house 5x06, joy
Reasons why I fucking loved this episode (ASIDE FROM THE TOTAL BIAS OF THE EPIC HOUSE/CUDDY KISSAGE OF WIN) ;
1.) I liked the PsOTW and their case. The colors at the teaser were gorgeous, and there was that sense of suffocation and it was creepy the way he lost eight hours and the coffee thing. I liked both father and daughter, and I just loved that they got their happy ending.
2.) Taub/Thirteen/Coke FTW. 'I would like to buy some cocaine, please.' Oh Taub. You druggie virgin, you. I weirdly liked the drug dealer. I like EVERYONE in this episode. (It may be because of the EH/CKoW though.) i like Thirteen going Gimme summa da trampled-on stuff, bitch! I like her eyeliner this episode. And I like how she's on Cuddy's side and Taub is not--totally in character, and reflecting their own personal situations at the moment. Continuity FTW.
3.) I actually liked Becca. I thought I wouldn't, but I did. She comes across as sympathetic, and scared and real. I like how we get to see Cuddy from her point of view. Because yes, it does seem that Cuddy has a perfect life and head of a hospital with all the people under her, and it's nice to have someone remind us of that while we see how desperately Cuddy wants something she doesn't have. I loved--'Not yet,' when Becca admires her perfect life.
4.) The pacing was great. There was just the right amount of interesting POTW and medicine stuff at the same time we explore Cuddy's baby plot. It was just right--you didn't feel as if you were left hanging or given too much of either plotline.
5.) House and Wilson scene. 'You're doing this because we no longer have inkwells and Cuddy doesn't have pigtails.' Heh. And I love Wilson as the voice of snarky reason.
6.) Oh and how could I forget Skutner? FTW.
7.) I love how I was still so surprised when Becca tells her that she couldn't give Cuddy the baby. I mean, obviously there's already been speculation on the baby dying or Becca refusing to give it up. But still, I was leaning towards the baby dying because I thought that Becca keeping it would be less painful and made the baby plotline more open-ended. Why couldn't she try adopting again? I foolishly reasoned, and maintained my delusional belief that the baby would die. But LE acted the hell out of every single scene in that episode and I loved that I was still so surprised even though part of me at least expected it. And it was heartbreaking, more so, I think now, than if the baby died.
8.) House's behavior throughout the episode. I loved that he was so adamant that Cuddy wasn't sure and all of his insane, desperate antics trying to get Cuddy to change her mind. I love that he thought he was right when he was so obviously wrong. I loved the lamp thing.
9.) 'I like Joy.' Then when Becca kind of gives a small awkward smile, Cuddy hastily adds. 'As I said, I haven't really decided yet.' I love their relationship. I love how Cuddy acts around her and I love how she asks why Becca picked her, of all the couples in the website. (I just fucking love a lot of things, notice that?) I also love how LE just exudes that 'positively aglow' aura, and the slight hesitation to it. And the sheer--well--joy when she's painting the baby's room. I also fucking love that it's yellow.
10.) Okay, that's everything. Now to seriously worship the last scene at every angle and analyze every single thing. I loved the kiss. (Well, duh. But wait, there's actually some explanation here. I've been playing it for four hours, I think I've sufficiently produced some coherent thoughts.) I love that he goes to her house with the intent to comfort her. This is House, who obviously avoids emotion like the plague and here he is on Cuddy's doorstep the night she loses the kid. I like that Cuddy's still smiling with House's jokes. And I loved that he actually, finally says that she'll be a good mother. And I loved that she got angry with that even more. He wasn't expecting it--in fact, he sort of takes a step back when she begins her tirade at him. I loved that he doesn't know why he negates everything and that he admits it to her. And I fucking love to the billion trillion gazillionth power that he kisses her. And that she meets him, about three quarters of the way.
The kiss is raw and graceless and perfect. Tomorrow I feel like watching season one and petting S1!Cuddy and S1!House to tell them, Four years later you're going to kiss so amazingly hotly. Now to go rewatch it again.