House Season 7

[zebra363]

The "House/Cuddy season" is also a great Wilson season. The finale leaves a bad taste and I'd almost recommend skipping it, but overall the House/Cuddy arc and its aftermath are well worth watching, even for House/Wilson fans. Having House be in a serious relationship and then go through a break-up gives Wilson a chance to demonstrate his

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[jedinic]

This is the season I deliberately avoided watching. (I thought, after reading reviews of the first several episodes, and the ret-conning of the House/Cuddy relationship, that this was it; the show I'd loved would never be the same.)

And then it turned into a train wreck and I felt so very sad for my "Huddy" friends, who got completely burned by this season. (A lot of them never went back!) And although I hate the idea of "warring shippers", the truth is, they lost. We won. Having been on the side of a 'losing' ship all too often, I feel for them and the people who loved the idea of Huddy and what it became.

A lot of the quotes you've included here are so interesting in retrospect. Was House truly, actually in love? Or was he trying to live a fantasy and saying those things because that was part of it? Some of the dialogue just does not sound like something House would ever say...but maybe it made more sense in the moment.

[zebra363]

I was just at dinner with a friend who thought the House/Cuddy relationship wasn't believable because the show didn't do enough to establish that they were in love, and Cuddy seemed happy with Lucas. I thought there were enough mentions in S6 of House's serious interest in Cuddy, and I never felt that Lucas was good enough for her or that she could truly be happy with him, so to me it made sense for House and Cuddy to get together (and also to break up). I was pretty happy with the portrayal of Cuddy during the relationship, too - for the most part she had realistic expectations of him, she kept things professional at work, and when she realised he wouldn't/couldn't be what she needed and that perhaps she should have known that all along, she promptly broke it off

[house11friend]

All of these observations are just great but the whole point is that House was NEVER in love or commited to Cuddy,He was ALWAYS in love and commited to Wilson,The compare/contrast was just to point that out and it was briliantly done by writers.
Cuddy even realized that and there was a scene at her door where she makes that observation I have to remember which episode,Also Two Stories -many considered the kids stand ins for House Cuddy,Watch again-it was House Wilson imo!
So much in this series!
The highlights pointed out re the seasons were great and so much more can be added re H/W,In hindsight season 7 was H/W
The way House dealt with Wilsons illness and how he cared for him would have been the way it played out in any season-His experience with Cuddy was just to show us he was NOT commited to her,
He cared for her but it was always Wilson ,

[zebra363]

I agree that House wasn't ever committed to Cuddy, but I think he probably did love her, just not as much as he did Wilson. He said "I love you" to her early on and I didn't feel that he was being insincere, though he was never as emotionally involved with her as he was with Wilson.

Totally agree that in hindsight S7 was H/W! When it aired, I remember being surprised at liking it more than I expected to, but on rewatch the reason why was clear: it was as much a H/W season as H/C.

[anonymous]

Thanks for this. I only saw a little of season 7 because, well, I didn't want to watch it. It's amazing reading the script knowing how the series ends.

[zebra363]

It's amazing rewatching all the seasons knowing how the series ends! I'm currently in the middle of S5 (working backwards haphazardly) and House has just told Foreman not to risk his career for Thirteen "Unless you love her...then you do the stupid things."