i still don't understand this episode! was the detox real? i get that house and cuddy's relationship wasn't real, but what about the detox? what's going on there? why did house hallucinate in the first place, or is that a question to be answered next season? so upset about the end!

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I am one of those who has been seriously watching House from the beginning. I was not let down by this episode by a long shot, although I somehow don't know what's real and what isn't at the moment. Did Chase and Cameron really marry? Does Cutty really have a baby? Is House really going to a mental institution or is he still imagining? I hope it's all true and I am also glad Wilson was with House. I love the House character and I don't agree that the show has veered away from the cases; it just focused on House more than usual. I hear Hugh Laurie really has a problem with depression and my prayers are with him. I've often wondered how this character could be portrayed by anyone else but I equally love the other players here. Here's to Season 6 and maybe some hope for House's addiction, a feeling of true friendship wtih Wilson, and a possible love connection with Cutty.

The first hallucination happened in Cuddy's office when he insulted her relationship with her child, and it ended in her office at the end of this episode. And the Cameron/Chase thing had nothing to do with House. If House isn't in the room, it's not House's hallucination. Period.

I thought it was very well done! THe whole "dream" thing is usually annoying, but this time I was actually shocked. At first, anyway. It all made more sense after the shock wore off.

And to those of you who think that House's relationship with Cuddy should bloom before the show is over, I believe you are lying to yourselves. Yes, I would love to see it, too. But I know FOR SURE that if they start having a relationship, it would take a lot of the tension out of the show. The good tension. That's when it would "jump the shark" and the writers know that. Anytime two characters who have been jumping around with sexual tension in a TV show and end up getting together, the show collapses shortly thereafter. Think about it. Would you REALLY watch the show if you finally got exactly what you wanted? No. Because you would have no reason to watch it anymore because the main reason you watch it is already past.

"Cameran has to get rid of Chase or it's all over!!": Really? Seriously? Okay, if that's the only reason you watch the show, go watch Guiding Light or something. The medical portion of the show takes up the bulk of it, and it's the most interesting. Like the characters on CSI. The cases are the main reason I watch it, also. True, the characters make the show, as well. But, the cases also help shape the characters.

I don't mean to insult anyone and their opinions, because I know I have some of my own others don't agree with. I'm just saying how I feel it is.

this is a depressing show about a depressing life. Because the show's point of view is that all changes--except physical changes--are illusional, it doesn't seem to have anything to tell us; it just wallows. In line with all the existential angst, I am beginning to feel it would be better if House just died in the finale, in his ex cathedra state of non-grace. What else is there?

All I can say is that the ending made me very mad and it took some of the bloom off the rose that was House to me. Obviously at least from the point of the "insulin shock", if not earlier, until the last scene in Cuddy's office was all part of his hallucination. at least it wan't a dream, but really being derivative of your own previous plotlines? That is a new low. I, too, suspected that there was something very wrong with House's alleged "rapid detox"as well as his "instant" spinal tap to test for MS, and was glad to find out that as a medical show they were not that irresponsible, but really, give me a break. They built up the House and Cuddy relationship/sexual tension all season, so to use that as a point of plot manipulation was a total cop-out.
They seem to know that they can't let it drop..but it seems to me that they would rather have house in a sanitarium then in any type of relationship. And if the episode was a hallucination, did Cameron and Chase really get married? Did the sperm thing even really happen? And was there even a "split brain" patient? The entire two episode arc could be a metaphor for what is going on inside House's brain. As long as they are copping out anyway, maybe they can erase the last two years and bring the team back together.

Unless I'm getting mixed up, the scratch from the previous episode became lipstick in this episode when House looked at himself in the mirror. This would seem to indicate that the sex scene with Cuddy was real, but the scene where House looks in the mirror is a hallucination.
However, I should have suspected it was all a dream -- I was unable to watch a good bit of it due to the shaky camera effect, keeping my eyes a couple of feet from the screen so I could "see" the action without the extreme discomfort of the shaking image. I was relieved at the end to see that the series hadn't gotten all "modern" on us, but that this was only the proof of a hallucination that I didn't catch, perhaps because I was so annoyed by it and stopped concentrating on the show, being more possessed by the device that kept me from watching the action!

i was wondering: in the previous episode house talks about the multiple options that could have caused his hallucinations:one of which was vicodin addiction and another was mental illness. Obviously because of the storyline at the end we realize he has been on vicodin all along. so if he were to actually magically detox wouldn't he be all right? why would he go to a mental hospital just to detox? is it because his level of addiction is so bad? or does he also have a mental illness on top of or related to the vicodin?

The cop was right always a junky. House is a real person with real problems like anyone else. In the next season House should not appear at all he is finished as a doctor and should be retired to a fishing pond or a trout stream in the Rocky Mt. Always finish on top. Or You only see thing through House's eyes. As when he is talking you only see who he is talking to and not House. He should be replaced by a diagnostic computer (HAL 9000 by Chandler)
There is hope for even Bad Santa finally got the big picture about what should be.
Never House and Cuddy. She was in on his leg thing. Way to much animosity. House needs a new interest like someone who is on the same page as him and can dish it out as well as he can but not better. Amber still in his head? NO!.
House never gets out of the mental hospital.

House is really just Wilson's subconcious and deviant side. thats how its all gonna end...