five things that need to be said - thoughts on 7x15 and Huddy
Okay, so I have 2 thoughts about this. Actually 3 now that I really think about it. (Sorry for the crappy formatting before.)
1) This is the end of Huddy. I mean we all knew that before David Shore told Ausiello, and Liz and Sara decided to charm us with their knack for public speech. We knew that just from seeing the promo. The last couple of episodes and the promo cement the fact that there's no going back from this. What Cuddy needs is a better House, someone more mature, more reliable. Getting drunk on her "big day", taking vicodin when she needed him most and now this craziness of dealing with their break-up are most certainly a push in the incorrect direction. How do you think she would have felt if House had acted normal - not on drugs, showed up to work the next day, appropriately shattered, but not broken down, just dealing with the pain... that would have given me hope that maybe (JUST MAYBE) she can see the change and start warming up to the idea of them together again. But really? Flinging yourself off a balcony? Relapsing into a destructive addiction that drove you to the loony bin? Not cool. This is going to turn into a pathetic pity-party where she starts to feel sorry for him, but also repulsed by his behavior and grateful that she had the good sense to shy away from it all. I'm just so UGHHHH! Anyway now that this rant is over (I still have a lot to say but I'm on limited time here), onto point 2.
2) Who breaks up with someone who's just had a relapse into a self-destructive addiction? Especially if you claim to truly love that person. I mean Cuddy should be concerned first for him and second for the fact that he's her employee and this means that he's probably going to be stoned the next time he shows up at work and tries to save people's lives. Just saying, that wasn't a very realistic/appropriate reaction. I mean she's appropriately upset, but is that really how an intelligent, caring woman would deal with it? Break him more and now we're sure he'll drown in his addiction. And she obviously knows she broke him. "I'm his problem." Wellll. I'm not saying she should let him into her home and ask him to babysit. That's nuts. What I mean is that she should at least ease him into it - do it gently, try to work out the addiction thing then let him go. At least urge him to go to a shrink or something. Ughhhh. Onto point 3.
3) I am disappointed in Cuddy, although I also understand her. Didn't she say in "Now What" and I quote "I don't want you to change. I know you're screwed up. I know you are always gonna be screwed up, but you're the most incredible man I have ever known. You are always gonna be the most incredible man I have ever known." So what has changed? Now she wants him to change? He's no longer incredible when she has to deal with all this incredibility? I mean I can see he's tough to deal with. He's emotionally stunted but she knew that early on. She admitted to knowing that. Hell, she's known him for years. (And as a side note, why did her sister make it sound like she's hated him for years? That was just sexual frustration - hello? We all mock the men in our lives who drive us up the wall but won't make out with us against it.) Anyway, core issue is Cuddy acting like she didn't know what she was getting into. Granted the "I thought I could do this..." line is an attempt at redemption, but really it doesn't seem to me like she tried too hard. And now number 4, because I just remembered something else.
4) You see now I'm a little confused by the inconsistencies or mixed signals I've been getting from the writers of this show. So House was okay to be in a relationship with Stacy for 5 years. She got sick and he disappeared, and he was generally horrible to her all the time - but she was such a saint that she put up with it for all those years. That doesn't seem really realistic to me. So the claim is that House is a bad boyfriend - has always been one - won't change. I don't really buy that. I don't really buy that he ditched her bedside while she was getting diagnosed for a potentially life-threatening disease. That is so not House. I could see him turning this into a puzzle, pretending not to care that Cuddy is the patient, solving this like another one of his mysteries, mocking her through it all (like in that one moment when he says he won't sleep with someone for a month if she doesn't make it through which is soo classic House to me). I would've wanted him to obsess more, write on his board, go all genius madness on us even if the case wasn't all that difficult. Point is, he's not the jerk they've made us believe he is in this episode. So what did he do when he was with Stacy pre-infarction? Shoot heroin when the going got rough? Really, writers? Really? If anything I would think Cuddy has more balls than Stacy especially when dealing with him which she's had to do for years.
I'm sorry for the excessive rant. This comes from a place of deep frustration. I am off to dust my keyboard and get back to fan-fiction. The real world sucks.
P.S. a note 5) I don't even see how they think this can be square 1 again. Square 1 was brilliant. He was an addict. He was snarky. He and Cuddy played off of each other perfectly because they almost had hope that one day they would end up in bed together. There was sexual tension, delicious anticipation. Now we're at season 6 levels of tension, where Cuddy is not into it, but he's trying. Which is pathetic and rather painful to watch if you ask me.
I'm starting to think more and more of quitting the show, but I'm not a quitter by nature. Come to think of it, I do quit all shows that become uncomfortable for me to watch. Hmm. Let's see if the next few episodes will inspire my loyalty. I'm doubtful from the preview, but as House put it "a girl can dream".
