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Things about this episode --

- I am so in love with Hugh Laurie it hurts.

- I like that the gender and class conflicts between the ducklings haven't gone away - the sharp little looks between Chase and Foreman, the way Cameron tries to put herself forward in a way that won't set off all the alpha-males around her.

- "Put your coat on." "It itches!" So, so married.

- And as long as I'm in the happy House/Wilson place, House coming to talk to Wilson even though he couldn't really talk about it was delicious. Part of that, of course, is that House needs to talk to Wilson. It's just what he does. And part of it, I thought, was to give Wilson fair warning that House was about to do something squirrely with the transplant committee. He gave Wilson the opportunity to vote according to his ethics -- lucky for him Wilson's ethics are extremely flexible and his trust in House is absolute.

"Since when do I need a secret passcode to talk to you?" Hee! And interesting, considering that during Cursed, they seemed to be edging toward a bit of a rift on Wilson's end.

- "Friendship with you is an ethical obligation." Interesting line. I'm still not sure what I think it means.

- Wilson really does have his hand in all the different political pies around that hospital, doesn't he? At least that explains some of his ease with Cuddy.

- I really loved the scene with House and the patient, before he goes to the transplant committee. Not because she was particularly interesting, but his intensity was mesmerizing. We don't often get to see him in the grips of a true dilemma -- he isn't a man who is usually unsure about his course of action, and it was fascinating to watch him wrestle with this.

- Interesting that House seemed very sure that he had Cuddy's support on the board. I mean, we'd all like to think that Cuddy would stick up for House and not allow him to be fired, even if it meant losing $100 million for the hospital. But I'm a little surprised that House is so sure of that.

- Plus, I'm a little offended on Cuddy's behalf that Vogler assumes she can't have any reason to stick up for House, unless she slept with him. No wonder Cameron is so desperate to find a way out of the gender trap.

- Poor Chase. His life sucks a lot these days. I refuse to believe he turned House in, unless we get incontrovertible proof later on. But of course House isn't going to fire him. Somebody around there has to have a bedside manner.

- Cameron asking if House "likes" her. Count me among those assuming that she meant "like like" her. And count me among those assuming House was serious in telling her no. That doesn't mean he's not attracted to her, but there's no way he'd consider a relationship with her, for a number of reasons, and he's not going to lead her on. She took the let-down pretty well -- I suspect she'll get over it fast. Hey, Cameron, there's a cute Aussie doc down the hall who's having a bad week....

- If I weren't already deeply in love with House (character and show), I would have fallen hard for him playing air keyboard. That whole scene was marvelous.

- But honestly, how on earth were they examining this woman for severe leg pain, and yet managed to completely miss the glaring cutting wounds on her thigh? Hello? They go through her belongings to find the ipecac, but they miss the bloody gashes? If they fire House, nobody will ever make it out of this hospital alive again.

*loves my show!*

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- "Friendship with you is an ethical obligation." Interesting line. I'm still not sure what I think it means.

I'm not sure either. That his friendship with House is more important to him than his career? That friendship in general is more important to him? (I like, though, that he made it about friendship with House, not just the more general concept.) That he feels obligated to stay friends with House (because he knows House doesn't have anyone else, maybe), even when he's pissed at him and wants to walk away? I actually am happy with any or all of these explanations. *g*

I'm happy with them, too. *g*

After rewatching it last night, I think Wilson was saying that he considers being supportive of a friend as being equally important as the obligations of medical ethics. So while he has an obligation to vote according to the rules of the transplant committee, he also has an obligation to trust his friend and back him up when he needs it. Clearly, the obligation of friendship is stronger for Wilson.

Which is interesting when you think about their conversation at the end of the pilot, where House chides him for lying to a friend in order to save a patient, saying his priorities are screwed up.

Yes, what you said. Especially about the cutting. How can they be trying to fix pain in her leg and miss the not-even-scarred cutting? Ugh.

"Friendship with you is an ethical obligation." Interesting line. I'm still not sure what I think it means.

I wasn't really analyzing it until you said that, and now I'm wondering about my interpretation. ;D I took it to mean that merely deciding to be House's friend -- in spite of House constantly doing things that he might find unethical -- is in itself an ethical quandry. Can you be ethical while associating with the unethical? It's like... if he was a cop, it wouldn't matter how good he was at his job, or how ethical and fair he was, if he knew that his best friend was growing weed in the basement and did nothing about it. That in itself would be unethical. Or something.

Whatever it means, I think that the point is House really makes him work for it. ;D Why Wilson stays around is an interesting question. Probably the sex is really hot. ;)

The worst thing is, the cutting wasn't even really that necessary. They could have just had House go through her stuff until he found the ipecac, and that would have done it. The cutting really didn't have anything to do with it.

What I love about the friendship as ethical obligation line is the huge number of different interpretations everyone's coming up with! At the moment, I'm leaning toward the thought that Wilson considers supporting and trusting his friend to be obligatory even more than following the medical ethics guidelines. So he trusts that House has a good enough reason for skirting his own medical ethics to make Wilson do the same.

And yeah, the sex is really hot. *g*

*loves your show too!*

I was trying to figure out what Wilson meant by the "ethical obligation" statement, too; I wonder if he meant that SOMEONE had to be there to sort of rein House in every once in a while, for the good of society. Or it could be that he felt that he owed it TO HOUSE to be there, in which case, there is plenty of unexplored House/Wilson dynamic. Why would Wilson feel obligated specifically TO HOUSE? And if it's not that, why would he make such a weird comment? Things to ponder...

Or maybe not that he feels obligated specifically to House, as much as he feels that one is obligated to be there for one's friends, even if that means doing something that violates an outside ethical code. Or maybe the obligation comes from the fact that he knows House better than anyone, and thus he knows how House's unconventional genius works, and therefore has an obligation to support him because he knows House can work minor miracles even when he seems to be going against conventional wisdom. Who knows? But I love thinking about it. *g*

I don't have anything particularly important to add, except a great big YES to everything you said. Just watched last night's episode, and now I am filled with overflowing love for House and his ethical dilemmas and his air-keyboard and his snark and his eyes and, and, and, okay, I'm too ebullient to be coherent so I'll stop now. :-)

Hee! Coherence is not required. How can anyone be coherent in the fact of those eyes and that snark and that voice and the overwhelming hotness and cuteness and angst and.... Yeah. We see the problem here. *g*

Lovelovelovelove this show!

"Friendship with you is an ethical obligation."

Ethics is about right and wrong, no? Maybe he's just saying that his friendship is right and he must do what's right and be friends with him or something.

I've got nothing.

I'm just wondering if that ethical obligation means sleeping with House. :D

Yeah, I think he's saying something along those lines, maybe that his friendship with House is more important that his medical ethics, so he has an obligation to trust and support his friend no matter what.

In any case, I *definitely* think he has an ethical obligation to sleep with House. And we have an ethical obligation to talk about it incessantly. *g*

And I fulfill said ethical obligation daily. In my head.

Nice icon, btw.

I'm not sure if it's a case of "his friendship with House [being] more important that his medical ethics" or if it's more : he knows House, he shares his views about right or wrong (for medical cases), and trusts him to do what's right, even if it means going against hospital policy. And that House has enough respect for Wilson and his ethical obligations to the hospital (whether he agrees or not with the policies) that House doesn't tell Wilson everything.

Still, it's very cute how House wanted to talk to Wilson about it, but couldn't; House was in an ethical dilemma and wanted to discuss it with Wilson.

*goes back to doing uni stuff*

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