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giandujakissBut that wasn't bad.
I do have some things to say - but not about that thing. About the other things.
So ... this episode was the House version of The Zeppo, really. Or, more accurately, both The Zeppo and Wilson are variations on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
In both The Zeppo and Wilson, we see the 'verse from the POV of a supporting character, and what is usually the A plot - House solving a medical mystery, Buffy stopping the apocalypse - is shown only in tiny glimpses, the way those characters experience it. And, just as in The Zeppo, in Wilson, the writers had great a time mocking the tropes of their storytelling. The glimpses we saw of House's mystery-of-the-week were particularly bizarre and random, in the same way that in The Zeppo, the "A" characters approached the apocalypse with a hilariously cliched sort of solemnity.
This method of allowing the writers to poke fun at their own show works way, way better for me than, say, having the characters stumble onto a fan convention (or, as in those early S4 episodes of House, having the characters play up the show's cliches to a painfully exaggerated degree).
My only real problem with the episode was the horrible miscasting of Josh Malina. I mean, I love him - he's wonderful, and that's exactly the problem. Malina excels at playing smart, likeable, funny truth-tellers - he plays honesty, and sincerity. This role called for less sincerity and honesty, and a little more calculating sleaze. We were told at the outset of the episode that we should view him as a somewhat unsavoury, unlikeable guy - that's how the writers apparently wanted us to perceive him from the start, so that we could see how ill-advised Wilson's friendship was - but Malina was just way too sweet to pull that off. To me, it threw the episode off-balance.
Other than that, though, if I can't have NC-17 gay sex scenes, I suppose this will do.
I do have some things to say - but not about that thing. About the other things.
So ... this episode was the House version of The Zeppo, really. Or, more accurately, both The Zeppo and Wilson are variations on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
In both The Zeppo and Wilson, we see the 'verse from the POV of a supporting character, and what is usually the A plot - House solving a medical mystery, Buffy stopping the apocalypse - is shown only in tiny glimpses, the way those characters experience it. And, just as in The Zeppo, in Wilson, the writers had great a time mocking the tropes of their storytelling. The glimpses we saw of House's mystery-of-the-week were particularly bizarre and random, in the same way that in The Zeppo, the "A" characters approached the apocalypse with a hilariously cliched sort of solemnity.
This method of allowing the writers to poke fun at their own show works way, way better for me than, say, having the characters stumble onto a fan convention (or, as in those early S4 episodes of House, having the characters play up the show's cliches to a painfully exaggerated degree).
My only real problem with the episode was the horrible miscasting of Josh Malina. I mean, I love him - he's wonderful, and that's exactly the problem. Malina excels at playing smart, likeable, funny truth-tellers - he plays honesty, and sincerity. This role called for less sincerity and honesty, and a little more calculating sleaze. We were told at the outset of the episode that we should view him as a somewhat unsavoury, unlikeable guy - that's how the writers apparently wanted us to perceive him from the start, so that we could see how ill-advised Wilson's friendship was - but Malina was just way too sweet to pull that off. To me, it threw the episode off-balance.
Other than that, though, if I can't have NC-17 gay sex scenes, I suppose this will do.