Again...it was there, but it was subtle. You can watch the DIYD scene and write 100 different fics with a 100 different shadings and have them all be IC.
YES. To all of it. All I could think at the end of the episode was, "Well, fuck you, Wilson." What happened? Don't Ever Change was a genuinely good episode, I thought, in which Amber had a good personality and House & Wilson were still themselves. Now Amber is nothing but a cut-throat bitch, and Wilson is...who is that guy? RSL is an incredible actor and it was still hard to believe Wilson was the same as he used to be
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I think it goes back to not ever dealing with the fall-out of MLC. The fact that joked about the "Christmas Party" in Half-Wit and the whole "nothing's changed" from Words & Deeds, lost us the opportunity for the characters to take any kind of a step forward.
It didn't have to be a slashy one, but it should have been some kind of transition. By not giving us and them that, TPTB have forced the characters into a loop of repetitious interaction and that's where the fanservice starts kicking in because we KNOW it's never going anywhere.
But we'll always have fanfic and that's why I'm still in this fandom and still writing for it.
Excuse me, the only other couple resistant to the anti-chemistry were House and Chase. I still have to see the ep but I love that they put House and Chas together. wow. Hell did freeze over. The newbies suck. It's just what they do.
I've seen it now! And damn, Jesse looked wonderful! Careful and burnt House-viewer that I am, I only watched Chase's scenes. i just cannot stand the newbies anymore.
ASide from Bowling Smut, I think there's a 4th season angst epic to be written showing House losing Wilson, but ending up with Chase. It's been building up to that since that moment in the ER and then the "We need you" in Don't Ever Change.
In fact, I could make a case that it's been coming since the punch, if not before.
It's always been implied that the Wilson Wives were either bitches (Julie) or basket-cases (Bonnie). I really hated the whole uberbitch Julie thing in Clueless, although a lot of my early H/W fic played into the same thing, although not the extent of the writer who actually made Wilson an abused spouse.
Of course the PoTW was a plot point, because he wasn't the story. Wilson was.
The only way I could make any sense of what happened is that he’s being a passive-aggressive son of a bitch.
Sure, it was passive-aggressive. But obviously I saw it way different than you did. I thought Wilson rocked. He was a master manipulator in the ep. All he did was let House and Amber's natural tendencies work against them, while he sat back and enjoyed the fireworks. (How many times was he shown just watching and eating chips?) House himself said back in S1, that Wilson was not as nice as he seemed. So did Cate in "Frozen" this season. This ep we got to see what he was capable of.
Do you really believe that House would be making nice with Amber and cleaning up poop, while Wilson stands by looking amused?Yes, I do. (Maybe not the making nice part.) Because House and Amber were hoist by their own petard. They brought it on themselves. Why can't Wilson enjoy getting his own back
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Maybe it's just that we don't know what Wilson really wants. What is the end game of manipulating Amber and Wilson? I said at the end of "Don't Ever Change," that Amber was now Julie and we know how well that worked out.
I don't think it's just my slash-glasses talking here. If Wilson really wants a happy relationship, he wouldn't let House do this shit, but then he wouldn't House's Wilson.
And maybe he isn't, which is why the betrayal really seemed to sting and wasn't "fun" at all.
The stuff that I'd call fanservice would be the "negotiation" scenes and the bar scene. It's all so very "almost" gay without coming out and giving us the real relationship.
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they started doing it sometime in the third season, but it got really bad during "Words and Deeds" I think. The whole "I'm sorry" and "Goodnight"
Fun to have a bit of fanservice at first, but now it's just annoying.
Oh, the glory of Damned if you Do!
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Again...it was there, but it was subtle. You can watch the DIYD scene and write 100 different fics with a 100 different shadings and have them all be IC.
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What have they done to my ship?
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It didn't have to be a slashy one, but it should have been some kind of transition. By not giving us and them that, TPTB have forced the characters into a loop of repetitious interaction and that's where the fanservice starts kicking in because we KNOW it's never going anywhere.
But we'll always have fanfic and that's why I'm still in this fandom and still writing for it.
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I still have to see the ep but I love that they put House and Chas together. wow. Hell did freeze over.
The newbies suck. It's just what they do.
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In fact, I could make a case that it's been coming since the punch, if not before.
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The only way I could make any sense of what happened is that he’s being a passive-aggressive son of a bitch.
Sure, it was passive-aggressive. But obviously I saw it way different than you did. I thought Wilson rocked. He was a master manipulator in the ep. All he did was let House and Amber's natural tendencies work against them, while he sat back and enjoyed the fireworks. (How many times was he shown just watching and eating chips?) House himself said back in S1, that Wilson was not as nice as he seemed. So did Cate in "Frozen" this season. This ep we got to see what he was capable of.
Do you really believe that House would be making nice with Amber and cleaning up poop, while Wilson stands by looking amused?Yes, I do. (Maybe not the making nice part.) Because House and Amber were hoist by their own petard. They brought it on themselves. Why can't Wilson enjoy getting his own back ( ... )
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I don't think it's just my slash-glasses talking here. If Wilson really wants a happy relationship, he wouldn't let House do this shit, but then he wouldn't House's Wilson.
And maybe he isn't, which is why the betrayal really seemed to sting and wasn't "fun" at all.
The stuff that I'd call fanservice would be the "negotiation" scenes and the bar scene. It's all so very "almost" gay without coming out and giving us the real relationship.
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