HOUSE 5X10 LET THEM EAT CAKE
OKAY SO GUYS. lanafromoz tagged me for a meme:
1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this everyday for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same. - I'm not tagging but EVERYONE should do this, because it's a nice way to, you know, remember your day in the run-up to Christmas. :D
Anyway. WHAT BETTER WAY TO START THIS OFF THEN BY SAYING: YOU KNOW WHAT MADE ME HAPPY? THIS WEEK'S HOUSE EPISODE MADE ME HAPPY.
SHIT GUYS. SHIT. I HAVE TO HOLD THE CAPSLOCK FLAIL IN BECAUSE IT'S THREATENING TO TAKE OVER THIS ENTIRE POST. TRUST ME WHEN I SAY THE SECOND HALF OF THIS POST IS GOING TO BE IN CAPSLOCK.
Breathe, me, B R E A T H E.
- OKAY. I can deal, honest. I loooooved this episode. I LOVED IT SO MUCH. (yeah, deal with it, the capslock is here to stay.) Let's avoid the inevitable House/Cuddy squealing and go for the rest of the episode first.
- AHAHAHA KUTNER AND TAUB. OMG. I LOVE how Kutner set up an internet clinic using House's name. That was HILARIOUS. And how he kept getting increasingly blackmailed until he had... what, -5% left or something? After he gives Kutner, Chase and eventually House their cuts, he'll have nothing left! But I totes knew it was a set-up the moment Kutner and Taub went hunting for Coconut Girl (CG) and were told she'd bought the farm. Man. To be more precise, I guessed that House had found out and set them up - thanks for always being able to surprise me even in little ways, show. TRUST HOUSE TO HAVE SET KUTNER UP FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, LMAO.
- I like that Taub got a little bit more room in the episode to just... be a presence again. The season has been so consumed with 13's Huntington's (not that there's anything wrong with that, I'm enjoying it), peppered with occasional flashes of Kutner's "I'm a lucky orphan with hidden depths of pain who's a huge internet dork on the side" backstory. Aside from Taub's philandering, which we knew about anyway in Season 4, he hasn't had much to do. It was interesting to see the way he treated POTW this week, given that he used to be a plastic surgeon and basically traded in these expensive cosmetic lies anyway: that he still looked at POTW (I can never remember their names, talk about a memory made of Swiss cheese!) with a measure of disdain for not at least being upfront about the gastric bypass she had.
- Guess who is a susceptible loser totally easily swayed by what the writers want me to like? I'm totally amused by this Foreteen thing - I LIKE seeing the human side of Foreman, even though all that seems to involve is furrowing his brow in a very stern fashion and awkwardly hugging 13, ahahaha. It's been too long since we've had that, because Foreman is such a boring character and SO unsympathetic if left to his own devices. (They have one impossibly charming bastard on the show and that's House. I guess the charisma and actual House-moxie ran out for Foreman, which was kind of the point of the whole resignation arc/debacle.)
- Also 13. Awwwness. Olivia Wilde is doing SUCH a good job with the role this season. It's also hard not to go "wow, you are REALLY PRETTY" at every scene in which she appears. Shallow moment aside: it's nice to not have 13 be all mysterious anymore like she was in Season 4. I was SO sad when she admitted that she hated her mom, and that her mom died... well, thinking/knowing that. Heartbreaking.
- My show is full of awesome oneliners of awesome. "I was doing my famous Socrates impression." BWAH.
- CAKE. CHOCOLATE CAKE LOOKED YUMMY.
- AND WE HAVE REACHED THE CAPSLOCK FLAIL PORTION OF THIS ENTRY. I WONDER HOW I EVEN HELD OUT THIS LONG. OMIGOD GUYS HOUSE/CUDDY WTF WTF WTF WAS THAT AWESOME. HOW FUCKING SEXY ARE THESE TWO? I MEAN, SERIOUSLY. JUST FRICKIN' LOOK AT THEM. HOT + HOT = TOTALLY HOT HOT HOT AIEEEEEEEEEEEE ASDKHAKLFHSKDFHDKSFHSKLFAS ETC.
