How House Should Finish

[deird_lj]

The other day, my sister told me all about what she thought should happen in the final few seasons of House.

 

And, having absolutely nothing else to write about, I thought I’d share it with you.

 

(Bear in mind: I haven’t actually seen anything past season 3 yet. So I have almost no idea what’s happened in the meantime. Thankfully, this comes from my sister’s brain – not mine – and she has seen season 4.)

 

Let’s see if I can remember it all…

 

Season 5

 

Wilson gets incredibly sick of being friends with House, and gives up.

 

Chase and Cameron are very much in love.

 

Thirteen starts going out with… um… either Foreman or Wilson, I can’t remember. (And of course, I’ve never actually seen Thirteen in action, so I don’t know which one she’d be more suited for.)

 

Cuddy gets a boyfriend, who is exactly the kind of guy she’s always wanted.

 

House and Foreman become friends (assisted by the fact that Foreman is becoming more like House by the day).

 

and…

 

Towards the end of the season, Chase and Cameron get engaged.

 

Season 6

 

Wilson is still annoyed with House, but slowly becomes friends with him again. Soon, they are closer than ever.

 

Chase and Cameron are still in love. And extremely perfect for each other. And sickeningly cute.

 

Cuddy, who now has everything she ever wanted, starts to realise that, maybe, she doesn’t want it after all.

 

House, who now has a good friend (Foreman) who is exactly like him, starts to realise that, maybe, he doesn’t want to be like that forever.

 

and…

 

Towards the end of the season, Cuddy breaks up with the Perfect Boyfriend, and House starts, very tentatively, expressing the vague possibility that he might maybe be kind of interested in Cuddy beyond just flirting with her. Perhaps.

 

Season 7

 

Cameron is pregnant! And her and Chase are as cute as ever.

 

Wilson is sick! Extremely sick! And House doesn’t know what to do! House and Cuddy bond over Wilson’s hospital bed, and after finally saving Wilson’s life, are now an item.

 

Midway through the season, there is an incredibly fun episode where the team keep ringing House for advice about a particular patient, and then start ringing Cuddy, who gives them different advice, and then halfway through the episode we realise that House and Cuddy are actually on a date, and are getting these phonecalls right in front of each other, and pretty soon they’re arguing with each other and still trying to give contradictory advice over the phone while they’re in the middle of the argument…

 

and…

 

At the end of the season, Cameron has a baby, Cameron and Chase are happily in love, Cuddy and House are much more argumentatively in love, House and Wilson are best friends…

 

and Foreman is now exactly like House was at the start of the show.

 

 

 

Come to think of it, if Thirteen is going out with Foreman, he’s going to find it much harder to become like House (or at least I think so – but I don’t really know anything about Thirteen). So I think she’s probably supposed to end up with Wilson. But I’m not entirely sure.

 

 

Anyway, that’s the show! What do you think?

Comments

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I gave up on the show a long time ago (the medicine was just too stupid for me) but I like this a lot.

[deird1]

Doesn't it sound fun?

I'm not really into medical stuff, myself - I watch the show purely for House being snarky. And that's always entertaining...

From Laney

[(Anonymous)]

Well, that's sort of right...

Thirteen doesn't really go out with Foreman at all. They just spend a Season 5 episode with everyone giving them advice - which means that everyone discusses
a) whether you should date someone you work with (cue discussion with Cameron / Chase, who don't really work together any more) and
b) whether you should date your boss / employee (cue ironic stuff with House / Cuddy)

I have no interest in Foreman and Thirteen being together, I just want things to get awkward for Cuddy.

This is all leading to her deciding that she is too mature for flings and that she can't have an actual relationship with House. So she turns around and tells him so, quite dramatically.
And he's most put out, because he was expecting action (even though he wasn't ready for a relationship) and he sulks for the rest of the season. And we think she'll see how unhappy he is and relent, but she meets Pefect Man instead, and finishes Season 5 feeling very happy and content.

And Wilson only stops being friends with House by the end of Season 5. So House goes into Season 6 with no Wilson and no Cuddy and has to spend time with Foreman.

So Season 6 is when House goes through lots of changing, due partly to being annoyed by Foreman and partly by missing Wilson and Cuddy.

And Cuddy breaks up with Perfect Man at the end of Season 6, partly in response to a Significant Event with Chase and Cameron, which is either a wedding or a baby. Something Cuddy wants desperately, anyway. But as she sees them go through it, it gets her questioning her own life. It has to be clear that she's finally got her Perfect Dream in sight and she decides to reject it because she realises it's not going to fix her life after all.

Which is good for House, because he'll never be Mr Perfect Man. And it's good for Cuddy as well, because anyone holding onto ideal dreams about life is only going to end up disappointed.

