I actually think their relationship is on the mend, but it'll take some healing post-Tritter. Besides, the tension from late Season 2 on has been needed for a few reasons: 1) To reiterate House's personal demons. We could argue addiction/physically dependent all the live-long day, but the point is, his Vicodin use is getting worse, and it's impacting all facets of his day. In Season 1, when TPTB still needed to warm the audience up to House, the pills were (for the most part) treated as unhealthy but merely a quirk of dealing with The Great Dr House. Even if it only goes downhill for House's character, it has to go somewhere for dramatic purposes. My guess is that it will only get worse for him for a good long while. 2) To show the real James Wilson. To fully grasp just how lonely Wilson is (and unfortunately for him, I'd say that's a defining characteristic, right up there with codependent and self-sacrificing), the writers needed to show first the dissolution of his marriage, and show him making some pretty big interpersonal mistakes in the name of helping others.
I wouldn't call them divorced so much as in a rough patch (they are each others longest relationship, and the basis of the show), but if we're to determine where things went to shit it was toward the end of their living together, around or right after All In and Sleeping Dogs Lie. Wilson is always portrayed as the effemenate one (in no small part because RSL knows how to bring the HoYay), but if we're going off of actual behavior, I'd say that House is wicked jealous of anyone Wilson is with and Wilson is for the most part oblivious. The Odd Couple Arc was, even more than the Stacy arc (since deep down House knew it wouldn't work out), House's window to the good life. Wilson did what in most cases you're supposed to do when you're living on your friends couch, he moved out (albeit with a patient *headdesk*). In House Vs God, House is very pissed about this turn of events, and finding out about Grace only goes to magnify that. He's still quite angry about Grace (Words and Deeds). Even when there are other things he could bring up, he seems to have understood that Wilson was trying to do the right thing in the Tritter arc, and forgotten or forgiven about the Addison's guy. But spot Wilson talking to any female, and the claws are out (Fools For Love).
Either that, or they slept together around that time, and Wilson freaked because he's a closet case, but that seems almost too easy a storyline.
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Date: 2007-03-29 03:43 pm (UTC)1) To reiterate House's personal demons. We could argue addiction/physically dependent all the live-long day, but the point is, his Vicodin use is getting worse, and it's impacting all facets of his day. In Season 1, when TPTB still needed to warm the audience up to House, the pills were (for the most part) treated as unhealthy but merely a quirk of dealing with The Great Dr House. Even if it only goes downhill for House's character, it has to go somewhere for dramatic purposes. My guess is that it will only get worse for him for a good long while.
2) To show the real James Wilson. To fully grasp just how lonely Wilson is (and unfortunately for him, I'd say that's a defining characteristic, right up there with codependent and self-sacrificing), the writers needed to show first the dissolution of his marriage, and show him making some pretty big interpersonal mistakes in the name of helping others.
I wouldn't call them divorced so much as in a rough patch (they are each others longest relationship, and the basis of the show), but if we're to determine where things went to shit it was toward the end of their living together, around or right after All In and Sleeping Dogs Lie. Wilson is always portrayed as the effemenate one (in no small part because RSL knows how to bring the HoYay), but if we're going off of actual behavior, I'd say that House is wicked jealous of anyone Wilson is with and Wilson is for the most part oblivious. The Odd Couple Arc was, even more than the Stacy arc (since deep down House knew it wouldn't work out), House's window to the good life. Wilson did what in most cases you're supposed to do when you're living on your friends couch, he moved out (albeit with a patient *headdesk*). In House Vs God, House is very pissed about this turn of events, and finding out about Grace only goes to magnify that. He's still quite angry about Grace (Words and Deeds). Even when there are other things he could bring up, he seems to have understood that Wilson was trying to do the right thing in the Tritter arc, and forgotten or forgiven about the Addison's guy. But spot Wilson talking to any female, and the claws are out (Fools For Love).
Either that, or they slept together around that time, and Wilson freaked because he's a closet case, but that seems almost too easy a storyline.