4.13 No More Mr. Nice Guy

Sorry for all those who like the long hair but Chase needs a haircut like there's no freaking tomorrow. He was so sexy in S3 because of the hair and now it's just wild and everywhere, it's why I didn't find him that attractive in S1. At the very least he could brush it so it looks like he did something with it. He did look funny bowling but I'm glad he's good at it and the hair certainly didn't distract from my love of the bowling scene. I'm guessing Cuddy or Cameron, were they to hook up with House, wouldn't either. Cuddy yes, Cameron, I won't get into it here, but I don't see her being happy with House wanting his Wilson time, YMMV. So, House and Wilson laughing together over House's plan has to be one of my favorite scenes ever between them. I just love moments like that when Wilson appreciates House's antics and is amused by them and House is so proud and eager to let Wilson in on it. Just adorable. Too bad, Wilson had to go and ruin it by TELLING AMBER RIGHT AFTER HE PROMISED NOT TO!!! *deep breaths* I will get over that, I swear. BTW, Wilson keeps bowling shoes in his office?

Sorry for all those who like the long hair but Chase needs a haircut like there's no freaking tomorrow. He was so sexy in S3 because of the hair and now it's just wild and everywhere, it's why I didn't find him that attractive in S1. At the very least he could brush it so it looks like he did something with it. He did look funny bowling but I'm glad he's good at it and the hair certainly didn't distract from my love of the bowling scene. Well, it's definitely styled better than S1 (I still don't know what to call that), but you're right - a trim would help. I think he's got some split-end issues going on. Cuddy yes, Cameron, I won't get into it here, but I don't see her being happy with House wanting his Wilson time, YMMV. Word. For all the reasons you won't get into, yes. Word.

Total word on Chase's hair. I don't mind long hair but I like it neat, and it just looks like a mop right now. Even the show's stylists can't figure out what the heck to do with it.

The thing is, I don't think there is a syphilis scare, other than in Chase's head. Cameron wasn't giving the impression, IMO, that she had anything to worry about. And I don't know what else Cameron can do but deny currently having feelings for House - if Chase is going to classify any concern Cameron expresses for House as a reason to feel threatened, despite the fact that she's been in a relationship with Chase for nearly a year, he's got a big problem. If their relationship is in trouble, it could be because Cameron is tired of handling his insecurity with kid gloves, not because she actually has any interest in straying. I don't think we or Chase are supposed to think Cameron's feelings for House are anywhere near sorted. What glimpses we've had this season have had Cameron interfering with House's team and Chase calling her on being very involved with House for someone not involved with House--she admitted that one. We then had the Ugly ep, which didn't show Cameron being comfortable with her feelings and not averse to showing Chase that. That was a strange scene. I don't think Chase's concerns about Cameron's feelings are all in his head as though Cameron gives him nothing to feel insecure over. I also don't think she's willing to talk about those feelings rather than deny them, while showing she has them. She's done that since the FWB, and she was willing to kiss House and talk about having sex with him then. She may well be over House, but she and Chase apparently still have to have a serious talk about her feelings that doesn't just involve denial on her part. Kind of like she had with Foreman over the more business aspects. Also, as noted above, though WE know Cameron hasn't slept with House, because we weren't shown anything that indicated they did, Chase has a much less omniscient viewpoint, and Cameron had the space and time after Half Wit for something to happen. And to Chase's certain knowledge, she was still thinking about it in Half Wit.

I'm a total heathen because I absolutely love long, messy hair on most men and Jess Spencer rocks it. :P I love RSL when his hair gets shaggy, too. HL - he looks good with it short. ETA:Too bad, Wilson had to go and ruin it by TELLING AMBER RIGHT AFTER HE PROMISED NOT TO!!! This cracked me up, LMC. :lol:

