Well, it could have been worse - I could have thrown Wilson to the actual lions :-) I'm not going to say anything that you might construe as encouragement :)
No, I've never read Dark Materials (although I've read fanfic based on it, which was moderately confusing :) The universe of Dark Materials is based on the premise that people's souls manifest themselves as animal companions called daemons. When human and daemon are separated, both die. Human and daemon draw strength and comfort from each other's presence. House and Wilson as two aspects of an inseparable unit is basically a heightening of what we see in canon, just as Pullman's daemons are a heightening of the body/soul duality.
caning was still in schools (boys only!) when I was a child Same here. The boys' school still had caning, the girls' didn't. My friend's younger brother was often in tears on the drive home. I quoted my mother rather than my school because I know that my mother is neither sadistic nor cruel.
It would be interesting to see what Cuddy thinks when Wilson comes back I think that's the only part of the story with which I had issues. I can see Cuddy subjecting House (or his team, for that matter) to that kind of a punishment without batting an eyelid, but canon Cuddy respects Wilson and defers to him, and I think that even if he was a slave, she'd have problems subjecting him to an undeserved punishment. And somehow I think that Wilson would manage to make her life miserable after that.
it wasn't doing much good sitting on my hard drive Defintely not. I'm glad you posted it.
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Date: 2015-06-14 06:56 pm (UTC)I'm not going to say anything that you might construe as encouragement :)
No, I've never read Dark Materials (although I've read fanfic based on it, which was moderately confusing :)
The universe of Dark Materials is based on the premise that people's souls manifest themselves as animal companions called daemons. When human and daemon are separated, both die. Human and daemon draw strength and comfort from each other's presence. House and Wilson as two aspects of an inseparable unit is basically a heightening of what we see in canon, just as Pullman's daemons are a heightening of the body/soul duality.
caning was still in schools (boys only!) when I was a child
Same here. The boys' school still had caning, the girls' didn't. My friend's younger brother was often in tears on the drive home. I quoted my mother rather than my school because I know that my mother is neither sadistic nor cruel.
It would be interesting to see what Cuddy thinks when Wilson comes back
I think that's the only part of the story with which I had issues. I can see Cuddy subjecting House (or his team, for that matter) to that kind of a punishment without batting an eyelid, but canon Cuddy respects Wilson and defers to him, and I think that even if he was a slave, she'd have problems subjecting him to an undeserved punishment. And somehow I think that Wilson would manage to make her life miserable after that.
it wasn't doing much good sitting on my hard drive
Defintely not. I'm glad you posted it.