And this brings me to the scene with Cameron, who had been given the assignment of cleaning out House's ill-kept patient records. House told her that she could come back to work for him, offering to fire Thirteen, whom he had only hired as Allison 2.0. Whoa. She told House she did not miss him, but her demeanor suggested that their mutual longing would continue (in case we forgot that this show is also a doctor soap opera).
Sex was a main character in this episode. We even got to watch a diagnostic test that measured penile tumescence. The blips on the monitor naturally led to a blood-pressure explosion. My own elevated-heartbeat moment came when I actually had a sympathetic response to Amber for the first time ever. Dr. Wilson's romantic subplot was annoying me until Amber demonstrated the capacity to care about a person besides herself. When she told Wilson that she wanted him to make decisions for himself and not do what she wanted him to do, because otherwise he would secretly resent her for not having his needs met (phew), I thought, ''Wow, Amber Alert! Cutthroat B---- cares''.
And I care too, about the show again, finally realizing that I love supersmart Gregory House because (a) he is always right, (b) he gets away with everything, and (c) he does not have to do any paperwork. That last bit reminded me again that this is indeed a fairy tale, and my favorite soap opera.
What did you think? Will House's flirtation with either Cameron or Cuddy go anywhere? Does having meaningful work make people happier? And if you were the hospital inspector, would you have given Princeton Plainsboro a passing grade?
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