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<title>Comment by Ratha on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>I have to agree with Buds in that Chase&#039;s character has been developed beautifully. I too didn&#039;t care much for Chase at the start. The whole Vogler thing put me off him but now I adore Chase.

In fact Jesse Spencer is the reason I started to watch House when it first aired. I&#039;m an Aussie and I had a major thing for him when he was in Neighbour so I was glad to see him back on tele.

Back to Chase though, he stepped up to the plate in numerous episodes (Finding Judas and Airborne are two in which he got the diagnosis right) and I love the look House gave him as you mentioned Buds when he called House on also being ashamed of the reason Foreman is quitting and also when Chase deduced that it was House who cancelled Foreman&#039;s job interview.

I hope they do bring him back a lot more next season and develop on his character. I love House/Chase scenes. There&#039;s so much more I&#039;d love to know about Chase, Cameron and Foreman.</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 02:41:45 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Ratha on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>I have to agree with Buds in that Chase&#039;s character has been developed beautifully. I too didn&#039;t care much for Chase at the start. The whole Vogler thing put me off him but now I adore Chase.

In fact Jesse Spencer is the reason I started to watch House when it first aired. I&#039;m an Aussie and I had a major thing for him when he was in Neighbour so I was glad to see him back on tele.

Back to Chase though, he stepped up to the plate in numerous episodes (Finding Judas and Airborne are two in which he got the diagnosis right) and I love the look House gave him as you mentioned Buds when he called House on also being ashamed of the reason Foreman is quitting and also when Chase deduced that it was House who cancelled Foreman&#039;s job interview.

I hope they do bring him back a lot more next season and develop on his character. I love House/Chase scenes. There&#039;s so much more I&#039;d love to know about Chase, Cameron and Foreman.</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 02:40:02 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Buds on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>Chase&#039;s character has been very nicely developed. He has gone from being one of the most despicable characters, to one of the most lovable. 

I think the relationship between House and Chase (before season 4) was similar to a father-son relationship. This was shown in &quot;Resignation&quot;, you see pride in House&#039;s eyes when Chase deduces that House is also ashamed of Foreman&#039;s reason for quitting. Then again in the season 3 finale, Chase is quick to figure out House&#039;s motives for agreeing with everything Foreman said. In the same episode, after House fires Chase, when House is sitting alone at home (when Esteban keeps calling and leaving him messages) for the first time you see tears in House&#039;s eyes (the season 4 finale wasn&#039;t the first time). It shows that firing Chase was probably the hardest thing House has had to do . It shows that House really meant it when he told Chase that he had learned all he can from working for him and that it was time for him to move on.

I&#039;ve just been re-watching all the season finale&#039;s so I thought I would just add that.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 16:42:28 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Barbara Barnett on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>Iranu,

Thank you for your comments.  I would agree that this is as fine a television experience as is possible.   I watched the episodes again last night, no commercials and back to back. There are so many resonances from the begining that tie in a that end.  From the song in the strip club sounding like a siren at the start echoing the sirens that House must&#039;ve heard as he regained consciousness on the bus after the crash.

You are right, of course, about Chase&#039;s possible post-hypnotic suggestion that might have prevented House from accessing Amber&#039;s identity until the end when he pushed himself past every block.

I have also mostly liked this season.  They&#039;ve tried new things, and I do think it&#039;s worked. I like the new team; Taub is confrontational with House (and as experienced if not as gifted) without Foreman&#039;s arrogant whiny-ness.  I like Kutner, who reminds me much of a big goofy kid.  But very, very smart.  I like 13 because, while she is very young, like Cameron was, she is wary and street smart as much as she is afraid.  I do like where Chase has landed, and i would keep him (which is interesting, since I despised Chase through the first 2.5 seasons).</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 09:30:19 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Iranu on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>I honestly think that was the best 1.5 hours of television I&#039;ve ever seen (I&#039;m English and downloaded each episode, without ads).

I don&#039;t know if anyone&#039;s already mentioned this, but if Chase hadn&#039;t told House to ignore Amber while under hypnosis, he might have uncovered there and then that it was Amber on the bus with him. At least that&#039;s how it seems to me.

