The Closer:

When the kid started talking about people lining up to die, did anyone else flash on Oz's line from Buffy about where he would go if he was going to line up for something? I couldn't believe it when they ended up at the mall too.

I didn't hate Cameron! She was useful and sympathetic and insightful!

And you just know Foreman wishes he had the means to run away again.

Chase is becoming the House of surgery, isn't he? I'm beginning to be quite fond of Chase the Go-To Surgeon who Knows How House Thinks.

Yes, Cuddy is a House/Wilson shipper, and yay her for yelling at Wilson too.

And House, finally honest, as only Wilson can make him be, and finding out it's not only not enough but that he was the problem all along. I think Wilson is going to remember why he likes House. I don't think it's all enabling. He's going to miss the more vivid world where House is.

Let me end this with saying Hugh Laurie has the most amazing eyes, and when he was gazing piercingly at 17 in his conference room, it was very . . . moving.

Hey, my friend was watching House and her Tivo cut off the last few minutes. Can anyone recap for me?

yeah, it was bullshit. "House" flowed into "Fringe."

Essentially, Wilson told House that he didn't want to hurt House's feelings and told him that it was because of Amber that he was leaving the hospital. The real reason Wilson was leaving is because he was too close to House and found that their relationship was unhealthy. So he said goodbye to House and left.

Wilson told House that he didn't want to hurt House's feelings and told him that it was because of Amber that he was leaving the hospital

I didn't think he cared one whit about hurting House's feelings, he just said he didn't blame House for Amber's death. He said House creates/has only misery around himself, and Wilson felt he was enabling that. He told House they weren't OK and that they weren't friends anymore and he didn't think he and House had ever been friends. Then he walked out and House had a look of flabbergasted pain on his face.

The whole thing felt like a break-up speech, like Wilson was intentionally hurting House in order to break the last tie so he can leave. Time will tell, I guess...

connie (and aileann),

okay put me in the dense corner...

I didn't think he cared one whit about hurting House's feelings

then why did Wilson say he didn't want to hurt House. Wilson said that he told House his reason for leaving was Amber's death and that he had avoided telling House the truth because he didn't want to hurt House. I took Wilson at his word. I didn't think he was deliberately trying to be cruel to House - he could have been far crueler, it seems to me - but that he knew House wouldn't accept his original "lie."

I thought this explanation fit with House's (and the show's) world view of everyone lies - especially to protect another.

I maybe wasn't clear... I think Wilson was "severing the tie" with House, trying to close the book on their relationship so that House would let him go. Though that could just be my interpretation. I don't know that Wilson is clueless enough to think that would actually work, rather than just making House more determined.

Fox is being coy and not putting House up until 8 days after broadcast. However, these new Old Spice ads with NPH are kind of funny.

BONES was pushing some serious "Old Yeller" type buttons tonight at the end. I guess them doing a dog-fighting episode was inevitable, but no fair going into Disney trauma territory with it.

Did Brennan say her dad could take the dog when she was out of town? I thought he was in jail. What was the final disposition of Max last season? I'm totally blanking.