Has House (or other main characters) Changed?

[barefootpuddles.livejournal.com]

One of House's mottos, and David Shore's themes, is that "people don't change". Yet for some of us, there is some compelling evidence that this may not be true.[Poll #1821759]


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Comments

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

This. The three main characters (House, Cuddy, Wilson) have all behaved in incredibly inconsistent ways. House's violence came out of nowhere, as did Wilson's sinking to agony aunt in S7, and Cuddy — oh Cuddy. (weeps)

[rslhilson.livejournal.com]

So true. S7 messed up everything, didn't it? And I liked old-school Cuddy. =/ Re: Wilson, I hate that he's been reduced to the joke of the show, despite the cute scenes we're getting out of it. The Hilson friendship worked because he was always able to hold his own with House and the support went both ways, and now...well, anyone remember him sitting stupidly on the couch while House and Foreman went to the boxing match? Such a waste of talent, and of what used to be a really compelling, multi-layered character.

[barefootpuddles.livejournal.com]

Re: Cuddy.

I do feel she changed but I think it could be realistically connected with life events like falling in love with House around the same time she became a mother. It seems to have shifted something in her, causing her to lose her edge and destroy her confidence. I have seen infertility due that to women, as well as loving the wrong guy. It sometimes seems that otherwise confident, powerful women can be hit tremendously hard when motherhood and love doesn't come easily after a lifetime of being successful in other endeavors.

It is a shame though that TPTB did that too her even if it could be realistic as she was such an awesome character when she had her confidence.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

(Maybe I'm lucky, because my infertile friends didn't go that way.)

I don't see how maternity or love(?!) can bring anyone to such crazy behavior. Her dumping Lucas and starting a relationship with House was disgraceful (feel free to call me a bigot there). And her sexual manipulation was so OoC I can't believe it.

Plus, what she showed is not love. I am sorry, but if you love an ex addict and he relapses under extreme stress you help him, you don't throw him under the bus. Well, yet another case of my moral compass being all skewed. Ignore my craziness.

Still, we do agree that Cuddy was an awesome character: a powerful, mature woman, able to keeo a hospital AND House under control, and they destroyed her.

[barefootpuddles.livejournal.com]

Re: House.

I can't really explain the violence that came out on season 7's finale. A lot of the other stuff about House seemed to change on an episode to episode basis, so I had pretty much come to accept that House's personality was the most fluid of anyone's. How he acted was connected to how much emotional and/or physical pain he was in in any particular episode. But to visit violence towards someone he loves, well....I just never, ever saw that in him. He usually turned that kind of anger inward. The episode where he smashed Wilson's posters seemed out of character to me too. It would have been a great storyline if House had turned out to have a brain tumor. The way it was written instead was one big WTF? on the character of House IMHO.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

IYHO, and also IMHO. I wish I could have said it so well myself.

[pgrabia.livejournal.com]

The episode where he smashed Wilson's posters seemed out of character to me too. It would have been a great storyline if House had turned out to have a brain tumour.

So true, a tumour from the use of the experimental drug, for instance, or a pheochromocytoma causing an upsurge of adrenalin resulting in severe irritability, rage outbursts, and emotional instability. Heck, we could have had some awesome H/W as Wilson recognized it, diagnosed House and tried to convince him that something was wrong with him beyond being angry over being dumped by Cuddy. It would even explain his crashing into Cuddy's house because it was such a sudden, impulsive, uncharacteristic raging behaviour for him. The writers could have actually made some sense out of he nonsense but decided to make things worse and assassinate House's character at the same time.