What has been mentioned is that Hugh Laurie deserves an Emmy for his performance, and I agree wholeheartedly, both because he is amazing and because his acceptance speeches are hilarious. 

I was surprised by how genuine Robert Sean Leonard and Anne Dudek&#039;s performances were. They were as good as if not better than Laurie in this episode, and if that doesn&#039;t deserve an Emmy nothing does.

Why does everybody want Cameron and Chase to come back? I think it would be unrealistic and a cop-out if they did, plus I think they&#039;ve ran their full course as characters although I guess their relationship could be explored. The only member of the new team I don&#039;t like is Taub, he just doesn&#039;t seem to gel with the other members or House, and there&#039;s something about his acting that I don&#039;t like. I like both Kutner and Thirteen, although the latter might just be because I&#039;m a 17 year-old boy ;)

About House noticing Amber&#039;s rash, at the beginning of Wilson&#039;s Heart when House is in the ER, I think (but I&#039;m not sure) he has a flash of memory seeing Amber being carried out of the bus while he is talking about noticing a symptom in somebody, so he might have seen it then. Or it might have been his subconscious coming to a rational conclusion from the suppressed memory of Amber saying she had the &#039;flu - bad flu = rash, not an unreasonable leap.

Unlike many I really enjoyed season 4. No more or less so than the previous seasons, although the different approach was definitely fresh. I think it takes something like this to keep a series &quot;on its toes&quot; if you like, stop it from becoming tired and dull. And of course there are bound to be people who do not like the shake-up, although I am surprised by how many articles and posts I&#039;ve read stating disappointment with the season. Seasons like this I think act as a transition phase, whether deliberately or not, and next season I think will be a (welcome) return to the more traditional House format.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 08:54:53 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Barbara Barnett on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>It makes total sense, HL_L!  I agree with you on your assessment ;)</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 16:07:34 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by hl_lover on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>In reference to the rash on Amber&#039;s back:

House&#039;s mind did know, all along, that Amber was ill with the flu and he had witnessed her taking amantidine tablets, but he had suppressed it very deeply under a layer of &#039;retrograde amnesia&#039;. 
I think the dream sequence of Amber showing House the rash (how incredibly creepy to watch her rise from the undead...kudos to the makeup dept. on that one) was his mind processing information subconciously, coming up with other clues to her condition that would fit the diagnosis of influenza. 
It took the break-through of the deep-brain electrical stimulation for the full remembrance of Amber&#039;s flu and the medication to become a conscious thought again.

Did that make any sense? Anyway,
Sorry for the interruption, and carry on! :)</description>
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<title>Comment by Susanne on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>Don&#039;t worry, I too have a major crush on Hugh Laurie. At least your husband only teases you on it, mine gets jealous :)

There must be something wrong with the Academy if HL doesn&#039;t get the emmy. It is so overdue.

I felt that this season overall was a dissapointment though. I understand the themes of the show and I understand what the writers were trying to achieve however I felt that it was the execution of it that made me feel nagative about the season not to mention being bored to death on 13 and Taub. But I have my fingers crossed for next season.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 14:05:03 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Barbara Barnett on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>Thanks Blacktop and Ratha.  And Ratha--welcome.  Never apologize for a long comment.  Thoughtful commentary is what this column is all about!

I so agree with you about the Emmys.  He has to win this year.  Nuanced, emotional and restrained performance in what could have been wild and over the top.  Every range of emotion was felt and expressed.  Yeah, my husband is always teasing me about my middle-aged crush on Hugh.  what can I say, other than confess.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 13:21:24 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Ratha on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>Hi Barbara,

I&#039;ve been a long time reader of your reviews but this is the first time I have ever posted a comment. But after &quot;House&#039;s head&quot; and &quot;Wilson&#039;s heart&quot; (especially &quot;House&#039;s head&quot;) I just felt compelled to write.

First of all I just want to say that if Hugh Laurie does not win an Emmy there is seriously something wrong with the Emmy people&#039;s heads. Whoever they may be, I have no idea. I thought he was fantastic in &quot;Merry Little Christmas&quot; (still do) but I was just totally blown away watching &quot;House&#039;s Head&quot;. I may even go as far as saying it is now my favorite House episode thus far. And I never thought I would say that about a season 4 episode as I have not been overly thrilled with this season. 

