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NOT FEELING THE H/W LOVE
Well, watched "Top Secret" a couple of times, feeling bummed.
WARNING! Long rambling dissertation under the LJ cut! Possibly TL;DR! Also, spoilers inside!
It’s undeniable now. House and Wilson got divorced.
They were happily, wonderfully married throughout all of Season One (even during the Vogler mess!!). They were totally married throughout Season Two (balcony scenes anyone? House deleting the apartment message from his answering machine anyone? Still the gold standard of H/W love!).
Then along came the "Euphoria" two-parter, and then Season Three, and all my happy slashy dreams were shattered. SHATTERED.
"Euphoria" had open hostility between House and Wilson (or, more likely, hostility from House toward Wilson—here I’m thinking specifically of the scene where House snarls at Wilson, "I’ll bet you you can even have unprotected sex with your patients without even catching a damn thing. Boy I wish I had your job." YEOWCH!), and here we see House considering packing up his things and asking for his magic decoder ring back. Sad. Really, really sad. I started getting a queasy feeling in my stomach right then.
Then, somewhere after House got the ketamine treatment and Wilson started manipulating him (withholding information from House about his paralyzed patient, refusing to prescribe Vicodin, etc), House got a separation from Wilson.
The lovely sexy sparkly chemistry onscreen between House and Wilson just shuddered to a halt. Sad, sad, sad!
Then somewhere after Tritter finally got booted off the show, House filed for divorce from Wilson. Looks like the trial separation didn’t go too well.
Where’d the chemistry go? Where’d all the jump cuts focusing on Wilson and House giving one another sexy, significant looks go?
What the hell is going on, here?
In "Half-Wit," I felt more depressed. Here House is DYING OF BRAIN CANCER, and what do we get from House and Wilson? One half-assed scene with the upright piano in the patient’s room and one sneering, hostile scene in House’s office at the end. Gah!
House actually looks simmeringly angry with Wilson in that last scene. Man. It almost felt to me, on watching that scene, that House has filed for divorce in a fit of betrayed fury—and Wilson didn’t even know they were married in the first place. Bizarre! That scene actually reads to me like House is still furious with Wilson, and Wilson has no freaking clue that House is even mad. Wilson gets House flowers. House throws them out the window. Wilson cluelessly gets House chocolates. House throws them at his head. Wilson’s all like, "Pizza and a movie?" House is all like, "Choke on that pizza and DIE!!!"
Am I the only one who saw that? Just how crazy am I?
Is anyone else not seeing the chemistry?
It’s like the actors are no longer comfortable playing scenes together. It’s awful. I don’t see House and Wilson interacting on the screen any more; I see Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard pretending to be House and Wilson on a set. Awful.
And so now we come to the latest episode, "Top Secret."
I would have enjoyed this episode much, much more if there had been ANY chemistry between House and Wilson AT ALL. And I’m not even being greedy and asking for sexual chemistry. Just plain old "House and Wilson are bestest buds and Platonically LUV each other!" chemistry would have made my day.
But no. Nothing.
The banter in the bathroom? Not feeling it. Feels forced and half-assed.
The fights about House’s drug use and House’s patient? Feels like the bickering of a divorced couple, sad to say. Seriously. This is how my mom and dad used to fight/argue/bicker with each other, after they got divorced. I know firsthand how post-divorce arguments sound and look, and House and Wilson in "Top Secret" fit the bill.
But maybe it’s not just House and Wilson, HL and RSL.
The scenes between House and Cuddy weren’t all that sparkly with chemistry, either. Or, at least not the sexual kind. The scene in House’s office where Cuddy gives House the patient file for Riley (or whatever his name in the show is), I see ZERO sexual chemistry between Cuddy and House. House looks tired and distracted. He doesn’t even leer at Cuddy’s cleavage. In return, Cuddy looks tired and concerned. More maternal than anything. Odd. It’s that way in the end scene, too, where we finally get confirmation that Cuddy and House had been up to sexy shenanigans years ago, in what appears to be a one-night stand.
Sexual chemistry? Zip.
Cuddy’s still looking and acting motherly towards House, not sexual at ALL, and House acts like Cuddy is a sister or something.
This is so weird.
So maybe it’s not just House and Wilson that’s lost its zing. Maybe it’s ALL the grownups of the show.
Cameron and Chase were kinda hot in the supply closet together. Foreman was fun and engaging in the ep. Has the end of the world come about? Am I actually enjoying the scenes with the kids more than the scenes with H, Cuddy, and W?
Please counter myarguments ramblings if you can. Please let me know if you DID see any chemistry between House and Wilson in the last few eps. Really. I’d like to know if anyone agrees with my view, that the chemistry is alarmingly absent from H & W these days. I’d also like to know if anyone disagrees, if they DO see chemistry. That would make me feel a lot better.
