I've always thought Wilson has an interior life that's shades darker than the clean-cut and well-spoken version we've been watching for seven years now. After reading your review, my gut reaction was House and Wilson deserve each other -- the former being a great ball of neediness and the latter a sucker for neediness.
I agree with you. Cuddy does not benefit from the fallout. She's been in love with House for a long time, but there's a reason (or reasons) she's steered clear of any romantic entanglement with House all these years. Cuddy can be as cold and calculating as House (she'd have to be to become the first female Dean of Medicine and to run PPTH for 15 years) and these traits have served to counter-balance her attraction to House. I believe she's known all along that House's main damage is not his addiction per se, but his inability to make himself vulnerable to the vagaries of life. In a sense, this is also Cuddy's main weakness. in "Help Me," Cuddy was only able to open herself up to House and risk potential pain because House has for the first time openly acknowledged his responsibility for his own misery. right or wrong, Cuddy took this as a sign that House is finally willing to allow himself to love and be loved. I agree with Cuddy's assessment, and i think that that House in Help Me" may be in distress right now but he hasn't flat-lined yet. It is right that Cuddy took a step back from House. She's deeply hurt, but more than this she knows she can't save House. I believe she believes that she is making a rational decision.
I really wish other fans should stop bashing Cuddy and calling her a selfish bitch. I've always liked Cuddy because at the onset she's struck me as someone who, if i may paraphrase House, insists on seeing the possible in the impossible. ("Humpty Dumpty") Cuddy is not a damsel in distress, she is not a dolorous matriarch (mater dolorosa), and she may like the bad boys but she is not a fixer of broken men (the way Cameron is a fixer). Cuddy is a middle-age woman which means she's lived a life, have gone through many ups and downs and have acquired good as well as bad habits. It also means that she still has a full life ahead of her, and she may or may not still be holding out hope that House can fix himself but I am convinced that Cuddy knows that this crisis with House is transient.
so sorry i seem to have cluttered your space. I'm friending you btw, because you're a sane voice in the House fandom in LJ. there's so much "insanity" right now, and while i do understand where this is coming from I'm not ready to call it a day for House.
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I agree with you. Cuddy does not benefit from the fallout. She's been in love with House for a long time, but there's a reason (or reasons) she's steered clear of any romantic entanglement with House all these years. Cuddy can be as cold and calculating as House (she'd have to be to become the first female Dean of Medicine and to run PPTH for 15 years) and these traits have served to counter-balance her attraction to House. I believe she's known all along that House's main damage is not his addiction per se, but his inability to make himself vulnerable to the vagaries of life. In a sense, this is also Cuddy's main weakness. in "Help Me," Cuddy was only able to open herself up to House and risk potential pain because House has for the first time openly acknowledged his responsibility for his own misery. right or wrong, Cuddy took this as a sign that House is finally willing to allow himself to love and be loved. I agree with Cuddy's assessment, and i think that that House in Help Me" may be in distress right now but he hasn't flat-lined yet. It is right that Cuddy took a step back from House. She's deeply hurt, but more than this she knows she can't save House. I believe she believes that she is making a rational decision.
I really wish other fans should stop bashing Cuddy and calling her a selfish bitch. I've always liked Cuddy because at the onset she's struck me as someone who, if i may paraphrase House, insists on seeing the possible in the impossible. ("Humpty Dumpty") Cuddy is not a damsel in distress, she is not a dolorous matriarch (mater dolorosa), and she may like the bad boys but she is not a fixer of broken men (the way Cameron is a fixer). Cuddy is a middle-age woman which means she's lived a life, have gone through many ups and downs and have acquired good as well as bad habits. It also means that she still has a full life ahead of her, and she may or may not still be holding out hope that House can fix himself but I am convinced that Cuddy knows that this crisis with House is transient.
so sorry i seem to have cluttered your space. I'm friending you btw, because you're a sane voice in the House fandom in LJ. there's so much "insanity" right now, and while i do understand where this is coming from I'm not ready to call it a day for House.