House spoiler making the rounds

[tzikeh]

My reaction under the cut.



It's pretty well confirmed that one of the main cast dies before the end of this season. More and more, the word is that it's a suicide. We're told it's "not who you'd expect," and "you'll never see it coming," and "the actor/actress did not want to leave; it was a creative decision."

The "final two", as it were, in spoilertown, are Kutner or Wilson.

We know from interviews with Hugh Laurie that his character undergoes traumatic, life-changing events in the final episodes of the series, on the level of complete mental/emotional breakdown. And we know that he once again has a vision of Amber.

I love Kutner. I think he's a terrific, if underused, character. I'd be sad to see him go. But if Wilson offs himself, that TiVo season pass will be gone in a New York minute, and my personal canon stops at the end of last week's episode.

Comments

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Interesting that no one is speculating that it might be Foreman.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Considering how we've already seen his will to live via his brush with legionellosis, it seems a little improbable... then again, stranger things have happened.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Oh, *everyone* has been discussed as an option at one point or another, but too many "sources" have said either Kutner or Wilson, so it seems to be a two-man race.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I think Foreman is simply the least likely in terms of his characterization over the series. No weight-of-the-world complex (didn't marry anyone dying of brain cancer); no desperate childhood angst (father left, mother drank herself to death); no killed parents followed by being adopted by people of another culture; no oncoming guaranteed death-by-Huntington's; no disastrous monetary loss during a marriage crisis; etc.

The top three are House (impossible), Cuddy (possible, but with a new baby, highly unlikely), and Wilson (most emotional impact on House, on anti-depressants, dead girlfriend, entirely unable to maintain any romantic relationship for real, anyhow, etc....).