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]

How much info do you want?

[stenveny.livejournal.com]

She did not have cancer, but House was terrified that she did, and after several attempts to deny/deflect his terror, he showed up in her hospital room in time to support her before and after diagnostic surgery. She realized after the fact that he had taken Vicodin in order to fortify himself (her dreams were trying to send her the message that he couldn't deal with such stress without the aid of narcotics), confronted him and accused him of spending his life trying to avoid pain, and left him. At which point he begged her not to go, and then relapsed for realz.

The promos for next week's episode show a stoned House, living for some reason in what appears to be a hotel room (what the hell happened to his apartment?) and insisting that he is fine. Masters tells him that his judgment is impaired, and Cuddy is arguing with Wilson that she can't fix (House's) problem; she *is* his problem. There's a glimpse of House standing on the (hotel? rehab center? wtf?) balcony railing, about three stories up, and smiling. The spoilers mention that House has some "business away from the hospital, during the episode which I assume means drug treatment or pain management appointments, but for all I know at the rate we're going could mean he's joining the foreign legion.

I was not fond of Wilson in this episode. Foreman was more openly concerned about House than Wilson, who was imo insufferably self-righteous. YMMV there.

I liked it. The pacing was kind of choppy, but the conflict was credible, dream/dance sequences were well done, Chase was fantastic, and the POTW storyline featured an ethically conflicted, empathetic Taub. And of course, Hugh Laurie knocked it out of the park.

[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).

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

Flywoman, I hope you don't mind if I ask a couple questions too.

If she didn't have cancer, what was wrong with Cuddy?

Was someone using sleeping pills and calling them candy?

And can someone please tell me why Wilson's getting a bit of grief?

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Kind of sad that Cuddy and House both have to drug themselves. I've never thought this relationship was good for either of them. Hopefully she'll relax once she's single again. Ironically enough, sleeping pills are pretty habit forming.