CAN'T STOP THINKING

[deelaundry]

God, I love it when shows make me say that.

I have been puzzling my brain out over what could affect House and Wilson's friendship so deeply that Lisa E. would say that it's "on the line" in early Season Five.

Some of the things that would affect other friendships wouldn't affect theirs so deeply. For example, if House tried to save Amber and couldn't, Wilson would grieve, of course, but I can't see him blaming House. (If House didn't try, then yes. But that's not what it looked like in the promo.)

House having sex/making out/hitting on Amber could do it, but I don't think that happened. (For several reasons, but mostly because promo monkeys are lying liars who lie.)

My latest speculation: What if Amber dies, and House says something negative about Amber after she's dead? Something that may be true, but Wilson does NOT want to hear it and thinks House is an irredeemable asshole for insisting on telling Wilson the truth during Wilson's grief, when it would've been kinder to not sully Wilson's happy memories. That I could see coming between them.

megami_selene has the best idea, which I'm going to assume is true unless shown otherwise: "I think that House will risk his life for Amber, and it will come down to Wilson having to decide between them. And we all know who he will pick. :) That could cause a rift in the friendship. Wilson feeling guilty, and House not appreciating what Wilson did, or even angry that he made that decision."

Not only is that them to a tee, it also fits the title "Wilson's Heart" so well. In "House's Head" his head got "broken" AND we got to see inside his head. If megami_selene is right, Wilson's heart will be broken and we'll get to see inside it through the decision he makes.

xaipw just reminded me: WTF House drinking champagne?

Comments

[genagirl.livejournal.com]

I have such a headache from all this! I thought about it on my 30 minute drive home. What I can't get is the fact House=Amber. She is his proxy, she is what Wilson wants and loves. We've been told this over and over so it has to be important. Whatever happens to Amber happens to House. She was on the bus, she has a head injury, she has a leg injury, she has no memeory (or at least is unable to speak up) of what happened. We're suppose to see them as the same. In the promos Amber looks - almost brain dead - vacant, there is something wrong with her reactions. How does this relate to House? Can he make the correct choices? What are those choices? I can't come up with anything but questions. I suck.

[chewy-101.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we only see them as the same while House is struggling to connect associations to jog his own memory. He KNOWS how important the patient is, but not why. All these resemblances help him to recall, but they might not be her real injuries. I mean, according to the jane doe report she didn't even injure her leg, did she? No bandages in the promos either, I don't think. She had kidney problems and something else we likely don't know about yet, something from before the crash. Amber and House are the same in enough ways that House could find her in his memory by drawing parallels to his own condition. Every single person he looked at on that bus had a head injury, didn't they?

So much of this episode was hallucination and not memory; hard to tell which is which anymore. I tend to figure it is all merely symbolic and just the artistic creative way House's head works.

When I saw House drinking wine at the bar during his hypnosis, I thought that was SO not him, must have been what Amber was drinking- that she was there with him. Maybe they were having a drink and forming some peaceful alliance, or House was finally having it out with her for telling his secret that he told Wilson. House never scolds Wilson for being a dick to him, but he scolds everyone else.I could not begin to figure out why they might meet, but my guess is it is not for something terribly dramatic. The writers do have to be careful not to do much more than flirt with soap style writing. They wade, but can't swim. The main fan base for the show is still rooting for the medical stuff, the formulaic drama approach. Too over-the-top might not be good for the overall health of the show.
I don't have the promo in front of me to correct myself if I am recalling it wrong. Mostly just thinking out loud here, but I really think all of Amber's stuff we saw in THIS episode was actually House, and just something to trigger his awareness that he knew something was wrong with Amber BEFORE the crash.

So anyway, I would THINK the promos are more dramatic than the reality, as they always are. The epi will be dramatic, well acted, touching, all kinds of good stuff, but the "General Hospital" type stuff seems unlikely to me. House, the character, is more off the wall than House, the show.

Or maybe the writers all got drunk, whipped out their laptops and said WTF let's go all out. I'm devoted, I will adore whatever they do.