House as a friend

[deelaundry]

I feel like there've been a lot of posts, comments, and fics lately about how Wilson is not a very good friend to House. In the spirit of positivity, let's turn this around and list all the things House has done to be a good friend to Wilson.

I've got:
- House let Wilson stay with him after the Julie break-up
- House didn't turn Wilson in for sleeping with a patient

What else? The S4 season finale is fresh in all our minds, but things that happened in canon or were referenced in canon before then would be great.

(PS. Hi, I'm back.)

Comments

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

(I'm using this icon b/c it's funny and I don't get to use it much, just FYI.)

I can see being pissed at some of the things Wilson has done (I'm still mad about the Monster Trucks in S1) but some people seem to have taken Cate's remark in "Frozen" about Wilson not being as nice as he seems (DUH, say those of us who love the show) to mean that Wilson's not nice at all. They take the fact that Wilson is passive-aggressive and lies to House as meaning that Wilson's incapable of telling the truth, and the fact that Wilson's schemes re. House almost always blow up in his face as evidence that Wilson doesn't care enough about House -- that Wilson does what he does for selfish reasons only.

ZOMG, I just realized what this reminds me of! The scene in Merry Little Christmas where Cameron is on her high horse with Wilson.

Wilson: What exactly is your problem with me?
Cameron: Hepatoma is a weak diagnosis.
Wilson: So this is all about the case?
Cameron: What else would it be about?
Wilson: I made this deal to help him.
Cameron: And help yourself at the same time.
Wilson: This is not about my practice, this is not about my car. I gave both of them up to help House, and I would have gone on without them if he hadn't almost maimed that little girl and if he hadn't punched out Chase.
Cameron: Was it an easy choice?
Wilson: Of course not but its right.
Cameron: Then why wasn't it easy?
Wilson: Because he's my friend it's... obviously complicated--
Cameron: It's complicated? When you decided to talk to Tritter your life got a million times better. How do you separate that out? How do you pretend your windfall isn't relevant to this decision?
Wilson: It was the right thing to do.
Cameron: You pretending your motives are pure is why I have a problem.

How dare he! How dare Wilson do what he think is right, if it means Wilson benefits (by having his life restored somewhat to what it was before House's actions caused it to go in the crapper)! LOLOLOL

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

Cameron: Was it an easy choice?
Wilson: Of course not but its right.
Cameron: Then why wasn't it easy?

Because as House put it so well in 'Need To Know', simple and easy are two different things. I like Cameron but dammit, I could have smacked her in that scene.
People bring up 'Merry Little Christmas' as an example of Wilson being a terrible friend. Should Wilson have left House on the floor when he found him ODed? NO. But why was Wilson the one who found him at all? Because Wilson was the only one who checked on him! His own mother didn't call him on Christmas Eve. Cuddy and the ducklings knew about his state of mind and Tritter's deadline and Cuddy at least knew he'd gotten ahold of painkillers, I imagine the ducklings must have realized it too by then. But only one person checked on him, and it wasn't Cameron.

[spoopy.livejournal.com]

Lmao. Cameron is so... painfully naive sometimes. For someone who's gone through some pretty bad times, it's amazing she doesn't realise that the "right" choices aren't necessarily easy ones. In fact, making the right choice can be fucking HARD.

But then again, I think Cameron's just in denial about life itself. AND NOW I AM GOING TO STARE AT CUDDY'S BUTT.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

If the right choice was always easy, the world would be a much better place, wouldn't it? People are lazy, lazy, lazy (me included) so we'd all be making the right choices every time! LOLOL

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I even question whether leaving House on the floor was the wrong thing to do at all. The producers certainly didn't seem to think so, with the editing so that the immediate next scene was House going to Tritter to take the deal. The strong implication of that editing cut was that Wilson not cleaning up House's mess was the direct cause of House wising up and trying to take the right next step.

And you bring up the other important aspect of that scene -- even after being forcefully rejected by House earlier that evening, Wilson still called and then went and checked on him.

(I've always wondered if the director intended for Cameron to be so smarmy in that scene with Wilson. Because she sounded like a total ass there, passing judgment on Wilson about something she has no direct knowledge of. I wonder if we as viewers were supposed to question Wilson's motives... or if we were supposed to dismiss questioning of Wilson's motives!)

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

I think Cameron was supposed to be the exposition fairy here, pointint out what the writers wanted us to see; that is, that we the viewers were supposed to accept what Cameron said about Wilson's motives not being completely pure.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Didn't work!

LOLOL I don't think Wilson was Mr. Angel there, but I do think he was motivated by trying to help/stop House and not for any "personal gain."

[spoopy.livejournal.com]

Haha, oh Cameron. Never stop being so self-righteous.

I think Wilson summed it up perfectly in the pilot episode, when the told the patient, "He cares about me". I mean, their friendship is a perfect example of that saying about how we hurt the ones we love the most. It's safe to hurt people we love the most, because we know they still care about us, despite the shitty things we do. I would say the exact same for House and Wilson. Granted, Wilson puts up with an obscene amount from House, way more than the average person would, and House has gone through some pretty shitty things that Wilson has done. But as much as I think Wilson is a manipulative bastard (which is how I love him best), I don't think he always does things with ill-intent. I just think he does what he perceives as good things, but for the wrong reasons. Like his thing with Grace: yeah, that was fucked up beyond all belief, but it wasn't a bad thing he'd done. He hadn't done what he'd done just to score a shag off a dying woman.

I think it says a lot, though, that Wilson is the only person who can lie to House and get away with it. But that's what makes Wilson so interesting. AND THIS COMMENT IS GETTING TOO SERIOUS AND TOO LONG. But the point I'm trying to make is: I love Wilson in all his manipulative bastard ways, even when he's being manipulative without meaning to cause harm or hurt.

This is my way of offering Wilson / House/Wilson friendship / House support without being able to think up any scenes from the show, like you asked. ALSO, THIS IS WHY I STICK TO META-ISH DISCUSSIONS ON PEOPLE'S LJ, BECAUSE IT'S NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE A SANE META DISCUSSION ON PLACES LIKE HOUSE_WILSON.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It's interesting, too, in the pilot, that the patient said, "It's not what people say; it's what they do," and then Wilson said, "Yeah. He cares about me." So obviously House has done some things that make Wilson think that House cares. We just haven't been privvy to too many of them over the past four years. Heh.

I like having meta discussions on people's LJs too. Easier to go in-depth (which is another way of saying your comment was neither too long nor too serious).