#i fucking hate tritter

[catboy-kody]

I fucking hate Tritter he has no right he has no fucking evidence how the fuck is he doing this he should fired I wanna kill him so fucking bad I hate him I wish he burned and then someone rubbed salt in his stupid fucking wounds.

[desire-mona]

tritter arc pisses me off, not because house could get arrested, but because i on occasion find myself agreeing with a cop

[yaoireview]

house and that cop guy toxic old man yaoi 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

"House romantically involved with a man? You'd be surprised how common it is."

Gregory House... You've gone too far this time. Medical Malpractice is one thing, but having SECRET romantic feelings for a man? I'd expect it from Wilson down the hall but, I'm just surprised. Some may be surprised by this, but that alleged cop guy from those select episodes in season 3, he has a name. His names Tritter, and he loves House MD. Not the show, but the man. I will be proving this to you in the most professional way possible, as we do at Yaoi Review.

I believe an important piece to talk about in House MD is

EVIDENCE 1: House really likes sharing things.

context for this piece: Chase was talking about how he hated fat people and it really made House upset so he snapped at him with facts and logic.

House has said on several occasions very open things, such as his likeness for men. His likeness for men clearly originated from a woman ok-ing the surgery to his leg. Him trying to get his wife back was always just a ploy to make all men around him jealous.

You, the reader may be wondering, "Okay, House likes men, BIG woop, hes clearly keeping those thoughts for Wilson." Look.. Wilson isn't the matter at hand here, last I CHECKED Wilson is not a "cop guy". You could keep those ideas in your OWN little mind, this aint about him

Even most men that JOKE about being gay would've backed down by now..

Those eight seasons were not anything straight I'll tell you that much.

EVIDENCE 2: I mean come on look at him

The interactions that Tritter and this man have had is the gayest thing I've seen on house md, except from that one thing they did with "house's head, wilson's heart" titling scheme but thats okay we don't have to talk about that.

The leading action that kicks off this whole spiel is House sticking a thermometer up Tritters ass, and surprisingly, this is the straightest action this whole entire arc.

Afterwards, Tritter pulls House over but UNLESS he knew that House was driving a bike, he shouldn't know that it was him. Yeah yeah he was SPEEDING but the words that Tritter started saying when he walked up seemed too practiced to be the case. From this interaction its CLEAR that

EVIDENCE 3: Tritter ALWAYS has House on his mind.

You know that moment when you go home and tell your mother that a kid of the opposite gender keeps on bullying you but they say its because they have a crush on you and don't know how to show it? Yeah.. well now imagine you're Gregory House talking to your boss Cuddy about the detective that keeps on tracking your every movement.

I'm not one to think about how gay characters are on first viewing unless I knew that people shipped them.. but during the ENTIRE process of this arc, I remember becoming infuriated by how OBSESSED this guy was with House. My gay husband, Baxter, once stated, "This Tritter guy really wanted to ask House out huh..." and in the moment, I didn't have the strength to agree with him but.. my vision has been cleared.. Its so obvious now.. Tritters just nervous..

Remember readers.. the next time you have to watch the Tritter arc.. don't be annoyed.. but be happy that it happened..

SUMMARY:

The one case Detective Tritter couldn't solve was the key to House's heart.

Yaoi: 5/10

[eliotquillon]

how it feels to say ‘i think the things cameron does in canon matter’:

if cameron was a man I don't think she'd be so massively hated in the fandom

[all-pacas]

i think fandom tends to overestimate chase's imprinting on house a bit -- not to say it didn't happen, because it absolutely did, but it wasn't an immediate thing. it wasn't even a season one thing. chase in s1 really doesn't care much about house - he likes him, he thinks house is funny, he dresses like him, but his loyalty is still ultimately (always) to himself: he sells out house to vogler. s1 chase knows he's lowest ranked in the office, knows he's the least favorite. this doesn't bother him much: not to say it doesn't bother him at all, but we don't see chase try to rectify it or change it. cameron is the office asskisser, not him: where she agrees with everything house says and refuses to doubt him or believe he's an addict (even going so far as to declare her loyalty as a reason house shouldn't fire her in heavy); chase has no problem disagreeing with house or snarking about him, falling in the middle of the extremes of cameron's blind loyalty and foreman's cynicism.