1) This is the end of Huddy. I mean we all knew that before David Shore told Ausiello, and Liz and Sara decided to charm us with their knack for public speech. We knew that just from seeing the promo. The last couple of episodes and the promo cement the fact that there's no going back from this. What Cuddy needs is a better House, someone more mature, more reliable. Getting drunk on her "big day", taking vicodin when she needed him most and now this craziness of dealing with their break-up are most certainly a push in the incorrect direction. How do you think she would have felt if House had acted normal - not on drugs, showed up to work the next day, appropriately shattered, but not broken down, just dealing with the pain... that would have given me hope that maybe (JUST MAYBE) she can see the change and start warming up to the idea of them together again. But really? Flinging yourself off a balcony? Relapsing into a destructive addiction that drove you to the loony bin? Not cool. This is going to turn into a pathetic pity-party where she starts to feel sorry for him, but also repulsed by his behavior and grateful that she had the good sense to shy away from it all. I'm just so UGHHHH! Anyway now that this rant is over (I still have a lot to say but I'm on limited time here), onto point 2.
2) Who breaks up with someone who's just had a relapse into a self-destructive addiction? Especially if you claim to truly love that person. I mean Cuddy should be concerned first for him and second for the fact that he's her employee and this means that he's probably going to be stoned the next time he shows up at work and tries to save people's lives. Just saying, that wasn't a very realistic/appropriate reaction. I mean she's appropriately upset, but is that really how an intelligent, caring woman would deal with it? Break him more and now we're sure he'll drown in his addiction. And she obviously knows she broke him. "I'm his problem." Wellll. I'm not saying she should let him into her home and ask him to babysit. That's nuts. What I mean is that she should at least ease him into it - do it gently, try to work out the addiction thing then let him go. At least urge him to go to a shrink or something. Ughhhh. Onto point 3.
3) I am disappointed in Cuddy, although I also understand her. Didn't she say in "Now What" and I quote "I don't want you to change. I know you're screwed up. I know you are always gonna be screwed up, but you're the most incredible man I have ever known. You are always gonna be the most incredible man I have ever known." So what has changed? Now she wants him to change? He's no longer incredible when she has to deal with all this incredibility? I mean I can see he's tough to deal with. He's emotionally stunted but she knew that early on. She admitted to knowing that. Hell, she's known him for years. (And as a side note, why did her sister make it sound like she's hated him for years? That was just sexual frustration - hello? We all mock the men in our lives who drive us up the wall but won't make out with us against it.) Anyway, core issue is Cuddy acting like she didn't know what she was getting into. Granted the "I thought I could do this..." line is an attempt at redemption, but really it doesn't seem to me like she tried too hard. And now number 4, because I just remembered something else.
4) You see now I'm a little confused by the inconsistencies or mixed signals I've been getting from the writers of this show. So House was okay to be in a relationship with Stacy for 5 years. She got sick and he disappeared, and he was generally horrible to her all the time - but she was such a saint that she put up with it for all those years. That doesn't seem really realistic to me. So the claim is that House is a bad boyfriend - has always been one - won't change. I don't really buy that. I don't really buy that he ditched her bedside while she was getting diagnosed for a potentially life-threatening disease. That is so not House. I could see him turning this into a puzzle, pretending not to care that Cuddy is the patient, solving this like another one of his mysteries, mocking her through it all (like in that one moment when he says he won't sleep with someone for a month if she doesn't make it through which is soo classic House to me). I would've wanted him to obsess more, write on his board, go all genius madness on us even if the case wasn't all that difficult. Point is, he's not the jerk they've made us believe he is in this episode. So what did he do when he was with Stacy pre-infarction? Shoot heroin when the going got rough? Really, writers? Really? If anything I would think Cuddy has more balls than Stacy especially when dealing with him which she's had to do for years.
I'm sorry for the excessive rant. This comes from a place of deep frustration. I am off to dust my keyboard and get back to fan-fiction. The real world sucks.
P.S. a note 5) I don't even see how they think this can be square 1 again. Square 1 was brilliant. He was an addict. He was snarky. He and Cuddy played off of each other perfectly because they almost had hope that one day they would end up in bed together. There was sexual tension, delicious anticipation. Now we're at season 6 levels of tension, where Cuddy is not into it, but he's trying. Which is pathetic and rather painful to watch if you ask me.
I'm starting to think more and more of quitting the show, but I'm not a quitter by nature. Come to think of it, I do quit all shows that become uncomfortable for me to watch. Hmm. Let's see if the next few episodes will inspire my loyalty. I'm doubtful from the preview, but as House put it "a girl can dream".