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

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[karaokegal]

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.
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I still think either ending it at the end of Season 2 (we don't know if House wakes up from the coma) or Season 3 would have worked. (Season 3-House is existentially alone, having lost his team and overtly rejected Wilson's pizza offer.)

If they had to do a "real" finale, I would have believed in something "Casablanca-ish" up to MAYBE Season 3. After Amber, I feel that's impossible.

Taking Wilson's cancer out of the equation, I feel that the ONLY honest ending is House's death. House's one great love affair IS with death and implying he can be saved from his pain and self-hatred enough to live "happily" is just rubbish. (Because they've spent 8 years telling us this is not the case.)

So my ending would be dead House. I did think the Junkie/Fire story was good. I just hated the cop-out. House will die in some manner related to his addiction and self-destruction, although not a deliberate suicide. Something closer to the MLC "OD." Wilson then has to suffer from both his loss of friend, (slash-glasses fuck-buddy/lover) but also his failure as a friend/lover/doctor to give House anything that could have prevented it.

I KNOW you think the "canon" ending is too bleak, but for me it sucked specifically because it wasn't. Any ending that doesn't go to the true heart of Greg House's darkness is a lie. But of course, even Shore would never have gone there. Maybe if it had been an HBO or Showtime original rather than something that still had to fit some Network parameters.

[pgrabia]

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]

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.