The House/Cuddy dynamic is a great one--there are just enough hints for you to wish they would get together and just enough problems that you see that they can't. And then tonight!
Which I actually have a problem with--granted, House detoxing shows a really admirable part of him: the fact that he will do anything to protect his reason, even give up his drug addiction; furthermore, this episode shows how highly he thinks of Cuddy and how willing he is to be vulnerable around her, how she is the one who knows him well enough and is strong enough to help him when other people can't. In fact, he won't overcome his addiction in rehab--he needs her to be watching; he needs to be impressing her.
BUT (and spoilers follow): they had to sleep together?! The genius of their relationship is that it is hinted at, rather than blatant and over the top. So: the kiss--good. More kisses--good. Sex--now it's just going to be a petty and immature sorting out of what that meant. Plus, House sleeps with prostitutes--sex clearly doesn't mean all that much. Now a relationship in the office, that would mean something.
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I would just like to point out that just because you sleep with prostitutes, like, once in a while, doesn't mean that sex doesn't mean that much.
I assume.
I just watched this episode today.
I agree with you. The whole point was that it was meaningful, right? They led up to it so much...and then--boom. Sex.
I think it seems satisfying to the audience at the time because you don't see what comes next--it's like how Jane Austen novels end at the wedding (but without the sacred bond and all that). BUT--it's a TV show. The story keeps on going, and by the next episode the relationship will be pedantic (I haven't watched it. Maybe I'm wrong).
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