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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[alternatealto.livejournal.com]

I voted for "at least one person has changed during the show's run for no good reason" (although some may dispute the second half of the statement).

Cuddy.

Cuddy went from a more-or-less competent person who was House's boss first, a somewhat tolerant friend second, and a possible source of UST a long way third, to an unbelievably incompetent bitch-on-wheels with baby rabies. For no good reason that I could discern, except to force Huddy down the throats of the collective viewership.

I liked and admired the Cuddy of the first three seasons or so. But by the end of S7, the word "loathing" but faintly describes my feelings about her. The writers did a hatchet job on her character of unequaled proportions, and definitely changed it massively, shoveling in a whole bunch of retconned nonsense to try to make it seem as if she had always been that way.

"People don't change" -- it is to laugh.

[barefootpuddles.livejournal.com]

I managed to continue to like Cuddy even through season 6 with a few exceptions. I had assumed that once they slept together they would both be able to move on so I still had hope come season 7. I think the Huddy stuff was so poorly handled that it was hard for many serious Cuddy fans (and even some Huddy fans) to still enjoy a favorite character. That said, I still manage to miss her.

I feel the way you do about Cuddy, about Cameron, only in reverse. Early seasons had me cringing when she was on screen. Eventually she morphed into a likeable character that I wished the show had kept. But they completely changed her personality to do that.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

Thinking about Cuddy-that-was makes me weep.
In fact, had Cuddy remained the character she was, I think she would have been a very suitable partner for House. Wilson weeping his heart out as best man at their wedding, heartbroken since Cuddy had managed to make House keep Vicodin and alcohol use under control and thus enhanced his brilliant mind would have been perfect.