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[deelaundry]

Oh God, I need a cigarette.

THAT WAS AMAZING.

So well acted, so much House-Wilson goodness, SO MUCH BACKSTORY. With specificity! And dates!

HOUSE LOVES WILSON.

WILSON LOVES HOUSE.

THE END.

(ETA: Deleted my PS because Taiga pointed out I was wrong. Thanks!).

Comments

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Yep. The most frustrating thing to me about this year's House/Cuddy arc is that Cuddy seems to want to have a relationship not with House but with some idealized version of House. It seems plain to me that House keeps asking, "Do you want to try this with me?" and Cuddy keeps answering, "I'm ready to be swept off my feet."

We've seen that House can be tender, but if you pursue a relationship with him, you're not going to get that every day, every moment. You're going to have to put up with a lot of bullishness, and enjoy that bullishness, with sprinklings of sweetness in between. Stacy showed that was enough for her (until it wasn't and she felt stifled/overwhelmed); Wilson has shown that's enough for him, in a friendship/family sense. Cuddy keeps waiting for Option C to appear, and I don't think it ever will.

[shutterbug-12.livejournal.com]

About the first paragraph, this is exactly what I've seen all season going on there. This is, as much as I dislike it, consistent with Cuddy's character, in that when she finds herself emotionally involved in anything she loses perspective, sees an ideal, something "as it could be", and the reality becomes more or less lost. She's unhappy with anything unless it's "just right". Because she's unlikely to change a part of herself that is so ingrained, I think that she will encounter serious problems of accepting House as he is in reality, and that will not bode well for any relationship she might try to have, but especially an attempt at one with House. As Wilson put it, House is a "reality junkie", while Cuddy, when she becomes personally involved, is the exact opposite, and I think that is a major clash between them, and why Cuddy's preoccupation with this Option C will probably never go away.

About the second, I mostly agree, but don't so much with the claim that Stacy was stifled/overwhelmed by House's bullishness. She knew how to deal with that well, and shove it back in House's face when he crossed a line. She was prepared to take all that and all the other negative aspects she already knew about, ones she'd admitted, without asking House to change himself. The unchangeable reality of him was not why she left the first time, and wasn't why she had no choice but to leave the second. The second time had everything to do with House's insecurities and problems within himself--his fear of the possibility of emotional pain, his lack of self-worth, what has become almost an over-identification with his pain in connection with his intellectual abilities, to name a few things--not Stacy's problems with House. So I disagree there.

But I'm with you with the rest. Wilson has taken huge strides this season, I think. He's always been a good friend to House, but they've come to understand a lot more about each other recently, and I think finally they are in a place where they're really healing from the events of last season's finale. And this last episode I thought set up a subtle contrast between the way Wilson has come to understand and accept many core, essential things about House whereas Cuddy is having trouble with that (and the world around her in general) in the midst of these characters grappling for a sense of happiness or what they think they might want.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I will bow to your better knowledge of Stacy. She definitely showed she accepted him and gave back as good as she got (in a positive way, from a position of equals) during their relationship. I was basing the "until she was stifled/overwhelmed" on vague memories of her telling him there was no place for her in their shared life as part of why she'd been dissatisfied the first time around. But as I said, you'd know better!

[shutterbug-12.livejournal.com]

It's true that, in Honeymoon, she told House there was "room for her" in her life with Mark. She said that in her life with House, she was lonely because of, we're led to assume, House's preoccupation with his work. She did, however, stay with House despite this--and Stacy, we have seen, is not a woman who remained in a situation she felt was personally or emotionally unhealthy for her--and was satisfied enough to overlook that. It was revealed that Stacy didn't leave because of a certain dissatisfaction but because House shoved her that way in the aftermath of the infarction (House even comments on her patience himself that she showed during that time, that she was "great" and "kept telling him not to rush it", which indicates, to me, her willingness to try to work through the entire situation and stay with him). So I think that, despite the fact that there were aspects that caused difficulties, she accepted them then, used them as an excuse when she told him that she couldn't be with him in Honeymoon, and realized that she could accept those difficulties again later. It was an aspect she seemed to accept, that his obsession with his work would take the same precedence it always did, when she made her final decision to stay with him.

The fact that she did accept him--a decision based on an accurate, realistic image of him--of course, takes nothing away from Wilson's acceptance of him as well. To me, it strengthens his position as one of the most important people in House's life (not that there was seriously any doubt, but it's just more evidence for it, in my eyes). And that's something I really thought was marvelous about what was revealed with this last episode.