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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[rslhilson]

promise of remission as a real possibility

I actually got the impression that Wilson's cancer was indeed terminal. First there was this House line in Post Mortem:

"Wilson's scan is at the end of the week. If his kick-ass chemo shrunk the tumor to an operable size, he'll live. If it didn't, he'll die."

Then this House line in Holding On:

"With two weeks on, two weeks off of chemo, you'll have way more than a year, maybe two or three."

From this it seemed clear to me that even if he received treatment, Wilson wouldn't beat his cancer. He'd live more than 5 months, certainly, but he would always be looking at a death sentence. And because of that, I've always accepted his decision not to receive chemo as a reasonable one.

That being said - this is his prognosis in House land, not real life. In the real world, things would have been much more optimistic (as you said, reality doesn't always end with fires, explosions, or buildings falling down. But welcome to Houseville).

As for the bromance, I agree that it was frustrating sometimes. Believe me, I would have loved nothing more than to see some real slash on screen :) But I honestly never thought that they'd go that far, so my expectations were low to begin with and ended up being surpassed.

[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)