"I don't buy their 20 years long history" No, neither do I, as I think I complained to you before! A one-night fling with Cuddy followed years later by his five-year commitment to Stacey and then, Cameron's dogged, if initially rather naive devotion to him waking him up from his self-inflicted mainly monk-like existence, setting up the possibility of a relationship with Cuddy; that's what I see.
I don't think that it was until her attempts at IVF that their always evident sparking - off one another turned into something more than just one-upmanship at work. His very obvious jealousy that a real child would distract her from her 'mothering ' of him was what really set him off, I believe. Looked at from that point of view I suppose one might come to the conclusion that the relationship was unhealthy or at any rate, unequal, from the very beginning. He always had more to lose from it than her.
Were House and Cuddy "friends"? That's a good question! It brings up the old chestnut; can men and women ever really be 'friends' without considerations of sex coming into it? I don't think that the show as written demonstrated friendship between them in the sense of them interacting socially and the House of the early seasons is very much a loner save for Wilson. I can't see a way to show that relationship because I don't really believe in it, though people with more imagination than I might well do so!
If they were much more than antagonistic colleagues, would she have waited five years to start badgering him about not having any patients or doing any clinic hours? I know the story has to begin somewhere, so perhaps I'm being unreasonable!
As far as being a 'friend' in the sense of being concerned for him and in sticking up for him when things got tough-Vogler, Tritter etc- she passes with flying colours.
Oh, dear, you started me off and now I've gone on too long :) Still, your very welcome comments are always interesting, and as my partner-in-viewing will only say "I just watch it; I don't analyse it", it gives me the opportunity to do just that.
I don't think that it was until her attempts at IVF that their always evident sparking - off one another turned into something more than just one-upmanship at work. His very obvious jealousy that a real child would distract her from her 'mothering ' of him was what really set him off, I believe. Looked at from that point of view I suppose one might come to the conclusion that the relationship was unhealthy or at any rate, unequal, from the very beginning. He always had more to lose from it than her.
Were House and Cuddy "friends"? That's a good question! It brings up the old chestnut; can men and women ever really be 'friends' without considerations of sex coming into it?
I don't think that the show as written demonstrated friendship between them in the sense of them interacting socially and the House of the early seasons is very much a loner save for Wilson. I can't see a way to show that relationship because I don't really believe in it, though people with more imagination than I might well do so!
If they were much more than antagonistic colleagues, would she have waited five years to start badgering him about not having any patients or doing any clinic hours? I know the story has to begin somewhere, so perhaps I'm being unreasonable!
As far as being a 'friend' in the sense of being concerned for him and in sticking up for him when things got tough-Vogler, Tritter etc- she passes with flying colours.
Oh, dear, you started me off and now I've gone on too long :) Still, your very welcome comments are always interesting, and as my partner-in-viewing will only say "I just watch it; I don't analyse it", it gives me the opportunity to do just that.
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