ALSO SNARK. SNARK + SNARK = FAVOURITE. 'YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY ANYWAY'. 'PRONOUN CONFUSION - STARTS KICKING IN ONCE YOU'RE PAST CHILD-BEARING AGE'. LMAO LMAO. THEY'RE SO MEAN TO EACH OTHER. I LOVE IT.
- I am going to watch all the relevant scenes all the way through again as I recap and flail, because omigod. I need pictorial proof of the HOTNESS.
- OMIGOD FAVOURITE SNARKY QUOTE OF LIFE: WHEN KUTNER ASKS WHAT CUDDY IS DOING IN HOUSE'S OFFICE:
House: Other than throwing off the fengshui with her ass that faces all eight sides of the ba gua at once?
Cuddy: These walls aren't soundproof!
House: I'm well aware!
AND I LOVE HOW CUDDY WAS, LIKE, ZOMG, YOU LOSERS, READ HER DAMN FILE, AND THEN "CAN SOMEONE PLEASE STOP BACKSEAT-DIFFERENTIALATING" (LOLOLOL) AND THEN SHE CAME IN AND TOOK PART IN THE DDX AND HOUSE WAS, LIKE, CUDDY YOU FAIL FOR THE BAD IDEA BUT THEN HE LEAVES THE ROOM AND ACTUALLY SHE DIDN'T FAIL. LMAO. OH GOD. THIS EPISODE. WHAT.
- HERE IS A RANDOM SCREENSHOT OF LISA EDELSTEIN LOOKING HOT AND PISSED OFF BUT MOSTLY HOT:
- Awww House. You only call 'em "shrieking harpies" if it's true love. ♥ ALSO, CAN WE SAY HOT EVEN WHEN ROLLING YOUR EYES? YES PLZ.
- CUDDY BOUNCING THAT BALL ON HOUSE'S DESK IS THE CUTEST THING I HAVE SEEN IN EVER. AND OMIGOD HE WANTS TO SPLIT THE DESK. "HUH? DID YOU SAY SOMETHING? I COULDN'T HEAR YOU FROM ALL THE WAY OVER HERE ON MY SIDE OF THE DESK." OH GOD CUDDY THIS IS WHY HOUSE LOVES YOU. YOU SNARK THE CRAP OUT OF HIM.
- IS IT CRIMINAL FOR LISA EDELSTEIN TO LOOK THIS BEAUTIFUL IN RANDOM SCREENCAPS? I THINK IT IS, BUT FUCKITY LOOK AT THESE:
- BALLS, AHAHAHA. "I JUST HAD TO EXPLAIN TO HIM THAT I HAVE HIS BALLS AND HE'S NOT GETTING THEM BACK." \o/ A+ CUDDY A+!! (I love how Taub just looks so IMPRESSED when he watches Cuddy move out of the room in this scene. XD)
- BTW, I LOVE THE WAY THEY'RE FIGHTING THROUGHOUT THIS EPISODE BUT THEY CAN'T ADMIT IT TO EACH OTHER - SHE WANTS TO MOVE INTO HIS OFFICE (AND STAY THERE, SO DRIPS SOMETHING TOXIC SMELLING ALL OVER THE ROOM AND REMOVES ALL THE FURNITURE), HE WANTS HER TO STAY LONGER (SO TAKES A SLEDGEHAMMER TO HER TOILET), AND WILSON JUST DIAGNOSES THEM BOTH FOR BEING CHICKEN-ASSED ABOUT ADMITTING TO EACH OTHER THAT THEY BOTH ARE SO SERIOUSLY THINKING ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A RELATIONSHIP. EEEK. HOW COULD THIS BE ANYTHING BUT TRUE LOVE, LOL. ;)
- See: Wilson is playing Cuddy's age-indeterminate brother again - "you chose his room because you want to be there". WILSON. SUDDENLY I LOVE PSYCHOANALYTICAL!WILSON SO MUCH. ESPECIALLY BECAUSE HE IS TOTES A HOUSE/CUDDY SHIPPER. AND, LIKE KELBELLE POINTS OUT, IS TOTES SITTING AT HOME WRITING HOUSE/CUDDY RPF IN HIS SPARE TIME.
