House M.D. - S6x08 "Teamwork" and being Checked with your own Queen.
I'm not entirely sure about my feelings towards this episode. I have personal opinions though, which may or may not be wrong, but... *shrug*.
( What the hell... I'll 'let rip' anyway. )
( What the hell... I'll 'let rip' anyway. )
Oh, tell me about it. I've been snowed under by project work myself, but I was getting too frustrated and needed to vent. Thanks for bearing with me and the discussion.
Indeed, the word "subtext" seems to have faded a good bit these past two seasons. If it means that House/Wilson pairing can at least hold it's own against House/Cuddy, however, I'm somewhat alright with it, because the House/Cuddy is starting to has become more than a little ridiculous, in my opinion.
Cuddy's character I liked seasons 1 through 3. Well, through half of three or so. Towards the beginning, when we heard those tidbits about how she was only one of three female department heads, and also the youngest of those three, I thought to myself, "Kickass. :)"
My favourite scene with Cuddy, was actually the take-no-shit "Your tie is becoming a Petri Dish [...] I warned you. *SNIP!*" scene back during Maternity in season 1 when she cut off the tie of the guy who was swabbing.
Just... ergh. Her character is/has become... *clutches head*
"but she keeps sending mixed signals and being inconsistent in her behavior."
THIS. And that's all I can really say to that sentence this early in the morning.
I not only think of Wilson as the third point in the House-Cuddy-Wilson triangle you mentioned, but also as the Babel fish to translate between House and Cuddy. He has to explain Cuddy's behaviour/actions in human terms to House (House just analyzes in an analytical way), and then constantly has to defend House's actions, again via translating the motives, to Cuddy.
A friend of mine put it best I think, and I shall quote her now:
"She seems to want to love House, but only if he changes enough to suit her (not a blue ribbon endorsement of genuine love on her part)."
which I completely agree with.
A also suspect she would have a much harder time coping with House, even as it is now, if Wilson were not around to translate for them, for to look after House. It's something I'm glad the writers picked up on in Simple Explanation, when Wilson actually calls her on it:
Wilson: I can't deal with this and House.
Cuddy: You need a friend too.
Wilson: You don't give a crap what I need! You just want someone to take care of him.
Cuddy: ...He told Kutner's parents it was their fault.
I actually agree to an extent about House being one of the sanest people there, now that you mention it. Considering that he is the one who sees and says things as they are, I suppose this should have been obvious to me from the start, but I didn't think of it in such terms until you mentioned it there. ;)
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I think the snippet you got out there, of Simple Explanation, is one of the suprisingly MANY "Wilson acting pro-House" scenes. Again, the subtext is getting lost in their more-than-friendship thing, but fortunately is not as crass and forced as the House-Cuddy interaction.
I do wonder if the authors of House M.D. ever imagined that Wilson's character was going to become so damn pivotal in getting through House. I mean, at this point, House could survive through almost everything (losing his job, muscle pain, no vicodin, death of his workmates, no romance whatsoever with Cuddy) but take out WILSON and he would crumble.
He has coped in his usual aggressive way whenever he has a problem with Cuddy, and he has also barked at Wilson more than once, but whenever the situation with Wilson get from normally-bad to seriously-bad, then the series shows a very human and worried side of House.
I don't know, I mean, even if one doesn't want to see it through the lenses of same-sex love, these two are practically obssessive-possesive brothers.
And Cuddy is bordering on either a disheartened shcool-girl losing her crush, or a desperate single woman who needs people around her fixing her world for her (including her almost-love interest). Your friend did use a very precise turn of word: Cuddy does want House changing a million things about himself, to suit her. *shakes head*
*ranting urge is not letting go of my fingers LOL*
I just hope that House-Wilson doesn't turn out as explicit as Shore-Crane of Boston Legal. They might be funny, but sometimes make me cringe. And I have nothing against it, but really! I do love some subtext!
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