You're more than welcome on the correction. I just happened to know it because I read julia's entries religiously, and like immensely her take on House/Cuddy. I really wish we were getting her calibre of insight into their relationship in the canon storyline, but with only 42 minutes and six acts to fit three plots into, that's pretty much not gonna happen.
I also didn't believe House reads only nonfiction. I suspect it's his preferred reading material simply because it supports his ability to solve puzzles, but he also has to have a working knowledge of popular and classic fiction. I'd bet he's got a bookcase in his bedroom full of the de rigueur Jack Cannon mysteries, among other goodies (Phantom Tollbooth, Treasure Island, the Black Stallion, etc).
The start of this relationship WAS immature--both parties going where they knew they shouldn't, IMO. Several House/Cuddy fans have said to me that they felt this avenue needed to be explored. I don't. The delicious, intelligent banter and flirtations of the first seasons are simply not enough on which to base a serious romance. Let UST stay UST. It worked for Marshall Dillon and Miss Kitty and more recently, for Samantha Carter and Jack O'Neill, why not here too?
I really hope Cuddy isn't pinned as the villain. She and House are roughly equally responsible for anything that happens between them. To bend her character to the point of breaking in making her a shallow, driven flibbertigibbet is totally unfair to a woman who started out smart, savvy, and House's equal in many ways.
And yes, Wilson is also being bent way out of shape. Okay, he's constipated. We get that. But the Wilson of the last two seasons is so dark-sidedly manipulative, agonized, humorless, hectoring and cruel, it's as if someone's jammed the Empire State Building up his whatsis. For my part, I miss the Wilson of the early seasons who had something of a sense of humor (moose on a Jew, anyone?), could relax and enjoy House's company on occasion, and even offer decent advice without sounding like he's in an agony aunt correspondence school.
I doubt very much we'll see House end up with anyone else once he and Cuddy are splitsville. We have to see him wade through the agony of losing her and Wilson berating him for screwing up yet another golden opportunity to Be Normal.
You're right--House probably won't walk away first. I just wish he would. *sigh*
Actually I do see things from the writers pov quite a bit, being an amateur one myself :) After six years it probably is difficult to find a good medical mystery. After all, one can only crib so much from Mystery Diagnosis (a program they run on the Discovery Health Channel over here) without people catching on. Still, it's a welcome relief to get back to medicine and leave the soap opera on the back burner, so to speak.
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Date: 2010-10-06 07:17 pm (UTC)I also didn't believe House reads only nonfiction. I suspect it's his preferred reading material simply because it supports his ability to solve puzzles, but he also has to have a working knowledge of popular and classic fiction. I'd bet he's got a bookcase in his bedroom full of the de rigueur Jack Cannon mysteries, among other goodies (Phantom Tollbooth, Treasure Island, the Black Stallion, etc).
The start of this relationship WAS immature--both parties going where they knew they shouldn't, IMO. Several House/Cuddy fans have said to me that they felt this avenue needed to be explored. I don't. The delicious, intelligent banter and flirtations of the first seasons are simply not enough on which to base a serious romance. Let UST stay UST. It worked for Marshall Dillon and Miss Kitty and more recently, for Samantha Carter and Jack O'Neill, why not here too?
I really hope Cuddy isn't pinned as the villain. She and House are roughly equally responsible for anything that happens between them. To bend her character to the point of breaking in making her a shallow, driven flibbertigibbet is totally unfair to a woman who started out smart, savvy, and House's equal in many ways.
And yes, Wilson is also being bent way out of shape. Okay, he's constipated. We get that. But the Wilson of the last two seasons is so dark-sidedly manipulative, agonized, humorless, hectoring and cruel, it's as if someone's jammed the Empire State Building up his whatsis. For my part, I miss the Wilson of the early seasons who had something of a sense of humor (moose on a Jew, anyone?), could relax and enjoy House's company on occasion, and even offer decent advice without sounding like he's in an agony aunt correspondence school.
I doubt very much we'll see House end up with anyone else once he and Cuddy are splitsville. We have to see him wade through the agony of losing her and Wilson berating him for screwing up yet another golden opportunity to Be Normal.
You're right--House probably won't walk away first. I just wish he would. *sigh*
Actually I do see things from the writers pov quite a bit, being an amateur one myself :) After six years it probably is difficult to find a good medical mystery. After all, one can only crib so much from Mystery Diagnosis (a program they run on the Discovery Health Channel over here) without people catching on. Still, it's a welcome relief to get back to medicine and leave the soap opera on the back burner, so to speak.