Why would Cuddy expect Wilson to ask her about her and House? Because she'd laid down the law on House, that she and House were "fighting" and figured Wilson was going to play peacemaker? Right now I'm thinking all of the Wilson scenes were real, because none of them were in that montage of hallucination/real scenes. How could one of the scenes be real and not all of them? Either Wilson accepted that House detoxed from Vicodin overnight or he didn't.

I don't care what anyone says, the dream sequence/hallucination/this didn't really happen is cheating. What made this series fun to watch before was House getting away with things he deliberately did. You could always imagine that he would become a better person with the right influences. This episode shows him as hopelessly broken. We have to live with this all summer and then some. Some optimists seem to think there will be a clever way of writing the character out of being uncontrollably delusional. There will always be this doubt now as to when House will crack up again. It is hard to picture House as "hot" now. IMHO this series is not what it once was.

Wilson, if you're not going to hug the man, step aside and let me, mmkay? Then I'll give you one. Damn, they both broke my heart at the end. Yeah, that hurt. I couldn't watch House as he was limping to the doors. That was just a horribly depressing image. I get them not hugging. They were both in a lot of pain and it looked to me like neither one of them really knew what to do or say. They looked kind of awkward and like they were walking on egg shells. I was glad it didn't turn out that Wilson had forced House into it, as I feared might be the case. That locker room scene was the fakest crying that ever faked. And I know she can do it convincingly -- I saw "Informed Consent." ITA, that was just bad. I liked the scene but I almost laughed out loud when she just started crying like that. I'm not a big fan of JM's acting, but I agree that she can do better than that. I just saw "Star Trek" and she totally had me in her scenes there. This just looked so fake. She was pissed he talked shit about her kid, and she's drawing the line there. Yes, I loved that. I have (and still do) hated this whole baby storyline but it's nice to see that she will choose her kid over a man she wants (as I believe any decent parent should). I was almost proud of her for drawing the line at trashing her kid. Maybe she can be redeemed. Maybe. There's a lot to make up for as far as I'm concerned. hallucinations on "Bones," STEWIE :P As if in House's ideal world where he's happy and pain-free, Wilson is still the best friend and not just the guy House needs because he's miserable. That's weirdly sweet. It was sweet. I liked that part. But, I don't think any of the Wilson stuff was a hallucination. I think what we were shown to be hallucinations were, but I see no reason to think that the rest of it wasn't real.

Minor nitpick: I know that TV shows rarely use the same baby twice -- child labor laws and all -- but the infant in Cuddy's arms at the wedding was way smaller than little Rachel should be at this point in the action. And didn't Rachel have hair? That baby didn't, and desperately needed a hat if she was going to be hanging out at an outdoor wedding on a bright, sunny day.

I also found all of the Cameron scenes hard to watch. It seems like she gets more screwed up while Chase gets more strong and self-assured. JM's acting took me out of the moment in every scene. Chase is now the hot one in the show. I look forward to the marital strife next season.

I liked the hand-held camera work. When House was realizing that he had hallucinated so much, the off-colors and jarring camera would have been much like his thoughts. I felt like I was experiencing his realization with him.

I don't think House would have nearly the appeal that he does if not for that off-beat "hotness". I don't think that's gone. Although, I'm thinking we are going to see some different aspects to the man than just pure intellect, genius and confidence (all hotness factors). I'm intrigued to see this venture into the mental health arena. It seems to be a really common reaction to say "Oh, wow, how can he ever practice medicine again?" Maybe this will change how he practices. Lord, I hope Foreman isn't made into his permanent keeper. Overall, this went a direction with House as a character that makes alot of sense to explore, and it was tremendously emotional to watch. Just--wow.

Holy crap. So very very GOOD. It was kind of fun-good for the first 3/4 of the episode, and then it just went to heartbreakingly perfect. My entire family was just sitting with our mouths open during the hallucination revelation. *bows down to St. Doris*

Sorry I just hate the way this season ended!! So no simple answers for House he has gone insane so lets just lock him away in the nut house!!! after five seasons David Shore could not give us a happy end it again had to be a House in distress mode. even the sex with Cuddy had to be a fantasy!! I do not know if I will be watching S6 after this!

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I liked this, but it was painful to watch. I was touched by how House just...really wants to be happy. He wants to be pain-free, he wants Cuddy, and he hallucinates it all -- that's so revealing of him as a person. Wow. And Cuddy was totally redeemed as a character. She didn't sleep with House. She meant it when she said that if she did, she'd be curled up in a ball, weeping with shame....So all of her flat harshness, her "you're just an employee" line -- that was in character. And I love how this show has stuck to the canonical fact that the only person House has, really, is Wilson. Chase and Cameron will have their wedding without House, because House is just their crazy boss; the team doesn't know -- and if they did know, would probably have a complicated reaction to his commitment to a psych.ward; and Cuddy has always been and always will be his friend and his boss, but that's it. She has a kid, and that's her life. But Wilson -- bringing his friend to the psych. hospital. His face. I have to make a shoutout to californiaquail, who wrote a fanfic that concentrates on a final scene between Wilson and House before he gets committed. It was right on, it was almost canon, and she has a fantastic closing line that is the literary equivalent of the last shot of this episode's scene, where House is peering out from an almost closed door, looking out to Wilson with a kind of desperate horror at the fact that his whole life is now destroyed: Goodbye Wilson. Goodbye job. Goodbye life. Read that fic if you haven't done so: http://californiaquail.livejournal.com Then bow down at the prowess of St. Doris...

I was thinking the same thing about the baby, OldHamster, that she was too bald. I wonder what House and Cuddy's relationship is going to be like now. I imagine she'll forgive him for his comment about her child, given the circumstances, but the fact that he hallucinated a sexual encounter between them (and suggested they move in together! daddy House!) has to make things rather uncomfortable at least for a while. Know what bugged me the entire episode? Why didn't they just tie that guy's left hand down when he was on his hospital bed? I'm also wondering if it's coincidence that the hand became well behaved after Wilson's "therapy": not just in the MRI, but in the next and final scene with the patient it wasn't acting up. Cameron's dress was beautiful. I was expecting a shout-out here to the fact that they showed a gay male couple on the show, for the first time I think.