Fill me in, please!!! SPOILERS for tonight's and upcoming eps

[flywoman]

So of course I have to wait for the episode to come up next week, but my understanding from reading comments is that Cuddy and House had various weird dreams about their relationship and/or life after it, House couldn't stand to face his fears about Cuddy without getting back on Vicodin, Cuddy broke up with him for it, and next week's promo suggests that Depressed!House is going to jump off a building???

And what are the titles of the next two episodes? "Fall From Grace" and "The Dig"? Sounds really ominous. Unless Cuddy is just going to die really quickly from her totally unexpected and ridiculous metastatic cancer.

Comments

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

Okay, the reader's digest version:
1) Cuddy has mass on kidney, might be cancer that has spread to her lungs
2) House does not show up until right before the operation
3) She discovers he's been taking Vicodin
4) She breaks up with him
5) General misery all around, except that of course she doesn't have cancer.

Wilson's in it a lot. POTW is boring.

Great dream sequences:
1) House fights team Zombie! I love Foreman!Zombie!
2) 1950s sitcom scene w/ H/C
3) 2 1/2 men sitcom w/ H/W
4) The musical number is absolutely fucking awesome (it's Cuddy's surgery dream, and it makes perfect sense AND it shows that Hugh Laurie can do anything).

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

WILSON! And I'm really looking forward to seeing the (remaining) dream sequences.

And she doesn't have cancer. WTF. So, um, "Fall from Grace" and "The Dig" probably DON'T refer to Cuddy then. And yet we know we're going to be at Arlene's house at some point. Do you think they're still going to try to pull off a wedding, or is this it for their relationship??

[stenveny.livejournal.com]

DS has said that he won't jerk the audience around with repeated breakup/reconciliation without very good reason, so I think this is it.

But what he considers very good reason probably differs from my definition.

I'm feeling just a little bit jerked around, but I'll get over it.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

POTW is kind of boring, although I liked the Taub ruminations about the patient. We also got to see Magic-Schoolbus-Cam again! (When they show recreations of what's happened inside the patient's body.)

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

Cool, I've been missing that magic cam a lot!

[pgrabia.livejournal.com]

He was so sexy in top hat and tails singing and dancing. Shame they couldn't have shown Wilson singing as well. Oh well. It was a good number, though it's significance for what was going on still escapes me.

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

I think it foreshadows House's relapse and their break-up ("Judgment Day").

[stenveny.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize until I read the blogcritic's review what that "candy" epiphany was about. In each of Cuddy's dream sequences, House had candy -- a candy cane, a lollipop, whatever it was he was chewing in the western sequence, bubble gum in the sitcom. Her subconscious knew she was involved with an addict under stress. That's sufficiently fantastic writing to make up for "unplanned parenthood" and "two stories."

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize until I read the blogcritic's review what that "candy" epiphany was about.

Yes - she gets the epiphany about it when her sister mentions that Rachel calls her sleeping pills "candy."*

That's sufficiently fantastic writing to make up for "unplanned parenthood" and "two stories."

I'm not sure that the most fantastic writing in the world could make up for "Two Stories."

*FINALLY was given a link to a site that let me watch the ep.

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it just last week that he showed up at her place drunk and passed out in her lap? That'd be a big red flag for me.

[barefootpuddles.livejournal.com]

It was a good number, though it's significance for what was going on still escapes me.

It was telling Cuddy that House was stoned.

Lyrics at the beginning:

Forget your troubles come on get happy, you better chase all your cares away...

House did that with vicodin.

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

What totally kills me is that over on the Cuddy comms pre-episode, they were interpreting these lyrics as a good thing.