chase likes house. that's not in question: he says so himself in sports medicine. but not more than himself. not more than his career.

you know when this starts to change? i can tell you, thanks to stacy. kids. at the end of s1.

chase sells house out to vogler. and he gets away with it. sure, house gives him shit, but chase isn't fired, isn't unduly punished. house even says to wilson and cameron that he understands (and is in a way fine with) chase doing so: he wanted the team to protect their jobs, to want to work for him, and chase fucking protected his job. (we see this in s5 with taub, and in s8, even, with 13: house doesn't want his employees distracted or half-hearted.) but consider it from chase's perspective. he did a Bad Thing. his reputation takes a hit, foreman holds it against him for a long time, and he grew up with daddy issues and neglect and never being good enough, doing everything he was told and being ignored and forgotten and punished. chase decided he'd rather house hate him than not work for house (insane!), but house doesn't hate him. he isn't punished. he is allowed to have fucked up and move on.

you know what else happens right around now? according to stacy: the mistake. right as chase is getting bullied for vogler, his dad dies, and he kills a patient, and you know what happens? nothing. house doesn't punish him. house covers for him. when chase fucked up the angio house considered firing him; chase does something infinitely worse and house doesn't do anything. later, in the mistake proper, house even helps him. offers to support him, go with his lie if chase wants. again: when has chase had that. when has he ever had the ability to make mistakes and fuck up and not get punished for it. he never wanted to be a doctor: his father wanted him to. he never wanted to raise his sister and nurse his mother: his father forced him to. house lets chase fuck up and doesn't hold it against him. he is probably the first person chase has ever known who has done that.

and so in s2 chase gets his lapdog reputation. and in s3 he doesn't even consider ratting to tritter. and in s8 he'd rather quit medicine than work for anyone else, anywhere else. chase didn't start being that loyal. but once house won it, boy did it pay dividends.

[arcademorty]

ouuhh i need to talk about tritter again it seems. nothing against people who like his character and the arc im just personally pissed at him okay?? cause what he did was a genuine abuse of power and yeah you could argue house abuses his power as a doctor but here is where they differentiate. house does it for good, maybe not in his mind, it is a puzzle to him but the outcomes are always good, the patient heals, the patient lives, the patient thrives. tritter does not abuse his power for good, he does it cause hes fucking petty. after a while it stopped being about teaching house a lesson and it just became tritter being ableist and against addicts and that pisses me off. i dont use my cane in public often for THIS reason, if i were to accidentally say something wrong, if i pissed someone off or whatever cause im an awkward person and they TRIPPED ME? TRIPPED ME. a person who struggles to walk, deals with chronic pain almost every day to the point i have to use a mobility aid and someone TRIPPED ME CAUSE I WAS A LITTLE MEAN??? yeah house is mean to his patients and thats bad but nothing ever warrants tipping a disabled person... i would have punched them dude i would have done WORSE than what house did?? for me tritter's arc was so hard to get through because most of his dialog was ableist or a hit at house's addiction, two things house cant control btw, so it was just fully icky to me okay anyway im so sorry i hate tritter i love rambling👍 AND AGAIN NOTHING AGAINST TRITTER ENJOYERS!!! IM NOT TELLIN YOU WHO TO LIKE!!☹️ house definitely had a lesson coming to him. i am not defending house either?? im just stating my opinion as a chronically ill person who also struggles with addiction much like house, ableism doesn't affect that one person it affects the community as a whole thats why im saying ableism is not good no matter what!!

[realbeefman]

Do you have any good house fic recs? I am Struggling with my search.

for sure! although Disclaimer, i havent been reading house fanfic for very long and ive pretty much only read house/wilson so far, SO this is more of a hilson fic rec list than anything lol

Warning Signs by out_there - oneshot, 12k words, Wilson-POV, set around the end of s3. SUCH A GOOD FIC i laughed so much while reading this. genuinely delightful. possibly my fav house fic i’ve ever had the pleasure of reading.

