Why not at least have her Dad walking her down the aisle? I haven't been to a wedding in ages, so I don't know about this, but is this bit of the bride walking down the aisle alone some new thing? Looked kind of weird to me.
I think by the time you're on your second marriage, the notion of your dad walking you down the aisle to "give you away" seems a bit quaint. And that's pretty much independent of whether or not he's in your life or not. Seemed to me that the Chase/Cameron wedding was one between two self sufficient adults.
Why not at least have her Dad walking her down the aisle? I haven't been to a wedding in ages, so I don't know about this, but is this bit of the bride walking down the aisle alone some new thing? Looked kind of weird to me.
I think by the time you're on your second marriage, the notion of your dad walking you down the aisle to "give you away" seems a bit quaint. And that's pretty much independent of whether or not he's in your life or not. Seemed to me that the Chase/Cameron wedding was one between two self sufficient adults.
Ah, good point. I wasn't thinking about this being her second marriage. Makes sense.
Since at least one critic (Sepinwall) was already bitching about the episode running 1 minute over, it would have been hard to extend the scene, and the rest of the episode was pretty lean to begin with.
Why not at least have her Dad walking her down the aisle? I haven't been to a wedding in ages, so I don't know about this, but is this bit of the bride walking down the aisle alone some new thing? Looked kind of weird to me.
I believe it had to do with it being her second wedding. I've never been to a "second" wedding where a bride was given away. I don't think we can take it as an indication of whether her dad was at the wedding or whether he's still alive.
Why not at least have her Dad walking her down the aisle? I haven't been to a wedding in ages, so I don't know about this, but is this bit of the bride walking down the aisle alone some new thing? Looked kind of weird to me.
I believe it had to do with it being her second wedding. I've never been to a "second" wedding where a bride was given away. I don't think we can take it as an indication of whether her dad was at the wedding or whether he's still alive.
I've been to a ton of second weddings where dad did the walking. I think it just depends on personal preferences. But this would have been an opportune time to learn something more about Cameron's family and the opportunity was passed up. Sigh.
Given how many Cameron fans hated the end of season 5 and the wedding, it's hard to imagine what Shore is going to produce that he thinks will make them happy. A marital break-up would but then Chase fans would be upset.
This assumes that a Cameron fan is almost automatically a House/Cameron fan. There are many fans of Cameron/Chase, just as there are Chase fans who dislike Chase/Cameron. And there are even Cameron fans who just like Cameron, and aren't 'shippers. (There are many non-shipper fans out there, even if we're not vocal on the 'net.)
Speaking for myself, this is not about shipping but about who the character of Cameron is. I liked Cameron from the pilot episode of the show but when they decided to put her into a relationship with Chase, they re-wrote the character to make her compatible in the relationship. (Just as I think they re-wrote Cuddy in season 3 to put her into a relationship with House.)
I place the start of the re-writing in Insensitive, when she listend to Foreman and went off to ask Chase for an FWB. Original!flavour!Cameron was insecure around her medical abilities but never around her emotional ones. Foreman's speech about how her marrying a man she knew was going to die not being real commitment could only have come from someone both arrogant and inexperienced (i.e. never watching someone you love die) and Cameron used to be smart enough to get that and not listen to something so ridiculous.
She was unsure of herself medically but emotionally, she always knew exactly what she wanted (even though she may have been wrong) and she went after it, the complete opposite of season 5 Cameron who could never figure out what she wanted unless some man told her what to do or Chase threatened to leave her. The old Cameron went after what she wanted, come hell or high water and she was never afraid to take an emotional risk.
Original Cameron would never have asked Taub for relationship advice, much less listen to him. She would have drop kicked him into the next county and then pointed out that since he'd screwed up his own life so much, he was the last person to be giving anyone else relationship advice. Nor would she have listened to House as she did in Both Sides Now. She respected House's medical opinions but she always had a better grasp on personal interactions than he did. That's why he often used her to get information or consents from the patients. She wouldn't have done that ridiculous fake whiteboarding of her relationship with Chase (I can just see the writer patting herself on the back for being so clever as to think of it) and she certainly wouldn't have kept her dead husband's sperm because she thought it was something that was still part of him. That's just nuts and Cameron has never been nuts in that way.
Through season 5, I kept waiting for the real Cameron to come back, the one who was smart about relationships. I kept waiting for her to say "If it's that hard for me to give you a drawer after 1 1/2 years, then there's something wrong in our relationship". Or "I'm planning to marry and commit to you and our children but I still can't dispose of my first husband's sperm. That tells me that I'm not ready to marry you now, if ever." Instead, she got deeper and deeper into twit-dom. When Cameron is nowhere around her relationship with Chase, as in Big Baby or Simple Explanation, she's still a reason for me to watch the show. But as soon as it's around her relationship with Chase, as it was in The Itch, Saviors, and the last episodes of the season, I start cringing.
David Shore once said that Cameron and Chase were together for the same reason Jennifer and Jesse were, because they were young, attractive and worked together long hours.
I like Cameron and I like Chase. But Shore is right, they don't have anything in common beyond the superficial (young, pretty, worked together for House). Their values are very different. Not that either is wrong, just different from each other.
To make Cameron believably be in a relationship with Chase, they had to change her. A lot. Because the original Cameron might toy with the idea of a relationship with Chase but she knew it would never work out in the long term because they are so different and have different priorities and values. She used to be smarter about relationships and stronger than this new version.
That's why I don't think we'll ever get the original Cameron back unless she breaks up with Chase. That Cameron could never fit into a marriage with him.
