Rant alert!
Well,I need to vent and I've already,probably,annoyed half the internet with my rants and pessimism so I'll just vent on my blog that no one reads anyway. IF ANYONE HAS THE PATIENCE AND TIME PLEASE DO READ AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK,THANKS IN ADVANCE.
First of all ,we should all be clear on one thing : I AM LAME AND PATHETIC !!! And I'm not only lame and pathetic but passionate(that leads to a tendency to obsess),depressive and realistic-borderline-pessimistic so I never could delusion myself with fairytales,I'm all about cold,hard truth.I also get very attached and invest a lot(stupidly I might add) in my hobbies/passions/things I like(sadly,not one of them probably of any actual help to me in my actual life and future).Good,now that we cleared that one out we can move on to more pressing matters.
Yes,this is a post about House MD ,Hugh Laurie ,KJ,DS,LE ,Huddy and how they screwed me(and ,what now seems to consist of only another handful of people)over and made it impossible for me to watch my 2 biggest obsessions : House as a show and Hugh as a person/actor/sexy beast/whatever.Now I am actually and seriously depressed over this because it also came at a time when,seeing as I'm in my last year of university and have loads of stuff on my mind and the fear of failure,etc, I ended up losing something that made me extremely happy,that helped me unwind and relax.I even had nightmares over it. I'm actually thinking about giving it all up because even Hugh is starting to disappoint me and I don't want to feel that,he's a role model to me and I care about him. The only think keeping me here right now is my obsession that only intensifies together with my frustration and anxiety.
See,I used to love this show,it was the one series that I was 100% convinced it would never disappoint me.I always thought that the worst thing that could happen,quality wise,was for it to become boring at some point because ,truth be told, this is a show with a repetitive formula just like most crime/cop drama's and that is the beauty of it but also its demise in time.
It was the one series that got better and better and better with each season without any period of "crisis" . Like for example I love Heroes but the second season was not as good as the first or 3rd so it had problems and same happened to ,say ,Supernatural and LOST and especially Prison Break.House on the other hand had a second season that was better than the first and a third that was on about the same level.They had a successful formula,a great cast,the ratings were growing each season and then BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM,came the 4th season .
WTF? Why change something that doesn't need changing.It's like replacing your cars tires every week just because they might one day fail from exposure without thinking that the new sets of tires might actually be worse or defective and ,instead of offering you the certainty of something new that won't break,might fail after just a few miles.
Yes,I hate the Huddy,it's my main issue with the show but not just 'cause I'm a House/Cameron huge fan but because it didn't only kill my ship and came out of nowhere but it ruined the whole concept of the show.The House MD right now is not the House MD of past seasons.Now all the episodes have a clear center : the romance between House and Cuddy with 13/Foreman(or just 13) on the side,thrown in for good measure. The patients now no longer matter because this is a medical drama and,just as it's the case with shows like CSI,it's all about medical procedures ,they only matter if House can somehow relate to them and that will lead to his loneliness and to Cuddy. House is now reduced to a lonely man who hasn't had a romantic sexual connection in ages and is chasing after Cuddy,acting like a stupid teenager in heat while trying to get past his physical pain. He no longer shows his interest the way he used to,that way that gave the writers an opportunity to show a different side of House,a way that showed his emotional complexity and his fears in a serious,compelling way. Now he actively acts on his feelings by sexually harassing a woman who is supposed to be his friend and boss.When Stacy was around the way he treated her was different,the mocking(when he mocked her) was about deep stuff,he used the mockery to subtly address his feelings towards what was happening while also trying to get something out of her. He never harassed her,he never disrespected her,it wasn't about sex,it wasn't vulgar,it was deep and emotional and I hated Stacy but I liked that arc even if it was also not good for the ship I support.Even with Cameron,he always treated her differently ,the mockery was,just as with Stacy,more than simple sarcasm,it was supposed to teach her something,or to get to know her,to provoke her and get the best out of her,it was about finding out what makes her tick. Same with that woman at the Pole from last years Frozen episode. This ,his interaction with women and people he likes in general,made House what he is,an asshole only at first glance. But now,now he is an asshole,just a simple asshole who suffers and suffers and has no balls to stop it.
Also,Cuddy has been reduced to the other half in Huddy and that's it,she's nothing beyond House's romantic interest and all they do,that dramatic side they're trying to give her,is all just for the Huddy.They gave her a baby so they can write House as being jealous on somebody,so they can properly show House's dependence on her,that's it.