OMIGOD OMIGOD I LOVE RSL AND LE. LOOK AT HOW CUTE THEY BOTH ARE. ASLDJALFHLSDFHSDLHFLSDFAS. "Leave here now or I'll take your office!" "No, you won't." OOOH SNAP WILSON.
- HOUSE/WILSON BROMANCE HOW I LOVE YOU.
Wilson: She'll be with you, where you claim to not want her...
House: I smashed it... with a SLEDGEHAMMER.
Wilson: I think in some ancient cultures, that was actually considered a proposal of marriage.
House: (throwing a strop) Is this fun for you? Analysing everyone else's fun away?
Wilson: Ask her out. It'll cost the hospital a lot less.
AHAHAHAHA I WANT TO MARRY THIS EPISODE SO HARD. WILSON ILU. YOU SPEAK THE TRUTH. PLUS YOU'RE SNARKY.
- AND THEN THE SCENE. THE SCENE LEADING UP TO THE BOOB-GRAB SCENE. CAN I SAY. HAVING WATCHED ALL THE EPISODES THROUGH WHICH LISA HAS WORN RIDICULOUSLY LOW-CUT TOPS? THINKING I WAS USED TO IT BY NOW? EVEN I WENT OMGWTF ARE YOU WEARING, WOMAN?!!? AT THIS ONE:
THE SCENE:
House: You're not stopping me for medical reasons. You're stopping me because you have the hots for me.
Cuddy: You're still here because you have the hots for me.
House: Evidenced by the fact that I'm the one who moved into your office...
Cuddy: It's the biggest office and I'm not the one that destroyed...
House: Why do you dress like that? Why do you try so hard to get my attention? Are you screwing with me?
Cuddy: Are you screwing with me?
House: Depends on your answer.
Cuddy: Everybody knows this is going somewhere. I think we're supposed to kiss now.
House: We already did that. (He grabs her boob. OMIGOD HOUSE. WUT.) It seemed like the logical next step.
Cuddy: Really. I'm an idiot for being surprised. (Awww, Cuddy, don't look so brokenhearted! THIS IS WHAT SILLY LITTLE BOYS DO ON PLAYGROUNDS. EXCEPT, YOU KNOW, YOUR BOOB = A SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL'S PIGTAILS.)
(Cuddy tries to walk away, House's hand is STILL on her boob.)
House: Can you leave these?
(Cuddy looks back at him, disappointed. He drops his hand and she walks away.)
- HOUSE WTF WAS THAT. SHE WAS TOTES FLIRTING WITH YOU. AND ASKING YOU TO KISS HER. AND THEN YOU GRABBED HER BOOB. WHICH WAS... LIKE, SAD. AND YOU BROKE HER HEART SDKLFJLASKDFJLASFJLADA. I know everyone got upset with CG at the end of the episode, but this is actually the part that upset me more - it was Cuddy super super tentatively heading in the direction of maybe getting with House, when he had not yet done that awesome thing with the desk, and him DEFLECTING while she's RIGHT THERE. NEGATING EVERYTHING. I don't know if it was his attempt to push her buttons again - the way he does everyone, push them to see how far they'll go before they'll break (Wilson and Tritter, for example).
- I think the House/Taub scene should probably be read in that light - when he looks so pensive and wonders what it was like when Taub had his philandering-with-impunity days: those were House's hooker days too. Don't lie, he tells Taub, you enjoyed them: are you willing to trade them in for a real relationship?
