House: Games
By fred | November 28, 2007
(S04E09) Here we are, this was the last episode of House, ever. For this year. It will definitely be back sometime in January (or maybe later?), given they have about three more episodes in the can left for us before the strike sends us all into withdrawal.
This was a perfect episode to end this year, because as it turned out it also came with the conclusion of the main plot line that had been running ever since this season starter, and House had to give his final answer to Cuddy : who will be the member of his new team.
The decision wasn’t easy, there were smiles and there were tears, but a decision had to be made.
And then, there were none. Well, no, two. Actually, I mean three. And that’s my final offer. Or is it ?
As the title of this episode indicates, this week it was all about games. Ever since he went on the lookout for his new team, House has been playing games. But the truth is, he’s been playing games long before the idea of a new team ever came around, and as he reminded Cuddy in the end, just because he now have a new team doesn’t mean games are over.
Of course they’re not, House drives on game. And beyond games, he loves “control”, as Wilson put it. Though to be fair, I don’t think House is all about control, but knowledge. What matters most most to him is to know, to understand everything. He didn’t mess with Wilson because he wanted to control him as much as because he was trying to get him to understand, to realize what his motivations for wanting to give money to his patient, who wasn’t dying after all, really were, and why they were stupid.
I may be wrong, but he Wilson had agreed with House on his real motives, not just saying but actually believing in what House was saying, and yet still found a way to justify that he felt giving him money was a right thing to do, if Wilson’s full appreciation of the situation was the same as House, and House could have understood his friend’s reasoning, he may have been more willing to let him go with it.
But enough about Wilson, even though it felt like pretty much the first time this season he actually had a subplot on his own, besides just a couple of interactions with House and some other Doctors. I liked that.
But the real important thing is that Amber was fired. I am not going to lie, I will not miss cutthroat bitch. I won’t, and I think I said last week I wished she would be the one to go, because, well, I didn’t like her so much. Although last week, I was also going for a new team made up of three doctors, not counting Foreman, obviously.
Because to be fair, I don’t think Foreman counts as a part of the team, it’s not like he’s really helping that much with the diagnosis, he really feels to me more like a puppet sent by Cuddy to watch over House in order to (try to) control him a little more. In fact, that’s exactly what I remember of Foreman this week : House assigning tasks, and Foreman going “no you don’t” over and over again.
What a pain in the ass he was, always putting on the table how he was above House and couldn’t let him do as he pleases, breaking - or bending - the rules to get what he wanted done. Which I find odd, because if I remember correctly such a lack of judgment is the exact reason why Foreman couldn’t get in a job anywhere else but here.
