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stunt_muppet at 12:16pm on 28/03/2007 under house
stunt_muppet at 12:16pm on 28/03/2007 under houseBut I found that I just don't have that kind of patience. SVU review's about half-done; I'll post it when I'm finished with it.
For now, my thoughts on last night's House.
By the way, that song in the header is way sexier than it has any right to be, considering the title and the vaguely Revalations-ish distorted chanting that comes up every so often.
For now, my thoughts on last night's House.
Okay, LJ-cut's being stupid again, so what that cut is *supposed* to say is "This whole 'friends-with-benefits' thing needs to stop before I shoot someone."
Not kidding. Cameron, really. I try to be a tolerant fan. I try not to be hateful of characters even when I dislike them. But it certainly doesn’t help that the writers have decided to play Cameron as the hospital slut.
Not kidding. Cameron, really. I try to be a tolerant fan. I try not to be hateful of characters even when I dislike them. But it certainly doesn’t help that the writers have decided to play Cameron as the hospital slut.
Honestly. All this workplace sex just screams “BAD IDEA”. And it screams it in big bold uppercase letters. Y’all are lucky that your Patient of the Week didn’t drop dead while you were doing the horizontal rumba *in front of a camera*. Congrats to Chase for having half a brain and informing Cameron that this had to stop; those congrats are immediately retracted, however, because you apparently can’t keep your effing pants on and started doing just what you’d been doing before at the end of the episode. Grow up. Both of you. Right now.
The only good thing to come out of all this was Foreman’s reaction, since I’m pretty sure it mirrored that of the fandom.
Also, is it just me or is the handling of the relationships on this show becoming more and more heavy-handed? It seems like it to me. I don’t like Cameron’s assertions that she was “over House”, and I don’t like Cuddy’s orders to House to “get over me”. It’s too explicit and it’s too simple and I don’t like it. And I refuse to accept that House and Cuddy’s relationship is the same flavor of persistent attraction as Cam’s crush on House.
Know what else I refuse to accept? I refuse to accept that House dreamed of POTW’s face just because he saw him making out with Cuddy. Um, if that’s the case, why would he paste the guy’s face onto a soldier that saves him? Why was he dreaming about being at war in the first place? Seems awfully specific to be just a random bit of mental processing. Writers? Could we perhaps explore this? Because it’s far more interesting than all this relationship whatnot.
Know what else we could explore? House’s persistent problems with his medication. (I am all over the transitions today.) This isn’t the first time his Vicodin addiction has bitten him in the rear, and I’m positive it won’t be the last, but it seems that his troubles have been getting more severe, and we’ve moved from legal trouble to medical trouble. I’m interested to see where this arc is going, especially since Wilson still writes him another prescription in spite of the damage that this medicine is doing him.
However, I could do without any further scenes of House urinating into a bag. A shot of the catheter was sufficient. Thanks.
The POTW was actually very good this week. Obviously, I knew his disease was going to be something more severe than a psychosomatic illness, but woah. That was just scary. I think that’s the most frightening progression an illness can take – starting out small, gradually getting worse and worse. I was scared for him, at any rate. Especially during the dream sequence – I knew he wasn’t really dead, since the episode wasn’t over yet, but still. Scary.
Wilson is still my second-favorite character in the whole series. I enjoy watching him be House’s conscience, and I loved the scene where he takes over care of POTW after House has clearly lost his mind. The fact that he’s the only one who isn’t spinning his relationship with House into onscreen drama certainly helps. Also, I hadn’t noticed till now that Wilson flushes the toilet with his elbow. For some reason, that makes me happy. It’s a little detail, but I think it keeps him in character. It’s like Monk closing the car door with his sleeve.
To close at an appropriate location: Kind of a random ending shot this week. It’s not like we forgot where his office was, directors.
By the way, that song in the header is way sexier than it has any right to be, considering the title and the vaguely Revalations-ish distorted chanting that comes up every so often.
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My humblest apologies.
It was so good the first season...
House was amazing the first season, which is why I got so hooked on it. To be fair, even on its bad days it's still better than about half of everything else on TV, but it's still just not the same. Frankly, I think just excising the Cameron/Chase plotline - or at least handling it with a bit more subtlety - would do wonders for the show, since I didn't really start watching because I wanted to see duckling sex.
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I might need to break out the S1 DVDs. I can't remember if I've bought any other seasons, but I bet I should skip this one.
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In spite of my love for the series I haven't bought any of them - I just steal them from my friends/housemates when I need a fix. Cheaper that way. Now, if House were up on iTunes, there are some Season 3 episodes I would download in an instant, but S3's done little to change my mind as far as buying the entire season goes.
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I missed last night's episode (taped it, though!) because I was talking to my friend for two hours plus last night, but I'm not sure I'm going to like this whole Cameron/Chase thing. UGH
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*giggle at the Monk/Wilson comparison*
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Oh yes. The minute I saw him use his elbow on the toilet handle, the first thing I thought was "That's just so...so Monkish! omg!" XD
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Unfortunatly, Foreman won't tear into them precisely. But his reaction's still pretty good.
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Then again, ten bucks says either a)they end up getting too emotionally involved or b)Cam gets knocked up by the end of the season.
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If it helps, I don't see House's attachment to Cuddy, such as it is, as anywhere close to the crush Cameron has on him. Cameron's wearing rose-colored glasses and despite all evidence and experience to the contrary, still seems to cling to some idealized version of what she thinks House could be, what she could make happen.
With Cuddy, while obviously easy on the eyes, I think it's just as much simply that she interests him. He likes puzzles; she's a puzzle because she can stay two steps ahead of him. The chase is more entertaining than the goal, however attractive that goal might be when it's in the distance. So while it stays out there as a possibility, he's never really going to catch her, nor would he want to.
(Disclaimer: for purposes of my daydreams and fic notions, I can easily twist that last point in the opposite direction.)
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And I'm very much in agreement with your interpretation of the House/Cuddy relationship. I think it certainly helps that she's one of the only people he can't scare off or even faze with his normal attitude. The dialogue between them in this episode just started to come too close to Cam's dialogue concerning House; that's where my worries came from.