- In my opinion, and until it's proven to the contrary, the answer is yes. And why? BECAUSE OF THIS:
"House is an emotional child incapable of intimacy or romance." BUT HE GOT HER HER DESK. FROM MED SCHOOL. HE GOT IT FROM HER MOM. HE CALLED HER MOM, AND HAD IT TAKEN OUT OF STORAGE AND BROUGHT IN. JUST LOOK AT THE LOOK ON CUDDY'S FACE. LOOK AT IT. I wish it wasn't taken from such a weird wide angle, because wtf, you need to close in on that moment when she realises it's House, and she brushes her fingers across the desktop and just SMILES. It's gorgeous.
Guys. GUYS. This is House being NICE. Just nice, and ROMANTIC, after she said he couldn't BE that way. He knew what it meant to her - I have such a familiar itch to write fic AGAIN, LOL - and he got her desk for her. After sabotaging the entire process, he DID that for her.
- Which is why, this last scene?
I know a lot of people went nuts at House and got upset at him for messing everything up with Cuddy by getting with CG. Well, first off, maybe I'm a naive romantic (I am that, I know it) but until we get confirmation in the next episode that he DID sleep with CG, I'm giving House the benefit of the doubt. What it LOOKS like is that he might have been with a hooker, who knows. Certainly that's what CUDDY thinks, and that's enough to give her pause and keep her from going in there and thanking him (very vigorously, on HIS desk - urm, sorry, reflex smut talk). It's not House who's deflecting here. If he is and he DID sleep with the hooker, he's not doing it specifically to hurt Cuddy, he couldn't have timed it that CG would leave when Cuddy was coming up to say thank you. (Well, he probably could, because he's House, but I don't think he did that.) What we have here is CUDDY, having second thoughts and a reality check. The practical, realistic adult in her is coming back. And she's the one who's thinking - just from seeing a girl tug at House's jacket lapel and assuming they just did some kind of nasty - that she shouldn't get involved or give her heart away. Fair enough. House never did anything to deserve the benefit of that doubt. But this is CUDDY, guys. Not House. Well, not necessarily House.
- What I liked was that this episode was really about CUDDY'S reservations about being with House - she moves into his office, probably subconsciously to test-drive if he can share his sandbox with someone else. She gets ot her answer: the two of them together will drive each other crazy and they'll be playing tricks on each other forEVER. But, interestingly, that doesn't put her off (I bet you anything she gets off on the challenge). In fact, in the boob-grab scene, she... WANTED him to kiss her. She was being as obvious about it as she could be. So now we know that she wants him back. Even if it's irrational. So she flirts like crazy, at which point he AGAIN deflects/negates/etc, and she gets disappointed. But then later, when she realises he might be capable of romance after all, she gets her hopes up... only to bring herself down again, REALITY CHECK, LISA CUDDY, AISLE THREE.
- Until the next episode proves me wrong, which it probably will because House IS a cynical bastard and he's not going to change, is he, really?, I'll just believe in the fact that he got her her desk. And that he was, at least, THINKING of giving up the free and easy philandering to start... well, a relationship. He rationalised that he would be getting something back, and that it would be worth it. At least he was thinking along those lines. HE GOT HER HER FUCKING DESK, PEOPLE. THAT'S HUGE. House does not DO nice things. It's not IN him. This is the most romantic thing he's probably done for anyone on the show EVER. FUCK. HE GOT HER HER DESK.
Wow I wrote a thesis. O_O I'm so sorry this turned out so long. *weeps* Can you tell this episode made me really super ultra extra happy? :D I can't believe there's only one more episode until winter hiatus. *cries*
I love my show. *hugs it*
Anyways. Tomorrow I'm going out for lunch - to my favourite restaurant - and out for dinner and a movie, so I think it'll be good times then too. YAY. XD I could really get used to this not-really-doing-work-while-at-work thing.
