A Question about the end of House MD.

[pgrabia]

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

Comments

[rslhilson]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[rslhilson]

...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.

Great point! (Unfortunately)