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Background of James Wilson on House Wikia.
http://house.wikia.com/wiki/James_Wilson
I was just reminding myself of some of Wilson's history for some writing I was doing and referred to his bio on the House Wikia page (link above.)
I noted it mentioned his early life and his parents:
Wilson was born in New Jersey to Henry and Sophie (nee Krugman) Wilson. Wilson's father is Protestant and his mother is Jewish. Due to the mixed religions the family never seriously practiced one religion or another, although Wilson is recognized as being Jewish (as Judaism recognizes the religion passing down the mother's line, not the father's). From the time Wilson was born until he was ten his father Henry was a woodshop teacher that did oddjobs for extra money, Sophie was a nurse.
Is this stuff true or has it just been invented by the writer of the page? It was never mentioned in the series (as far as I remember!) and i don't recall any official releases about Wilson's history!
Can anyone elighten me?
I was just reminding myself of some of Wilson's history for some writing I was doing and referred to his bio on the House Wikia page (link above.)
I noted it mentioned his early life and his parents:
Wilson was born in New Jersey to Henry and Sophie (nee Krugman) Wilson. Wilson's father is Protestant and his mother is Jewish. Due to the mixed religions the family never seriously practiced one religion or another, although Wilson is recognized as being Jewish (as Judaism recognizes the religion passing down the mother's line, not the father's). From the time Wilson was born until he was ten his father Henry was a woodshop teacher that did oddjobs for extra money, Sophie was a nurse.
Is this stuff true or has it just been invented by the writer of the page? It was never mentioned in the series (as far as I remember!) and i don't recall any official releases about Wilson's history!
Can anyone elighten me?
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I don't think the writers gave Wilson much thought at all (I once did a huge rant on my journal about how underused he was: http://discofunction.livejournal.com/5075.html (http://discofunction.livejournal.com/5075.html) which prompted a pretty good discussion!)
Doris Egan was the best writer for giving Wilson context. House Vs God, Birthmarks and The Social contract all gave some nice insight into why Wilson was the way he was. (More messed up than House, his 'persona' , his struggles with losing people for example!) Sadly the other writers didn't follow this lead. They just wanted to use Wilson as some comic relief and didn't really think him through. I do like David Shore but I do wish he had thought about Wilson in a bit more detail and pushed the other writers to take RSL's/Doris Egans lead on the character.