I hoped, however, that as Cuddy needed to learn as much about relationships as House, she was being given a learning arc
Wouldn't that have been nice. That certainly would have made her behavior easier to swallow.
She was just so....cranky. And all I could think was - you're going to be cranky now?? He hasn't even done anything! (Yet. There's always a 'yet' with House, I get that.) And she should have been riding some pretty nice endorphins at the time.
I just could not make the leap from 'I don't know if you can fix yourself, but I love you in spite of that' to him having to practically beg her to stay (which broke my heart for him), she gripes at his analyzing (which is simply who he is - if you don't love that, baby, you don't love him), and practically demands an immediate 'I love you' out him.
But what bothered me the most over the arc was that she was generally portrayed as always right - that there was no issue with what she was demanding of him. Her methods were not going to achieve the results she wanted. Having her do those things, then discover that - that would have been a nice learning arc. (Especially if they'd somehow found a way to have her remember that she does know how to get what she wants from him in their working relationship - usually cleverly, and sweetly, though with a spine of steel.)
Cuddy was a crappy girlfriend, period. And she didn't dump House because she sensed his 'innate violence'; she dumped him for a completely different reason. As for House, nothing can exonerate him, for no one deserves what he did there.
I agree SO HARD with EVERY LETTER of that. I appreciate that you've managed to divide the season, and the character assassinations so clearly.
Just because House went off the rails at the end doesn't justify Cuddy's behavior at the beginning - because they're really separate issues. And although you'll generally find me being a fierce defender of House - you're exactly right that there's no defense for that. None. I can't believe that's who they're trying to tell me House is, because there is ZERO defense for that. I can't even see a way back from that. Not just for H/C, but for House himself.
And I'm devastated, because I *loved* this character, but this - this I can't love, can't forgive. He would have to break down into a literally sobbing, remorseful, soggy heap for me to even consider it. And I just don't see how DS takes the character from 'it's no biggie, LOL' to what I described.
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Re: Cutting Cuddy
Date: 2011-05-31 08:52 pm (UTC)Wouldn't that have been nice. That certainly would have made her behavior easier to swallow.
She was just so....cranky. And all I could think was - you're going to be cranky now?? He hasn't even done anything! (Yet. There's always a 'yet' with House, I get that.) And she should have been riding some pretty nice endorphins at the time.
I just could not make the leap from 'I don't know if you can fix yourself, but I love you in spite of that' to him having to practically beg her to stay (which broke my heart for him), she gripes at his analyzing (which is simply who he is - if you don't love that, baby, you don't love him), and practically demands an immediate 'I love you' out him.
But what bothered me the most over the arc was that she was generally portrayed as always right - that there was no issue with what she was demanding of him. Her methods were not going to achieve the results she wanted. Having her do those things, then discover that - that would have been a nice learning arc. (Especially if they'd somehow found a way to have her remember that she does know how to get what she wants from him in their working relationship - usually cleverly, and sweetly, though with a spine of steel.)
Cuddy was a crappy girlfriend, period. And she didn't dump House because she sensed his 'innate violence'; she dumped him for a completely different reason. As for House, nothing can exonerate him, for no one deserves what he did there.
I agree SO HARD with EVERY LETTER of that. I appreciate that you've managed to divide the season, and the character assassinations so clearly.
Just because House went off the rails at the end doesn't justify Cuddy's behavior at the beginning - because they're really separate issues. And although you'll generally find me being a fierce defender of House - you're exactly right that there's no defense for that. None. I can't believe that's who they're trying to tell me House is, because there is ZERO defense for that. I can't even see a way back from that. Not just for H/C, but for House himself.
And I'm devastated, because I *loved* this character, but this - this I can't love, can't forgive. He would have to break down into a literally sobbing, remorseful, soggy heap for me to even consider it. And I just don't see how DS takes the character from 'it's no biggie, LOL' to what I described.