While Cuddy has become a spineless ,lame woman who has gone low enough to beg House to be with her ,to beg this man who gave her nothing but trouble,Cameron has become stronger thanks to him and her feelings for him. She's become a sort of Wilson 2.0,what Amber was,she's perfect for House,she's a sort of Stacy minus the selfishness that Stacy had but none of that matters now.
House and Cameron were from the very beginning made to have this connection,to have something romantic ,it was always there,hinted subtly .It has chemistry,it has depth,it was beautifully portrayed over 3 seasons and killed without even a chance to fail at it. At least,if they wanted the Huddy,why not give HCam a chance?Why not have them reach to a serious development,try something,then fail......not die a sudden death after a kiss that looked hot but had a crappy setup and was never talked about.
There are still some optimists who say that the Huddy will die after the sex because ,as LE or someone said,it will be a disaster. But I believe the disaster is only when it comes to the relationship,it's their impossibility to actually be together because House doesn't have the power to get over what has happened to him in the past,over his insecurities. I'm sure they'll just have sex and it will not be JUST SEX,it will be LOVE but House will treat it like it meant nothing and then run away from everything and keep on pretending.This will hurt Cuddy and she'll be mad and give up and then,in season 6,House will quietly suffer over what he did and over the fact that he had to let the woman he loves get away because she needs someone better and because he's scared. So,the Huddy won't die as a ship,it will live on but it will be a disaster when it comes to something actually happening between them.House can't be happy until the end(maybe not even then)and this is perfect.
Some say that House can't love her because for 3 seasons there was nothing,their relationship wasn't build that way. They're right but that would only apply if this were real life,if the characters would actually act on their own,according to their own feelings and according to past experiences but this is a tv show with fictional characters who can only feel and do what the writers want them to. It's pretty much like they change the actor who plays a certain character on a soap-opera,it couldn't happen in real life but on tv anything can happen.There's one famous case of a character in a soap-opera who was a child in one episode and a young adult in the next although the time frame hadn't really changed.
Yeah,I see the subtle hints at House's feelings and ,as much as I thought the Huddy kiss was weird and looked bad,the setup for it,the idea of it was meaningful ,the way House threw himself at her with passion.....yes,those are feelings right there,it just looked bad because the actors don't have that type of tension and chemistry,it can't be created or helped.
Also,I don't think that this Huddy can end because they've gone to incredible lengths to make it real,it's the core of the show right now,House is doing all sorts of crazy things and Cuddy lives through the Huddy so it's impossible for it to just be a phase,it's the new direction of the show,I could bet on that. I mean,everyone is talking about it,now all the questions regarding spoilers and stuff are about it,it's no longer about cases and philosophy,pain and stuff like that,it's all about Huddy. I also think that they won't end it because the majority of the fans are now Huddy fans or people who don't mind it at all.I noticed,sadly,that we ,the HCam,seem to be a minority,a quiet little minority and we're already upset and many have given up so now we can't even ask the producers to look at the fanbase and see what they think because then the only thing that would change would be 13's screentime and I'd much rather see 13 at this point than Huddy.
I say we either do something that would make an impression or kiss our ship goodbye for good.I don't think lying to ourselves helps our cause,we just end up being more disappointed.The Huddy exists and it's existence is not about a relationship,it's about feelings. HOUSE NVER SAID HE CARED ABOUT CAMERON,HE NEVER ACTED ON IT BUT IT WAS TRUE AND WE BELIEVED THE WRITERS WHEN THEY SAID HE HAS FEELINGS,WE BELIEVED THE SUBTLE SINGS SO WHY CAN"T THE SAME THING HAPPEN WITH THE HUDDY? SHIPS ON THIS SHOW ARE A DISASTER WHEN IT COMES TO FRUITION,WHAT MATTERS ARE FEELINGS,SUBTLE HINTS,NOT BIG WORDS,GESTURES,RELATIONSHIPS .
This is my realistic view,not some idea based on "oh what happened in the past" or stuff like "Oh but this is so lame it can't continue" because what we see as lame most apparently don't,what we see as illogical most don't ,what would matter in real life doesn't have to matter now.I look at things as they are,taking into consideration the technical aspects of it,the publicity/marketing aspects,etc without ignoring the signs that exist just 'cause I don't like it or agree with it.