The Line of Thought by tevinterimperium - oneshot, 12k, Wilson-POV, set after s3 e15. THEEE classic fake-dating AU. this was the first fic i read in this fandom and it absolutely fucks. im a SAP i love a good “no homo but OH GOD THE FEELINGS” plot!!

Desert Mesa Motel - 8 miles outside of Kingman, Arizona - 12:03 AM by plorp - ficlet, 1k, House-POV, post-canon. this makes me BAWL. very very good fic but SAD. and DEPRESSING. will make you CRY/pos

How Not To Be Boring by fourleggedfish - incomplete/abandoned, 497k, Wilson-POV, AU from around mid-s5. if u like whump (which i absolutely do) u will probably like this fic. if u are squicked out by sex, u will hate it bc these guys bang 24/7. this fic had me pacing, glued to my phone, sick to my stomach, crying (several times), and obliterated my sleep schedule. i can’t rec it highly enough. every chapters includes appropriate content warnings, but some major themes that appear throughout are character death (not of main characters), the aftermath of severe child abuse, and mental illness. if any of these topics are a trigger for you, please don’t read this work.

Forsake Me Here by MonsterBoyf - complete, 8k, Wilson-POV, ambiguous setting. Wilson has intrusive thoughts about mutilating House. He tries to cope. features a lot of very graphic imagery and does an excellent but extremely accurate job of portraying an OCD-spiral that could be triggering to people. i LOVE this fic i think about it so so much.

An Inconvenient Truth by anathaema - complete, 15k, House-POV, ambiguous setting. contains the quote “You’re the suicide bomber of revelations” and is one of the funniest things i’ve ever read. plus the way in which wilson’s sexuality in this fic is handled is honestly so realistic and entertaining. HIGHLY recc this to absolutely everyone who enjoys hilson

the more it took away by scribespirare - oneshot, 10k, House-POV, ambiguous setting. Omega!House has his first heat since presenting. Alpha!Wilson helps him through it. I LOVE OMEGAVERSE AND I LOVE FUCK OR DIE AND I LOVE THE WAY THIS FIC HANDLES THIS IS JUST GRAHHHH. If u don’t enjoy omegaverse u won’t like this but i can’t make a house fic rec list and NOT include this one

Aftershocks by black_cigarette - series, around 125k in total, various POV’s, set sometime post-Tritter arc. this fic IS gen, but honestly, i didn’t know that going in and didn’t realize it wasn’t a slash fic until the very end. tldr is that wilson is brutally assaulted because house has been gambling with some unsavory people, and house helps him deal with the aftermath. this fic does not pull punches. its is extremely graphic and everything wilson goes through is described in detail. it is a messy story about recovering from brutal trauma and everything that entails. DISCLAIMER: there are sequel(s) to this series available on the author’s livejournal, but i haven’t read them and can’t speak to anything they discuss.

no need to worry (making up your mind) by scribespirare - complete, 25k, House-POV, set sometime in the early seasons. House lies about having a Jewish boyfriend to get out of visiting his mother at Christmas. Things quickly get out of hand. THIS FIC IS SOOO *tears into it with my teeth*. I love when they scheme together <3

[a-vibing-potato]

Apparently I'm gonna flip out over a single line every episode every night. Season 3, Episode 9 "Finding Judas". God I fucking hope this hell hole that is House MD season 3 figures itself out when Tritter leaves because I can't hardly stand it. Everyone's arguing, everyone's sad, everyone's bank accounts and assets have been frozen, Chase is maybe ratting out House???, Wilson is GONE, House's leg hurts and he's out of Vicodin but it's his own fault so I can't feel bad for him like I usually do, what the hell!!

It's not even Tritter himself necessarily that I hate so much, but. Everything that Tritter does and the effects the stuff he does has on everyone is else is fucking depressing.

"It's a good thing you failed to become a mother, because you suck at it!" House says. As Cuddy holds a dying six year old in her arms, gets HERSELF and said six year old sopping wet with cold water so the girl doesn't overheat and die. I literally said seconds before House spoke, "Oh, she'd be such a phenomenal mother."