I like the thought above that Amber will end up scuppering her romance because she'll lose sight of the overall goal (grow a relationship with Wilson) in pursuit of the immediate goal (score off House)--the same reason she lost out on the Survivor game (fight for her diagnosis over examining every diagnosis, so she can win). I like Wilson/Amber and want them to last, but yes if they have to break up I can see it happening this way. Amber losing because she can't change. I also don't see how her being annoyed with their having sex being deliberately sabotaged says that all she cares about with Wilson is sex. It's one of the things, and since that is the one point that House was going after it makes sense that it's what would be concentrated on. I'm sure if House had sabotaged them spending a quiet evening watching tv or something else, she would have called him on that. The only reason it was sex is because that's where House's plot was aimed. That's how I saw it too. While she may have been disappointed that "it" wasn't working (but as Dan Savage would say, his fingers and tongue still worked didn't they?), she was angry that House deliberately sabotaged her. Has anyone considered that Wilson manipulated both House and Amber so that the two of them would spend more time with each other? He seemed pretty pleased that they were 'punished' together at the end of this episode. I did, edicotte. It will be interesting to see how that plays out. I really like the old and new teams hanging out together, but know what disturbs me in retrospect? Thirteen remarking that "Wilson says House has always been an ass". Thirteen is grilling Wilson about House in her spare time now, like Cameron used to? The horror! she did call him a wuss in front of his best friend and his boss I can't blame her for that, in my head I was calling him that too. Much as I adore childLIKE House -- the guy who loves monster trucks and video games and cheesy television -- ChildISH House is starting to bug me. So well put! Stacy didn't seem to have any problem accepting Wilson's role in House's life That we know of :wink:. Maybe the exact same thing happened in reverse when she took up with House.

This is exactly why I think House and Cuddy are already Huddy. During the scene where Wilson and House are talking about House faking syphillis, Wilson asks House if they need to talk (presumably about the reasons he might have syphillis) and then asks House if he was going to continue screwing... and House says he will but they won't talk about it. YES, this could very well mean messing with his team, but after the reference to "doing Cuddy" along with his taxes, I honestly think House distinctly meant he and Cuddy were "screwing". That would explain a lot...particularly the reason House would even remotely do the clean up at the end. That conversation could easily have a double meaning. But why would Wilson ask in this moment whether House will continue sleeping with Person X? House does not have syphilis, so if he is sleeping with someone, then there is no need to stop sleeping with that person. (Regardless, I don't think House is sleeping with anyone.) Wilson said, "You're gonna keep screwing—" I think if he had completed the question, it would have been: You're gonna keep screwing with your new team? or You're gonna keep screwing with Amber? or anything similar to that effect. House's response was, "Yea. And you're gonna keep talking about it. We are who we are." Meaning, I'm going to do what I always do, and you're going to do what you always do. Neither of us is going to change, because nobody changes. (Unless their personality quirks are caused by a disease which is then cured.) I agree with LMC that Chase needs a haircut. Even so, he completely lit up the screen with his presence, especially in the bowling scene with House. It was especially adorable and wonderful that Chase finally had something concrete to teach House (how to bowl properly).

Corgigirl mentioned elsewhere the scene in which Taub relates the very personal issues of infidelity -- hoping that your SO has also been unfaithful so you don't have to feel guilty, then when the realization sinks in about the infidelity, wishing you just had guilt to contend with -- and on rewatch I was paying more attention to Taub's scenes. It's often missed in all the squeeing, but I think Peter Jacobsen does an amazing job very quietly building this character who should shouldn't be sympathetic, but yet is. He never yells, never seems to get upset, but there is a depth of reaction with him, like the scene mentioned above when you get far more than is on the page. Or as in his scene with Foreman, in which it's clear that this is a man with far more experience as a "leader" than Foreman has ever had -- maybe more than Foreman will ever have -- and just very calmly lays his cards on the table.

Wilson said, "You're gonna keep screwing—" I think if he had completed the question, it would have been: You're gonna keep screwing with your new team? or You're gonna keep screwing with Amber? or anything similar to that effect. House's response was, "Yea. And you're gonna keep talking about it. We are who we are." Meaning, I'm going to do what I always do, and you're going to do what you always do. Neither of us is going to change, because nobody changes. (Unless their personality quirks are caused by a disease which is then cured.) Yeah, that's how I heard it. It never occurred to me that it meant something sexual.