And RSL and Anne Dudek surely deserve Emmy nominations for their wonderful performance. In fact they deserve Emmy wins. 

I don&#039;t think I&#039;ve been so emotionally drained after watching a television show before! I&#039;m still finding moments throughout the day where I think back to the episode and I can feel the emotions I felt watching it all over again.

I can&#039;t believe how much I&#039;ve &quot;fallen&quot; for a TV show! And Hugh Laurie!! Well don&#039;t even get me started!

As I mentioned earlier, on a whole season 4 has been a tad disappointing and like many I can&#039;t wait to read your review of the season. I love both Cameron and Chase and I miss them. Alot. I find 13 and Taub extremely dull and uninteresting. I miss the clinic patients and I felt that for the most part, I have found the POTW&#039;s and their medical mysteries boring. The only exception being Cate in &quot;Frozen&quot;, the soap actor in &quot;Living the Dream&quot; and Amber in &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart. In general season 4 has felt so different compared to the first 3 seasons. Many time I have wondered &quot;where is the &quot;House&quot; I love?&quot; And to me the medical mysteries have been the B stories when they use to be the A stories and it was from the characters interactions with the patients that we find out more about their character. And the writers strike sure didn&#039;t help. Saying that though, since &quot;Frozen&quot; I have enjoyed the season much more. 

I&#039;ll always continue to watch &quot;House&quot; no matter what direction the show takes because I love Hugh Laurie and the character&#039;s House, Wilson and Cuddy (and it doesn&#039;t look like they&#039;ll meet the same fate as Cameron and Chase) but I am very much anticipating what will happen next season in regards to the old team and I hope I won&#039;t be too dissapointed. 

Sorry for this very long post and sorry if I&#039;ve droned on. I&#039;m looking forward to season 5 and thank you Barbara for your reviews of what is the BEST show on tele.

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<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 13:07:37 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by blacktop on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>I agree with those above who are looking forward to Barbara&#039;s summary of this season as a whole.  I thought this was an exceptional outing, breathtaking in its bold decision to up-end the show&#039;s formula and introduce major new characters.  It will be particularly rewarding to re-examine the development of the character of Amber throughout the season and the fantastic subtlety and flair for comedy and tragedy that Anne Dudek brought to that tough part. 

The shifts in the role that Cuddy played through the season will also be of considerable interest also  as she moved from House&#039;s exasperated boss to his games-playing collaborator to his devoted partner and savior. Magic, illusion, games, mortality, impermanence, and fate: these large themes were explored in worthy fashion by a great show.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 11:33:39 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Barbara Barnett on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>Jo--Glad you liked the review.  I think that everyone has strong opinions on the direction of the series, and a lot of people do have issues with how the old team are being used.  

I like the new team; I like Chase (and how they&#039;ve developed the character)--I could do without Cameron and esp. Foreman.  It will be interesting where they take everyone next year.  Hey, and I hear there will be a cast commentary on the season four dvd!  

Amanda--All I can think is that House saw the rash when tending to her on the bus. Remember, he tended to her leg wound and saw her being rescued from the bus.  So maybe there; maybe when they moved her to the ambulance, like W said.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 23:19:50 EDT</pubDate>
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<description>I can&#039;t say much more than everyone else has said. The episodes were a MASTERPIECE.
Hugh Laurie as HOUSE is AMAZING.
But I have one question I hope someone can answer for me. HOW did House know that Amber had a rash on her back?
Can&#039;t wait until Season 5. </description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 23:09:12 EDT</pubDate>
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<description>Great review, Barbara, as always.

I am ecstatic for Hugh Laurie&#039;s sake that the season finale finally showcased his amazing range and depth and gave him a worthy Emmy submission.  His acting has always been top-notch, but up until the last two episodes, he hasn&#039;t had anything meaty enough this season to sink his teeth into or stand out among the other male drama contenders.  He, Leonard, and Dudek were absolutely breathtaking in this episode.

Unfortunately for me, these last episodes won&#039;t make up for the rest of Season 4. I still dislike it and think it was terribly disjointed.  I won&#039;t be putting Season 4 on my Christmas list this year.  I simply cannot find any interest in Taub or Thirteen, and dread the idea of Thirteen now becoming the focus in Season 5 as a sad, noble little trooper who bravely faces her fate. (gag)Kutner, though, is refreshing and definitely a keeper.

