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More general House thoughts
Okay, so I finally saw the Friedman/Hess vlog. (It was taking too long to load a couple of nights ago.)
I'm kind of upset, but perhaps not for the expected reason.
I'm upset not because yeah, it looks like the H/C romantic relationship is over. Rather, I'm upset because of how casually and cavalierly the writers seemed to approach the whole thing - and how *wrong* they got it.
I'll try to explain myself, but I feel I'm a bit scattered tonight. Here goes anyway.
Basically - they went - oh, let's explore who House is in a relationship.
So they put him in a relationship. A relationship. A typical 'relationship'. Because wheee, won't that be fun, because House is such an a-hole (Sara's words) that he'd never do well in a relationship, could never keep it going, because Cuddy deserves so much better than the jerk that House is.
This pisses me off because, House and Cuddy were already in a 25-year-long relationship. A relationship that worked for them, that was dysfunctionally functional.
And the writers took them out of that relationship, and put them into a typical, girl's-not-getting-what-she-wants-and-needs-from-a-guy kind of relationship, that was essentially unrecognizable from the kind of relationship they already had.
They said 'okay, we're gonna start it *here*, and end it round about *here*' - completely NOT taking into account whatever growth and change might happen along the way. Yeah yeah yeah, you're saying 'well, but they're writing (or not) that growth and change, surely they'll limit that to make it logical.' I don't know.
I think that the writers are seeing these characters in a very different way from how the viewers are seeing them. And if the writers think that what they're putting on paper is how this character is, then Hugh is fucking up royally - he's putting much more humanity into House than the writers intended.
From listening to Hess and Friedman - it sounds to me like they're saying that House is such an organic jerk that a relationship would be impossible for him - basically, that jerks don't deserve love.
But my problem with that is a) frankly, they're wrong, and b) Hugh doesn't play House like a completely unmitigated asshole from A to Z. He puts nuance in, he puts sympathy in. And I would argue that if someone's behaving like an overtired, hungry, cranky toddler, perhaps what they need is MORE love and understanding, not less.
So that's my rant for the evening. I don't know if I got across everything I was thinking. I've had some alcohol, so.
But yeah. That would explain why Cuddy especially was so unrecognizable. This wasn't House and Cuddy, expanded. This was Relationship!House and Relationship!Cuddy - similar only in surface appearance. :-P
I'm kind of upset, but perhaps not for the expected reason.
I'm upset not because yeah, it looks like the H/C romantic relationship is over. Rather, I'm upset because of how casually and cavalierly the writers seemed to approach the whole thing - and how *wrong* they got it.
I'll try to explain myself, but I feel I'm a bit scattered tonight. Here goes anyway.
Basically - they went - oh, let's explore who House is in a relationship.
So they put him in a relationship. A relationship. A typical 'relationship'. Because wheee, won't that be fun, because House is such an a-hole (Sara's words) that he'd never do well in a relationship, could never keep it going, because Cuddy deserves so much better than the jerk that House is.
This pisses me off because, House and Cuddy were already in a 25-year-long relationship. A relationship that worked for them, that was dysfunctionally functional.
And the writers took them out of that relationship, and put them into a typical, girl's-not-getting-what-she-wants-and-needs-from-a-guy kind of relationship, that was essentially unrecognizable from the kind of relationship they already had.
They said 'okay, we're gonna start it *here*, and end it round about *here*' - completely NOT taking into account whatever growth and change might happen along the way. Yeah yeah yeah, you're saying 'well, but they're writing (or not) that growth and change, surely they'll limit that to make it logical.' I don't know.
I think that the writers are seeing these characters in a very different way from how the viewers are seeing them. And if the writers think that what they're putting on paper is how this character is, then Hugh is fucking up royally - he's putting much more humanity into House than the writers intended.
From listening to Hess and Friedman - it sounds to me like they're saying that House is such an organic jerk that a relationship would be impossible for him - basically, that jerks don't deserve love.
But my problem with that is a) frankly, they're wrong, and b) Hugh doesn't play House like a completely unmitigated asshole from A to Z. He puts nuance in, he puts sympathy in. And I would argue that if someone's behaving like an overtired, hungry, cranky toddler, perhaps what they need is MORE love and understanding, not less.
So that's my rant for the evening. I don't know if I got across everything I was thinking. I've had some alcohol, so.
But yeah. That would explain why Cuddy especially was so unrecognizable. This wasn't House and Cuddy, expanded. This was Relationship!House and Relationship!Cuddy - similar only in surface appearance. :-P
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I'm mostly mad at Cuddy and Wilson. They *know* House, they know how his mind works. Heck, even the team know that House is distracted and clearly worried about Cuddy, but he's too House to do the right thing.
But the ending - you took Vicodin, I know why you did it, but I don't really care, bye - that was just crap. And we go back to the end of the last season and the season before and the season before (I can't remember how many times) with House sitting on the bathroom floor with pills in his hand. But this time, there's nobody to come and take them off him.
So the last third of the season is going to be Cuddy being all upset and House going back to being House 1.0. So 7 seasons and we're back to the beginning.
My other question is exactly what procedure did Cuddy have done? They took a tumour out of her kidney. But she's up and about and walking and clearly driving. She was lying on the sofa on the side where she had surgery and sat up without any trace of a wince. She's either on f*cking amazing drugs, or they extracted the tumour with a magic wand.
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Ah ha ha ha, yes!
Everyone on the House comms have been so pissed over the other crap, that I don't think anyone's even mentioned this, though I thought of it at the time, too.
This alone lends credence to the 'the whole thing was a dream/hallucination' theory, except I say it's Cuddy's. She's clearly on the *good* drugs.
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If they go that way, I just won't even know what to say. It just seems so lazy, and like they're too scared to approach it all properly, and head-on.
And given the way they've backtracked over and over again this season, it would also feel like they simply don't know what they're doing, and are grasping at some pretty desperate straws.