And so, the moving-on part. Wilson finally had to let the others thaw Amber in order to diagnose and treat her. Thirteen took the Huntington's test, which unfortunately came back positive. Taub went home after the whole ordeal and embraced his wife. And House (again, out of guilt) agreed to risk his life with a cranial tap in order to remember enough to save Amber.
This only to discover that his fantasies about Amber didn't indicate that they'd been starting a fling. Did any of you really think they did? After all, last week, House dreamed Cuddy was putting on a striptease act for him, and they're not having a fling. House's subconscious has grown especially playful over the last few eps, but it was apparently reliable enough to reveal the truth when he agreed to that deep electrical probe of his hypothalamus. (Who knew that you could plug a needle into someone's brain and immediately access the desired memory, Eternal Sunshine style?) House finally remembered that Amber had met him at the bar only because the drunken diagnostician had dialed Wilson to drive him home, and Amber had come in Wilson's place because he was working. She had accompanied House on the bus, and it was there that he'd seen her pop some amantadine to fight her flu. The bus crashed, she was impaled, and her kidney shut down, leaving the flu medicine to circulate in her system and irrevocably damage her organs. So there was nothing anyone could have done, freeze or no freeze, that would have saved her.
In return for his trouble, House fell into a coma, from which he wished not to awaken. After all, he wanted to no longer feel pain or guilt. But as a hallucinated vision of Amber observed, quoting one of House's favorite poets, "You can't always get what you want." And so, he chose to return to the land of the living.
Wilson had to perform two unthinkable final acts of moving on. First, he had to wake Amber up long enough to let her know she was about to die. The two shared the most moving, emotionally wrenching sequence of the show this season (and perhaps ever), as she accepted her fate and drifted away with surprising grace. Wilson asked her why she wasn't angry, and she replied, "That's not the last feeling I want to experience." Devastating. Second, after all that, Wilson had to turn off her life-support machines. All in all, a terrific sequence whose impact was blunted only by the Kung Fu Panda ad that immediately followed.
What did you think? Will Wilson ever forgive House? (Surely, House's nearly sacrificing his life to save Wilson's girlfriend has to be worth a few points.) Do you think House suffered any lasting brain damage? Will lingering guilt make him into a more hesitant doctor (let's hope not!) or a nicer human being (again, let's hope not!).How satisfied or unsatisfied were you with the way this season wrapped — and with the season overall?
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