getting really popular for playing a closet homosexual in one queercoded media as an actor has gotta be one thing but having it happen twice is kind of insane rip robert sean leonard for being gay and dying twice
House and Wilson had a one night stand they day they met you cannot convince me otherwise. Nobody spends $15k on bail money for someone they DONT want carnally.
But can we pause to talk about the set design here?
In the same room they're having this emotional exchange about the true meaning of Wilson's feelings for House, there is what appears to be a woman's body casually laying about in a casket.
What is she there for? Is she a display model? Is there another funeral later that day?
And look at all that alcohol behind House.
While it's not totally abnormal to have alcohol at a funeral service, however comma-- that's several bottles of very heavy liquor. Just hanging out in this room with this dead woman.
But let's say there's more to it. That the woman in the casket represents the loss haunting Wilson from Amber's death and the fear of losing House. "You're scared to death of losing anyone that matters so you dump the person that matters that most to you." Death and loss always lurks in the back of Wilson's mind as a doctor and someone who cares too much.
Meanwhile addiction nibbles at House's ankles, that's why there's all the alcohol behind him.
The symbolisim is brilliant. Is it intentional? I feel like it's a stretch. But if looked through that scope makes the room less strange and way more fascinating to the already amazing scene.
"...He's a good doctor" says the man who is so sick with lust for House that he has let House ruin two of his marriages and in eight years will beg to be allowed to die on House's couch