The problem with House is that he does do a lot of selfish stuff too. He almost sold Wilson out in the Tritter Arc, sold his team out with Volger, tried to break up Lydia's marriage, tried to break up Cuddy and Lucas for a while there, tossed Dominika's citizenship letters, put his car into Cuddy's house when she dated someone else, and so on.
House is multifaceted. I do think he is able, like many of us, to do really unselish things. And we totally saw that this last episode in an amazingly touching way. But like the rest of us, he also often does the wrong thing. Watching him struggle against his inner demons (and watching Wilson do that too) is part of what makes these characters so enjoyable IMHO.
One thing though (please correct me if I'm wrong) is that in the Vogler arc, House refused to endorse the drug because he believed that it was wrong to do so, seeing that it had no real improvements made to it and was a ploy to charge patients higher prices for it. In a way, he was acting for the greater good, right?
Though, of course, I believe he acted that way also because Vogler was trying to control him. But Vogler was trying to make PPTH his own pharmaceutical playground business anyway.
One thing though (please correct me if I'm wrong) is that in the Vogler arc, House refused to endorse the drug because he believed that it was wrong to do so, seeing that it had no real improvements made to it and was a ploy to charge patients higher prices for it. In a way, he was acting for the greater good, right?
My feeling is that his stance was completely justifiable for moral reasons, but he didn't seem to be going there. House was just doing his usual "up yours" thing (which he did with Volger from the beginning, not just at the speech). None of that makes Volger (like Tritter) innocent or right, but House sometimes won't make the smallest contrition simply because he dislikes authority - even if it makes a huge difference to other people's lives. That I think was what Wilson was trying to tell him when he was leaving after Tritter.
I really don't remember House doing anything seriously wrong in the Vogler arc. I was upset at everyone (i.e., House and Cuddy) expecting he would give the speech in favor of the bogus drug, and that was such a major failure that every smaller misdeed of House seemed unimportant in comparison.
As for House driving intoCuddy's place, it was so totally OoC to me. I know that it is by definition canon, but to me it only means he was out of his mind with pain and drugs.
Great point. The fact that it takes him time to do the right thing, and that his first reaction is quite wrong, makes him in my opinion very human, something notso easy to achieve for suchan over average brilliant human being.
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House is multifaceted. I do think he is able, like many of us, to do really unselish things. And we totally saw that this last episode in an amazingly touching way. But like the rest of us, he also often does the wrong thing. Watching him struggle against his inner demons (and watching Wilson do that too) is part of what makes these characters so enjoyable IMHO.
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One thing though (please correct me if I'm wrong) is that in the Vogler arc, House refused to endorse the drug because he believed that it was wrong to do so, seeing that it had no real improvements made to it and was a ploy to charge patients higher prices for it. In a way, he was acting for the greater good, right?
Though, of course, I believe he acted that way also because Vogler was trying to control him. But Vogler was trying to make PPTH his own pharmaceutical playground business anyway.
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My feeling is that his stance was completely justifiable for moral reasons, but he didn't seem to be going there. House was just doing his usual "up yours" thing (which he did with Volger from the beginning, not just at the speech). None of that makes Volger (like Tritter) innocent or right, but House sometimes won't make the smallest contrition simply because he dislikes authority - even if it makes a huge difference to other people's lives. That I think was what Wilson was trying to tell him when he was leaving after Tritter.
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As for House driving intoCuddy's place, it was so totally OoC to me. I know that it is by definition canon, but to me it only means he was out of his mind with pain and drugs.
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