I completely agree with sdemar about Cuddy having balls of steel. I'm only sorry about how deeply uncomfortable she's been with House recently, but it's natural. Also glad that they'll have an episode concentrating on her--in part because, like, "Wilson," there's no way not to highlight her relationships with Lucas, assuming he's still around, and House.
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Namaste- 05-09-2010
Happy Mother's Day Cuddy!
I hope Rachel brings you flowers from the garden in her chubby little hands.
So now Cuddy has made her mind and choose House (and I love that she decided to, on her own). I hope we will see strong and good spirited Cuddy back, now that she decided to solve this problem. I can totally see her make a statement to be right with the board ; she seems like she has the balls to assume this relationship, as she did not seem to mind the whole hospital thinking already that she slept with House.
I wonder if we will get any recalls of her past relationships ; of her family ; she said before she was lousy at life, I would like to know what she meant.
Vicodin- 07-02-2011
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/telefile/2011/07/twop-10-characters-were-most-h.php8. Cuddy (House)
Cuddy was really only part of the problem, when you get right down to it. But her volatile relationship with House helped drag the last few seasons down. She wasn't great at her job, her relationship with House had run its course (right through her window) and we'd like to see someone actually try and rein the grumpy doctor in. Once he gets out of prison, or whatever, that is.
filmlover- 07-02-2011
Well, I certainly don't agree with that TWOP list.
I don't think her relationship with House dragged the last few seasons down. I think that if the writers actually focused on the House/Cuddy relationship this season instead of just focusing on it blowing up, then it could have been a great arc for S7.
I personally believe that Cuddy was one of the two most important people in House's personal life. Her absence will leave a hole.
I think she was great at her job. House wouldn't have a job without her. Don't forget that House is a difficult employee. He was fired by 4 other administrators. Foreman's job hunt stint showed why Cuddy was important. She was important professionally. Also important personally, because she and House did care about each other.
so, they need to find an adminstrator that can reign House in? What administrator would want to put up with House's crap/schemes/games if they don't have to?
This is one of my concerns for next season. At least with Cuddy, we knew why she believed in House. We knew why she put up with him.
I think that if the writers actually focused on the House/Cuddy relationship this season instead of just focusing on it blowing up, then it could have been a great arc for S7.
Preaching the choir, here.
Given the writers past history, I am afraid that next season, Cuddy will just have ...disappeared. Maybe a few words to learn her departure, and then oblivion.
And they'll conveniently forget how much emphasis they put before on her being the only administrator he was ever able to work with.
Visitkarte- 07-03-2011
I think that if the writers actually focused on the House/Cuddy relationship this season instead of just focusing on it blowing up, then it could have been a great arc for S7.
Preaching the choir, here.
Given the writers past history, I am afraid that next season, Cuddy will just have ...disappeared. Maybe a few words to learn her departure, and then oblivion.
And they'll conveniently forget how much emphasis they put before on her being the only administrator he was ever able to work with.
I'd rather they forget this a bit than having them put Wilson permanently in that role.
And Cuddy is the only administrator that tried to hold him in check, micromanaging him and always failing.
I hope they'll find someone who can actually deal with him on an adult level. I don't think House is unmanageable, a lot of his childish attire was only to get a rise from Cuddy. Actually, I've seen similar personalities in an actual hospital. And before anyone starts about his addictions... Seen that, too. Just not in the honest way House does it, more the 'behind the back' style.
I'm sure House's brilliance is bound to make them listen to him. Because they'd be fools not to.
filmlover- 07-03-2011
She didn't always fail, though.
I'm just going by what we've seen and heard in previous seasons. He was fired by 3 or 4 other administrators. He doesn't do well with authority. We've seen other administrators admit that House is brilliant, but they don't want to deal with his attitude or the way he bypasses or ignores hospital protocol to do his job.
Now, obviously since House has to return to PPTH, the writers will find another administrator that will put up with House for some reason. I just hope it is a believable reason. With Cuddy, we understood it because of their history and their feelings for each other. She cared about him. Loved him. He respected her, and I think appreciated what she has done for him.
I have something else to say, but maybe it belongs in spoiler speculation since it is about S8?
Visitkarte- 07-03-2011
She didn't always fail, though.
I'm just going by what we've seen and heard in previous seasons. He was fired by 3 or 4 other administrators. He doesn't do well with authority. We've seen other administrators admit that House is brilliant, but they don't want to deal with his attitude or the way he bypasses or ignores hospital protocol to do his job.
Now, obviously since House has to return to PPTH, the writers will find another administrator that will put up with House for some reason. I just hope it is a believable reason. With Cuddy, we understood it because of their history and their feelings for each other. She cared about him. Loved him. He respected her, and I think appreciated what she has done for him.
I have something else to say, but maybe it belongs in spoiler speculation since it is about S8?
Actually, I preferred not knowing. I don’t like the idea of Cuddy only keeping House at her hospital because she loved him in the romantic sense of the word. It cheapens his genius and the whole plot. I’d actually prefer him to have his job because he is a genius, one of the kind. I do hope someone like House would get the chance to do his best and give some hope to the people who’ve lost all hope to get a diagnosis, to get the chance to get better or, at least, to find out what was/is killing them.
I am maybe a hopeless romantic in a scientific way, so to say. I’d love to believe that at least a fictional genius of this kind might be able to put his abilities to use and help people, while still denying his motives. As HL said, he is a real hero, because he doesn’t want people to know his motives, he isn’t out for applause, he prefers them to think he’s doing everything he does just for the fun of solving the puzzle. He claims not to care, while he most certainly does. He claims not to feel anything, while in facts he feels too much. He claims to jerk people around just to have fun, while he more often than not tries to help them in a most bizarre way.
