I didn’t like this episode (or most of them for the last few seasons), but I did really enjoy the end. It might have made me laugh more than anything else on House (“Sure, the CAT peed on it,” Wilson sawing through House’s cane, “I’ve been lying to you in increasing increments to see if you’d notice,” everything about Wilson’s stealing House’s guitar).
So it was your fault. Wilson was looking for a reason for this. Someone or something to blame, some cosmic answer, but he needed to look no further then one less viewer this season. I’ll forward your contact info to the producer, I hope your happy for making him sick.
I want to know more about how you play pizza-box whiskey-shooters Battleship! That looked like fun!!
We watch House for the laughs.
I was TERRIFIED that Wilson was going to croak at House’s place. If he had, House would have gone straight back to prison, forever. And no matter how you shake it, that’s a HORRIBLE ending for the series.
The ending was great, true House. We’re still laughing about him being propped up with the ukelele.
~VOW
House is definitely coasting. The POTW wasn’t all that interesting, I wanted to slap the mother the minute she walked in the door, and Chase was the best part of the episode. He may be an amoral horndog in his private life, but he’s genuinely caring toward his patients. Hell, I’d like to see a spin-off that focuses on the team after House leaves and they go their separate ways.
That said, I looked up thymoma (Wilson’s particular cancer), and from what I can tell, it’s generally treated with surgery and radiation at the stage Wilson’s tumor was. Chemo isn’t indicated until the disease is close to or at its worst. In any event, chemo is generally pretty stressful on the body and can cause permanent damage at normal doses; I can only imagine how bad that damage would be at the doses he got.
Overall, I’m getting the feeling that the writers and producers are sick of the show and just want it to end, already.
That’s what bothered me about the episode. He traded a 10-25% chance of dying for a 33% chance?
I think Wilson’s thinking was this. Some cancers, like prostate, take awhile for things to get bad, so at first the treatments are not that agressive, you kinda beat down the cancer, it comes back later, you beat it down, it comes back again, and eventually there is fair chance it gets you (and some that it goes away/something else unrelated gets you first).
So, ONE way to measure the effectiveness of the treatment procedure is on average how many more years do patients live after getting the bad news?
And of course, many patients do NOT wanna go with the “it could kill me now” procedure when the doctors say there is a good chance the less aggressive treatment will buy you years and still likely work.
Wilson is willing to risk it all RIGHT NOW for the possibility it will go away and stay away because you beat the shit out of it. Kinda the lottery theory of cancer treatment. And I think the point he made about doing this while he was still strong and healthy makes some sense as well.
That’s pretty much what I was thinking as well. He said he didn’t want to die in the hospital and he’d rather die now then the horrible way people die in the long run.
House probably wasn’t joking when he jokingly said he’d already come up with a some places to ditch Wilson’s body if that did happen.
Come to think of it, the best place likely would have been back at Wilson’s house, hooked up to a bunch of chemo and painkilling equipment on a sweat stained couch or on the bathroom floor covered in puke.