I am sooo mad at House, MD. I truly hate being invested in canon ships, they’re always written in ways that will wreck me at the end, whenever I actually care.
But this fuckery is just out of this world.
After six full seasons of will they/won’t they build up and tension, House/Cuddy finally sails and it… only lasts for less than half a season? Not even a full season, much less… for the rest of the show (which, at this point, is only one more season), which would be the… normal… course of action. That’s the formula. You draw the will they/won’t they out, then they get together and stay together to the end. One of the few times I actually care about a canon ship and they break the formula.
And in such a dumb manner, at that. That’s what makes me so mad.
He relapses after she nearly dies and she breaks up with him because she… forgot… that he’s an addict? What? She literally said that. And it’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
That can be a reason for a break-up, if the characters met and got together when the addict had already been long sober and the other character never actually had to deal with the ugly side of being an addict.
But Cuddy’s been there from the beginning. Before the beginning, even. She’s known House since before he became an addict, she’s been there and seen why and how he became one and for the past six full seasons, we saw her deal with him as an addict, at his worst and his best and his phase of trying to get sober.
Yes, he was sober when the two got together, but they literally got together when he was about to relapse. She caught him with the pills in his hand. From the moment their relationship started, she knew how fragile his sobriety is. And from far before that, she knew that he’s an addict.
And when he actually does relapse, she… immediately dumps him.
And I’m sorry, but it’s narrativly stupid, after all this build-up and after all we know these two characters have gone through, after everything Cuddy knows about House. It makes no sense for this character to act that way now.
Lisa Cuddy is one of two characters who absolutely know the depths of House. Her and Wilson have been there through all of this, put up with all of this. She’s put up with worse than this. And all of a sudden, she remembers that he’s an addict?
That’s bullshit. The Cuddy who has seen House through everything, the Cuddy who got together with him while he was holding the pills two seconds from relapsing, that Cuddy would not have just… dropped him, when he relapses. Because she fundamentally knew what she was getting into; that’s why this was a six seasons build-up, because she always had doubts.
And they were so good while they lasted.
This show really bothered to sober House up, made him get his act together, let those two be together and instead of using the relapse as a fragile point from which they, together, need to recover, decided that that should be the breaking point? That’s stupid and not satisfying to watch at all, because it truly does feel like it contradicts all this show had set up around Cuddy and the House/Cuddy dynamic so far.
And then he hits rock-bottom and he hits it hard and acts even worse than ever before because oh no we can’t have House be happy or recover, despite setting him up as happy and recovered, we gotta have him be the biggest asshole around and we need him miserable.
No, you don’t. Especially not so close to the end anyway…