Even his act of smashing Cuddy’s dinner room is, for me, a very Housian way of pushing her away while giving her all excuse to blame it all on House and nothing to her own failures. In a strange twisted way, he did her a favor, presented her with the feeling that she was right, it wasn’t her fault, she did the right thing etc.
I do hope they’ll find a believable way to do this. I hope the next DOM will do it well, in a very believable way. I really do, because I fear, if they don’t, we are up to watching the last season of House M.D. Without getting the full satisfaction of getting a nice full circle.
The rest of the discussion on the future we might wish to continue in the other thread.
Anonyme- 07-03-2011
I don’t like the idea of Cuddy only keeping House at her hospital because she loved him in the romantic sense of the word. It cheapens his genius and the whole plot. I’d actually prefer him to have his job because he is a genius, one of the kind. I do hope someone like House would get the chance to do his best and give some hope to the people who’ve lost all hope to get a diagnosis, to get the chance to get better or, at least, to find out what was/is killing them.
I am maybe a hopeless romantic in a scientific way, so to say. I’d love to believe that at least a fictional genius of this kind might be able to put his abilities to use and help people, while still denying his motives.
Cuddy allowing him to work (forcing him?) is part of canon. It is not only romantic, she believed he was an asset to her hospital (and was apparently the only one to do so). And she fought to keep him (Vogler, Tritter, after Mayfield, the other docs - see 5 to 9). I think she believed in him, the way she fought to keep a free clinic working. Kind of idealist, certainly, in parts.
From various eps : he only treats one patient a week, his department is a "black hole" from a financial point of view, and (in Stacy's words) "he avoids work like the plague". In Cuddy's words : "I hired you because you are a good doctor who could not get himself hired at a blood bank, so I got you cheap". Actually, if not for Cuddy mostly keeping him in line, how would we even know he is a genius? The man would certainly not work, if he was not forced to. Same for teaching or giving speeches. He is not a genius not allowed to show it, he is a genius not wanting to use it.
So, if only for this, we owe Cuddy. She was the garant that we could see his genius at work. TPTB could have done without the romantic side (as much as I wanted to see it, it's not like they do storylines to please fans, do they?), but she was a part of the serie's equilibrium. I am not sure they will find plausible ways to get him to work now. I hope he will not magically be docile at work, just because Cuddy's not there any more. In fact, I just hope he wil still find some job.
Visitkarte- 07-03-2011
Cuddy allowing him to work (forcing him?) is part of canon. It is not only romantic, she believed he was an asset to her hospital (and was apparently the only one to do so). And she fought to keep him (Vogler, Tritter, after Mayfield, the other docs - see 5 to 9). I think she believed in him, the way she fought to keep a free clinic working. Kind of idealist, certainly, in parts.
From various eps : he only treats one patient a week, his department is a "black hole" from a financial point of view, and (in Stacy's words) "he avoids work like the plague". In Cuddy's words : "I hired you because you are a good doctor who could not get himself hired at a blood bank, so I got you cheap". Actually, if not for Cuddy mostly keeping him in line, how would we even know he is a genius? The man would certainly not work, if he was not forced to. Same for teaching or giving speeches. He is not a genius not allowed to show it, he is a genius not wanting to use it.
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I hope he will not magically be docile at work, just because Cuddy's not there anymore. In fact, I just hope he will still find some job.
Actually I think his 'avoiding work' was just as much a part of his dance with Cuddy and disguising his real motives as is his insisting on being just interested in solving puzzles.
"I think you avoid work like the plague, unless, actually, it is the plague", said Stacy. So we have it. He hates 'menial' work, but he runs into it, when something is 'interesting', when he sees something he might be able to solve, and others can’t.
I do think he would never do clinic hours if he weren’t forced, and he wouldn’t like to give lessons. But he is a teacher extraordinaire when it comes to training his fellows and teaching them medicine and life lessons.
I’m sure he’d try and solve medical mysteries no matter what. If he has to, he’d do it online, like he already did one in "Epic Failure". He needs that like the air to breathe, and he’d never want to stop it.
On the other side, there is the other side. As I said, he cares too much, not too little. That’s why he fights taking 'boring' patients. I somehow think he avoids taking patients he thinks he can’t save, because they have a ‘boring’ condition he already found out and knows he can do nothing to change the outcome. When he is on a case, he works like a maniac to solve it, at least he did before his love story with Cuddy distracted him.
"Love and happiness are . . . nothing but distractions. The only thing my relationship with Cuddy has done for me is make me a worse doctor." Dr. Gregory House, "Recession Proof"
But normally, he obsesses, he suffers every time he can’t get the answer fast enough and his patient might not make it. That was one of the reasons why Nolan suggested him to look for a job in research, because there he’d have no patients, less pressure.
So no, Cuddy didn’t force him to use his talent, she was a part of the game. I think House wants to do his job, and that was one of the reasons why he was so reluctant to try and start a relationship with her in the first place:
"She's not some floozy in a bar, she's the floozy I work for."
How right he was. He was better off before he tried to be more than her employee. But it’s not as if he didn’t try to avoid that situation.
And if you see the "real Gregory House" and his team, they don't treat more than about 40 patients a year. That makes on average one patient a week. And the "real Gregory House" has a team of 10 doctors and very high costs. In a storage way, Gregory House is very cost effective.
