House: 6x10 "Wilson" - Discussion and Spoilers

[Christopher]

^The writers aren't in control of what extras do in the background. That's the purview of the director, the assistant director, and sometimes the extras themselves. It's not at all uncommon for extras to improvise business to try to stand out and get noticed, since few of them want to stay extras forever. Sometimes they get away with it.

Besides, why would the producers choose to put a faux-Cameron in the background just a couple of weeks after they established definitively that she was leaving the hospital altogether and moving to another city?

 

[Trekker4747]

In the episode before Cameron leaves she waves to the auidence just before as door closes on her.

 

[sidious618]

^The writers aren't in control of what extras do in the background.

Not true. David Chase of The Sopranos would have even the extras do certain things. If David Shore thought it'd be funny to have a Cameron look-a-like then he could easily throw one in.

 

[nx1701g]

I have to admit there was one part that really made this episode for me: the House/Wilson exchange in his office when Wilson asked House to go with him to the surgery. House's line was one of the best in the series (IMO):

"If you die then I'm alone." It was one of the most selfish yet also one of the kindest and most heartfelt lines that I think the character has ever said and shows just how important Wilson is to House. That scene made the episode and season for me already!

 

[Data Holmes]

"If you die then I'm alone." It was one of the most selfish yet also one of the kindest and most heartfelt lines that I think the character has ever said and shows just how important Wilson is to House. That scene made the episode and season for me already!

Agreed. And I think it was a kick to the assumptions of Wilson that House was a brick with no feelings, and why he went from telling house to move out into getting a larger place that they could share.

 

[Trekker4747]

^The writers aren't in control of what extras do in the background.

Not true. David Chase of The Sopranos would have even the extras do certain things. If David Shore thought it'd be funny to have a Cameron look-a-like then he could easily throw one in.

David Shore, being the Executive Producer on the show has creative control of how the episodes are made. The average staff writer does not.

I doubt it was meant as a nod to Cameron since such a "tribute" doesn't make any sense.

"Hey, Cameron left two episodes ago in a sad a dramatic manner, let's play homage to her by having an extra in the background that looks vaugely like her stop and think for a couple of seconds!"

It doesn't make sense.

 

[Christopher]

^Exactly. Those people are in control not because they're writers, but because they're producers. Those jobs overlap much more in television today than they did 30 or 40 years ago, and more than they generally do in movies (where writers are usually treated as little more than hired help), but they're still distinct responsibilities.

 

[Data Holmes]

^Exactly. Those people are in control not because they're writers, but because they're producers. Those jobs overlap much more in television today than they did 30 or 40 years ago, and more than they generally do in movies (where writers are usually treated as little more than hired help), but they're still distinct responsibilities.

I forget who said it, might have been tom hanks, but on an Inside the Actors Studio once, the actor interviewed said,

"Movies are a directors medium, TV is a producers Medium, stage plays are an actors medium."

Nails it on it's head, though I'd add that books/novels/short stories/et cetra. are the writers true medium.

 

[Arrqh]

It just occurred to me, a day after watching it, that one of my favorite bits was when Wilson caught that one of his patients was depressed and it led him to catching some cancer really early. It was nice because not only did it show that Wilson was more then competent but only happened because he knew the patient well which is something that would never happen for House. It was a nice little touch.

 

[Trekker4747]

It was great to see Wilson have his own little "Aha! Moments" and how well we were shown Wilson is a very competent doctor (up til now only implied by him heading up oncology) which makes sense, House likely wouldn't be such good friends with a "bad" doctor.

I liked seeing Wilson's practice. "It is a conference room... with glass walls."

 

[intrinsical]

Last week, everyone but Wilson became more House-like, using little tricks to gain an advantage. This week, even Wilson was doing it by buying Cuddy's house at a low price.

A trend?

 

[Sheep]

Wilson has the world's shittiest job. I think I'd be able to handle about two days in his role before drinking myself into oblivion.

Good episode that provided a nice change of pace--seeing the world through Wilson's eyes was refreshing, but it didn't quite achieve legendary status IMO. Then again, I'm a harsher grader than most who throw out "excellents" for every other episode.

 

[Data Holmes]

It just occurred to me, a day after watching it, that one of my favorite bits was when Wilson caught that one of his patients was depressed and it led him to catching some cancer really early. It was nice because not only did it show that Wilson was more then competent but only happened because he knew the patient well which is something that would never happen for House. It was a nice little touch.

I think it showed that Wilson and House are ying and yang. He is the Empathic side to House logic side. They both solve the problems, it's just house uses his lack of empathy to do it where as Wilson uses his empathy to do it... If that makes sense. It's also why they are such good friends.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

It just occurred to me, a day after watching it, that one of my favorite bits was when Wilson caught that one of his patients was depressed and it led him to catching some cancer really early. It was nice because not only did it show that Wilson was more then competent but only happened because he knew the patient well which is something that would never happen for House. It was a nice little touch.

As I mentioned a couple of pages back, it's a tip-of-the-hat to Sherlock Holmes. If House is Holmes, the Wilson is House's Watson. Watson was not, Nigel Bruce notwithstanding, a total moron. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Watson was rather sharp; he just came to the wrong conclusions. (Witness the walking stick incident at the beginning of HOUN. Err, Hound of the Baskervilles. Sorry, my Holmesian-ness was showing.) There's no reason why Wilson can't use House's methods. And as we saw in this episode, one time it worked. One time it didn't.

 

[WeAreTheBorg]

This episode hit extremely close to home for me, because everything except the liver damage is exactly what has happened to my best friend. AML - remission - ALL - remission. A very strange sequence of events it was surprising to see it happen on House.

 

[S. Gomez]

I gave it an "Excellent", which is something I haven't done the past couple of episodes. I find House is sort of an uneven show for me. It's either jaw-droppingly good drama, or merely okay (I have yet to see an episode I thought was truly bad). This was one of the former times, obviously.

And I loved that House's patients were moved to the background. It provided some really funny moments.

 

[Christopher]

What I find odd is the assertion that blood type alone is enough to make a liver match. I thought it would have to be from a family member, or at least someone with a lot more markers or whatever in common than just blood type.

And I'm wondering if they're going to follow this up with a "Cuddy" episode, something where she's the central character and House is peripheral in her life. Not sure if there's as much material there, though.

 

[Checkmate]

And I'm wondering if they're going to follow this up with a "Cuddy" episode, something where she's the central character and House is peripheral in her life. Not sure if there's as much material there, though.

There is. Apparently the actress was surprised to find out that the special episode featuring here was actually going to feature her, as opposed to doing a strip tease or the like.

 

[Christopher]

There is. Apparently the actress was surprised to find out that the special episode featuring here was actually going to feature her, as opposed to doing a strip tease or the like.

On the other hand:

http://www.digitalspy.com/ustv/s58/...-cuddy-centric-house-ep.html#article_continue

"There's some sexual activity, there's some partial nudity. The writer, Tommy Moran, said he couldn't imagine writing an episode without having me take a shower," she said.

 

[Agent Richard07]

What I find odd is the assertion that blood type alone is enough to make a liver match. I thought it would have to be from a family member, or at least someone with a lot more markers or whatever in common than just blood type.

I was thinking the same thing.