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The show though very oftenly seems to be omnicient, is very often told through House's point of view. You are given only little snipets of others' lives through House's eyes and have to make similar opinions as to him since what we see is limited by his perspective. If you need evidence of this watch a House and Cuddy scene in either, "Half Wit," or "97 seconds," the camera literally takes on House's eyes as he watches Cuddy's ass move out of view. If
Let me give you an example, Tritter. Everyone who watches the show, I realize this is a generalization but I think I'm safe here, hates Tritter. But why do we hate Tritter? We hate Tritter because House hates Tritter, we never see Tritter alone and we never find out what truly drives him, we only see his interactions with House and because those are less than friendly, we are manipulated into hating him. So in conclusion this article will be focusing on how the House and Cuddy relationship developed over the seasons and how House's change of opinion about Cuddy has influenced our own opinion of Cuddy. Season 1- Cuddy the pain in the ass We start season 1 with the writers busily setting up the storyline and the mottos of the show. Season 1 is an exposition to a lot of things in the show and is certaintly an exposition for all of the characters. But since this is an article about Huddy lets focus on that. Cuddy at this point in time is known as House's boss. This title includes all of the following: Stopping House from doing dangerous procedures Making House follow protocol Forcing him to do clinic duty Making him take cases Submitting to Vogler and making House's life difficult Basically having to be the bad guy to keep order in the hospital Cuddy in season 1 comes off as a bit of a pain in the ass because she constantly has to stop House from doing something and makes his life difficult. We get this impression about her because that's what House sees her as. The viewers understand Cuddy's motives, trying to
Cuddy: Guy gives $100 million to cure cancer, pretty small concession to wear a lab coat. House: Cure cancer. Is the hospital getting out of the dull business of treating patients? Cuddy: You know that’s not what he’s doing. House: I know exactly what he’s doing. He’s using us to run clinical trials. Cuddy: Oh, shame on him! Saving lives like that! House: [entering his office] It’s unethical. [Cuddy follows.] Oh, are you coming in, too? I thought I had you convinced. Cuddy: Clinical trials save thousands of lives. House: He’s using patients as guinea pigs. Cuddy: Pharmaceutical companies do that every day. House: Are we a pharmaceutical company? We’re gonna wind up pressuring desperate patients into choices that are bad for them, good for us. You’re gonna compromise patient care. Cuddy: Who the hell am I talking to? Suddenly ethical lapses are a major concern for you? House: What’s interesting is it suddenly doesn’t bother you.
Cuddy: So, if you ignore ethics to save one person it’s admirable, but if you do it to save a thousand you’re a bastard. All he’s done is taken your game and gone pro. House: He’s not going to kill a few patients. He’s going to kill this hospital. Control, season 1, episode 14 Their relationship is not all bad though. The first season does set up a certain amount of tension between the two and has small sweet moments like in "The Socratic Method," when Cuddy wanted to give House a card but throws it in the trash instead. Its obvious the tension going on is more than hatred, as Wilson sees in "Occam's Razor", but most of us deem the House and Cuddy relationship of season 1 as merely a battle of the titans. Wilson: What’s with you and her? House: Don’t. Wilson: Do you have a thing for her? The only people who can get to you –(interupted by House)
Occam's Razor, season 1, episode 3 But our opinion changes about Cuddy about halfway through the season once her character has been established and the viewers are introduced to a evil far greater than Cuddy, Vogler. When she risks loosing her job for House in a board vote, suddenly our view of Cuddy is boosted, as is House's view of her. From now on Cuddy will be viewed in a different light. Season 2- Cuddy the intriging enigma After Cuddy puts her job on the line for House, he and we suddenly find Cuddy a much more interesting character because it seems she is more on House's side than we first anticipated. That action suddenly opens up a new fascination in her character and suddenly she appears more frequently in episodes as House's interest in her grows. The first episode we truly get to know Cuddy in is "Humpty Dumpty" in which we see how Cuddy deals with a personal attachment
