Framing of characters of Wilson and house is a BOOK DEFINITION of pretty privilege. Yeah House is crazy but Wilson is framed to be a reasonable stand up guy while being divorced three times and admitting straight up to cheating on each of his wives. But house is cranky lanky old man and Wilson is blondie pretty boy so by default he looks less crazy
people like to talk about how Tumblr doesn't have a user‐profiling content-pushing algorithm like on other social media sites, but I am definitely feeling some sort of profiled right now
the thing about rebooting house md in 2024 is that you simply cannot do the level of queerbaiting they did in 2004 in the modern day, where everyone on serialised tv talks like they got a good grade in therapy. i don't want a house/wilson friends-to-lovers-to-healthy-relationship romance arc. i want to see them be as emotionally unwell and enabling and as codependently devoted and self-destructively toxic as ever, just with more making out at the end.
so my ideal house md reboot for 2024 would keep everything basically the same, with the exception of newer tech and slightly updated medical lingo, but with one crucial change:
mid-series (like around season 4-5) house and wilson take a bet and gay-chicken themselves into an actual, legally binding marriage. their impending divorce/annulment/infidelity/emotional implosion becomes a running gag, because they're actually still telling people they're superplatonic boybesties and nothing more.
cishet "marriage is awful" jokes ensue.
couples's therapy jokes ensue
"wilson is the evil stepdad" jokes ensue
house/cuddy happens. wilson/sam happens. wilson/amber happens. open marriage-to-infidelity-to-divorce-pipelines jokes ensue. (they are constantly compared to taub's marriage)
it's all treated as a joke until it's suddenly not, and then it's as serious as a heart embolism.
they tear eachother apart emotionally, they go full-on mountain goats alpha couple over it, they guilt-trip and manipulate and point blame and it all boils down to how they can't get divorced because they can't let the other go
by which i mean: wilson cancer arc, line by line the same, except they're still married.
Yeah i have a dark past (being 13). Just an absolutely horrible backstory (being 13). It would keep you up at night if i told you about it (i was 13 one time)
Yeah i have a dark past (being 13). Just an absolutely horrible backstory (being 13). It would keep you up at night if i told you about it (i was 13 one time)
modern social media should stop offering "sync with your phone contacts to follow them" options and start offering "block all your phone contacts so they never see your account" options