return of the queen

candid moments and silent observations

like! foreman does fight against his more impulsive side but come onnnnn. he steals bone marrow (family). he gets fired for reckless treatment against orders (97 seconds). he covers up murder (the tyrant). he lies to a patient's hook up to get him to admit to drug use (it's a wonderful lie); he lies to patients for information (failure to communicate). he switches 13's meds, and ropes the romani kid into taking illegal meds against his parent's wishes (needle in a haystack); he pretends his patient is another woman to get her an MRI (histories); he puts his mentor's patient on different meds because house suggested it (dnr), and laughs off house's lying/distrust when a patient is mad about it (poison).

foreman's recklessness is what gets his patient killed in house training, and his cautiousness afterward is out of character enough everyone mentions it; the same goes for his cautiousness in forever: it's out of character. foreman's recklessness and willingness to break the rules is what causes his entire crisis in s3 that leads to his resignation, and not for nothing does the patient in mirror mirror copy foreman by saying "yeah, i love this, i love the rush of this job."

foreman is reckless! he is a rule breaker! he struggles against this; it is not necessarily who or what he wants to be. he cares about people; he wishes he cared a bit more about his patients (not that he doesn't, but: he isn't the touchy-feely guy he pretends he is in forever, either). he doesn't like the idea of lying or doubting people or manipulating them as the first resort, out of cynicism or hatred of humanity, à la house: he wants to follow ethical and moral guidelines. and foreman does learn to strike a balance, i think: he stops being as reactive by s4/5, but... he's still switching out those meds and covering up murders. he hasn't changed that much.

for those of you who have never seen it:

and the context of this scene and the episode its in ties in soo well with the post i linked above

cas realizes that gabriel and the situation that they are in is fake because the inner lining of his trenchcoat is not torn like it was in the real world

in the aired version of the episode, there is a flashback to the beginning of the episode when cas ripped his coat at the moment that he realizes this has all been fake.

but in the full version of the episode with the deleted scenes, there is no flashback because we've already had the visual reminder of his torn coat through the mending scene

cas uses the evidence (or lack thereof!) of work he did with his hands to understand that reality and his perception of it has been altered!