House's House of Whining

[Namaste]

Ah, the great Hector Timeline Debate.

Bonnie said in one episode that they got Hector on their honeymoon when he was a puppy.

In another episode, Wilson said that Hector was 17.

So you can put them together and say that Bonnie and Wilson married 17 years before that period. The alternate take is that Hector wasn't literally a "puppy" but rather a young dog when they got him.

Since Season Five -- Birthmarks and Social Contract -- puts House and Wilson's meeting at a time when Wilson was in his mid-to late 20s (post med-school/residency) it's more likely that they've known each other for less than 15 years, possibly as little as 12. So the Hector timeline of 17 years doesn't really work.

[Ariadne]

We don't know how old Wilson is right now. RSL is around forty but that doesn't mean that Wilson is.

Sara Hess wrote all of House Training (the Hector timeline), Birthmarks and Social Contract. Is she contradicting herself?

I find SH tends to mess with timelines a lot. If Cuddy is 38 as she said in Social Contract, then she only became Dean of Medicine two years before the show started and couldn't have been the doctor in charge of House's case in Three Stories since she would have been in her second year of residency in endocrinology and neither anywhere around House's case (a surgical/haematology case) or with enough stature or knowledge to take over his case when the ER docs botched it. It also negates Vogler's statement that House had been making Cuddy's life miserable for 8 years since she wouldn't have been around him in a professional capacity while she was still a resident.

(It also calls into question how House, who notices everything, could not have noticed that Cuddy sitting next to him in med school whose notes he copied was 11 years younger than him and possibly only 14- 16 years old.)

[maya]

[Ariadne]

I'd forgotten about Detox. It's true she could have told House that it was Wilson's idea. But what would it have gained her, other than to hurt House's friendship with Wilson, a friendship she needs because she counts on Wilson to help handle House? Whatever the reason she didn't tell, whether it's about taking responsibility for her actions or protecting her House sitter, she did the smart thing in not telling House. (It was that last scene in Detox that made me a Wilson/Cuddy shipper back in season 1. I wrote a fanfic about what everyone did after the end of the episode and had Wilson and Cuddy go for dinner and dancing and talk about House.) In Meaning, House figured out that it was Wilson's idea without Cuddy saying anything.

Cuddy voting to keep Wilson on the board was part of her job, not a sign of friendship towards Wilson.

[alias_smith]

[maya]

Ariadne, I don’t agree that it was her job to save Wilson when she voted to keep him on the board. She seemed genuinely concerned about him in “Wilson’s Heart� when she convinced him to wake Amber up to say goodbye, gave him as much leave as he needed and visited him. What happened in DCE or SE doesn’t change that for me.

I am not arguing that Cuddy is Wilson’s guardian angel but neither do I see her as a vampire who’s sucking away at his angelic giving spirit till she bleeds him dry. I am not sure if you got a chance to read all of what I wrote in that post of mine from three months back that you quoted from but I am going to draw your attention to a part of it before this becomes a circular, repetitive discussion:

[Ariadne]

From the spoiler thread

[filmlover]

So far we've had a couple of good scenes between Wilson and Cuddy.

I like learning that they meet for lunch every Tuesday(I think that was the day).

We see that even if House no longer worked at the hospital, Wilson would still go to Cuddy as his partner where House is concerned. Of course, who else would he go to?