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[doyle]

For those you can't or don't want to read the sides:



Patient of the week: Harvey, who's at the hospital with Annette, his dominatrix. He has aphasia and has already had several strokes. He gets off on being strangled. He lapses into a coma before he can consent to treatment, House has to talk the estranged parents into signing the forms.

House/Cameron: They go on a date. House claims this was the condition of her coming back to work for him. Foreman and Chase are betting on whether they'll have sex. (Cameron and House, that is, not F&C.) Foreman seems aghast at the idea House might actually *love* her. He tells Cameron the fable about the woman and the snake, which you may remember as the frog and the scorpion - it's the one that ends "you knew what I was when you picked me up".

There's a fun conversation between House, Wilson and an unnamed clinic patient about the House/Cameron relationship. The patient speculates about House's sexuality, while Wilson snerks about "her sweetness and gentle nature bringing him to a full understanding of his wounded heart." Then they both taunt him with "Greg and Allison, sittin' in a tree" *g*

Very odd moment with Harvey's parents - dialogue says that the parents hate him, even though Harvey still loves them. Cameron comments on how dysfunctional that type of relationship is. Stage direction: "House sees himself in the parents, and Cameron in the child."

O... kay. Paging Dr. Oedipus.

House and Cuddy have a moment before the date with Cameron. She says "Allison's probably the only female who could tolerate you" and advises him to wear the blue shirt, since it makes him look "almost handsome".

Other stuff: the B-plot is about an elderly couple trying Viagra. There's a line I love about how hard it is for high school girls to hang on to their virginity (House laments that his high school girlfriend had no problem doing so)

Comments

[voleuse.livejournal.com]

::cries::

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*pets* Are you crying for lack of Chase/Cameron?

[voleuse.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, no. Just...Cameron/House squicks me. Hardcore. I can't explain it.

Ah, well. At least the rest are snarky about it.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking this episode may be the swift death of House/Cameron. The fact that he sees them as comparable to an abusive parent and a kid desperate for love doesn't sound like the beginning of a healthy relationship.

[briargate.livejournal.com]

I've just spent two days trying to convince myself wanting to go looking for House spoilers...

I liked subtext-y House/Cameron. This? Not so much. But that's possibly because now I won't be satisfied by anything less than House/Wilson/Cuddy/Corvette.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

The One True Foursome dreams are made of!

[briargate.livejournal.com]

It is!

And I've just realised the first of my comment made absolutely no sense at all. Brain cells dying... New medication is fun! :D

howdy

[vivycakes.livejournal.com]

ooh..swoon.

hello. i'm on the house_md lj community.
i don't mind house/cameron. i wonder if it's kind of early to have them date. with most shows i can remember, when the characters start dating early on, their relationship never lasts long enough...and doesn't end well or just fizzles out pointlessly..however this show is great so i remain optimistic for the future..:P

Re: howdy

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Hi!

with most shows i can remember, when the characters start dating early on, their relationship never lasts long enough...and doesn't end well or just fizzles out pointlessly..

That's what I'm thinking too. I think the writers know what they're doing with this: the House/Wilson/patient conversation really sounds as if the writers have been reading the boards - there's Wilson snarking about Cameron's love saving House, while the patient says that if House doesn't sleep with her he has to be gay.

[asta77.livejournal.com]

I decided to take a look at your LJ after seeing your post (more specifically, your icon ;) over at sweet_ali's LJ. I sat here for a moment debating on whether to read these spoilers or not. I haven't looked at detailed spoilers for any show since the sixth season of Buffy. But, then I figured I don't have any big hopes that could be dashed at this point, so why not?

It sounds like it has the potential to be a more light hearted ep. I say light hearted by 'House' standards. I do wonder though if this is just the beginning of a H/C relationship or the end of it?

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm not the only person checking out folk with House icons *g*

It sounds like it has the potential to be a more light hearted ep.

That's the impression I got, especially because House is rattled for the first time. The Cameron thing's got him off-balance, and I like everyone else's reaction (Wilson teasing him, Chase and Foreman worried but still taking bets on the outcome, Cuddy being snarky but supportive).

I do wonder though if this is just the beginning of a H/C relationship or the end of it?

Could go either way. The dominatrix character, Annette, gives him a speech about trust in relationships and how total trust in someone (or them having that kind of trust in you) changes you as a person, and the directions read that House envies that despite himself.

When he sees Cameron and himself in Harvey and his parents, I'm not sure if it's meant to be "I treat her badly and she loves me anyway; maybe this *can* work out" or "I treat her badly and she loves me anyway; that's twisted and unhealthy and needs to end before she gets hurt." Given that the next line is Cameron commenting on how dysfunctional the family are, I'm guessing the latter, but I could be wrong. Guess we won't know till we see it...

[asta77.livejournal.com]

Last night as I was trying to fall asleep I found myself trying to suss all this out in my head. I'm having flashbacks to my Buffy fandom days when I would devour every spoiler and try to analyze what it meant weeks before the finished product aired. Of course that caused me many headaches because I would find myself in 'debates' with other spoiler whores who interpreted every spoiler in the worst possible way. In my experience, I found almost everything that seemed 'bad' on paper turned out OK on screen. My point is, yes, I'm taking a wait and see approach too. Facial expression and line readings will play a large part in how some of these lines come across. I'm just hoping if they are going with the H/C pairing for any length of time they can provide real reasons for it.

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

I'm reeeeeally hoping this episode is the beginning and end of the actual, real House/Cameron storyline. It's just...so not good in the long run. Thankfully, it seems Dr. House sees that. Cameron having feelings? Fine. House having a functioning relationship? So not fine. EVER.

Even though I love what you've told of the scene with Wilson. Because. Wilson/House 4EVAH! (With a side of House/Cuddy. And a little House/Chase. And House/Foreman. And House/Vicodin, of course.)