Thank you very much - I'm more than flattered that I robbed you of your sleep. The bit about love felt fluffy, but I felt it had to be said. Mostly House seems a coward for avoiding getting involved with people (I think Wilson calls him a coward somewhere), but it's easy to get involved with people if one takes as little responsibility for them as Wilson does. If one does things with the level of commitment that House puts into his personal life, then the fewer commitments one has, the better.
Yes, the pranking of Wilson is cruel, as it also is in the original. I'm glad you saw that. I don't really see Lucas as evil, not even in my little fic world. He shows at the beginning of Season 5 that his morals are at least as shifty as House's, but while House has his own set of moral standards to compensate for his lack of respect for society's morals, I doubt Lucas has anything to fall back on. Thus he misses the boundary between 'creepy, but still okay' and 'not okay by any standards'. He's a bit like a kid indulging in drunk driving. It's fine as long as nothing happens and awkward if one gets caught. But which kid stops to consider the consequences if they kill someone in an accident?
I much preferred Nolan to Amber, but that might be because IMO the actress who played the role didn't do a very good job. But in my eyes Nolan has some very serious issues, so I don't think I did him a great injustice by making him a lot slower on the uptake than House.
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Yes, the pranking of Wilson is cruel, as it also is in the original. I'm glad you saw that. I don't really see Lucas as evil, not even in my little fic world. He shows at the beginning of Season 5 that his morals are at least as shifty as House's, but while House has his own set of moral standards to compensate for his lack of respect for society's morals, I doubt Lucas has anything to fall back on. Thus he misses the boundary between 'creepy, but still okay' and 'not okay by any standards'. He's a bit like a kid indulging in drunk driving. It's fine as long as nothing happens and awkward if one gets caught. But which kid stops to consider the consequences if they kill someone in an accident?
I much preferred Nolan to Amber, but that might be because IMO the actress who played the role didn't do a very good job. But in my eyes Nolan has some very serious issues, so I don't think I did him a great injustice by making him a lot slower on the uptake than House.