1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this everyday for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same. - I'm not tagging but EVERYONE should do this, because it's a nice way to, you know, remember your day in the run-up to Christmas. :D
Anyway. WHAT BETTER WAY TO START THIS OFF THEN BY SAYING: YOU KNOW WHAT MADE ME HAPPY? THIS WEEK'S HOUSE EPISODE MADE ME HAPPY.
SHIT GUYS. SHIT. I HAVE TO HOLD THE CAPSLOCK FLAIL IN BECAUSE IT'S THREATENING TO TAKE OVER THIS ENTIRE POST. TRUST ME WHEN I SAY THE SECOND HALF OF THIS POST IS GOING TO BE IN CAPSLOCK.
Breathe, me, B R E A T H E.
- OKAY. I can deal, honest. I loooooved this episode. I LOVED IT SO MUCH. (yeah, deal with it, the capslock is here to stay.) Let's avoid the inevitable House/Cuddy squealing and go for the rest of the episode first.
- AHAHAHA KUTNER AND TAUB. OMG. I LOVE how Kutner set up an internet clinic using House's name. That was HILARIOUS. And how he kept getting increasingly blackmailed until he had... what, -5% left or something? After he gives Kutner, Chase and eventually House their cuts, he'll have nothing left! But I totes knew it was a set-up the moment Kutner and Taub went hunting for Coconut Girl (CG) and were told she'd bought the farm. Man. To be more precise, I guessed that House had found out and set them up - thanks for always being able to surprise me even in little ways, show. TRUST HOUSE TO HAVE SET KUTNER UP FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, LMAO.
- I like that Taub got a little bit more room in the episode to just... be a presence again. The season has been so consumed with 13's Huntington's (not that there's anything wrong with that, I'm enjoying it), peppered with occasional flashes of Kutner's "I'm a lucky orphan with hidden depths of pain who's a huge internet dork on the side" backstory. Aside from Taub's philandering, which we knew about anyway in Season 4, he hasn't had much to do. It was interesting to see the way he treated POTW this week, given that he used to be a plastic surgeon and basically traded in these expensive cosmetic lies anyway: that he still looked at POTW (I can never remember their names, talk about a memory made of Swiss cheese!) with a measure of disdain for not at least being upfront about the gastric bypass she had.
- Guess who is a susceptible loser totally easily swayed by what the writers want me to like? I'm totally amused by this Foreteen thing - I LIKE seeing the human side of Foreman, even though all that seems to involve is furrowing his brow in a very stern fashion and awkwardly hugging 13, ahahaha. It's been too long since we've had that, because Foreman is such a boring character and SO unsympathetic if left to his own devices. (They have one impossibly charming bastard on the show and that's House. I guess the charisma and actual House-moxie ran out for Foreman, which was kind of the point of the whole resignation arc/debacle.)
- Also 13. Awwwness. Olivia Wilde is doing SUCH a good job with the role this season. It's also hard not to go "wow, you are REALLY PRETTY" at every scene in which she appears. Shallow moment aside: it's nice to not have 13 be all mysterious anymore like she was in Season 4. I was SO sad when she admitted that she hated her mom, and that her mom died... well, thinking/knowing that. Heartbreaking.
- My show is full of awesome oneliners of awesome. "I was doing my famous Socrates impression." BWAH.
- CAKE. CHOCOLATE CAKE LOOKED YUMMY.
- AND WE HAVE REACHED THE CAPSLOCK FLAIL PORTION OF THIS ENTRY. I WONDER HOW I EVEN HELD OUT THIS LONG. OMIGOD GUYS HOUSE/CUDDY WTF WTF WTF WAS THAT AWESOME. HOW FUCKING SEXY ARE THESE TWO? I MEAN, SERIOUSLY. JUST FRICKIN' LOOK AT THEM. HOT + HOT = TOTALLY HOT HOT HOT AIEEEEEEEEEEEE ASDKHAKLFHSKDFHDKSFHSKLFAS ETC.