Ever since I was little(yes,I'm going into that) I had an (probably unhealthy) passion for tv shows.Growing up in Romania ,when I first started obsessing,around the age of 5, there were only a couple(maybe 3 or 4)shows I could watch : Dallas(no,I'm just 21 now but they showed it here in the early 90s too)which I didn't particularly like,Twin Peaks(oh now that one I liked)and La Piovra(an amazing italian series about the Mafia). My first huge obsession was with this La Piovra(the Octopus)and its wonderful plot,action and characters that I continue to love(Silvia Conti and Tano Carridi were my favorite ones although one was good,Silvia ,and one the brilliant mobster who was in fact a mobster basically because he could make loads of money and had no fear of anyone).I remember that when they stopped showing this series,after the,I believe,6th season,when the new hero cop of the show ,Davide Something,died and Tano left with his sister(shut up,Tano was not really a bad guy,he was morally grey,like HRG)I cried the whole night because I thought the series had ended for good and I'd never get to see it again,I was heart-broken at the age of ,maybe 10 or 11.
Then somewhere around the same time, PRO TV started airing The X-Files,Fridays at 20:00 and I remember not only the time when it used to air but also how I'd sit on the back of the couch,in the most concentrated position I could muster and watch it with my mom who read the subtitles for me when I didn't understand something(I was already learning english intensively by that time so I could understand a lot)or when I couldn't keep the pace with the subtitles because I was still little and the action was captivating me so I couldn't always keep up if I needed to read.
Around the same time I started watching ski-jumping......in 2000,HBO started airing Stargate SG1 and that ended up being the obsession that introduced me to the wonderful world of online fandom about a year later,when I got my internet installed.By that time I was already watching about 70% of all shows on tv like Friends,PSI Factor,The Nanny,Seinfeld,M.A.S.H(boy ,how I loved that one),Buffy the Vampire Slayer,etc.When I could finally coughdownloadcough stuff I began watching all the new shows I heard of that sparked an interest in me and this is how,now,in 2009,I watch about a dozen tv shows like Heroes, Battlestar Galactiga,Lost,Supernatural,30 Rock,Scrubs,Fringe,Two and a Half Men,Prison Break,Stargate Atlantis(RIP)and of course others
So,it's easy to see how to me this is all an important part of my life and,as stupid as it may sound,I actually learned a thing or two from certain series,sparked some interests in me(like for example my passion for astronomy) and I am really attached to this lifelong passion,it's a constant,one of the things that make me who I am .
First of all ,we should all be clear on one thing : I AM LAME AND PATHETIC !!! And I'm not only lame and pathetic but passionate(that leads to a tendency to obsess),depressive and realistic-borderline-pessimistic so I never could delusion myself with fairytales,I'm all about cold,hard truth.I also get very attached and invest a lot(stupidly I might add) in my hobbies/passions/things I like(sadly,not one of them probably of any actual help to me in my actual life and future).Good,now that we cleared that one out we can move on to more pressing matters.
Yes,this is a post about House MD ,Hugh Laurie ,KJ,DS,LE ,Huddy and how they screwed me(and ,what now seems to consist of only another handful of people)over and made it impossible for me to watch my 2 biggest obsessions : House as a show and Hugh as a person/actor/sexy beast/whatever.Now I am actually and seriously depressed over this because it also came at a time when,seeing as I'm in my last year of university and have loads of stuff on my mind and the fear of failure,etc, I ended up losing something that made me extremely happy,that helped me unwind and relax.I even had nightmares over it. I'm actually thinking about giving it all up because even Hugh is starting to disappoint me and I don't want to feel that,he's a role model to me and I care about him. The only think keeping me here right now is my obsession that only intensifies together with my frustration and anxiety.
See,I used to love this show,it was the one series that I was 100% convinced it would never disappoint me.I always thought that the worst thing that could happen,quality wise,was for it to become boring at some point because ,truth be told, this is a show with a repetitive formula just like most crime/cop drama's and that is the beauty of it but also its demise in time.
It was the one series that got better and better and better with each season without any period of "crisis" . Like for example I love Heroes but the second season was not as good as the first or 3rd so it had problems and same happened to ,say ,Supernatural and LOST and especially Prison Break.House on the other hand had a second season that was better than the first and a third that was on about the same level.They had a successful formula,a great cast,the ratings were growing each season and then BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM,came the 4th season .
WTF? Why change something that doesn't need changing.It's like replacing your cars tires every week just because they might one day fail from exposure without thinking that the new sets of tires might actually be worse or defective and ,instead of offering you the certainty of something new that won't break,might fail after just a few miles.
