Episode Thoughts

[deelaundry]

**Warning for rambliness and limited focus.**

Wowza, the House-Wilson in this ep was awesome. :DDDDDDDDDDD

They are so married in every way possible, and Wilson's "don't want to think about your morning glory" face/gesture was adorable enough to sustain me through YET ANOTHER ANVIL about how House and Cuddy are hot for each other. WE GET IT. THEY WANT TO BONE EACH OTHER. THIS WAS ESTABLISHED IN SEASON ONE, so seriously, show, shut up about it.

Cuddy trying to project a professional image and failing a little bit to hide her attraction to House was fine, even enjoyable. House telling Cuddy she made him feel tingly was fine, even enjoyable. The med students dicussing how Cuddy and House talking to each other was "foreplay" made me want to smack myself -- or preferably, the writer of that scene -- in the head with a brick. WE GET IT. QUIT HAVING EVERYBODY ELSE TALK ABOUT IT.

If you want other characters to talk about a relationship, why don't you have them discuss how House and Wilson are married, married, MARRIED? Seriously, why haven't we had a "You're not a couple? Really?" scene yet? The bit with O'Shea (at the beginning of Season Five) was almost there, but I can't believe he's the only one who thinks there's something a little different from platonic buddy-dom going on.

Comments

[magie-05.livejournal.com]

WORD. On all counts <3

[chippers87.livejournal.com]

Pretty much agree. With the medical students thing, the House/Cuddy shipper side of me was thinking "Hell yeah!" but the other, friends with everyone from all walks of fandom, side was thinking that this was a bit much, especially with the much more convincing scene in House's office. To be honest, I wanted to hear House try to get out of telling Cuddy about Wilson much more than hearing students gossip. I can walk into my own hallway if I wanted that.

I kept expecting House to get into bed with Wilson. Honestly expecting it. It would have made so much sense.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

The thing is, this episode I found the House-Cuddy flirtation/sparring very charming. (Perhaps it was the abundance of House-Wilson that softened me up for that. Seriously, if House and Wilson can live together and talk and have the B-plot every episode, then I would be totally down with having House date Cuddy. They can have great dates, and wonderful sex, and then Cuddy can go home to Rachel and House can go home to Wilson, and Wilson can make more of those TMI!TMI! faces. :D) The med students talking about it was completely unnecessary, and seemed shoe-horned in instead of natural. Overkill, bleah.

Cuddy has been looking great this season. Her focusing on her own life instead of being moony over House has made her so much more interesting.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

<3 <3 <3

I wrote another domestic H/W fic (shocker, eh?) and thought of you.

[magie-05.livejournal.com]

WHERE? I NEED THIS? <3 <3 <3 <3

I have a couple I could theoretically post soon, but....yikes.

[diysheep.livejournal.com]

Dr O'Shea is back - good, I liked him. I can't wait to see this episode. I was getting sick of House sans House. It was 'epic fail'.

[chippers87.livejournal.com]

. Seriously, if House and Wilson can live together and talk and have the B-plot every episode, then I would be totally down with having House date Cuddy. They can have great dates, and wonderful sex, and then Cuddy can go home to Rachel and House can go home to Wilson, and Wilson can make more of those TMI!TMI! faces. :D

I'm loving this scenario. :D

Cuddy has been looking great this season. Her focusing on her own life instead of being moony over House has made her so much more interesting.

I totally agree. Setting boundaries has been a good thing for her. I think she's gotten to the point where she's not so desperate to have somebody love her that if the opportunity for something resembling a relationship should arise (either with House or with somebody else), then she could handle it much, much better than she did last season.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

SELF-PIMPIN', SPENDING THE G'S
SELF-PIMPIN, DOWN IN L J EASE

Type One (http://deelaundry.livejournal.com/236176.html)

I wouldn't call it fun, exactly, but it is domestic. : )

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

Since a relationship between House and Cuddy would never work and Cuddy at least knows it, at this point I just wish they'd "bone each other" and get it out of their systems. Really it can't be good for Cuddy professionally to have everyone in the hospital know she's in love with House, seeing how much she lets him get away with.
As for House and Wilson being married, I wouldn't be surprised if the series went even further than Boston Legal did and ended with a reveal that House and Wilson have been legally married for some time.

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

YES, on all counts.

Except: What bit with O'Shea? What did I miss? Who's O'Shea?

ETA that I did have to laugh at Wilson's reaction to catching (or thinking he caught) House jerking off. The complete and utter squick was fabulous, out of a guy who probably can't be squicked by much of anything.

And that scene gave me a plot bunny that ended up encompassing a lot of what happened in this episode. I have a finished first draft already. Amazing, for me.

