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Eh. It was okay. The medical ethics are interesting, but there wasn’t any House/Wilson, which automatically equals a not good episode.

Random points:

- I was annoyed by the negative portrayal of rats in this episode. They would not start eating you if you passed out. Even if you gave them cancer first.

- I actually kind of like the underage skank thing, and I was sure I’d hate it. House’s reactions were unbelievably cute. And it promises to be an amusing little arc.

- Anyone surprised that Chase stood by House? I think he may have completely redeemed himself from S1.

- Interesting that they made the big ethical dilemma Cameron’s. I kind of thought they’d make a big deal about House finally euthanizing Ezra at the end of the episode, but instead Wilson makes some comment about House having done many times before. I can’t remember exactly now if they mentioned Wilson’s past actions, but I can easily imagine him helping his patients end their pain.

I wish they’d get away from the case-driven episodes. All the test running? It’s kind of boring. Maybe next week will be more character driven. With more H/W.

I learned to light a pilot light today. Now all I have to do is learn to change a tire and I'll be a Self-Sufficient Woman of the World. ...Although I don't actually have a car...

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Looking forward to the episode waiting for me when I get home tonight, afterwhich I will comment on your observations.

A point of correction: Cars don't make you self-sufficient, they make you REALLY, REALLY poor at inconvenient times.

It's scares me sometimes how you are able to read my mind.

Only two Wilson scenes! We were robbed. In scene 1, the test-running scene, I did like it when Wilson asked for some solution and House made it skid across the counter towards him.

I was intrigued by Wilson's offhand remark that euthanasia was nothing new to House -- simply because I would have expected Wilson to be nonchalant about it (having had to deal with so many suffering, terminal patients -- not because of any heartlessness) and that House would be more reluctant to do so.

Chase is wonderful this season! They are really giving him a backbone -- it's adorable (I never really noticed him much in the past, until "Forever"). Cameron is trying to make smart-alecky responses but it sounds like she is trying too hard and they kinda fall flat (to my ear). Cameron's ethics really were all over the place. She is like someone learning to drive stick -- she keeps starting and stopping. I still think she is a hypocrite though.

House's reactions to the girl were really quite unexpectedly... sweet. He didn't "leer" at her as he normally likes to do. I think he was feeling vulnerable about being back with the cane and she really stoked his ego (compared to Cameron, who just harps on and on and on about House being in pain.) Now he just needs to get his act together and start making those cute little faces at Wilson.

It's not the car owning that renders independence- it's the tire-changing skills. Being able to change a tire instantly renders one cool, calm and in control of one's destiny. Or so I firmly believe.

*shakes head*
There must be something terribly unsympathetic or unfeeling in me, because I just wasn't very interested or impressed by this episode.

I liked some of it -- obviously the tiny bit of H/W that was there, and I related the euthanasia discussions to the recent uproar over the apparent mercy killings in the wake of Katrina, but otherwise ... it just didn't do it for me.

Hee. Great minds and all that.

Chase is wonderful this season! ...(I never really noticed him much in the past, until "Forever")

I know! Isn't it crazy? I was just vaguely annoyed with him through S1, but he's improved wildly. I find his lack of self-righteousness refreshing. And being the dumb!duckling is really cute. It's kind of amusing that I consider him dumb when by normal standards he's exceptionally bright. I guess it's because he's accident-prone. Hm, now there's a bad quality for a doctor.

Cameron's ethics really were all over the place.

It seems like her perspective should have been affected by her husband’s death, too. They didn’t even mention that, yet she watched him die a slow and (presumably) painful death. She must have thought about it at least a little.

House's reactions to the girl were really quite unexpectedly... sweet.

Yes, that's it exactly. It's not oh, look at that lecherous old House, ha ha ha!, but look how House is made uncharacteristically unsure of himself when faced with a new situation where snark might not get him through.

Yeah, feel the same. I was reading over at TWoP [;)] and it seems like I'm the only heartless bitch who didn't cry. Guys, Ezra was kind of a prick. Sure, the moral quandry his predicament presented was interesting, but mostly because of what it revealed about the *other* characters. I really didn't care if he lived or died.

Plus, he was mean to rats. /rat-lover rant

No, I didn't cry either. Even if they had saved him from his current malady, he was aged and in terrible health -- poor dude wasn't going to live forever!

I thought Cameron was being rather self-indulgent. As you say, it wasn't like she didn't know what it was like for a terminal patient to suffer. Honestly -- when one thinks of all the crap Wilson has to put up with -- House and his insanity, all the dying patients, his own crappy life -- Cameron's emo-ness is a bit tiresome. And what about stoic Chase? He was willing to stand by House; that's much more interesting that Cameron crying in the chapel.

Heh -- just got hit with a plot bunny involving Cameron. (I need an "evil grin" emoticon.)

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