ALSO SNARK. SNARK + SNARK = FAVOURITE. 'YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY ANYWAY'. 'PRONOUN CONFUSION - STARTS KICKING IN ONCE YOU'RE PAST CHILD-BEARING AGE'. LMAO LMAO. THEY'RE SO MEAN TO EACH OTHER. I LOVE IT.
- I am going to watch all the relevant scenes all the way through again as I recap and flail, because omigod. I need pictorial proof of the HOTNESS.
- OMIGOD FAVOURITE SNARKY QUOTE OF LIFE: WHEN KUTNER ASKS WHAT CUDDY IS DOING IN HOUSE'S OFFICE:
House: Other than throwing off the fengshui with her ass that faces all eight sides of the ba gua at once?
Cuddy: These walls aren't soundproof!
House: I'm well aware!
AND I LOVE HOW CUDDY WAS, LIKE, ZOMG, YOU LOSERS, READ HER DAMN FILE, AND THEN "CAN SOMEONE PLEASE STOP BACKSEAT-DIFFERENTIALATING" (LOLOLOL) AND THEN SHE CAME IN AND TOOK PART IN THE DDX AND HOUSE WAS, LIKE, CUDDY YOU FAIL FOR THE BAD IDEA BUT THEN HE LEAVES THE ROOM AND ACTUALLY SHE DIDN'T FAIL. LMAO. OH GOD. THIS EPISODE. WHAT.
- HERE IS A RANDOM SCREENSHOT OF LISA EDELSTEIN LOOKING HOT AND PISSED OFF BUT MOSTLY HOT:
- Awww House. You only call 'em "shrieking harpies" if it's true love. ♥ ALSO, CAN WE SAY HOT EVEN WHEN ROLLING YOUR EYES? YES PLZ.
- CUDDY BOUNCING THAT BALL ON HOUSE'S DESK IS THE CUTEST THING I HAVE SEEN IN EVER. AND OMIGOD HE WANTS TO SPLIT THE DESK. "HUH? DID YOU SAY SOMETHING? I COULDN'T HEAR YOU FROM ALL THE WAY OVER HERE ON MY SIDE OF THE DESK." OH GOD CUDDY THIS IS WHY HOUSE LOVES YOU. YOU SNARK THE CRAP OUT OF HIM.
- IS IT CRIMINAL FOR LISA EDELSTEIN TO LOOK THIS BEAUTIFUL IN RANDOM SCREENCAPS? I THINK IT IS, BUT FUCKITY LOOK AT THESE:
- BALLS, AHAHAHA. "I JUST HAD TO EXPLAIN TO HIM THAT I HAVE HIS BALLS AND HE'S NOT GETTING THEM BACK." \o/ A+ CUDDY A+!! (I love how Taub just looks so IMPRESSED when he watches Cuddy move out of the room in this scene. XD)
- BTW, I LOVE THE WAY THEY'RE FIGHTING THROUGHOUT THIS EPISODE BUT THEY CAN'T ADMIT IT TO EACH OTHER - SHE WANTS TO MOVE INTO HIS OFFICE (AND STAY THERE, SO DRIPS SOMETHING TOXIC SMELLING ALL OVER THE ROOM AND REMOVES ALL THE FURNITURE), HE WANTS HER TO STAY LONGER (SO TAKES A SLEDGEHAMMER TO HER TOILET), AND WILSON JUST DIAGNOSES THEM BOTH FOR BEING CHICKEN-ASSED ABOUT ADMITTING TO EACH OTHER THAT THEY BOTH ARE SO SERIOUSLY THINKING ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A RELATIONSHIP. EEEK. HOW COULD THIS BE ANYTHING BUT TRUE LOVE, LOL. ;)
- See: Wilson is playing Cuddy's age-indeterminate brother again - "you chose his room because you want to be there". WILSON. SUDDENLY I LOVE PSYCHOANALYTICAL!WILSON SO MUCH. ESPECIALLY BECAUSE HE IS TOTES A HOUSE/CUDDY SHIPPER. AND, LIKE KELBELLE POINTS OUT, IS TOTES SITTING AT HOME WRITING HOUSE/CUDDY RPF IN HIS SPARE TIME.
