stretch thing! Liked the episode, but not as the previous one. But I need to rewatch it to catch all the jokes. I can't understand one thing. There was an episode (I don't remember the name, but it was somewhere in season three) in which House told Wilson the Ducklings were boring, so it didn't matter if they cared. House is afraid of boredom, so do the viewers. Then why not Amber, but Thirteen, who is even more annoying and dull than Cameron? Cameron showed herself quite interesting in several episodes, though those episodes weren't often. They can say she doesn't care and her priorities are false and so on. Look at Foreman - does he care so much? Did he care at all of anything about his career and trying to score off House? Cameron cares, but her care would have been worst than indifference. Cuddy would have screwed up in diagnosing because of her care. Why not to hire Amber? I liked TCB and I'll miss her :( My ideal team would be: Kutner, Taub, Amber, Thirteen and the ROF as House's assistant.

How bizarre is it that House never asked Wilson who he should hire? Wilson the only person whose advice he seeks out, usually. I think he tried to, just Wilson was incredibly preoccupied with his own problem (rightfully so, but nevertheless.) Because before we find out that the test results were a false positive, House says, "What do you think of Amber?" I think he actually asks him that twice, although Wilson never answers because he's obsessing over his own patient.

'Tis true, my bad. Thanks for the correction, guys. Looking at someone's screencaps reminded me of something: in House's scene where he was ultrasounding the patient's heart, did anyone else notice that HL's right eye was bloodshot?

I just noticed upon 2nd viewing that the scene with Cuddy and House in the lecture hall where it starts off with House playing the piano, that House and Cuddy are never in the same camera shot together. AND in fact it's light-ed (if that's a word) differently, the shot with House and the shots with Cuddy, different lighting. Anyway, this leads me to believe that perhaps this was when Hugh left for england or whatever and so they shot out LE's lines with someone reading HL's lines and then when HL got back, they filmed his lines w/o LE. anyway else notice that? I thought it odd and worth mentioning.

Anyway, this leads me to believe that perhaps this was when Hugh left for england or whatever and so they shot out LE's lines with someone reading HL's lines and then when HL got back, they filmed his lines w/o LE. anyway else notice that? I thought it odd and worth mentioning. I don't think that timeline is possible. He left for England the last week of October, and they were already starting episode 11 by then, IIRC. But I don't disagree that they may have filmed the scene separately.

I noticed that too, but I only noticed because someone brought it up in the spoiler speculation thread. I would probably never have noticed on my own.:roll: Man, I have got to re-watch this ep.

Will someone please explain what is so great about Kal Penn? I haven't seen him in anything else, so I don't know if it's him or his character. You know, I couldn't figure out why his character drove me crazy until I realized I still have post-traumatic bad film disorder from when my friends FORCED me to watch Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. They were using my room and my TV and everything. I probably should have kicked them out, but I'm too nice for that. Really, I probably should not hold it against Kal Penn, but I can't seem to help it. :P

Looking at someone's screencaps reminded me of something: in House's scene where he was ultrasounding the patient's heart, did anyone else notice that HL's right eye was bloodshot? No more than usual as far as I can tell.

I think my new nickname for 13 is going to be ‘1-Sue-3’ so her Mary Sue personality will become part of her mysterious name.

Why did they recycle the dying of cancer...not thing from Scrubs? It seems really idiotic. It would have been so much better if...the guy was Wilson's longlost brother or something... Also, does anybody else feel angry that House fired CTB, though the writers have been putting in Taub/CTB hints for...ever?

The DVR clearing continues, and I rewatched this episode today with Mom. The strangest thing about this episode, I think, is the feeling that it really didn't pull me in like the episode I watched yesterday - I felt more invested watching the new team in that episode than I did in this one, for some reason, when the tension really should have gone up. Maybe it was just the case? Maybe the stuff with House and Wilson didn't fold into the game/PotW storyline as seamlessly as the previous episode's Thirteen bit? It just seemed slightly off. I liked that in the end, House had grown attached to the doctors he had left and saw both the good and bad in all his team members. Thirteen...ugh. Because you know, I almost like her. Seriously, it's thisclose, so I figure she may still win me over. But it seems like she's just a little too shiny right now. The luxury of time will no doubt allow her to get dinged up a bit, which I actually feel is sort of unfortunate because I think this show handles up-front dings a little more skillfully. (Loved the "He's not going to run the tests, is he?" "No, no, I don't think so." exchange.) I didn't quite get the turnabout that happened which caused 13 to evolve from her knowing, enigmatic Mona Lisa smile that she's had for the last 7 week's into tonight's chatterbox but whatever. Cocaine. No wonder drug addicts don't faze her. :wink: They were spelling Amber's doom so loudly, I still say this is a tribute to those reality show episodes where you know somebody's getting aufed because their story is getting highlighted. (Project Runway, I'm looking at you.) It's hard to say whether Amber could learn the flexibility of thought that would make her a *really* good candidate for House. I mean, he doesn't need someone just sticking with their first guess when he's already got Foreman. *g* Anne Dudek gave a really spiffy performance, though. I would like to note that my grandmother smoked all the time with her oxygen tank, and she never blew up anything. Obviously not something one would want to try (for that matter, best to avoid the behavior that will land you *with* an oxygen tank), but this guy apparently wasn't punk enough. I also found it kind of ironic that the guy who "didn't care" was one of the few patients we've seen on this show lately who had friends hanging out at his bedside. (Some of that is a function of the patients' issues...and some of it could well be that the guest star budget has been totally blown lately. :lol: )

13: This is how doctors kill patients. By seeing the stereotype instead of the truth.... House: Why do you love drug addicts? 13: I won't pigeonhole the patients, so that means I'm... House: I'm perfectly capable of drawing my own conclusions. Are you capable of answering a question? "THIRTEEN": I think there's more to him than the drugs. When this episode first aired, the assumption was that 13 was getting Cameron's usual lines in this scenario, or in other words, she was being written as the supposedly "nice, ethical one." I think that after viewing "Don't Ever Change," 13's opinions in this episode seem quite consistent with her ideas about simplifying identity. Whereas Cameron would probably phrase such an opinion in terms of thinking the best of people, 13 comes to this conclusion as a result of her own discomfort with the way people are categorized in society.