[ SECRET POST #324 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #324 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 09 pages, 210 secrets from Secret Submission Post #047.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 ] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, November 26th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

It's fine that you dislike Cameron, but just like enfeebledchi, you're presenting your subjective opinions about Cameron as facts about her character.

Cameron is just that--a ridiculously flawed character whose flaws are paraded to us as signs that we should adore her.

You may see this as a fact, but I have never thought that Cameron's emotional neediness, self-righteousness, inconsistent ideals, and difficulty having healthy relationships with, um, anybody (even her patients) were "paraded to us as signs that we should adore her." To me, they seemed to be flaws as clear as Chase's authority issues and House's cruelty.

It's true that other shows often present us with a character like Cameron to be the emotional and moral "heart" of the show, but that's no reason to assume that House, a show notorious for intentionally flawed character, intends to do the same thing with Cameron.

Also:

For example, she does know that she's bad at breaking bad news to patients. However, she doesn't do anything about it...

Your examples are both drawn for the first or early second season. Cameron seems to have overcome this particular flaw by the middle of the third season at the latest, where she has no problem telling a terminal patient that he has the same type of cancer as her patient in "Acceptance." I thought that was intended to show us that she had dealt with that particular issue.

Personally, I love Cameron; I think the particular nature of her trouble relating to people is very interesting and I love seeing the moments when she manages to break through it and be sane, competent, and together. I also think the show treats her fairly. For example, sure, she blackmails House into a date because she's desperate to have a Happy Fun Healing Relationship, but she doesn't get rewarded for it. It does not turn out the way she wants, and she winds up miserable and humiliated.

But not everyone is going to like her. I know that. I just dislike the double standard that's often applied to her, sometimes because of gender issues, sometimes, more understandably, because of bad experiences in other fandoms ("oh, no, not another sweet and kind female who turns out to be the Heart Of The Show...wait, and this one's a total bitch, too! Grrr!"), and sometimes for shipping reasons (Cameron seems to be rather furiously reviled by both House/Wilson and House/Cuddy fans).