Year in Review meme

[deelaundry]

First line from first post of each month, skipping some drafts/fics when I felt like it. Amusing, and also the first time I've found the Archive view useful.


January: "Fill one's mouth with pure pleasure"

February: My thoughts were about RSL dying suddenly, and how HL would react, and what the show would do. (Private-locked entry)

March: You young, hip people on my f-list, help me out, please.

April: SO THIS DING-DONG I KNOW WHO DOESN'T HAVE AN LJ FOUND THE FANFIC CHALLENGE THAT POLLY STARTED AND BEGGED ME TO PUT THIS UP.

May: There were many great moments in 3-21 Family. But I have a question. STEPHBASS, CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THE PRODUCERS OF HOUSE CAN'T PICK A LIGHTING SCHEME AND STICK WITH IT?

June: Leaving Saturday early for a week long vacation. Husband has threatened to harm me bodily if I spend time on the computer, so I won't be around (much).

July: This looks awesome. ficcommentary

August: Sauty (xaipw) tagged me for the WHO U WANNA B SEXIN NAO meme

September: Jake Gyllenhal got me to take this test (on rivers_bend's LJ).

October: Comment on Neglected Fics Week 10/1-10/8 (Private-locked entry)

November: MY SHAMEFUL HET SECRET: I'm kind of shipping Plastic Surgeon/Cutthroat Bitch.

December: I've decided: House and Wilson are like cake and frosting, respectively.

Comments

[purridot.livejournal.com]

February's entry looks mighty intriguing! I hope it was speculative rather than prescient :S

[warmdarkwoman.livejournal.com]

IAWTC.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Purely speculative! Do you want to see the entry?

[purridot.livejournal.com]

*bites nails*

If you want to share the angst!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Here it is:

My thoughts were about RSL dying suddenly, and how HL would react, and what the show would do. (In a bittersweetly funny scene, HL tells the producers he's stopping the show because it won't be the same, and one producer says, "But Robert would want you to carry on," and Hugh laughs. Ethan Hawke, who's there too for some reason, says to Hugh, "They didn't know Bob well, did they?" and to the producers fondly, "He was a total drama queen. Of course he'd want the show to stop. He would want everybody to wail and moan and be forevermore distressed at his tragic, untimely death.")

So the show decides to have Wilson die suddenly as well, and most of the next episode is House reacting to that. He shoves Cameron when she tries to hug him and ditches Chase when he tries to pray, and stalks the hospital. Cuddy's the only one he'll talk to, only briefly, and he kicks her out when he starts to cry, and Foreman ends up having to pry him out of Wilson's office to go to the memorial service.

He goes, and he wears a yarmulke, and he sits stonefaced between his parents through a short service and some eulogies (the service is a Jewish/secular hybrid), clutching one of the knick-knacks from Wilson's desk. When it's his turn, he goes to a piano and without speaking plays a very beautiful song. As the last notes die away, he gets up from the bench and silently walks out, eyes ahead, not seeing anyone. His mother follows him, calling out, "Greg, Greg," but he doesn't listen, or he doesn't hear. He walks out, gets on his motorcycle, throws his helmet away across the parking lot, and rides off, as his mother, Cuddy, and his team watch.

Hugh wins the Emmy that year, and he accepts it on behalf of RSL, who he feels should have had one. "As for me, I know which episode you saw, and you really shouldn't have given this acting award to me for that, because I wasn't acting at all. The only thing fake was the accent; otherwise, it was my loss, my pain. Aside from my children, who are my soul, there are only three people since I became an adult who have entered my life and become a part of me. That was Stephen, Jo, and Bobby. So thank you for this recognition, but I wish to God there had never been the opportunity for you to give it to me. He was so cruelly torn from us, and I ache in the loss. I miss him every single day."

[purridot.livejournal.com]

Wow. This is very moving; I actually felt a bit misty reading it...

Foreman ends up having to pry him out of Wilson's office to go to the memorial service.

I like that a lot -- that Foreman would know just how to deal, calmly, with House. That says a lot about their mutual respect.

he goes to a piano and without speaking plays a very beautiful song

I can see this scene so perfectly, spookily clearly that it is as if it actually happened. This is totally an Emmy-winning scene -- great television, and a great character moment.

you really shouldn't have given this acting award to me for that, because I wasn't acting at all.

That is lovely and self-deprecating and earnest -- very HL. In all the little video tidbits of HL and RSL that we get to see, they do seem to really connect so intrinsically! HL is right, the show would not be the same without him. :-(