OOH. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH.
This! This this this! You! You! You totally are in my head!

This is the theory I've been trying (and failing) to articulate to anyone and anything that will listen to me!

YOU DID SUCH A GOOD JOB! You are inside my head!

I, too, think that it would be terribly, terribly easy (in some ways) for the show to "go there", and I want more than ANYTHING for them to do so. I've felt this way for a long time, at least since "Half-Wit", and of course "House Training" and "Resignation" are actually my favorite S3 episodes, moreso than "Son of Coma Guy" and "Fools for Love", even.

I think you make a great case and a compelling argument, and my fear isn't so much that tPTB [i]can't[/i] or [i]won't[/i] have a Big Gay Wilson storyline during S4 so much as they don't even think about it. To me, that's worse than possible producer censorship about homosexuality (which I really think is much more of a fandom-fear than it is a real concern). It's worse to me if RSL and TPTB haven't considered it and you and I are reading too far into the show, but I definitely think your post makes the best argument for the BGW storyline I've read and I really thank you for that, because I'm completely and 100% there with you.

Actually, I really think my obsessive love for "House" will fade if everything you've listed here (and all the dozens of other, tiny moments) turns out to be without larger significance in the show. I despise feeling purely like I'm being toyed with as a viewer. An element of coy writing and skirting around the seemingly obvious has been a part of this show since its inception, and while I agree that it adds indefinite levels to the characters and does make them feel oh-so-much-more-real because "everybody lies" and we don't get open access to all parts of their lives and thoughts, it can get frustrating. Does that make sense?

I hope so.

Thanks for this post.