[srsly-yes.livejournal.com]

This was my favorite episode so far this season. I thought House and Cuddy talked to each other like adults and showed restraint. Dare I say it, I found it the sexiest thing I'd seen in a long time. I can live with it as long as it is balanced out with House and Wilson scenes like tonight.

Have to admit, House and Wilson did not read slashy to me, but it seldom does on the first viewing. As for friendship, I couldn't be happier.

[theninth.livejournal.com]

House/Wilson have the best, most awkward, most adorable pillow-talk ever.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

House and Cuddy talked to each other like adults and showed restraint. Exactly! So much sexier and more charming than forcing it.

House and Wilson didn't read slashy to me in this episode either, and that is fine. Plenty of married couples let their sex life fall to the wayside :D Wilson's TMI! faces were so adorable, heh.

But if you think about their public interactions overall throughout the show -- if two guys in my office acted the way H&W do, I would totally assume they were a couple. An on-and-off couple, maybe, but absolutely involved romantically. They "code" that way, if I'm using that term correctly. So it seems a little strange, given all the outside observers on House-Cuddy the show throws at us, that there's never been a scene where someone assumes House and Wilson are together.

♥

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It's so fun! :D Pure glee!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

The O'Shea bit was in an earlier episode, beginning of S5, when House was trying to recruit a new best friend. House described his criteria for being Wilson 2.0, and O'Shea said, "I'm not gay." Hee.

Wilson's reaction in that scene was adorable. Because of my own personal preference, I normally hate scenes that are WE ARE SO STRAIGHT, but this scene I loved. ♥ ♥ ♥

(And, yes, I know that the canon characters are straight, and the producers have no obligation whatsoever to follow my personal preference that it be left open (or confirmed) that House and Wilson are both bisexual. It's my preference that's all.)

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

The thing is, I wish the producers had never gone down the path of having Cuddy being moonily in love with House. It didn't help my respect for her, and I don't think it helped House's respect for her either. I keep wanting the two of them to become better friends and if romantic love builds on top of that (even though it's infeasible for their lives, as you've shown) then great.

It would totally make sense for House and Wilson to have legal documents. I mean, given how much they act on each other's behalf, it'd just be easier.

[photoash.livejournal.com]

House and Wilson definitely felt like an awkward married couple (who maybe were discovering they didn't know each other as well as they thought with the House 'getting better' and Wilson talking to Amber) but that they still cared just as much :) the little bit at the end where House yells at wilson through the grate and Wilson tells Amber he's getting better really sealed it for me.

Not a lot of sexual tension at all but lots of caring :) even if they can't express it well!

I hope you feel inspired to write more domestic scenes :) I just love your writing!

[daisylily.livejournal.com]

The last bit of the ep was particularly wonderful, and made me so happy - the shouted conversation and the "I told you. He's getting better." *flail*

And the return of the Wilson TMI face. I could watch him make that face all day and never get tired of it.

The whole thing made me very very happy indeed.

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

So it seems a little strange, given all the outside observers on House-Cuddy the show throws at us, that there's never been a scene where someone assumes House and Wilson are together.

Back in "Hunting" in 2nd season, Kalvin states this outright:

House: [Sighs.] Dr Wilson, I want you to meet my stalker

Kalvin: Your waiting room sucks.

House: I am not treating you.

Kalvin: What, because you're a closet-case? [He gives House and Wilson a pointed look.]

Wilson: Err... we're not... err... together.

House: [Turns around to give Wilson a look.] He is so self-loathing.

OTOH, this was a PotW's observation, so I dunno if it counts.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It totally counts! I had just forgotten about it. Duh, me.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I just always write them as being both bisexual because that's the only thing that would explain the way both of them behave.

[dangomango.livejournal.com]

The med students dicussing how Cuddy and House talking to each other was "foreplay" made me want to smack myself -- or preferably, the writer of that scene -- in the head with a brick. WE GET IT. QUIT HAVING EVERYBODY ELSE TALK ABOUT IT.

I hated that scene. It's not sexual tension, it's sexual HARASSMENT, and that's why I will never ship House/Cuddy, because Cuddy's not a saint, but she sure deserves someone who treats her better than that. Ugh. And to think I was all pleased with myself that I've stepped far enough away from the show (and the fandom) to just WATCH the show, and then that scene happened and I was full of fannish rage all over again, lol.

[hibernia1.livejournal.com]

OMG I'll love this episode, won't I??

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. That's what bothers me about the House/Cuddy relationship, that she's in love with a guy who treated her like garbage and humiliated her at every opportunity.