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[michals]

IS there a...cliche, or a trope or a syndrome that states all essentially smart secondary characters must be made to look like complete idiots so the jackass main character can come in and show off how smart he is? I'm talking specifically about Lassiter and Wilson. Both are in their 30's, yet one's the head of the entire oncology department in a major teaching hospital, one's the head detective of a police precinct. That didn't happen by magic, they have to pretty pretty smart and capable right? Then why are they always made to look dumb at their very profession so House and Shawn can come in and save the day? I might be the only one who's annoyed by this >.>

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Well, it's not that Wilson is actually incompetant, and certainly not all the time, but there are quite a few things that have happened that he should have been able to handle. For instance, the two brothers where one was donating blood marrow and Wilson put the one through radiation thus killing his immune system before he knew that neither of them were sick. The girl that wasn't a girl (the supermodel chick) whose cancer he should have seen regardless of whether or not the testes were in the body. Even in the episode "Wilson", he jumped to conclusions even though it turned out to be cancer, which is supposed to be his specialty. In each situation House rushed in and saved the day. I think it's just a lazy way of giving House cases, even if it makes Wilson look stupid.