I thought the ending was very open-ended as well. It looked to me like he was forcing himself to endure the pain for as long as he could (now that he knows he might have been controlling it to some degree), and using the piano to distract himself from the pain. He took the vicodin of course, but maybe now he'll be playing this game with himself to see how long he can force himself to go without the vicodin, trying to second-guess how much of it is in his head.
That might be good, if it means he starts to confront his addiction and bring it back under some degree of control--- or very bad, if it leads to binge behavior.
Either way, it looks like he can't keep using leg pain as an excuse, even subconsciously, anymore. Cuddy forced him to acknowledge to himself that at least some of his behavior was his own doing.
By the end of the episode my mind went back to what the father-to-be said in the beginning: "So it's all in my head?" House told him it was his hormones, not his head... but in House's case, the opposite was true. It was his head, not his body.
I'm starting to have a theory... this season will be House's breakdown/fall-apart season. His Tyler Durden season, if you will. This is the season he crashes, emotionally and possibly physically (via drugs or legs) too. Last season we were introduced to him, this season he's been in a downward spiral. We're still halfway through the season, so this might be House's low point (the scene begging Cuddy for morphine was pretty low), but I'm thinking it's a false ending. House hasn't really hit rock bottom yet. That won't happen until he comes close to losing more than himself, or when he causes something really horrible to happen to someone else. Right now he's only being self-destructive; I bet he has to hurt someone else (the antithesis of what doctors do) to hit rock bottom.
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Date: 2006-02-21 06:04 am (UTC)That might be good, if it means he starts to confront his addiction and bring it back under some degree of control--- or very bad, if it leads to binge behavior.
Either way, it looks like he can't keep using leg pain as an excuse, even subconsciously, anymore. Cuddy forced him to acknowledge to himself that at least some of his behavior was his own doing.
By the end of the episode my mind went back to what the father-to-be said in the beginning: "So it's all in my head?" House told him it was his hormones, not his head... but in House's case, the opposite was true. It was his head, not his body.
I'm starting to have a theory... this season will be House's breakdown/fall-apart season. His Tyler Durden season, if you will. This is the season he crashes, emotionally and possibly physically (via drugs or legs) too. Last season we were introduced to him, this season he's been in a downward spiral. We're still halfway through the season, so this might be House's low point (the scene begging Cuddy for morphine was pretty low), but I'm thinking it's a false ending. House hasn't really hit rock bottom yet. That won't happen until he comes close to losing more than himself, or when he causes something really horrible to happen to someone else. Right now he's only being self-destructive; I bet he has to hurt someone else (the antithesis of what doctors do) to hit rock bottom.
We shall see...