So. Anyone else with problems with the show and the H/W relationship? Anyone else thinking the thrill is gone? Or do I need to start going to therapy to resolve my issues with over-analyzing a stupid show? (I mean, seriously. It's just a show! This much obsession can't be healthy.)
........send help!
ETA: Removed a few refs to "Top Secret" outside the LJ cut just in case.
WARNING! Long rambling dissertation under the LJ cut! Possibly TL;DR! Also, spoilers inside!
It’s undeniable now. House and Wilson got divorced.
They were happily, wonderfully married throughout all of Season One (even during the Vogler mess!!). They were totally married throughout Season Two (balcony scenes anyone? House deleting the apartment message from his answering machine anyone? Still the gold standard of H/W love!).
Then along came the "Euphoria" two-parter, and then Season Three, and all my happy slashy dreams were shattered. SHATTERED.
"Euphoria" had open hostility between House and Wilson (or, more likely, hostility from House toward Wilson—here I’m thinking specifically of the scene where House snarls at Wilson, "I’ll bet you you can even have unprotected sex with your patients without even catching a damn thing. Boy I wish I had your job." YEOWCH!), and here we see House considering packing up his things and asking for his magic decoder ring back. Sad. Really, really sad. I started getting a queasy feeling in my stomach right then.
Then, somewhere after House got the ketamine treatment and Wilson started manipulating him (withholding information from House about his paralyzed patient, refusing to prescribe Vicodin, etc), House got a separation from Wilson.
The lovely sexy sparkly chemistry onscreen between House and Wilson just shuddered to a halt. Sad, sad, sad!
Then somewhere after Tritter finally got booted off the show, House filed for divorce from Wilson. Looks like the trial separation didn’t go too well.
Where’d the chemistry go? Where’d all the jump cuts focusing on Wilson and House giving one another sexy, significant looks go?
What the hell is going on, here?
In "Half-Wit," I felt more depressed. Here House is DYING OF BRAIN CANCER, and what do we get from House and Wilson? One half-assed scene with the upright piano in the patient’s room and one sneering, hostile scene in House’s office at the end. Gah!
House actually looks simmeringly angry with Wilson in that last scene. Man. It almost felt to me, on watching that scene, that House has filed for divorce in a fit of betrayed fury—and Wilson didn’t even know they were married in the first place. Bizarre! That scene actually reads to me like House is still furious with Wilson, and Wilson has no freaking clue that House is even mad. Wilson gets House flowers. House throws them out the window. Wilson cluelessly gets House chocolates. House throws them at his head. Wilson’s all like, "Pizza and a movie?" House is all like, "Choke on that pizza and DIE!!!"
Am I the only one who saw that? Just how crazy am I?
Is anyone else not seeing the chemistry?
It’s like the actors are no longer comfortable playing scenes together. It’s awful. I don’t see House and Wilson interacting on the screen any more; I see Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard pretending to be House and Wilson on a set. Awful.
And so now we come to the latest episode, "Top Secret."
I would have enjoyed this episode much, much more if there had been ANY chemistry between House and Wilson AT ALL. And I’m not even being greedy and asking for sexual chemistry. Just plain old "House and Wilson are bestest buds and Platonically LUV each other!" chemistry would have made my day.
But no. Nothing.
The banter in the bathroom? Not feeling it. Feels forced and half-assed.
The fights about House’s drug use and House’s patient? Feels like the bickering of a divorced couple, sad to say. Seriously. This is how my mom and dad used to fight/argue/bicker with each other, after they got divorced. I know firsthand how post-divorce arguments sound and look, and House and Wilson in "Top Secret" fit the bill.
But maybe it’s not just House and Wilson, HL and RSL.
The scenes between House and Cuddy weren’t all that sparkly with chemistry, either. Or, at least not the sexual kind. The scene in House’s office where Cuddy gives House the patient file for Riley (or whatever his name in the show is), I see ZERO sexual chemistry between Cuddy and House. House looks tired and distracted. He doesn’t even leer at Cuddy’s cleavage. In return, Cuddy looks tired and concerned. More maternal than anything. Odd. It’s that way in the end scene, too, where we finally get confirmation that Cuddy and House had been up to sexy shenanigans years ago, in what appears to be a one-night stand.
Sexual chemistry? Zip.
Cuddy’s still looking and acting motherly towards House, not sexual at ALL, and House acts like Cuddy is a sister or something.
This is so weird.
So maybe it’s not just House and Wilson that’s lost its zing. Maybe it’s ALL the grownups of the show.
Cameron and Chase were kinda hot in the supply closet together. Foreman was fun and engaging in the ep. Has the end of the world come about? Am I actually enjoying the scenes with the kids more than the scenes with H, Cuddy, and W?
