I'm all for brotherly love between them. In some ways that's how I see their relationship, but brotherly love is not the same as an older/younger brother dynamic, which I agree they would have if they met when Wilson was at college. My personal canon is that Wilson is around 40 and that they met after med school.

I don't see brotherly love there at all. Too much possessiveness, neediness and sexual attraction 8)

It obviously wouldn't be in any orthodox way. But I meant that he would be the older more experienced one taking Wilson under his wing who would look up to him. I didn't consider that a mentor/protege relationship, but I guess maybe the word 'brother' doesn't fit either. What I meant was that Wilson would always be the younger one, the lesser one and House the more experienced one, creating an unbalanced relationship. Let's put it this way. At 40 and 45 a 5 year difference (which is what we're assuming at the very least) doesn't make much of a difference, but at 18 and 23 it sure does. And once a dynamic is established for a relationship it's hard to get rid of. I'm not saying House couldn't look at 18 year old Wilson and see a good-looking intelligent young man instead of some teenager just out of high school and of course it's possible that even if the dynamic were something akin to mentor/protege or whatever that it couldn't have changed later on, but I think it's unlikely. So while I don't have a personal timeline worked out, I doubt that the boys met before Wilson had finished (some) med school. I'm not really that familiar with US higher education, let alone for medicine, so I'm not going to specify. I blame TPTB. I'm sure they can find the time somewhere to give a nice detailed outline of the H/W relationship. Maybe with a powerpoint presentation. Something to keep in mind for the Superbowl ep.

I can't imagine self-centered House playing big brother to Wilson. Just doesn't compute ITA, I know that not every BB/LB relationship is the same. I've been surrounded by brothers my whole life. I've seen their interactions, I have two brothers, I have four sets of cousins who have brothers, my stepdad is really close to his brother, H/W just don't strike me as brotherly. They are way too dependent on each other. House is way too possessive of Wilson and has made too many suggestive (joking? Probably) comments to Wilson and has given him looks that TO ME are not looks that brothers should be giving each other, for me to ever buy a brotherly relationship between them. But assuming that I could wrap my head around the idea, I would call Wilson the big brother more often than not. I agree that that kind of BB/LB relationship doesn't really change and if House was ever like that to Wilson, I feel like we would have gotten some of that now, the holding the door open in Mirror, Mirror does not count to me, YMMV. You know, honestly, would it kill TPTB to take five freaking minutes out of an episode and tell us how those two met?

Maybe Wilson will get drunk and spill the beans to someone one day. House is too busy socializing these days.

House is too busy socializing these days. But he's still making time to seek out Wilson. :wub:

I'm all for brotherly love between them. In some ways that's how I see their relationship, but brotherly love is not the same as an older/younger brother dynamic, which I agree they would have if they met when Wilson was at college. My personal canon is that Wilson is around 40 and that they met after med school.

:shock: Silja - Was that an intended double post? House is too busy socializing these days. But he's still making time to seek out Wilson. Thank god for small favours :)

No, that was my computer having a case of the hiccups I think. Odd.

I like to think that their relationship is unique! I can imagine that their relationship now is different than when it started, with the infarction being the turning point. Maybe House was the big brother/mentor and after the infarction and Stacy leaving, Wilson "picked up the pieces" and became the worrywart big brother/caretaker. For all our grousing about Wilson lecturing House and being overly protective, the fact is that House allows it - not just allows it, seems to depend on it. The burning question for me is if House and Wilson have known each other long than House has been at PPTH (and now 'Human Error' indicates it's been 15 years, way to muddy the timeline), then how did they end up working at the same hospital?? Wilson must have followed House there. I'm tickled by the idea of PPTH hiring them as a matching set.

I'm inclined to think they met as adults--both already doctors. However, there is one kind of brotherly relationship I can imagine them having as late adolescents: the brilliant, irratic, manic, crazy, charismatic, irresponsible older brother and the stolid, sensible, rule-oriented, but adoring younger brother who follows him around picking up the pieces and keeping him from playing with dynamite...no?

Wilson must have followed House there. I'm tickled by the idea of PPTH hiring them as a matching set. Well, assuming Cuddy hired House after the infarction, at least partly out of guilt, maybe she hired Wilson too, to kind of help look after him. Just a theory.

I may have already posted this on the personal canon thread but my favoured explanation is that Cuddy hired Wilson first, pre-infarction, and House (who of course has the history with Cuddy from way back at Michigan) played some role in her decision to hire him. Yep, I always thought that Wilson's probably been working at PPTH the longest out of the two, (but I don't now because Cuddy's been dean for wht 12 years? for Wilson to become department head I would think he'd have to have at least been there a while, even if he was young, so I think he was probably just hired by some dean somewhere over the rainbow) and then after all that shyte happened with House's leg, it just worked to hire House. Whoa, on topic, I think the idea's cute of them as a matching set. Like Henry knowing to "Call Wilson", he's part of House's legend.