But why would Wilson ask in this moment whether House will continue sleeping with Person X? House does not have syphilis, so if he is sleeping with someone, then there is no need to stop sleeping with that person. (Regardless, I don't think House is sleeping with anyone.) Wilson said, "You're gonna keep screwing—" I think if he had completed the question, it would have been: You're gonna keep screwing with your new team? or You're gonna keep screwing with Amber? or anything similar to that effect. House's response was, "Yea. And you're gonna keep talking about it. We are who we are." Meaning, I'm going to do what I always do, and you're going to do what you always do. Neither of us is going to change, because nobody changes. (Unless their personality quirks are caused by a disease which is then cured.) I changed my mind upthread (put in an ETA to my post earlier today). I actually now think Wilson would have said..."You're gonna keep screwing with hookers." Which would make the remainder of their conversation make sense (including making syphillis a constant possibility, condoms aren't 100% effective). So House says they are who they are and that's it. House doesn't necessarily approve of Wilson's relationship with Amber, and Wilson doesn't approve of House's visits with hookers. I took it to mean Wilson was concerned that House would remotely have the possibility of having syphillis (given his frequents with hookers) and that sparked the you're gonna keep screwing bit...and House says yes. It could be either the hooker thing, or the bit about his team. I don't know, guess my mind's in the gutter.

But why would Wilson ask in this moment whether House will continue sleeping with Person X? House does not have syphilis, so if he is sleeping with someone, then there is no need to stop sleeping with that person. (Regardless, I don't think House is sleeping with anyone.) Wilson said, "You're gonna keep screwing—" I think if he had completed the question, it would have been: You're gonna keep screwing with your new team? or You're gonna keep screwing with Amber? or anything similar to that effect. House's response was, "Yea. And you're gonna keep talking about it. We are who we are." Meaning, I'm going to do what I always do, and you're going to do what you always do. Neither of us is going to change, because nobody changes. (Unless their personality quirks are caused by a disease which is then cured.) I changed my mind upthread (put in an ETA to my post earlier today). I actually now think Wilson would have said..."You're gonna keep screwing with hookers." Which would make the remainder of their conversation make sense (including making syphillis a constant possibility, condoms aren't 100% effective). So House says they are who they are and that's it. House doesn't necessarily approve of Wilson's relationship with Amber, and Wilson doesn't approve of House's visits with hookers. I took it to mean Wilson was concerned that House would remotely have the possibility of having syphillis (given his frequents with hookers) and that sparked the you're gonna keep screwing bit...and House says yes. It could be either the hooker thing, or the bit about his team. I don't know, guess my mind's in the gutter. I read it as "keep screwing with the team" or "keep screwing with me and Amber." If he did actually have the syph, it's unlikely it would be from a hooker, even though condoms aren't 100 percent effective; the sort of call girl he patronizes would be (a) a stickler for condom use and (b) regularly getting tested and informing her clients if something came up.

I thought he meant "screwing with Amber", or rather "screwing with my relationship with Amber". Upon rewatch House seemed so sad when, after the confrontation with Amber in Wilson's office, Wilson asked "How is she wrong?". I think spilling the secret was a test of loyalty, and Wilson failed. Also after rewatch I have to agree with this: I think Peter Jacobsen does an amazing job very quietly building this character who should shouldn't be sympathetic, but yet is.

Rewatching it
Anyone else find it odd that the PotW's NURSE wife could not figure out that he was having a stroke? I mean, *I* recognized it right away. The wife says "What's happening?" as if she's clueless. I know, it's just more bad writing. Or bad medicine. Or both. (Someone out there needs to do a fanvid to BonJovi's Bad Medicine, if there isn't one already...) As for the "Amber arc," I am not going back to dig through my posts but I know I called it that this season's bad guy was going to be one of the prospective fellows that got fired. I admit, I didn't see the love triangle coming... but then, the enemy arc always involves Wilson somehow. It was only a matter of time for it to be a relationship issue. I dislike ALL of the enemy arcs, so I'm biased, but of the three, I dislike this one the least.

I don't think she's necessarily a bad nurse or that it's bad writing. I find it very believable that a nurse or doctor watching a loved one go through a medical emergency could be clueless about what is happening. She was probably feeling so much fear that she couldn't think clearly or rationally; she was just worried about her husband.

Here's something that bugged me all day. Was Cam wearing nail polish? Isn't that a no-no in hospital's these days or is it just fake nails? I laughed becuase it remined me of General Hospital's Dr. Monica Quatermain, world famous cardiac surgeon and owner of long, laquered nails.

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