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⌈ Secret Post #3484 ⌋

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Comments

[herpymcderp]

I think you're missing the point re: Cameron. She was just the first of many to morally oppose House. It was basically a running theme of the show that at some point his particular interpretation of medical ethics (or lack thereof) was going to be his downfall. Cameron was put there especially to be hated, true, but she was fulfilling a role that was foreshadowing for how the rest of the series was going to go. If I recall correctly eventually House winds up alienating more or less all of his colleagues and most of his friends with his moral choices, and those who don't leave wind up leaving because they themselves were more morally bankrupt.

That moral compass character doesn't always have to be a woman, but it's lazier to write because of the nagging wife stereotype [see: Skyler in Breaking Bad (although she subverts the trope), what'sherface in TWD, etc].

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think we were supposed to hate Cameron. She was a different viewpoint to House, yes, but I think the writers intended for us to love her. The problem with Cameron was that there were quite a few times where she was pretty clearly wrong. Like that episode where she tried to force a dying woman to tell her girlfriend who was about to donate her kidney she wanted to break up with her. And the episode makes it seam like we're actually supposed to agree with her (House doesn't, but he clearly just cares about finding out what was wrong with her). The only reason it doesn't happen is because House intervenes and then we find out the girlfriend actually knew. But never once does the episode suggest that Cameron was completely, utterly wrong and had no right at all to do what she did. And yet we're still supposed to see her as the moral compass.

[herpymcderp]

Nooooo. We were never supposed to love her. She was uptight, no fun, and much later found to be blatantly acting in her own self-interest while pretending it was for the good of others. Initally she was more or less there to rain on House's charming first season parade. The only reason it seems that way is because the views she espoused were more in line with the weird, vaguely liberal Christian values that the show actually did push, but the character was not someone we were supposed to like.

House is always the one we were supposed to like. We are supposed to find people who get in his way annoying at best or detestable at worst because they're foiling his ~genius~ (easy to write when for the first how many seasons he is literally always right).

The show did try to give her a little more complexity by making her make mistakes in her later seasons, like the one you just mentioned, it was sort of too little too late when she was set up to be a character foil from day one.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I'm with you, I always saw Cameron as someone we were supposed to love, and it might have worked better if she wasn't so horrifically judgmental and stubbornly trying to force everyone into matching her ideals.