House Finale Speculation

[downuptime]

As much as I don't want this show to end, I am excited for the finale arc. This show has given us brilliant things like Three Stories and Autopsy and No Reason and House's Head/Wilson's Heart and Chase and a whole host of other great stuff, and even though things have been er... a little bleak lately, I'm hoping they can pull something great off.

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[barefootpuddles]

Personally I would prefer House die over Wilson. Having Wilson die would just cap it all off - House really will have no one left. And as much as I think it would be horrible for Wilson to watch his best friend die, I think Wilson is more well-equipped to survive without his best friend.

I would prefer it with House dying too, though that doesn't bode well for fanfiction (unless people want to write Wilson as a ghost). Neither dying would be great for fanfiction I suppose. Everyone would have to do a lot of rewrites of the ending. But yes, Wilson would have a better chance i think of surviving long term.

But here's an alternative: perhaps a patient whom House really connects with and feels for, dies after House is unable to find the answer?

They did a version of that in "Help Me", with a patient that House did everything right for and she still died. Of course it seems the show is recycling storylines, so maybe they will do that again.

My most fervent wish for the finale is that both House and Wilson live, and that they leave PPTH, together. Anyone/everyone else can die if need be, as long as they leave those two alive and together.

And yeah, it is crazy for Chase to be still a fellow, especially at PPTH where people fly to the top of the ladder. At his age Wilson was a department head and Cuddy was Dean of Medicine. ;)

[downuptime]

Ah yes Help Me slipped my mind. Though that was not really finding the answer per se, but a field amputation complication. I was thinking more of a patient whom House can and should be able to save (no dogs eating medication, fat embolisms etc) but ends up unable to. Even better if it's a young child?

At his age Wilson was a department head and Cuddy was Dean of Medicine. ;)
When you put it that way it really does seem ridiculous.

[menolly_au]

They did a version of that in "Help Me", with a patient that House did everything right for and she still died.

And then they promptly forgot his ordeal and had him having sex with Cuddy all the next day with no apparent after effects.... Though I guess you could argue that he only fell into the relationship with Cuddy because he saw her in that moment as some sort of saviour.

[barefootpuddles]

Though I guess you could argue that he only fell into the relationship with Cuddy because he saw her in that moment as some sort of saviour.

And she promptly forgot what he was like because that night she saw him as a hero.

Recall what she had said much earlier to Wilson (season 5, 'The Itch') when she saw House as he really was:

Cuddy: It would start off exciting and we’d get caught up in the novelty and the hostility and the forbiddenness and then we’d realize that the flirty hostility is just hostility and his inability to open up is no longer exciting, it’s just frustrating and then it’s the inevitable blow up and the recriminations and we don’t talk for two months.

Now there was a woman who was seeing things realistically.

[menolly_au]

You know (and this is getting OT to the question of the final arc I know) they could have done just that, had them get together in a moment of desperation for House and a spurt of emotion from Cuddy, and then have a brief time together and realise that they just won't ever be able to live together happily, because although they might love each other they're incompatible. Then they could have (regretfully) broken up, with sadness on both sides but without the over-the-top antics of House, and with maybe both clearer about what they're looking for in their lives.

There was a story there to tell I think, but TPTB blew it (IMO anyway).

[barefootpuddles]

There was a story there to tell I think, but TPTB blew it (IMO anyway).

Yeah, they could have done that so well too if they wanted to. And they would have left happy Huddies and Hilsons, as well as casual viewers, in their wake. Instead they went nuclear (makes me shake my head in bewilderment).

Ah well, it's that kind of stuff that leaves me suspicious of the finale.

[downuptime]

Cuddy's prediction came true after all. It would have been much more palatable had they gone that route.

TPTB tries too hard for novel drama sometimes when they can extend arcs they leave behind hastily (Danny? Methadone for only one ep? etc etc) I heard that they actually planned for House to go for an extended road trip (a la The Dig) post-breakup but that it didn't work out and David Shore had to step in. I think I would have enjoyed that over Monster Trucks and green card wife and car-in-a-house.

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they promptly forgot his ordeal and had him having sex with Cuddy all the next day with no apparent after effects

Hated that. I hated that it was just fine for him to leave therapy with Nolan, and jump straight into a relationship with Cuddy, which was going to be challenging right from the outset. And not to mention the fact that he is in chronic pain, and was climbing in and out of rubble??