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eucleiaI'm not entirely sure about my feelings towards this episode. I have personal opinions though, which may or may not be wrong, but... *shrug*.
The first and probably most controversial opinion I am going to throw out here are my suspicions that many of the House writers themselves seem to be biased towards one of the two major House pairings at the moment (i.e. House/Wilson and House/Cuddy). Everyone has personal opinions, and thus I may be completely wrong and merely reading into things which are not there (God knows writers have it hard, and it's not an easy job - what with all the tense deadlines...), but my problem arises when the episodes see-saw wildly from one extreme to the other in an effort to push a certain agenda (or pairing as it may be).
Again, everything I say here are my perceived pet peeves and personal opinion only; far from scientific fact. My probably majorly biased (I suspect it may be - I'm not certain it is though) and I-am-going-to-be-bricked view is that putting pairs in competition with each other to an extent on a show is fine. It makes for some excitement and interest on the audience's part, but I dislike it intensely when House/Cuddy is pushed via Wilson, since he is the other half of the House/Wilson pairing.
I view it as similar a rival holding up my hard-drive full of astrophysical research and using my results to "prove" something from their own research it was entirely unintended for, and something which I was attempting to disprove at that. In such a scenario I would be frustrated at the situation because I couldn't speak out against my own data, but would be resigned to tiresomely eek out logical reasoning to third-party viewers as to how that data wouldn't fit their research (something which I shouldn't have had to bother with in the first place), and also relegated to having to point the finger at the wielder of my data for doing so.
I wouldn't mind say... 13 telling House to wise up and get it together with Wilson already (to make up for both Wilson AND Taub pushing Huddy (even if the latter was doing so in jest)), but yeah... at least 13 is a neutral party when considering the pairings, having already taken up with Foreman.
I was not surprised to see House returning to his manipulative ways.
Might add more later, but I can't think of more to say on this episode yet.
The first and probably most controversial opinion I am going to throw out here are my suspicions that many of the House writers themselves seem to be biased towards one of the two major House pairings at the moment (i.e. House/Wilson and House/Cuddy). Everyone has personal opinions, and thus I may be completely wrong and merely reading into things which are not there (God knows writers have it hard, and it's not an easy job - what with all the tense deadlines...), but my problem arises when the episodes see-saw wildly from one extreme to the other in an effort to push a certain agenda (or pairing as it may be).
Again, everything I say here are my perceived pet peeves and personal opinion only; far from scientific fact. My probably majorly biased (I suspect it may be - I'm not certain it is though) and I-am-going-to-be-bricked view is that putting pairs in competition with each other to an extent on a show is fine. It makes for some excitement and interest on the audience's part, but I dislike it intensely when House/Cuddy is pushed via Wilson, since he is the other half of the House/Wilson pairing.
I view it as similar a rival holding up my hard-drive full of astrophysical research and using my results to "prove" something from their own research it was entirely unintended for, and something which I was attempting to disprove at that. In such a scenario I would be frustrated at the situation because I couldn't speak out against my own data, but would be resigned to tiresomely eek out logical reasoning to third-party viewers as to how that data wouldn't fit their research (something which I shouldn't have had to bother with in the first place), and also relegated to having to point the finger at the wielder of my data for doing so.
I wouldn't mind say... 13 telling House to wise up and get it together with Wilson already (to make up for both Wilson AND Taub pushing Huddy (even if the latter was doing so in jest)), but yeah... at least 13 is a neutral party when considering the pairings, having already taken up with Foreman.
I was not surprised to see House returning to his manipulative ways.
Might add more later, but I can't think of more to say on this episode yet.
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Date: 2009-11-20 02:30 pm (UTC)I think the snippet you got out there, of Simple Explanation, is one of the suprisingly MANY "Wilson acting pro-House" scenes. Again, the subtext is getting lost in their more-than-friendship thing, but fortunately is not as crass and forced as the House-Cuddy interaction.
I do wonder if the authors of House M.D. ever imagined that Wilson's character was going to become so damn pivotal in getting through House. I mean, at this point, House could survive through almost everything (losing his job, muscle pain, no vicodin, death of his workmates, no romance whatsoever with Cuddy) but take out WILSON and he would crumble.
He has coped in his usual aggressive way whenever he has a problem with Cuddy, and he has also barked at Wilson more than once, but whenever the situation with Wilson get from normally-bad to seriously-bad, then the series shows a very human and worried side of House.
I don't know, I mean, even if one doesn't want to see it through the lenses of same-sex love, these two are practically obssessive-possesive brothers.
And Cuddy is bordering on either a disheartened shcool-girl losing her crush, or a desperate single woman who needs people around her fixing her world for her (including her almost-love interest). Your friend did use a very precise turn of word: Cuddy does want House changing a million things about himself, to suit her. *shakes head*
*ranting urge is not letting go of my fingers LOL*
I just hope that House-Wilson doesn't turn out as explicit as Shore-Crane of Boston Legal. They might be funny, but sometimes make me cringe. And I have nothing against it, but really! I do love some subtext!