OMIGOD OMIGOD I LOVE RSL AND LE. LOOK AT HOW CUTE THEY BOTH ARE. ASLDJALFHLSDFHSDLHFLSDFAS. "Leave here now or I'll take your office!" "No, you won't." OOOH SNAP WILSON.
- HOUSE/WILSON BROMANCE HOW I LOVE YOU.
Wilson: She'll be with you, where you claim to not want her...
House: I smashed it... with a SLEDGEHAMMER.
Wilson: I think in some ancient cultures, that was actually considered a proposal of marriage.
House: (throwing a strop) Is this fun for you? Analysing everyone else's fun away?
Wilson: Ask her out. It'll cost the hospital a lot less.
AHAHAHAHA I WANT TO MARRY THIS EPISODE SO HARD. WILSON ILU. YOU SPEAK THE TRUTH. PLUS YOU'RE SNARKY.
- AND THEN THE SCENE. THE SCENE LEADING UP TO THE BOOB-GRAB SCENE. CAN I SAY. HAVING WATCHED ALL THE EPISODES THROUGH WHICH LISA HAS WORN RIDICULOUSLY LOW-CUT TOPS? THINKING I WAS USED TO IT BY NOW? EVEN I WENT OMGWTF ARE YOU WEARING, WOMAN?!!? AT THIS ONE:
THE SCENE:
House: You're not stopping me for medical reasons. You're stopping me because you have the hots for me.
Cuddy: You're still here because you have the hots for me.
House: Evidenced by the fact that I'm the one who moved into your office...
Cuddy: It's the biggest office and I'm not the one that destroyed...
House: Why do you dress like that? Why do you try so hard to get my attention? Are you screwing with me?
Cuddy: Are you screwing with me?
House: Depends on your answer.
Cuddy: Everybody knows this is going somewhere. I think we're supposed to kiss now.
House: We already did that. (He grabs her boob. OMIGOD HOUSE. WUT.) It seemed like the logical next step.
Cuddy: Really. I'm an idiot for being surprised. (Awww, Cuddy, don't look so brokenhearted! THIS IS WHAT SILLY LITTLE BOYS DO ON PLAYGROUNDS. EXCEPT, YOU KNOW, YOUR BOOB = A SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL'S PIGTAILS.)
(Cuddy tries to walk away, House's hand is STILL on her boob.)
House: Can you leave these?
(Cuddy looks back at him, disappointed. He drops his hand and she walks away.)
- HOUSE WTF WAS THAT. SHE WAS TOTES FLIRTING WITH YOU. AND ASKING YOU TO KISS HER. AND THEN YOU GRABBED HER BOOB. WHICH WAS... LIKE, SAD. AND YOU BROKE HER HEART SDKLFJLASKDFJLASFJLADA. I know everyone got upset with CG at the end of the episode, but this is actually the part that upset me more - it was Cuddy super super tentatively heading in the direction of maybe getting with House, when he had not yet done that awesome thing with the desk, and him DEFLECTING while she's RIGHT THERE. NEGATING EVERYTHING. I don't know if it was his attempt to push her buttons again - the way he does everyone, push them to see how far they'll go before they'll break (Wilson and Tritter, for example).
- I think the House/Taub scene should probably be read in that light - when he looks so pensive and wonders what it was like when Taub had his philandering-with-impunity days: those were House's hooker days too. Don't lie, he tells Taub, you enjoyed them: are you willing to trade them in for a real relationship?