I&#039;m going to look at the last scene with Cameron, Chase, and Foreman together as a hopeful sign for the next season - dare I hope they will be back together again?  The writers have teased us over and over again with hints that Thirteen and Taub are unhappy with their jobs, and that House wants both Cameron and Chase to return.  So far, their promises to give Cameron and Chase more screentime have come up empty.  It&#039;s time they kept their promises.  As someone who has loved and been interested in all SIX characters in the first three seasons, I find myself bored to death with the new team&#039;s interactions.  

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<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 08:15:38 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Barbara Barnett on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>I had the opportunity to watch both episodes, back to back with no commercials yesterday (yay Amazon Ubnbox!)  It is, indeed a masterpiece.  I&#039;ve had people calling me for the last two days (friends and colleagues) asking me if I had recorded it and could they borrow it to replay!  That&#039;s NEVER happened before.  People were moved, touched and blown away.

Veresna--I was absolutely planning on doing a season retrospective, trying to find the lines and themes in the season as I did with season three (the various &quot;acts&quot; of the season).  The choppiness of it will make it interesting (and necessary).  Funny you should ask about a piece on the house/wilson dynamic.  I started one about a month or so ago and dropped it because I was too busy at the moment.  It is somethig I will pick up again over the summer.  Thanks for the input and the reminder!

Always feel free to leave multiple comments.  Discussion is an integral part any column of this sort, so feel free to discuss ;)</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 07:45:30 EDT</pubDate>
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<description>Barbara, I hope you&#039;ll forgive me for leaving a second comment here, but I&#039;m also hoping that you will consider two possible topics while we wait for Season 5 to begin.  First of all, a retrospective of the season.  I admit that, until &#039;Head &amp; Heart&#039;, which is how I&#039;m going to start thinking of these two episodes, I was so disappointed with the season that I doubted I would get the DVD set.  Now, I know that I will and will be interested in watching the unfolding events again from a different perspective.  Secondly, I think that reviewing the whole series up to now with the emphasis on Wilson and House&#039;s relationship would be intriguing.  On some of the fan boards, it appears that people are close to fisticuffs, some people arguing that House bears absolutely no guilt in any way for Amber&#039;s death, etc.  If Amber had lived, there would certainly have continued to be tension between all three.  From what we have seen, Wilson&#039;s wives didn&#039;t even try to prevent his friendship with House from disrupting their lives, something that Amber would never have suffered gladly.  Anyway, I think it would be great to have you give your thoughts on this complex relationship since it appears it is being tested to its limits at the moment.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 07:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
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<description>This finale was a masterpiece; it spotlighted each character and brought a new aspect of them out into the light.  It was heart-wrenching and wonderfully beautiful.  Got to watch it again and try not to sob...and sob...!!  

Words really can&#039;t describe the impression that &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot; made upon me.  Brought out the &quot;human&quot; in House, (I mean, who&#039;s ever seen tears running down his face?  When has he ever apologized?) Taub is loving and caring, Kutner is warm, intelligent, and suddenly very appealing with his &quot;freshness&quot;, as well as showing his self-control and maturity in living as an orphan.  Thirteen&#039;s fear is reavealed even more, at possibly having Huntinton&#039;s, and not a surprise that she tests positive.  (Oliva Wilde wondered how Thirteen came to be a doctor, perhaps this explains.  Perhaps to feel that she has a control, going into the medical profession even though she fears a disease?)  Cuddy is there for House, always steady, compassionate, and strong.  Wilson shows great love and tenderness, as well as much emotion.  For some reason Chase, Foreman, and Cameron seem far removed, rather aloof.  

It&#039;s still hard to believe Amber&#039;s gone.  She was so strong, alive, smart, even at times conniving.  It was a very bold move for the plot...I think one that left many viewers (me!)after the show still bawling.  

The music, so well chosen, played a large part in the feeling of the show.  Hugh&#039;s acting was like nothing I&#039;ve ever seen.  There was something so strongly subtle to it.  It&#039;s still so... wow.  Pardon me as I wipe my eyes again....</description>
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<description>Great review!  Almost made me cry all over again.  I also need to watch the episode a few more times to catch all of the nuances that you saw.  

