With Benefits

[stenveny]

Title: With Benefits
Pairing: None explicit. Hints of House/Dominika, stronger hints of House/Wilson.
Characters: House, Dominika, Wilson.
Rating: Teen
Warning: spoiler for "Man of the House"
Summary: Based on an idea that taiga13 at house_wilson had about a scene in “Man of the House.” Wilson tries to rescue House and Dominika’s green card

Comments

[sara_tsuzuki]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! Excellent excellent!!! >____<

[stenveny]

Thanks.

[leesarenae]

Quite a few different people comment when Cuddy is a point of derision. I will never understand that.

The un-plausibility of Cuddy/House was written from the first awful episode of season 7. My God, What 43 year old women says shit like..." I told you I loved you, but you don't say it back...." No mater how many complements Doris Egan gets from fandom, she will never be forgiven!

Hugh Laurie and Lisa Edelstein "directed" to act like House/Cuddy were not constantly wanting to jump each other...I would read crap like, "Hugh is shy. He is uncomfortable." Bullshit.

Readingrat ALWAYS nails it with her comments on your fiction and the awfulness of House writing in general..." BTW, that 'uncommon' rant of Cuddy's was the most embarrassing tommyrot I had to witness a character utter during the show."

I do not like tptb deciding to pick the Domonika thread as the ONE they continue with,...but I liked the episode.

AS always, love your Wilson.

[stenveny]

Well, in this story, Cuddy is being remembered through 3rd party (who proxies much of the viewing audience, apparently) who never even spoke to her, and through Wilson's confusion anger and hurt. That's not the whole story, and it says as much about the way Wilson handles pain as it does about Cuddy.

I would have much preferred they explore the House's biological father, or Wilson's mentally ill brother, plot points too.

We're agreed that season 7 was a disaster form the get-go. If I had to pick an episode that Should Have Been the Breakup, personally I'd go for Small Sacrifices. Early in the season, I know, but it would have been a logical resolution to that arc. If they'd only realized at that point, that he couldn't be what she needed without faking it and that she had hugely unrealistic expectations, then we might have been spared 14 depressing, disgusting episodes during which the viewers came to those conclusions.

Oh, well. Thanks for commenting.

[leesarenae]

Ahhh, but finishing the relationship/ark would have left out my very favorite Housian moment. In, "You Must Remember This" when House tells the patient that everyone dies alone. House has said this before, but he comes across unconvinced. Chase, at the end says to the patient that he doesn't think even House believes that anymore.~Lovely

Hopeful House may not happen often, even in fiction, but that is my favorite House.

I would like to see House's mom/dad/bio dad developed, but the story I wanted to see was not Dominika, but House, DRIVING A CAR THROUGH CUDDY"S HOUSE. Nothing like leaving that behind with prison, and moving on to the green card wife.

[stenveny]

but the story I wanted to see was not Dominika, but House, DRIVING A CAR THROUGH CUDDY"S HOUSE. Nothing like leaving that behind with prison, and moving on to the green card wife.

Therein lies the problem: the writers are stuck with that backstory no matter what they do now. I consider myself a reasonably creative person, and I have tried, but I absolutely cannot conceive of any plausible or in-character way to come back from that mess in just 22 episodes. Post-Moving-On forgiveness scenes, reconciliation episodes or any attempts at quick and easy closure strike me as unhealthy for Cuddy (who as you know in my opinion had plenty of issues before the love of her life demolished her home) and superficial or insufficient. And a thorough, complete approach to the matter would deviate from the show's basic foundations: much as we may adore Hugh Laurie, nobody, least of all the viewers of a medical drama, wants to sit through all the therapy it would take to do the recovery process justice. The writers really have no choice but to

[suzmum]

Oh...I always love your writing, even if you mention the dreadful Dominika (I'm sorry - but she is a bimbo, and I just can't deal with the image of House in any sort of relationship with a bimbo). But it was sooooooo much cleverer that the 'Man of the House' episode (you always get the details right - like House ad Dominika arguing in Russian - why didn't the paid writers think of a detail like this?). The conversation between the immigration official and the neighbour was priceless.

...But I do prefer the Sharkverse.