Guys.

Please, let it get better :(

[cupcraft]

Okay but what really guts me about S6E21 the therapy episode is the moment where I think House really feels like Dr. Nolan's not hearing him or getting him which contributes to his feelings of distrust to um gtfo of therapy 5ever. Which this is not to say House should've done that or that Dr. Nolan is bad, it's more like this contributed quite a lot because well I'm making 0 sense let me explain.

So, I'm thinking about the scene where Dr. Nolan was like "what do you think Cuddy & Wilson talked about together. Walk me through the conversation?" House does and he basically concludes to his therapist that his interpretation of his friends is that they view him as the "House Problem" that they're more worried he's going to do something "bad" or "attention seeking" or "[insert anti-addict recovery rhetoric/ablelism/etc thing] here" because of Wilson kicking House out, out of the blue. And in a way, this is truthful and from an audience's perspective it is a believable interpretation. House is generally pretty perceptive about the people around him and their impression of him given that he does purposefully construct a certain impression of himself (so that he is not harmed by people by allowing himself to be genuine). And even though Cuddy and Wilson are the people he's the most genuine to, he still self-destructs around them and struggles with trust. Anyway, based on how Wilson and Cuddy have handled a lot of things in the past (not everything) such as the Morphine/saline thing, the first time he went cold-turkey on opiates, the tritter situation, forcing him to go to his abusive father's funeral, etc. it really does seem believable they'd view him as the House Problem, or in a way it makes sense House thinks that way overall.

Though this is not to say House is right. He is right and valid to think that they'd be worry he'd relapse/etc. and he is right to have trauma from previous horrible responses done to him and thus not have faith in any different. But House is in fact wrong because Cuddy and Wilson do genuinely care about him and do not actually see him at this current stage in the show as the "House Problem". Especially Wilson, which it was clear Wilson later realized his actions were impulsiveness and fucked up and not at all recovery informed (especially as the person of stability he agreed to be for House's recovery) since House felt forced to go back home. There's also the issue that Wilson created a home for him and House (as reiterated by Dr. Nolan and the fact the thing Wilson chose for himself was the organ, solidifying House's permanency in that home) only for him to be like jk i dont see a future for you here even though Sam who hates you doesnt mind. House doesn't realize that a Cuddy/Wilson conversation would be done out of care and guilt of an impulsive mistake and not because they just keep him around to stop him from being a "Problem".

SO, Dr. Nolan does challenge this rightfully so but he doesn't do it in the right way which contributes to House feeling unheard and stuck and realizing god I am miserable and i distrust this. Dr. Nolan challenges it by imagining the conversation in a way we the audience knows would not be how at the very least Wilson would talk. He posits Wilson as a very rational person to the point it is comical because Wilson is also toxic and irrational (again the very thing that Nolan says it was a home for you both and then he kicked House out!). I think even House recognizes this because he looks as though Nolan grew a second head like what on earth Wilson would never say that which I think really in the end makes House feel unheard. Because the message "Hey Wilson and Cuddy do in fact love and care about you" didn't come across. The "I think wilson is being rational" is what actually comes across, when House feels hurt by Wilson over what is an irrational reaction (especially given Wilson's apology to house goes poorly and comes off as more guilt than accountability, see the apartment scene).

So it guts me. it guts me that their communication got crossed and the outcome didn't work out. That House felt unheard and that Nolan wasn't able to reach him. Because it does bode poorly for House to leave therapy right now as he is at a point of crisis in his support network and he's returned home to the place that is triggering to him for a lot of reasons (hallucination/relapse/etc).

and as always for my ramblings feel free to add on/send asks/etc. :)

[eliotquillon]

ask game for house!

send me a fandom and i’ll tell you my:

• blorbo (favourite character, character i think about the most): SEE this is difficult. because my favourite character is by far cameron (i keep it really subtle you might not have noticed /s), but she is not necessarily the character i think about the most—that’s probably house himself, lol, not that my fic ever shows it. but for the purposes of this question and by most people’s definition of the word: yeah it probably is cameron. love her and her messiness and her permanent hair indecisiveness <3

• scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): you’re all gonna think i’m lying out of my ass because i’ve never mentioned him on here but it IS kutner. i always have the biggest dumbest smile on my face whenever he comes on screen. last night me and my friends were showing each other christmas episodes of shows we like and when it was my turn to pick i specifically chose the s4 christmas episode because i knew kutner would lighten things up and bring some joy. think it was probably best he left the show when he did but MAN did he brighten up s4 and 5

• scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): okay realistically this is cameron but i can’t just answer her for every question. so first runner up is probably…taub? who i know is quite popular as comedic relief but as an actual serious, dramatic character…man. the first time i saw the scene of him throwing the balloons at his face in larger than life i nearly cried. i really, really like taub and genuinely enjoyed his marriage subplot. he might be my favourite of the new fellows tbh.

• glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and i won’t shut up about it for a week): okay not to cop out but this has a few answers. if we’re talking actual minor characters—then nurse brenda previn. miss you diva. the team’s mortal enemy being the head charge nurse was such a funny concept and deserved to stuck around. if we’re talking characters who had a major role but only for 1-2 episodes—rowan chase for obvious ‘what the fuck is going on THERE’ reasons. if we talking characters who are mentioned but never actually appear—as fond as i am of cameron’s dead husband, this one goes out to julie. obsessed with the woman who broke the streak of wilson cheating on his wives to cheat on HIM and still kicked him out of their house. why does she hate green. what a tangled web she weaves.

• poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): split between house and chase but leaning towards chase. not because he’s unpopular, but just. Look at the state of him. Most intense backstory/lore of all time. he literally had a character-development signifying haircut. he’s the asskisser of all time. and i do really really like him fyi

• horse plinko (character i would torment for fun, for whatever reason): MASTERS. i actually really like what she brings to the show and as an autism princess myself i highly respect her autism girl swag. but that said i love the way the team (CHASE) winds her up. she’s so funny to poke at. love you masters but i would make you do medical malpractice forever if i could

• eeby deeby (character i would send to superhell): lucas douglas. yes i’m choosing lucas over vogler or tritter. i like vogler as a villain and the tritter arc gave us banger episodes like son of a coma guy. lucas just. Annoys me and is kind of boring to boot. i regularly forget his surname. and that’s a crime nobody can atone for. i cant believe cuddy dated this loser for a year.

[godmademewithoutarms]

God I forgot how much I fucking hate Tritter

[chaotic-leaf-enthusiast]

House wasn't a show about a mad genius doctor who was misunderstood by everyone around him. House was a show about a man who thought he was superior to everyone around him to the point where he destroyed every human relationship he had.

His loved ones made a difficult medical decision for him in an attempt to save his life, but instead of acknowledging that they were doing the best with what they knew, he acted like his rights had been maliciously violated and harbored anger about this for years, while making no connection to the countless times he violated his patients medical rights and emotional and physical wellbeing just because he thought that he knew more than everyone else around him so he got a pass to do whatever he wanted.

He manipulated his friends and co-workers, he played mind games with them seemingly for his own amusement, belittled them constantly, assaulted them, forced them to do unethical things, and frequently made them endure a hostile workplace for no reason other than that being the price you pay to work with the "greatest doctor ever."

With his personal relationships, every time someone would set a boundary or require him to meet their needs, he would punish them, and never made geniune efforts to be a good friend/partner, and only did nice things for them if he got something out of it or to maintain the connection to them. If someone walked away from him, he'd manipulate them and mess with their emotions to prove to himself that he could still get them back if he wanted to, on his terms.

He was awful to the students he was teaching, and when they would quit he would frame it as weeding people out of the medical field who would be too weak to be good, but in reality he was weeding out people who had enough self-worth or ethical standards to object to his abusive working conditions.

Tritter was portrayed as a belligerent cop who wanted to get revenge for House refusing to kiss his ass, but House as the doctor failed to read his chart, dismissed the patient's concerns, and used his position of power to humiliate a patient just because the patient had a legitimate worry and insisted on a test instead of accepting that House Knows All. Yes, ACAB, and also House was abusing a position of power to punish a patient who didn't submit to his superiority. All the trouble that Tritter caused for House and his friends and coworkers was deserved, because House was literally committing crimes and the people around him were turning a blind eye to it or even helping him, because again, "greatest doctor ever!"