Hugh Laurie has got to win the Emmy this year.  He is simply amazing.  I would also love to see Robert Sean Leonard win as well. </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 18:38:41 EDT</pubDate>
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<description>Barbara, thanks for a thoughtful and serious review of these two episodes. &quot;Reality&quot; and &quot;altered states,&quot; themes you wrote about earlier in the season came back into play in these two episodes. These writers did wonderful things with dreams, fantasy, the subconscious, and memory in the Head &amp; Heart episodes. But, I also think that they are playing with genre in their consideration of reality--this season we had comments on reality shows, a documentary, a magic show, and soap opera. I look forward to your critique of the season. I, for one, am happy the writers took some chances. Maybe some of it didn&#039;t work but a great deal of it did. As House said to Amber, to work for him you have to risk losing. :-) </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 18:17:19 EDT</pubDate>
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<description>Blacktop, my good friend, there is ALWAY ambiguity in EVERYTHING the complex Dr. House does;)

I think you make a great point in House&#039;s multiple reasons for agreeing to do the procedure.  There was much fear on his face just as he was about to undergo the procedure, and a little resentment that Wilson would ask this of him.  So very sad.

If House wanted to learn the truth, though, he could have done it once he was stronger and his head had healed,so the procedure would lose its risk.  That he agreed to do when he was already badly injured and sick was where his greatest sacrifice came.

But I agree that if he had never done the procedure, the not knowing would eat away at him until there was nothing left.  The guilt and self-hatred would be corrosive, and I would have no trouble believing that House would eventually end up committing suicide because of it.  

House is such an emotionally fragile character, made more so for how he hides from it.  He feels deeply and suppresses it more deeply.</description>
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<title>Comment by blacktop on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>Thank you for another superb review, Barbara, and for your kind nod in my direction!  I want to take up a point made above by Buds: I think that it is right to see considerable ambiguity in House&#039;s decision to undergo the Deep Brain Stimulation.  I believe he had multiple reasons for doing it.  Certainly there was the considerable act of love and friendship he gave to Wilson in acceding to his request. Both men acknowledged the huge risks of the procedure and House&#039;s agreeing involved potential sacrifice of his mental faculties and even life.  

But I think that an equally strong reason for his agreement was his fundamental drive to know, to solve the puzzle. Wilson&#039;s request gave House the opportunity for redemption through knowledge of the truth.  Think of how tortuous the future would have been for House if he had faced Amber&#039;s death with only shadowy understanding of what had happened in that bar.  These doubts would have eaten away at House&#039;s composure, his confidence, his relationships with Wilson and Cuddy, and possibly undone his sanity. 

By learning the painful truth, House is left guilt-wracked and worried about Wilson&#039;s anger. But at least the way is cleared for an eventual reconciliation.  House didn&#039;t just want to do the procedure from purely altruistic motives, he needed to do it for the sake of his own mental health and even his life.  I think that is why House -- in the form of the dream Amber -- instructs himself to return to his life with all its miseries and painful disappointments.  By knowing the truth he can give  himself absolution and permission to live on.</description>
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<title>Comment by Laurel on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>I think the only way House can escape his inner emotional prison is to be continually bashed  down with unpleasant experiences that force him to confront his own personal truths. And, needless to say, these truths will have to be extreme. &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot; is only one of a number of emotional traumas he&#039;s had to endure in order for him to become a more &quot;whole&quot; human being. What he chooses to accept from these painful truths and emotional catastrophies has yet to be seen. I think, in order for more of House&#039;s underlying character to be revealed in the future, the trials will have to be as emotionally bloody, brutal and bent as he is. </description>
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<title>Comment by sassydew on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>Barbara, wonderful review as usual!  I agree, of course, that HL, RSL, and AD were phenomenal!  And, like you, I am left wondering why House was in a bar drinking alone so early in the day, as comments were made suggesting it was unusual.  I think House learned something or did something or had something happen that led to this and I do hope we&#039;ll learn what it was.  

