| rdfs:comment | - Dying Changes Everything is the first episode of the 5th season of House which first aired on September 16, 2008. The team treats the assistant of a powerful woman and Thirteen starts to see something of her own nature in the patient’s subordination to her employer. In grief over Amber's death, Wilson contemplates resigning from the hospital. When House reacts by telling him to get over it, their friendship is strained to the point where Cuddy has to be called in to do the equivalent of couples counselling. However, when push comes to shove, it appears that House may have to choose between his friendship with Wilson, the life of his patient, or his job at Princeton-Plainsboro.
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| abstract | - Dying Changes Everything is the first episode of the 5th season of House which first aired on September 16, 2008. The team treats the assistant of a powerful woman and Thirteen starts to see something of her own nature in the patient’s subordination to her employer. In grief over Amber's death, Wilson contemplates resigning from the hospital. When House reacts by telling him to get over it, their friendship is strained to the point where Cuddy has to be called in to do the equivalent of couples counselling. However, when push comes to shove, it appears that House may have to choose between his friendship with Wilson, the life of his patient, or his job at Princeton-Plainsboro. The fifth season premiere used the natural break between seasons to naturally build the tension over the ramifications of Amber's death. When we return to PPTH, just as much fictional time as real time has passed, and Wilson is still at an impasse. Like House, we've been anticipating what would happen after House and Wilson parted without a word. Certainly, this is not the only episode where Hilson, the eternal bromance, has been threatened. However, it is one of the ones that posed the greatest challenge to the relationship between the two men. Cuddy, probably far too late, ties to mediate between the two, but her motives are far from clear - and Wilson knows it. Ostensibly, she want to keep Wilson at the hospital. However, her hidden agenda is that she knows that it's unlikely that she will be able to handle House without Wilson's help. Throughout the series, it's usually been Wilson suggesting ways to Cuddy to keep the brakes on House's more excessive behaviors, and neither of them have been above using House's relationship with Wilson to manipulate the hospital's resident mad genius. Meanwhile, the character that gets developed the most is Thirteen as her reaction to her Huntington's diagnosis finally gives us more insight into her personality. Like many of the others on the team, we find out that she wants to work for House so she can become her own version of House - a person who makes a difference in the world. Her disclosure of the diagnosis to the patient mirrors House's own disclosure to the patient in Pilot and shows that House and Thirteen have something in common - they both feel vulnerable when reaching out to other people and draw much of their strength by keeping their pain, fear and feelings bottled in.
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