You're brilliant, and I'll just have to watch 97s again as soon as possible.

And now, I apologise for intruding in the discussion (am adding this because the comment turned out to be quite lenghty)

I think that in this season something important is going to happen to House and Wilson's friendship. They've already been "harrassed" by circumstances (the 3rd divorce, Tritter) into pushing their relationship, testing it in many different ways, and even though there were obviously consequences, we've seen that they're both willing to make a tremendous effort to keep things the way they're used to - because it's known, and comfortable, and safe, and it's probably taken them a while to figure out dynamics, and really, they're both a bit old for new tricks, right? But, as announced by House's disposition to change at the end of S3, it seems that now that the stakes are higher and lower - the first because, with the original ducklings gone, and the divorce, there isn't much going for them except for their jobs and each other, so they could be inclined to be more careful about both; the second, because there are no circumstances breathing down their necks, just... them. It's a bit like what it was when everything began (S1), but so much has happened that there's no way they've remained unchanged.

House, for one, is too tired (at least for now) to emotionally invest in new fellows. The isolation can provide him and Wilson the time to acknowledge and process all that has been happening to them, what state their friendship is in, atm, and I believe that they just might take action. To what direction, I wouldn't know, but.

We don't know much about how they met, became and stayed friends. But my guess is that, just as Wilson's patience, wit and humour enabled him to endure the wait for acknowledgement, they'll eventually see him into more than disguised scraps of affection on House's part. Don't get me wrong, my slashy goggles catch House's madluv often enough, but I do believe that at some point Wilson will cash it all in: "okay, so you're emotionally crippled and I should be grateful and take my invitations to Monster Truck when I can get them, but it really isn't enough". And House might call his bluff, but he'd pay. Probably in some outrageous, perhaps distressing and totally disarming manner, but ;]