Please counter my
So. Anyone else with problems with the show and the H/W relationship? Anyone else thinking the thrill is gone? Or do I need to start going to therapy to resolve my issues with over-analyzing a stupid show? (I mean, seriously. It's just a show! This much obsession can't be healthy.)
........send help!
ETA: Removed a few refs to "Top Secret" outside the LJ cut just in case.
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That's pretty much how I saw it, too. Still can't come up with a non-slashy take on the Grace thing. Still thought, back when it aired, and the few eps that aired afterward, that the odd estrangement between H&W would go away in time.
But then Tritter happened and all the way up until this very last episode, I was pretty damned convinced House and Wilson were breaking up.
Me too (natch).
In fact, House not accepting Wilson's invite for pizza clinched it for me -- they broke up (platonically, more-than-platonically, whatever). And I was sad.
Me too (natch).
Because there is no excuse for Wilson just walking out when he thinks his best friend has brain cancer -- NONE.
ITA. Gah. Very upsetting!
But "Top Secret"? Totaly H/W chemistry. The fact that House willingly told Wilson about his dream and went to him with his peeing issue; that Wilson felt they were okay enough to (pointlessly) attempt to stand up to House about writing him prescriptions; the DDX scene between them where Wilson goes "Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're idiots. You're point?" (that was so totally S1 Wilson shoving his head back in btw, finally) and House listens to him; and the scene with Wilson in scrubs and House calling him "Dr. Self-Righteous" but backtracking by claiming they were all wrong as soon as Cuddy started harping that Wilson was wrong -- that's H/W back in fine form. Plus all the bathroom scenes and the bantering and the shared looks. Oh no no no.
Here's where we part ways, I suppose. I do LOVE the fact that H went to W with his dream and his bladder troubles. This looks on the surface like a huge step forward. Unfortunately, I'm just not FEELING it. Odd. The looks H & W exchanged in the bathroom didn't have any real; life to them. It's hard to explain. It felt... tired, almost. Staged. Forced, I suppose.
The "We're idiots. Your point?" line was FANTASTIC, and just about the only spot in the ep where I felt like Wilson was kicking ass and the dynamic was fun to watch. Loved that line, loved Wilson delivering that line. Made me happy. Still not sure that this does anything for me on the H/W front though. Still having trouble figuring out why. Once again, I think maybe camera angles, close-ups, etc. made the scene feel like less than it could have been. Dunno. Must ponder more. ;)
Whatever happened in the time between "Half-Wit" and "Top Secret" House and Wilson worked something out. They're not back to being completely okay but there's definitely hope, me thinks. Definitely hope.
This does give me hope. I'm going to watch again (horrors!! the sacrifices I make for this show!) and re-view the bathroom scenes, argument scenes, esp. since you bring up Cuddy blaming W and then H backtracking, something I definitely did not pick up before.
I like the idea of them working something out between this ep and the ep before. I like your take that they're not completely okay again but there's hope. I'll take it. :)
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I agree, to an extent, I suppose. I'm not sure why it played that way on screen: if it was poor quality acting (GASP - blasphemer!) or the way it was directed with cameron angles, etc. or if it was because House and Wilson are still tiptoeing around each other. If it was the third option - and that is a highly believable option - I think the important thing to concentrate on was that they were talking to each other. They were both making an effort to return things to normal, which means they want things back to normal, still care about each other, etc. etc. That it was a bit surreal and forced - well. They did almost just break up. Working out the problems that have almost split you up - hard, surreal and awkward at times.
Yet there is hope in the fact that they are trying. Whatever is going on, it is an improvement over "Half-Wit" with no pizza and Wilson disappearing for almost the entire the time.
I'm going to watch again (horrors!! the sacrifices I make for this show!)
Hah hah! I know. I watched "Half-Wit" like 8 times to try to bring the happy and it just wasn't doing. Watching Wilson (ever-so-cutely) ask House out
on a dateon a dateon a daFOR PIZZA was heartbreaking. Oh the sacrafices indeed. :)esp. since you bring up Cuddy blaming W and then H backtracking, something I definitely did not pick up before.
Well, to be fair, Cuddy seems to be blaming both House and Wilson in turns, but I found it interesting that after ribbing Wilson for a while, as soon as Cuddy started in with blame, House quickly retracted his earlier comments to Wilson. It was nice to see House doing this odd protector-y thing over Wilson.
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This isn't debating the H/W-ness of the last few eps, but it is an amusing anecdote that might cheer you up some:
My friend ships primarily H/Cameron and W/Cameron but in no way ships H/W. Sometimes I beta for her and I was talking to her about the progress of her recent W/C fic and she complained that because of the last episode, she could no longer find a reason for Wilson to touch Cameron's girly bits because he and House are so obviously gay together. It completely destroyed her muse and nearly sunk her ship.