Um, I realize I just kind of spoiled last night’s House with that title. Sorry ’bout that. But really, if anyone thought a certifiable star like Olivia Wilde was going to get cut in House’s Survivor-like storyline this season wasn’t really thinking things through.
Anyway, I won’t spoil the rest of the outcome, except to say what a frakking fantastic episode. This season has been awesome so far — if anyone remembers, I stopped watching last season with about six episodes to go because I had about had it with the writing. It was getting monotonous and Chase, Cameron, and Foreman were getting on my everloving nerves. That was pretty much standard fare with Chase and Foreman, but the writers decided to smoke crack while they were writing Cameron because she became nauseatingly unwatchable during the latter part of Season 3.
This season has been fantastic, because in addition to Chase, Cameron, and Foreman being largely in the background, House has gone through a competition wherein he has fired 37 doctors in four months to find his new Ducklings.
Olivia Wilde, who calls herself Thirteen, has been my favorite by far. She keeps everyone at arms’ length and won’t reveal a thing about herself to anyone, including her name. I will probably call her Thirteen forever, even when her name is revealed. And I’m sure it’ll have to be once new episodes return in January, because as a patient or relative of a patient, I’m not sure how confident I’d feel if my doctor introduced herself as “Dr. Thirteen.”
Anyway, a lot of people have been (unfairly) comparing her to Cameron. And yes, they do resemble each other, I suppose, but Thirteen is far more like House (and intriguing to House) than Cameron is, in that Cameron is all about feelings and fixing the broken and healing the wounded and Thirteen keeps herself — and by extension, her emotions — hidden.
I doubt there are any romantic feelings there, but the stupid romantic in me hopes the writers will at least incorporate some UST in the storylines, even though, um, House is, like, old enough to be her father.
What a fantastic re-imagining of an already fantastic show.
