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[petrichor_fizz]

 Really need to go to sleep soon, just checking in quickly to say I finally saw The Down Low. Pretty mega-gay, especially the final scene, so that was good... oh, and Eddie was clearly in love with the undercover cop, too. And Foreman, Thirteen and Cuddy were all awesome this episode

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[karaokegal]

Eddie was clearly in love with the undercover cop, too. That seemed a lot more obvious and plausible than the House/Wilson this week.

[petrichor_fizz]

Care to elaborate? I didn't think this episode was anything special, particularly considering all the build-up, but I didn't think it was terrible.

[karaokegal]

Well here's my "babble" on the whole thing:
http://karaokegal.livejournal.com/754137.html

Specifically I think the relationship between the cop and the drug dealer was actually played a lot more emotionally than H/W which was played for laughs, and basically to both acknowledge and deflect the H/W subtext that's been going on since day one.

Since when does Wilson have trouble getting laid? Even the Amber arc play the House/Wilson far more as a real thing than this tripe. Remember how agonized House was when Wilson told Amber about his STD scam? Because that was a geniune betrayal, and would only be one if some level of H/W actually existed.

This was more of a meta and a real episode. EXCEPT for the subplot, which was supposed to be the actual main PoTW story.

[petrichor_fizz]

Hmmm. I agree with you on a few points, but re the couch thing: Wilson hates the couch, and threatens to sing showtunes until House agrees to get rid of it. And then the soundtrack practically screams "look how gay they are!" at us. That was what I meant by the end being mega-gay - I agree that most of the episode came across as an attempt to undermine the slashers, but then I thought that that message was itself undermined by the final scene, which was why it didn't bother me too much. And the logic behind the gay chicken thing was totally stupid, as Wilson pointed out; House's attraction to her was totally unconvincing, but then I think it's fairly easy to read that he's lying about his motives throughout the whole episode, and HL's performance didn't do anything to contradict that (I think HL slashes House/Wilson, it would explain a lot).

[karaokegal]

Well I have another whole rant about the castration of Wilson's character which I may or may not post at some point.

I'm not sure it's so much HL shipping H/W as him being uncomfortable with any of the het ships that were thrown at him. We KNOW he felt that he couldn't play H/Cam, and I suspect his own self-esteem issues bleed into feeling that House/Cuddy is equally implausible.

Hugh's performance definitely undermined whatever the script was trying to say about House wanting the neighbor, but he didn't play the H/W angst/lust as much as he has in previous episodes either.

[petrichor_fizz]

he didn't play the H/W angst/lust as much as he has in previous episodes either

It would have been too much of a stretch, though, seeing as the writing of that whole plotline was so superficial. I think his reading of the "I love you" line was a conscious decision, and not what the writers were actually going for; in context, it should have been a sarcastic throwaway line, but he made it into something a lot more serious. The same is true for his facial expressions in various scenes with RSL too.

I'd love to hear your rant, please do post it!