As others have suggested, the poignant conversation between House and Amber on the bus opens up the possibility for House to reexamine his life and reevaluate his choices, but I can&#039;t help remembering when he told Foreman, after the Euphoria ordeal, that nearly dying only changes a person for a very short time thereafter.  I don&#039;t have any brilliant insights to add to what you and others have already said about the beautiful and heart-wrenching House/Wilson/Amber story.

I do want to comment on the new fellows, though, as they finally became much more real and three-dimensional for me in this episode.  I had been hoping that would happen.  While on the surface they first appeared to be similar to the old fellows, it&#039;s now clear that they are very different individuals. I watch the show primarily for House, and only House, but I&#039;m excited at the possibilities to learn more about House through his interactions with these new people.  I felt that new fellows were needed by the end of S2, and I was excited at the prospect, but, like many, I had my doubts. I don&#039;t have doubts anymore.

As much as it pains me to say this - because I have become quite a Chase fan - it is definitely more than time for Chase, Foreman, and Cameron to move on. I really liked the scene that showed them at the booth in the restaurant, and I got the feeling that everything had come full circle for them and that this was a message that they&#039;re moving on.

I have one question about Cuddy, though:  I believe that House and Cuddy are great old friends who care deeply for one another, so I thought it was fitting that she was sitting at House&#039;s bedside and holding his hand.  It got me wondering about this, though:  Why wasn&#039;t Cuddy beside herself with grief when she thought House was dying in &quot;Half-Wit&quot;, yet obviously broken up about his situation in &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;? Is it possible that Cuddy somehow knew House wasn&#039;t really dying during &quot;Half-Wit&quot;?

Thank you again for your terrific reviews all season, Barbara!  I am looking forward to your thoughts on the show to get me through the summer!


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<title>Comment by Krisztina on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>Fantastic review of a fantastic (probably best so far!) House episode. No episode has drained me as much as this one... the immediate emotions already did me in, and then I started to realize what was going on, really going on, between House and Wilson, House and House, and all the terrible things that could happen in the next season. I don&#039;t know who I shed more tears for, House or Wilson... Robert Sean Leonard&#039;s acting devastated me, Hugh Laurie&#039;s left me speechless, as always. Incredible episode, such emotional, psychological tension as most TV series wish they had.
Waiting with baited breath for the next season!</description>
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<title>Comment by Buds on TV Review:  &lt;i&gt;House, MD&lt;/i&gt; Season Finale -- &quot;Wilson&#039;s Heart&quot;</title>
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<description>Excellent review. I can&#039;t believe you have only been doing this for one season. I look forward to reading anything you can post while we wait for season 5. Hopefully *fingers crossed* we get a full season and there isn&#039;t an actors strike.

RSL stole the show (at least half the show) and deservedly so, he was superb. HL was at his best - how does he express so much with just a look? These two episodes have been the best of the series so far. Its brilliant how they were able to pull this out of the bag after the shortening of this season. Kudos to the everyone involved!!!

Wilson willingly put everyone he knows, cares about, and respects at risk to cling on to the love of his life. Now thats what I call love. Not that what he did was right, but it just shows us how much he really loved Amber. He disagreed and argued with House&#039;s team. He was screaming at the top of his lungs at Cuddy. He was even willing to risk his best friend&#039;s life in the hope that it might give him a definitive diagnosis before risking Amber&#039;s life.

House may have felt guilty on some level for Amber being on the bus without really knowing why (because of his amnesia) which may be another reason for him not treating Amber like a regular patient. I doubt that the only reason House agreed to the Deep Brain Stimulation was because Wilson asked him to do it. I think he himself wanted to find out what happened and why they were at the bar together that night. It being a puzzle, and him being him, he would risk himself just to find the answer. In the scene where he is hovering between life and death with Amber, I feel the thing that he was scared of most of all was that Wilson would hate him, and blame him for what happened to Amber. That seemed to the be the thing he feared most.

I was surprised that Cameron wasn&#039;t at House&#039;s side at all in this episode. She was there for Wilson and Foreman when they needed her, but not once with House. Could this mean that she is well and truly over House? Or was House&#039;s near death experience from the previous episode too much for her to handle? Also, for a case as important as this , I would have thought that either Wilson or Cuddy would have asked Cameron and Chase to join in the differential diagnosis. But you know what they say about too many cooks and broth.</description>
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