Yes,I hate the Huddy,it's my main issue with the show but not just 'cause I'm a House/Cameron huge fan but because it didn't only kill my ship and came out of nowhere but it ruined the whole concept of the show.The House MD right now is not the House MD of past seasons.Now all the episodes have a clear center : the romance between House and Cuddy with 13/Foreman(or just 13) on the side,thrown in for good measure. The patients now no longer matter because this is a medical drama and,just as it's the case with shows like CSI,it's all about medical procedures ,they only matter if House can somehow relate to them and that will lead to his loneliness and to Cuddy. House is now reduced to a lonely man who hasn't had a romantic sexual connection in ages and is chasing after Cuddy,acting like a stupid teenager in heat while trying to get past his physical pain. He no longer shows his interest the way he used to,that way that gave the writers an opportunity to show a different side of House,a way that showed his emotional complexity and his fears in a serious,compelling way. Now he actively acts on his feelings by sexually harassing a woman who is supposed to be his friend and boss.When Stacy was around the way he treated her was different,the mocking(when he mocked her) was about deep stuff,he used the mockery to subtly address his feelings towards what was happening while also trying to get something out of her. He never harassed her,he never disrespected her,it wasn't about sex,it wasn't vulgar,it was deep and emotional and I hated Stacy but I liked that arc even if it was also not good for the ship I support.Even with Cameron,he always treated her differently ,the mockery was,just as with Stacy,more than simple sarcasm,it was supposed to teach her something,or to get to know her,to provoke her and get the best out of her,it was about finding out what makes her tick. Same with that woman at the Pole from last years Frozen episode. This ,his interaction with women and people he likes in general,made House what he is,an asshole only at first glance. But now,now he is an asshole,just a simple asshole who suffers and suffers and has no balls to stop it.
Also,Cuddy has been reduced to the other half in Huddy and that's it,she's nothing beyond House's romantic interest and all they do,that dramatic side they're trying to give her,is all just for the Huddy.They gave her a baby so they can write House as being jealous on somebody,so they can properly show House's dependence on her,that's it.
While Cuddy has become a spineless ,lame woman who has gone low enough to beg House to be with her ,to beg this man who gave her nothing but trouble,Cameron has become stronger thanks to him and her feelings for him. She's become a sort of Wilson 2.0,what Amber was,she's perfect for House,she's a sort of Stacy minus the selfishness that Stacy had but none of that matters now.
House and Cameron were from the very beginning made to have this connection,to have something romantic ,it was always there,hinted subtly .It has chemistry,it has depth,it was beautifully portrayed over 3 seasons and killed without even a chance to fail at it. At least,if they wanted the Huddy,why not give HCam a chance?Why not have them reach to a serious development,try something,then fail......not die a sudden death after a kiss that looked hot but had a crappy setup and was never talked about.
There are still some optimists who say that the Huddy will die after the sex because ,as LE or someone said,it will be a disaster. But I believe the disaster is only when it comes to the relationship,it's their impossibility to actually be together because House doesn't have the power to get over what has happened to him in the past,over his insecurities. I'm sure they'll just have sex and it will not be JUST SEX,it will be LOVE but House will treat it like it meant nothing and then run away from everything and keep on pretending.This will hurt Cuddy and she'll be mad and give up and then,in season 6,House will quietly suffer over what he did and over the fact that he had to let the woman he loves get away because she needs someone better and because he's scared. So,the Huddy won't die as a ship,it will live on but it will be a disaster when it comes to something actually happening between them.House can't be happy until the end(maybe not even then)and this is perfect.
Some say that House can't love her because for 3 seasons there was nothing,their relationship wasn't build that way. They're right but that would only apply if this were real life,if the characters would actually act on their own,according to their own feelings and according to past experiences but this is a tv show with fictional characters who can only feel and do what the writers want them to. It's pretty much like they change the actor who plays a certain character on a soap-opera,it couldn't happen in real life but on tv anything can happen.There's one famous case of a character in a soap-opera who was a child in one episode and a young adult in the next although the time frame hadn't really changed.
Yeah,I see the subtle hints at House's feelings and ,as much as I thought the Huddy kiss was weird and looked bad,the setup for it,the idea of it was meaningful ,the way House threw himself at her with passion.....yes,those are feelings right there,it just looked bad because the actors don't have that type of tension and chemistry,it can't be created or helped.
