Yeah, a lot of people watched the show just for House/Wilson, nothing else. When that relationship didn't go in the direction they wanted, they jumped ship so to speak. It's not surprising - the House/Wilson is very close to Holmes/Watson and there are lot of slash Holmes/Watson fans online.
While I've admittedly been shipping the Cuddy/House romantic relationship since the beginning of the show, and the Wilson/House "friendship" (because platonic long-term friendships are interesting to me) - so I don't get where they are coming from at all. Didn't get it with Holmes/Watson either - again I ship the platonic friendship, while I rather like Holmes with Irene Adler.
Then, there's the group who preferred the formulaic medical procedural style depicted in the first two seasons and thinks this is far too "soapy" and "melodramatic" and "cliche". Sigh. And it was better when it was a "semi-realistic" workplace drama where they solved cases each week and fought over the case a la Sherlock Holmes. As if we don't have enough episodic procedural dramas as it is. And the others who think nothing has changed and House hasn't evolved at all. (ugh).
At any rate, I completely agree with you. The last three seasons have actually shown the most character development. And I think his relationship with Cuddy is really developing both characters in an interesting way.
Also, I adored Cut-throat Bitch aka Amber, she was great and played by a great actress. But I get why they did what they did - it was needed to develop and further the House/Wilson/Cuddy relationships. Still sucked though.
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Date: 2011-02-11 10:33 pm (UTC)While I've admittedly been shipping the Cuddy/House romantic relationship since the beginning of the show, and the Wilson/House "friendship" (because platonic long-term friendships are interesting to me) - so I don't get where they are coming from at all. Didn't get it with Holmes/Watson either - again I ship the platonic friendship, while I rather like Holmes with Irene Adler.
Then, there's the group who preferred the formulaic medical procedural style depicted in the first two seasons and thinks this is far too "soapy" and "melodramatic" and "cliche". Sigh. And it was better when it was a "semi-realistic" workplace drama where they solved cases each week and fought over the case a la Sherlock Holmes. As if we don't have enough episodic procedural dramas as it is. And the others who think nothing has changed and House hasn't evolved at all. (ugh).
At any rate, I completely agree with you. The last three seasons have actually shown the most character development. And I think his relationship with Cuddy is really developing both characters in an interesting way.
Also, I adored Cut-throat Bitch aka Amber, she was great and played by a great actress. But I get why they did what they did - it was needed to develop and further the House/Wilson/Cuddy relationships. Still sucked though.