House – Friends until the very end

“You talked a lot. I stopped listening after you confessed your fear of dolphins.” – House to Wilson, when Wilson tried to apologize for the hurtful things he said about House

What a tough episode to watch; between watching a child’s health fail, one whose genetic condition gives her an early death sentence anyway, to Wilson’s suffering on the high-dose chemo, House was not a party tonight … until the very last scene. I should have known that when I saw House’s smirk that something was up his sleeve. How perfectly House, to toy with Wilson during the height of his chemo poisoning. And what an amazing friend he is; to get Wilson to laugh at his cancer was a seemingly impossible feat. But House did it.

While I could never know how I’d react if I was faced with a cancer battle, it’s understandable that Wilson had the reaction he did, after all he’s seen as an oncologist. I have to wonder if Wilson was in his right mind, though. Between the chemo and the pain meds, his judgment certainly had to be affected; so my question is, was House right to respect Wilson’s wishes? So far, it has worked out, but what if it didn’t? Was Wilson really in the state of mind to demand that House not let him die in an ambulance or hospital?

Another thing I’m wondering is if Wilson really meant it when he said those hurtful things about House. House was quick to dismiss it and forgive, but Wilson should be honored to have a loyal friend like House. He sacrificed his Vicodin for him, and we know that was no small act of kindness. House brushed off all the affronts by telling Wilson to “tone down the bromance”; House knows Wilson can’t be held responsible for his words and actions during his near-death experience. That is why I am choosing to believe that Wilson wasn’t in his right mind. He was bitter about his cancer battle and the chemo and meds made him someone he’s not. There’s no way that Wilson can’t see what an amazing friend he has.

I need to end this review with yet another awed compliment to the writers. Here’s how I imagine the writer’s room these days: the scripts are literally writing themselves, because the writers have taken the last nearly eight years and written actual people, not fictional characters. They know them so well that they don’t even have to think about how they’d react in any given situation, that’s how good these writers are. Of course, we all know that House would play with Wilson; tonight’s last scene was a brilliant given. Now here’s the sad part — it’s astounding to me that these real people that the writers have created can all just end in three more episodes.

This and that:

• There were some midly entertaining moments, in-between Wilson’s pathetic speeches and vomiting. House declaring that everyone knows Wilson is secretly gay for him; House’s toast as he’s trying to talk Wilson out of the high-dose chemo; House plugging an IV for him into Wilson’s Morphine.
• It bugs me that we’re not out of the woods yet with Wilson’s cancer. I don’t want to watch him suffer through surgery, and I don’t want to watch the last three episodes with the underlying fear that Wilson will die before the final curtain.
• As far as the case of the week goes, it was fascinating to watch the parents react differently. I hope I’d be like the father, really getting to know my daughter and enjoying the time I did have with her, but I can understand the mother wanting to cure her as well. It connected so well, the mother’s giving the daughter the experimental drug, with House supporting Wilson in his irresponsible chemo dosing.

Clacked by Debbie McDuffee
on Apr 30, 2012 @ 22:35 EST5EDT