House Premiere -- my thoughts :P
Sep. 16th, 2008 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darkdreamerOkay, wow....
*wipes the tears from my eyes so I can see to type*
I thought this episode was brilliant from start to finish, and while spoilers about how heavy it was on Thirteen's issues made me apprehensive, I actually loved her in this.
My first thoughts on House were that he seemed exceptionally hard and bitter, moreso than usual, and I knew it was all defense... He's more vulnerable than usual, and therefore must appear to be *less* vulnerable...
I loved Cuddy's attempts to reconcile them, and I disagreed with Foreman's assessment that it was purely for selfish reasons. Yes, her life gets harder if Wilson goes, but I think she genuinely cares about both of them -- as I think is oddly evidenced by her "Go to hell" comment to Wilson. I think his remarks assigning selfish motives to her efforts was so offensive and hurtful to her as to make her respond that way.
I actually wasn't angry at Wilson at all this episode, though I expected to be. I felt sympathy for him from the start, because he was cool, distant, with House, but wasn't being deliberately hurtful. Judging from the last scene, as well as the scenes before it between him and House, it seems to me like he feels like he's so deeply entrenched in this unhealthy, codependent relationship that in order to break the cycle and stop enabling, stop feeding his own addiction to being needed -- he has to just get away completely. I think he feels like he couldn't stay and try to change things, because they'd inevitably fall back into their same patterns.
House had one line that made me cringe, because I think for Wilson it only served to seal his decision. When House gave him his pager and Wilson made the comment, "You have to do what's right for you, and I have to do what's right for me" and House said "But I'm better at it"
Gah!!!
He couldn't have said a worse thing. All that served to do was to prove the point Wilson had already come to.
I feel like there was a lot of truth to Wilson's ending monologue, although it was painful. He's been enabling House for years now, and ultimately, it's not good for either of them. I think that he will inevitably come back to a place where they can be friends, but for now, it's probably good for House to have to stand on his own for a while. Addicts will take and take and take, and make no efforts to solve their problem, as long as someone is there making it easy and comfortable for them to do so. Sometimes the only thing that will help them to change is to have that support system pulled out from under them.
This did utterly break my heart, and yes, I wanted to hold both House and Wilson and make it all better - but it's going to take time, and I'm looking forward to the whole long, detailed, painful, angsty, beautiful process!! :)
*hugs*
DoS
*wipes the tears from my eyes so I can see to type*
I thought this episode was brilliant from start to finish, and while spoilers about how heavy it was on Thirteen's issues made me apprehensive, I actually loved her in this.
My first thoughts on House were that he seemed exceptionally hard and bitter, moreso than usual, and I knew it was all defense... He's more vulnerable than usual, and therefore must appear to be *less* vulnerable...
I loved Cuddy's attempts to reconcile them, and I disagreed with Foreman's assessment that it was purely for selfish reasons. Yes, her life gets harder if Wilson goes, but I think she genuinely cares about both of them -- as I think is oddly evidenced by her "Go to hell" comment to Wilson. I think his remarks assigning selfish motives to her efforts was so offensive and hurtful to her as to make her respond that way.
I actually wasn't angry at Wilson at all this episode, though I expected to be. I felt sympathy for him from the start, because he was cool, distant, with House, but wasn't being deliberately hurtful. Judging from the last scene, as well as the scenes before it between him and House, it seems to me like he feels like he's so deeply entrenched in this unhealthy, codependent relationship that in order to break the cycle and stop enabling, stop feeding his own addiction to being needed -- he has to just get away completely. I think he feels like he couldn't stay and try to change things, because they'd inevitably fall back into their same patterns.
House had one line that made me cringe, because I think for Wilson it only served to seal his decision. When House gave him his pager and Wilson made the comment, "You have to do what's right for you, and I have to do what's right for me" and House said "But I'm better at it"
Gah!!!
He couldn't have said a worse thing. All that served to do was to prove the point Wilson had already come to.
I feel like there was a lot of truth to Wilson's ending monologue, although it was painful. He's been enabling House for years now, and ultimately, it's not good for either of them. I think that he will inevitably come back to a place where they can be friends, but for now, it's probably good for House to have to stand on his own for a while. Addicts will take and take and take, and make no efforts to solve their problem, as long as someone is there making it easy and comfortable for them to do so. Sometimes the only thing that will help them to change is to have that support system pulled out from under them.
This did utterly break my heart, and yes, I wanted to hold both House and Wilson and make it all better - but it's going to take time, and I'm looking forward to the whole long, detailed, painful, angsty, beautiful process!! :)
*hugs*
DoS
