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

[stenveny.livejournal.com]

I'll go one step further, the show writers have gone to great lengths this season to demonstrate an *absence* of respect between these two very strong, independent characters, who at times haven't been very respectable -- Cuddy's been whiny and manipulative and House has been childish. It could be argued that these are characteristics they have both always had, but not to the same degree or disastrous effect. About the time "Pox" aired, I started to wonder what they saw in each other in the first place, and by "Two Stories" I barely recognized either of them.

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

Ah, see, I have been struck by these aspects of their dynamic for a long time - even wrote a fic about it, A Valiant Woman. They had great chemistry, but they also seemed to bring out the worst in each other. It might have been different if Cuddy weren't his boss, but I think her need for power and his for freedom are fundamentally incompatible.

[stenveny.livejournal.com]

And *that* would have been a much more interesting reason to explore, and ultimately end, the onscreen relationship. Instead we have a man fearful for 14 episodes that his girlfriend will leave him, and in episode 15, she does. Missed opportunity.