While he saved many lives, he saw his patients as puzzles, not people, and was a blight on the lives of everyone he associated with. But that was okay with him, because he knew more than everybody else and was surrounded by idiots, and acted as though he believed that idiots don't deserve decency, kindness, respect, privacy, or whatever rights he wanted to infringe on, and don't have any room to stand up for themselves because he's smarter than them and knows what's best for them more than they do.

Just a truly abhorrent piece of garbage, and I really don't like how the show portrayed him. You're meant to see some kind of humanity in him and accept that despite all the medical malpractice, he did save a lot of lives. The show portrayed his abusive behavior as a "defense mechanism" for his fear of emotional vulnerability as though it was an unintentional reflex instead of choices he was making to be abusive. He was even given a tragic childhood to justify his behavior. Reviews for the show frequently make the point that "despite his asshole behavior he's a genius," or "everyone hates him but they respect him cause he's always right" and no. That's his delusional perspective that the show paints as reality. He's frequently wrong many times and has to use trial and error to solve cases, which anybody with enough medical knowledge could do. He's not special. And it's fucked up that he seems to enjoy people who hate him being forced to acknowledge that he's right sometimes, which he equates with superiority. It seems like another mindgame. "No matter what I do to you, you have to admit that I'm better than you."

I really hate this character and this show so much. I watched all eight seasons hoping that the show would include the consequences of his actions, but the consequences never seem to stick or actually change him. He never has to change, he can just move on because he's such a special genius. All of his relationships were painted as "this is toxic, buuuuuuuuut he's an amazing doctor!!! And if he does some nice thing at the end it'll redeem him!"

I guess you can take the show as though it's through the lens of those who have co-dependent relationships with him and then you can understand it as a kind of horror, but a lot of people aren't going to think that deeply about it and the show doesn't really seem like that's what it was going for.

I could go on and on about this but it all leads back to the same point- this show was flashy and cool for it's time but was geniunely awful about the main character.

[bloody-sick-of-1973]

Hgghggh I HATE TRITTER SO MUCH CAN HE PLEASEEE JUST FUCK OFF

Huge props to the actor tho very good job

[all-pacas]

foreman cannot catch a break! first, he has to third wheel chase and cameron, after he has to third wheel chase and thirteen, his ex-girlfriend! then he and taub become friends and then chase goes and becomes a favourite of his daughters.

No wonder he continues to hate chase, I'd be pissed if some guy easily got everything he wanted in my life too

HONESTLY I could and probably will someday write up a whole thing about this, I know you're joking (and correct), but I actually find Foreman and Chase's antagonism really interesting and way more interesting than the bland "aww they're besties" read you sometimes see. They're really not!

Chase is basically. Chase is basically the embodiment of everything Foreman hates, pretty literally. Foreman has an inferiority complex and suffers massive imposter syndrome; Chase is literally a nepotism hire with a famous father. Foreman works his ass off; Chase is notoriously lazy but genuinely talented.

There's this line in Post Mortem from Chase's other hospital nemesis:

CHASE: If you really think I'm a good doctor, why do you treat me like an idiot? TREIBER: It's not because you lack talent. It's 'cause you've wasted it. Did you know I applied to be a fellow with House the same year as you? CHASE: No. TREIBER: Quit my other program, relocated, broke up with my girlfriend. Then your father made a call, and suddenly you had the spot. CHASE: That was almost ten years ago. TREIBER: Do you know what I could've done after even three years with House? Gone to the CDC, W.H.O. Started a diagnostics department someplace they'd never even heard of such a thing. You've been given everything. Looks, talent, my future. Nine years later, look what you've done with it.

This could literally be Foreman talking. Chase is rich, successful, he's socially very adept (something Foreman struggles with); on the surface he never seems to have to work hard for anything, he never seems to try hard or care. He fucks over House with Volger and gets away with it. He gets fired but keeps managing to fail upwards, and meanwhile Foreman is the one with a shitty reputation who can't get a job anywhere.