(And I like the idea of House telling Cuddy that she's "not perfect, but spectacularly flawed, and that, to appreciate her, it requires someone else spectacularly flawed..." and, as she realises that he's talking about himself and turns to look at him (cue Dramatic Moment), he has one of his Moments of Inspiration and charges off to his patient leaving her standing there. But at the end of the episode she passes House and Wilson in the corridor and one of them makes some sly comment about Appreciation (and they grin at each other and Wilson covers his eyes thinking, "Oh no, here we go").

Something like that.

So Season 6 finishes with House and Cuddy back where they are now, except heading for a Relationship rather than a stupid boring fling.

So then House and Cuddy can finally start flirting again, in Season 7. Trying to have awkward dates. That sort of thing.

And I like the idea that House kisses Cuddy (finally - the fans' big moment!) and as he's doing so... he diagnoses Wilson's mystery illness (from what she tastes like or something) and ruins the moment completely.

(You could even be naughty and get him to charge into Wilson's room and kiss him to check the diagnosis. That would keep all the shippers yelling for weeks.)

(And the 'date' argument was a bit naughtier than that, because I was actually imagining them being sprung in bed the morning after the Saving Dr Wilson episode... I like the idea of them sitting there, talking on their phones, yelling at each other.)

And Wilson finishes Season 7 single and content with this. Less needing other people's lives to fix.



There you go.

Re: From Laney

[deird1]

Thanks for the clarification.

(For a five-minute conversation, I reckon I did a pretty good job of remembering...)

not so random commenter

[rowanda380.livejournal.com]

those are some great ideas, I really like the House Cuddy storylines she has set up. But she is forgetting two of the characters...she didn't mention any intern other than 13...what about the guy from Harold and Kumar...or the bald dude?

Re: not so random commenter

[deird1]

I don't think she mentioned them...
(Like I said, I'm still a season behind, so I don't even know who the interns are.)

Doesn't the House/Cuddy storyline sound fun?


ETA: Also, see my sister's comments below...

Re: not so random commenter

[(Anonymous)]

Glad you like. :) There's a lot of fun to be had in deliberately creating Meaningful Moments and deliberately ruining them completely!

Can you tell that the House/Cuddy bits were dreamt up first and then I had to dream up the other bits to make it happen?
All this author-ish power... creating the universe non-linearly!


(and on a completely unrelated topic...

I have just been watching Paris Hilton's ad campaign.

MAN, but that girl can act. I am REALLY, REALLY impressed.

I mean, don't get me wrong - I haven't seen her attempt Juliet or anything. She might be woeful at that.

But she is SERIOUSLY good at doing that script. Her timing is impreccable, she doesn't overplay herself (no pun intended - but the ambiguity is useful!) and the way she 'reads' that magazine article and uses her eyebrows exactly right. Incredible!

I'm wanting to go and hire a movie with her in it, just so I can watch her act some more (as opposed to stuff like The Simple Life or interviews - I know it's all role-play, but it's unscripted. And I'm just so impressed with her script delivery.)

[deird1]

Can you tell that the House/Cuddy bits were dreamt up first and then I had to dream up the other bits to make it happen?

Well yes, but then the House/Cuddy dynamic is so much more interesting than the rest of the cast. Of course you'd think about that first!


And Paris Hilton is seriously good at acting. Which I really wasn't expecting. But you're right - she has impeccable timing.

From Laney

[(Anonymous)]

Nope, not forgetting them.

Just not interested in them.

Like I said, I don't care about Foreman and Thirteen, I just like the debates it could set up.

Maybe Thirteen could get sick and she could have developed enough (failed) history with Foreman to redeem him a bit - having to care about a sick person. Torn between turning into Cameron or House...

I don't think we've got ongoing personal stories for any of the others yet.

Whereas these are all established character arcs that can be developed:

Cuddy = find Mr Right, live happily ever after
Wilson = surround self with needy people
House = hate self, push world away
Foreman = become the thing you hate

The reason I haven't developed the Cameron and Chase arcs beyond 'get married / have baby' is that I'm not so sure where they're up to in their stories at the moment. They're certainly the only ones who have actually done that much changing so far.

Their stories were:

Chase = sell your soul to get ahead
Cameron = care too much and suffer through life

They counterbalance well, don't they?

Maybe Chase will have to take a stand on principle or sacrifice himself for Cameron / something he cares about.
And maybe Cameron has to continue dealing with her leftover feelings for House and move on.
Or (!! here's a thought) maybe she'll experience a tragedy that she doesn't choose willingly but that is foisted on her and leaves her *really* heart-broken. But she comes through stronger.
Oh dear. It sounds like Chase might have to die heroically...

I wish that last one didn't seem to... fit. I've Harry Pottered this a bit too well, I think.