Comments | pgrabia: A Question about the end of House MD.

pgrabia

A Question about the end of House MD.

Nov 25, 2012 21:53

I have a question open to anyone to answer so long as you are respectful...if you had been consulted on writing the end of the series, how would you have ended it? Say there were no shows after "Body and Soul" and you were part of the writing team....how would the series have ended? Be as creative as you like. I'm genuinely curious to know what ( Read more... )

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yarroway November 26 2012, 18:06:56 UTC

I'm confused--do you mean how would we end it given the cancer diagnosis, or without it?

pgrabia November 27 2012, 00:03:16 UTC

Sorry! I meant without the cancer diagnosis.

yarroway November 27 2012, 17:52:48 UTC

I'd have ended it with a set of episodes that show House in a better light than the rest of S8 did, with more of an emphasis on the H/W friendship, and at the end I'd have shown him and Wilson walking out together, side by side. I'd add a subtle hint of slash--ignorable for those who hate that and there for those who want it.

pgrabia November 28 2012, 02:48:09 UTC

By walking out do you mean walking out of the hospital at the end of a work day or walking out as in permanently leaving PPTH or Princeton for good? Also, what do you mean by a "subtle hint of slash?"

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rslhilson November 26 2012, 22:09:28 UTC

I actually thought the series might end with Wilson being a patient, and House having to diagnose his mysterious illness. It just turned out to be not quite the medical mystery I'd envisioned, in the end.

But in terms of what I'd really want? I'm not sure. As painful as the final arc was, it gave us a lot of good as well - House and Wilson's love officially becoming some kind of canon, even if not in the romantic sense. TPTB pushed the boundaries with that farther than I would've guessed, and it's something I'm so glad we got to see.

pgrabia November 28 2012, 02:56:51 UTC

I agree that the ending DS gave us did promote the bromance, but I found it manipulative in that it was obviously doing so, taking us close but not all the way, as if to say "Ha ha, you get the bromance but never the slash". You know what I mean? And I found it very OOC of Wilson to give up so easily rather than fight his cancer. He said it was because he didn't want to go through the pain and humiliation of treatment, but the cancer itself would cause him to suffer greatly, especially close to the end, whereas the treatment would make him sick and uncomfortable for a while with the promise of remission as a real possibility, especially with a highly treatable cancer like thymoma ( ... )

rslhilson November 28 2012, 05:46:45 UTC

promise of remission as a real possibilityI actually got the impression that Wilson's cancer was indeed terminal. First there was this House line in Post Mortem ( ... )

yarroway November 28 2012, 10:25:26 UTC

I agree. Canon was clear that Wilson's cancer was terminal, with or without treatment. Spontaneous remission was therefore (this part is just my opinion) *more* likely than any treatment success. That's not my understanding of the way thymoma generally works in RL, but this isn't RL.

I didn't find the lack of slash frustrating, for a few reasons. Like rslhilson, I never expected it to happen. There was an interview early on where DS outright said he would never go there. Also, as the series wore on, I didn't want H/W to be canon (with the sole exception of if it had been done in the final episode--I would have loved that). Shore and co. destroy relationships and they make the characters in them look awful. I'd rather the slash was left to us, who love the characters, than put in the hands of the pro writers who destroyed several different ships in the course of the show. We'll take far better care of them.

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karaokegal November 27 2012, 23:34:03 UTC

Please read this at your own risk. I'm being respectful, but I know you have strong feelings about House and Wilson and House/Wilson and you hated the ending for being dark, where I think it wasn't dark enough. I don't want to trigger you in anyway ( ... )

pgrabia November 28 2012, 02:44:11 UTC

Thank you! I appreciate your honesty. I never saw House as being quite as dark as you do, though. I always saw a spark of the redeemable in him, which is probably what Wilson saw in him, else why would he have bothered for so many years? I probably would have found House's death easier to accept than Wilson's impending death, maybe because it would make more sense (the addiction/self-destructive tendencies). I found Wilson giving up so easily when he had a fairly treatable cancer like thymoma as being very unrealistic and manipulative.

karaokegal November 28 2012, 04:31:10 UTC

You're buying into the idea of Wilson as the "good one." He's not, and House has pointed it out time and time again. Wilson is the "manipulative bitch." He NEEDS House to be the public "bad one" because it makes him look better.

And even without slash-glasses, it's been consistently spelled out canon that Wilson is addicted to House's neediness. That's why whatever "love" they have is always so destructive.

Again, up to Season 2, it was possible to see some hope and a potentially not-miserable ending. I think the Tritter episodes and then Amber really ended that illusion.