Foreman came from nothing, he overcame so much, he has overcome literally all the odds and worked his ass off and done everything right. And he's wildly successful, for sure, but it's work. "Chase doesn't care about this job," he tells House in S1. Chase doesn't deserve to be in the same place, because Chase hasn't worked for it.

There's a very interesting class/racial subtext to it all too, of course. We know Foreman resents poor people and the underprivileged, people who remind him of himself. Chase is literally the one percent: a good looking White Man, the scion of a rich and powerful family. He is everything Foreman isn't. Even their dynamic is kind of telling of this: Chase never seems to take Foreman all that seriously. He takes the piss a lot, he enjoys making fun of him and trolling. Chase does this with everyone, it's not personal, but it's kind of insulting, right? Chase kind of treats Foreman like a joke. Where Foreman can often be very rude or even mean to Chase (his insistence that Chase must have ratted to Tritter and is that spineless and making fun of his dady issues in Finding Judas comes to mind), Chase doesn't return the favor in the same way. Foreman is mean, Chase is sarcastic. Which is of course also hurtful. Which of course also makes it seem like Chase looks down on Foreman. I'm sure that's how Foreman takes it. It's true. Chase is pretty fucking dismissive of Foreman. I don't think it's a class/racial thing in the way Foreman's resentments probably are — Chase is kind of dismissive of most people — but it doesn't help.

And, of course, Foreman isn't completely right. He's biased, he's in his own way kind of a snob, there are several examples of Foreman completely misinterpreting Chase as a person: my favorite is in The Mistake: in an episode showing Chase bonding with Kayla and her brother and taking a sincere interest in Kayla's kids, Foreman bitterly complains to Stacy that Chase doesn't care about his patients. But Chase isn't exactly jumping at the bit to open up to Foreman, even when Foreman does try and reach out (Socratic Method, post-S6 divorce). They're kind of… fundamentally incompatible people. They're eventual friends, they respect one another, but they're just incapable of seeing eye to eye.

[kiwowiwo]

SLAMS TABLE. hilsoncuddy.

SCREAMING, CRYING, THROWING UP!!!!!!!!

The mess and codependency these people have going on is actually unreal and I am so here for it. The thing about hilsoncuddy to me is that they are all awful, they are horrible and this relationship is basically the “we’re breaking up - we’re back together - we’re getting married - we’re getting divorced” meme with no end in sight… You and I basically looked at hilson took everything we like about that ship and said “what if we make it worse by adding another person?” And I genuinely think that was so smart of us!!

But this also means that there is a specific version of this ship I like and it’s definitely not one where they are soft and happy together, like good for everyone who likes that but to me these characters and their relationships are so defined by the fact that they have no other friends and are constantly hurting or using each other but at the same time they would do everything for the other two if they asked. If you take out the fact that they are incapable of having a healthy relationship it becomes kind of boring so I think we should put them in a rat maze or maybe a killing game and see what happens because there’s something so wrong with them, like just thinking about the tritter arc and how how both Wilson and Cuddy were ready to go to jail for house because they actually believe he’s a positive force on the world is making me insane!!!

During my first watch I wasn’t a fan of the house/cuddy will they won’t they because it felt like something that was written in the show because they are the male and female lead and that means we need this romance subplot regardless of how much it makes sense for the characters and while I still have issues with the way this show handles their relationship in later seasons I do think that there’s genuinely quite interesting aspects to their dynamic like these two are at a constant push and pull and when the show is at its best its really good mutual destruction but also a sign of trust and affection which I think is really fun

Hilson are genuinely so fucked up and codependent 10/10, no notes I think putting cuddy into this terrible spiral just makes it better

I do think that there’s a bit of extrapolation necessary in order to make this ship work in the way that I love because despite these 3 being the emotional core of this show, the writers sure hated having all of them in one scene/involved in the same situations, like Wilson and cuddy being good friends and also each others emotional support during their frequent divorces from house was way too underused but there’s a lot of interesting themes you can explore with their relationship

[anthonycrowley]

god i hate the FUCKING tritter arc