Also,I don't think that this Huddy can end because they've gone to incredible lengths to make it real,it's the core of the show right now,House is doing all sorts of crazy things and Cuddy lives through the Huddy so it's impossible for it to just be a phase,it's the new direction of the show,I could bet on that. I mean,everyone is talking about it,now all the questions regarding spoilers and stuff are about it,it's no longer about cases and philosophy,pain and stuff like that,it's all about Huddy. I also think that they won't end it because the majority of the fans are now Huddy fans or people who don't mind it at all.I noticed,sadly,that we ,the HCam,seem to be a minority,a quiet little minority and we're already upset and many have given up so now we can't even ask the producers to look at the fanbase and see what they think because then the only thing that would change would be 13's screentime and I'd much rather see 13 at this point than Huddy.
I say we either do something that would make an impression or kiss our ship goodbye for good.I don't think lying to ourselves helps our cause,we just end up being more disappointed.The Huddy exists and it's existence is not about a relationship,it's about feelings. HOUSE NVER SAID HE CARED ABOUT CAMERON,HE NEVER ACTED ON IT BUT IT WAS TRUE AND WE BELIEVED THE WRITERS WHEN THEY SAID HE HAS FEELINGS,WE BELIEVED THE SUBTLE SINGS SO WHY CAN"T THE SAME THING HAPPEN WITH THE HUDDY? SHIPS ON THIS SHOW ARE A DISASTER WHEN IT COMES TO FRUITION,WHAT MATTERS ARE FEELINGS,SUBTLE HINTS,NOT BIG WORDS,GESTURES,RELATIONSHIPS .
This is my realistic view,not some idea based on "oh what happened in the past" or stuff like "Oh but this is so lame it can't continue" because what we see as lame most apparently don't,what we see as illogical most don't ,what would matter in real life doesn't have to matter now.I look at things as they are,taking into consideration the technical aspects of it,the publicity/marketing aspects,etc without ignoring the signs that exist just 'cause I don't like it or agree with it.
Ever since I was little(yes,I'm going into that) I had an (probably unhealthy) passion for tv shows.Growing up in Romania ,when I first started obsessing,around the age of 5, there were only a couple(maybe 3 or 4)shows I could watch : Dallas(no,I'm just 21 now but they showed it here in the early 90s too)which I didn't particularly like,Twin Peaks(oh now that one I liked)and La Piovra(an amazing italian series about the Mafia). My first huge obsession was with this La Piovra(the Octopus)and its wonderful plot,action and characters that I continue to love(Silvia Conti and Tano Carridi were my favorite ones although one was good,Silvia ,and one the brilliant mobster who was in fact a mobster basically because he could make loads of money and had no fear of anyone).I remember that when they stopped showing this series,after the,I believe,6th season,when the new hero cop of the show ,Davide Something,died and Tano left with his sister(shut up,Tano was not really a bad guy,he was morally grey,like HRG)I cried the whole night because I thought the series had ended for good and I'd never get to see it again,I was heart-broken at the age of ,maybe 10 or 11.
Then somewhere around the same time, PRO TV started airing The X-Files,Fridays at 20:00 and I remember not only the time when it used to air but also how I'd sit on the back of the couch,in the most concentrated position I could muster and watch it with my mom who read the subtitles for me when I didn't understand something(I was already learning english intensively by that time so I could understand a lot)or when I couldn't keep the pace with the subtitles because I was still little and the action was captivating me so I couldn't always keep up if I needed to read.
Around the same time I started watching ski-jumping......in 2000,HBO started airing Stargate SG1 and that ended up being the obsession that introduced me to the wonderful world of online fandom about a year later,when I got my internet installed.By that time I was already watching about 70% of all shows on tv like Friends,PSI Factor,The Nanny,Seinfeld,M.A.S.H(boy ,how I loved that one),Buffy the Vampire Slayer,etc.When I could finally coughdownloadcough stuff I began watching all the new shows I heard of that sparked an interest in me and this is how,now,in 2009,I watch about a dozen tv shows like Heroes, Battlestar Galactiga,Lost,Supernatural,30 Rock,Scrubs,Fringe,Two and a Half Men,Prison Break,Stargate Atlantis(RIP)and of course others
So,it's easy to see how to me this is all an important part of my life and,as stupid as it may sound,I actually learned a thing or two from certain series,sparked some interests in me(like for example my passion for astronomy) and I am really attached to this lifelong passion,it's a constant,one of the things that make me who I am .