- In my opinion, and until it's proven to the contrary, the answer is yes. And why? BECAUSE OF THIS:
"House is an emotional child incapable of intimacy or romance." BUT HE GOT HER HER DESK. FROM MED SCHOOL. HE GOT IT FROM HER MOM. HE CALLED HER MOM, AND HAD IT TAKEN OUT OF STORAGE AND BROUGHT IN. JUST LOOK AT THE LOOK ON CUDDY'S FACE. LOOK AT IT. I wish it wasn't taken from such a weird wide angle, because wtf, you need to close in on that moment when she realises it's House, and she brushes her fingers across the desktop and just SMILES. It's gorgeous.
Guys. GUYS. This is House being NICE. Just nice, and ROMANTIC, after she said he couldn't BE that way. He knew what it meant to her - I have such a familiar itch to write fic AGAIN, LOL - and he got her desk for her. After sabotaging the entire process, he DID that for her.
- Which is why, this last scene?
I know a lot of people went nuts at House and got upset at him for messing everything up with Cuddy by getting with CG. Well, first off, maybe I'm a naive romantic (I am that, I know it) but until we get confirmation in the next episode that he DID sleep with CG, I'm giving House the benefit of the doubt. What it LOOKS like is that he might have been with a hooker, who knows. Certainly that's what CUDDY thinks, and that's enough to give her pause and keep her from going in there and thanking him (very vigorously, on HIS desk - urm, sorry, reflex smut talk). It's not House who's deflecting here. If he is and he DID sleep with the hooker, he's not doing it specifically to hurt Cuddy, he couldn't have timed it that CG would leave when Cuddy was coming up to say thank you. (Well, he probably could, because he's House, but I don't think he did that.) What we have here is CUDDY, having second thoughts and a reality check. The practical, realistic adult in her is coming back. And she's the one who's thinking - just from seeing a girl tug at House's jacket lapel and assuming they just did some kind of nasty - that she shouldn't get involved or give her heart away. Fair enough. House never did anything to deserve the benefit of that doubt. But this is CUDDY, guys. Not House. Well, not necessarily House.
- What I liked was that this episode was really about CUDDY'S reservations about being with House - she moves into his office, probably subconsciously to test-drive if he can share his sandbox with someone else. She gets ot her answer: the two of them together will drive each other crazy and they'll be playing tricks on each other forEVER. But, interestingly, that doesn't put her off (I bet you anything she gets off on the challenge). In fact, in the boob-grab scene, she... WANTED him to kiss her. She was being as obvious about it as she could be. So now we know that she wants him back. Even if it's irrational. So she flirts like crazy, at which point he AGAIN deflects/negates/etc, and she gets disappointed. But then later, when she realises he might be capable of romance after all, she gets her hopes up... only to bring herself down again, REALITY CHECK, LISA CUDDY, AISLE THREE.
- Until the next episode proves me wrong, which it probably will because House IS a cynical bastard and he's not going to change, is he, really?, I'll just believe in the fact that he got her her desk. And that he was, at least, THINKING of giving up the free and easy philandering to start... well, a relationship. He rationalised that he would be getting something back, and that it would be worth it. At least he was thinking along those lines. HE GOT HER HER FUCKING DESK, PEOPLE. THAT'S HUGE. House does not DO nice things. It's not IN him. This is the most romantic thing he's probably done for anyone on the show EVER. FUCK. HE GOT HER HER DESK.
Wow I wrote a thesis. O_O I'm so sorry this turned out so long. *weeps* Can you tell this episode made me really super ultra extra happy? :D I can't believe there's only one more episode until winter hiatus. *cries*
I love my show. *hugs it*
Anyways. Tomorrow I'm going out for lunch - to my favourite restaurant - and out for dinner and a movie, so I think it'll be good times then too. YAY. XD I could really get used to this not-really-doing-work-while-at-work thing.