'House' The long awaited Huddy kiss

Tonight's episode of House rehashed story lines that were far more interesting during season 3, when Tritter was around to add some suspense to it all and force him to do what he didn't really want to do.

Before I go into my rant, here's the POTW: she's a ballerina who gets dropped by her boyfriend (a male ballet dancer) who has a weak back and a shrill attitude.Then her lungs collapse and they inexplicably can't get them back up again. However, they do manage to make 80% of her skin fall off, so there's that. Also, they stop her heart for an MRI, which shows a shadow. Or an artifact on the monitor. In the end game, it's gonorrhea on her heart - which is discovered by Taub, who also uses a long shot treatment to save her hands and feet from amputation. I know I usually give a bit more info about the POTW and how the case is solved...but honestly? This was a minor part of the show.

OK, I can wait no loner. My rant: is it me, or has this season just been weak sauce for the most part? Sure, there's been some shinning moments, but overall? I'm feeling pretty disappointed, which hurts me to say as I have been a long time fan of House and have never missed an episode. I own all the DVD sets and a couple t-shirts as well. I'm not a moderate fan by any stretch. But tonight was...boring. It felt like the plot was phoned in 40 minutes into the episode. And it was a plot we'd already seen. The short of it is that House is hallucinating because he needs to detox from the Vicodin. Yet, even when he slips up and admits to Wilson that he's hallucinating Amber - it's barely a blip on the radar. Not even Wilson tries to analyze what that means or why House lied to him about it.

Rehab is the last thing House wants to try, really. In fact, he tests for infection, MS and severe mental illness before accepting it's the drugs. The big dramatic gesture is sending himself into insulin shock - which was a treatment used mainly in the 1940's - in order to determine if it really is psychosis. And Amber does disappear for a few hours, but that's hardly a realistic lifestyle option. So, he concludes that it's the Vicodin. I cannot ignore that in order for House to believe that his hallucination is caused by the drug, despite the lack of any other symptoms, he would also need to believe the convulsive therapies had a 100% success rate - or near enough to it. And there is no way that would happen.

House asks Wilson to make arrangements for him to go to rehab. However, partway through packing, he admits that he will cheat (as he did last time) and therefore decides not to go at all. Instead, he returns to the hospital, admits everything to Cuddy and asks her to help him detox. Which can apparently be accomplished overnight. Certainly, medical fallacy has been pointed out on the show before, but one night of sweating, spasming and vomiting does not get you clean enough from an opioid addiction to go back to work the next day.

Of course, he and Cuddy don't actually go back to work. Yes, the moment millions of Huddy fans have been waiting for arrived: he totally pushed her against a wall and made out with her before end credits. And it was HOT. The implication - backed up by the previews for next week - is that they totally get it on. But given that I didn't totally buy House's decision to detox with just Cuddy helping him - with him revealing all his secret stashes and holding her hand all night - I have difficulty believing that they bonded so much over the night-o-detox that they can't keep their hands off each other the next day. It just didn't pack enough umph! for me.

The side story is Cameron's revelation to Chase the she still has her dead husband's forzen sperm. This plot line completely confuses me, because I don't really understand what she wants. Chase says it's a liquid pre-nup in case things don't work out for them, but I am having difficulty wrapping my head around that. Because it makes no sense. She doesn't want kids now but she wants his sperm in case she does want them later but they are divorced? How many men's sperm does she need for her back up plan? There is also the idea that Chase would ask her to ditch the frozen sperm, which Foreman warns could make him worse than the guy that left her as it would make him the guy that killed her theoretical kids. But again, this makes no sense - why does it matter that she has sperm on ice if she isn't planning on using it anytime soon, if at all?

In the end, Chase says he can't do it, because he is sure that he wants to spend the rest of his life with her and he will wait for her to be sure too. Did I miss something? Can someone explain any of this to me? Are they not getting married now? And on Huddy - do you buy it? Would you rather Amber have been the result of mini strokes or brain tumors rather than his pill popping? Is anyone else as disappointed as me or are my expectations too high?