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This episode made me like everyone except Derek. He's a selfish fucking asshole. Especially that whole "you have a choice" bullshit. He hasn't left Addison and he is everything selfish and asshole-y and bad.

On the other hand, I really like Callie, even if she is crazy and weird. I like how she is determined to say it like it is and be as honest as she can with herself. She's madly in love with George and she knows that and she also knows that he doesn't love her back yet, and she isn't lying to herself about it, and is going for it anyway. Fucked up, for sure, but ballsy.

George made me make grabby hands at the screen a lot, because it's George and he's adorable.

I hate how the Burke/Christina thing always seems to get the back burner. I kind of get the feeling that they set her character up, but then couldn't figure out how to develop her in any meaningful way, outside of the whole "bad at relationships/fear of intimacy/whatevercakes" crap. I mean, on the one hand, it's sort of a valid flaw for them to explore, but on the other hand, I feel like they've done a crappy and highly gender-stereotyped and cliche-ridden job of addressing it. I just get this "she just needs a good man" vibe off that storyline, and it's a problem a) because it makes for a crappy story and b) because it's annoying to my inner feminist who has been busy rattling cages recently.

Also on the list of characters who do not impress me, the Chief. I mean.... Good for his wife, for standing up for herself, but what an ass. No wonder he and McAsshat get along so well.

I thought the Izzy thing was carried out very interestingly. I guess I'm withholding judgment till I see where it goes more. But so far, they've done well.

Bailey has 1*10^6 times more awesome in the tip of her pinky toe than anyone else on the show. She is completely amazing both as a doctor and as a human being.

Addison was certainly making a play to break my heart this episode. Between Derek throwing her out of the house (ASSHOLE TIMES INFINITY) and her finding the underwear, I wanted to feed her hot chocolate and tuck her into bed. Her posting the underwear on the lost and found board was AMAZING. Go her. I liked how through the entire baby-drama, you could see her being on the ragged edge of control, with that and her marriage problems all piling up.

Alex is a character that I think the writers have succeeded with AMAZINGLY. He's an asshole, but he has redeeming qualities, and it's presented in a completely plausible and sympathetic way. When he's being an asshole, I don't feel any need to excuse his misbehavior, but he also has his moments and that's what makes me like him so much. Of all of the interns, he is the one I can actually see being a really good doctor when he grows up.

Every once in a while, I remember that the show is actually called House MD and I get really tickled.

1) I think it's really interesting that they had the leg pain come back, and have left it pretty much unaddressed. WTF?

2) This episode totally cemented Chase as my most favoritest ever. More about him later.

3) Cameron is DramaQueen to the MAX. Not that I don't think she had valid ethical concerns, but they way she presented them was both week and lame. And what am I supposed to get out of the ending? That she realized House was right? That she thought she did the right thing? Did she really learn something? Resolve her ethics? Or was she just doing what she thought House would like? I find her motives often completely inscrutable. On the lighter side, I like how she's developing a bit of a backbone and sass in day-to-day life. That makes me happy.

4) For all the times they fuck up the medicine, and have ethically questionable things happen on this show, I really like episodes like this that demonstrate that there can be more than one answer to ethical dilemmas, and that House, while being a highly unusual and often questionable doctor, is also a highly ethical doctor when it comes right down to it. His refusal to help the old man die peacefully could be read as his determination to "figure out the puzzle", but I read it as he was unwilling to help a patient die unless he knew for sure that the patient could not be cured.

5) Forman continues to be boring. In the last episode (I think) he said something to the effect that, he's here to learn as much about diagnosing as possible from House, but once his internship is over, he's out of there so fast the door won't have a chance to hit is ass on the way out. He seems even more detached from the rest of the other main characters than he has been in the past, so ... yes. It's hard to care about him when he obviously doesn't care about anyone else.

And now, for CHASE!!!
- He wears SWEATER VESTS!!!!!!!!! OMG.
- No, really. SWEATER VESTS! The one in this episode was particularly amazing as it seemed to be at least a size too big and had that amazingly ugly-old-man type of pattern. Words do not adequately express my adoration for him wearing sweater vests, especially ones that are crimes against nature.
- He seems like the doctor who has had the most practical experience, and thus, seems a bit more ... competent? Comfortable? something. Anyway. I feel like Forman and Cameron are fresh out of something, where as Chase has been practicing medicine for a while, and ... I don't know why that makes me like him more, but it does.
- He really likes and trusts House, even when House is being the most GIGANTIC ASSHOLE EVER.
- That little faux-manly shoulder clap in the first episode of the season where they are welcoming House back was awesome.
- I like how he has already personally resolved the ethical dilemma in euthanasia and is thus unfazed by that part of the case (see bit about him being a more experienced doctor above).
- I like how he sticks around when House is acting like he's going to give the guy a fatal dose of morphine, but is still completely shocked when all House does is put the patient in a coma. He really trusts House to do the right thing, which is nine kinds of interesting.