Cuddy: All of his symptoms are caused by his underlying problem and the medicine we gave him. House: What underlying problem? You have no idea what the underlying problem is. Cuddy: You’re the diagnostician. House: Fine. It’s all my fault. Does that make you feel better? Cuddy: His hand still has an arterial pulse. House: His hand is a cesspool. And the crap is spreading. Cuddy: You are being pretty aggressive about destroying a man’s livelihood. House: Don’t give a damn about his livelihood. Cuddy: He lose that hand, he loses his job. All of his jobs. He’s not like us. House: He can’t work as a cripple? [Cuddy is shocked by that statement, but recovers.] Cuddy: He loses his home, his kid brother drops out… House: American dream destroyed. Very sad, very emotional. Not one medical fact in the whole pathetic tale. You’ve lost perspective, Cuddy. You’ve stopped looking at this as a doctor. You’re acting like someone who shoved somebody off their roof. You want to make things right? Too bad. Nothing’s ever right. This arguement is a clash between House's objective look at what needs to be done to save Alfredo, the patient, and Cuddy's empathetic understanding of how cutting off his hand will destroy his quality of life, which already sucks. The viewers see for the first time Cuddy showing an emotional strand that normally as an adminstrator she doesn't show. The episode ends in a huddy scene where House analyzes Cuddy's actions ("No More Mr. Nice Guy" clearly was inspired by this scene):
House: Cuddy. [He turns to face Cuddy again.] House: Your guilt. It’s perverse, and it makes you a crappy doctor. It also makes you okay at what you do. Cuddy: You figure a perverted sense of guilt makes me a good boss? House: Now would the world be a better place if people never felt guilty? Makes sex better. [points to Stacy with his cane] Should have seen her in the last months of our relationship. Lot of guilt. Lot of screaming. I know this wasn’t just because it was your roof. Cuddy…you see the world as it is and you see the world as it could be. What you don’t see is what everybody else sees. The giant, gaping chasm in between. Cuddy: House, I’m not naïve. I realize— House: If you did, you never would have hired me. [Cuddy doesn’t answer.] House: You’re not happy unless things are just right. Which means two things. You’re a good boss. And you’ll never be happy. Humpty Dumpty, season 2, episode 3 House seems to understand Cuddy in a way most people can't. He manages to be able to pick out what is important to her and find the flaws in her personality which will forever make her miserable, he does this again in "No More Mr. Nice Guy." Suddenly we and House have a bigger picture of Cuddy, and therefore find her even more interesting not to mention the hint at the end of the episode that they may have slept together. "By the way, why does everybody think you and I had sex? Think there could be
The rest of season 2 consists of the usual banter between House and Cuddy as she tries in vain to make him follow hospital rules. House pushes the boundaries a bit more with her, flirting more, and messing with her more. Rather than just messing with her to get something done like before, he now messes with her just to mess with her. As House comes to like her more and more, we as the viewers also come to like her more and more. Season 2's Huddy cultimates into "Forever," and "Who's your Daddy?" House: Just admit that you like her. She's smart, funny, got a zesty bod. I think it's great you can look beyond the fact she's the devil. Wilson: I stole her spoon, you stole her garbage. Forever, season 2, episode 22 In "Forever" we see the first hint of jealously House has towards Wilson when Cuddy has asked him on a "date". The whole episode interaction between House and Wilson deals with whether Cuddy asked Wilson out on a date or not. House becomes very interested in Cuddy. He breaks into her office, steals her trash and then finally harreses her at the end about the Red Clover he found in her trash. We become very concerned in Cuddy's well-being because House suddenly becomes very interested, if House didn't care neither would we. That's why the possibility of her having Cancer made us, well me, freak. We as the viewers also got to see how much House pays attention to Cuddy and finally get the hint that his feelings toward her are a little bit more than casual flirting. House: You don't have cancer. Cuddy: You don't have dwarfism. House: You have no proof of that. I on the other hand, have this. [he hands her the results sheet] Cuddy: You ran a PCR on me without my consent? House: Hey, it's good news. Cuddy: Really? It's just hard to access because of this overwhelming sense of personal violation. House: Deal with it on your own time. Bad news, oestrogen is too high. Cuddy: No matter how many people you tell otherwise, I am and always have been a woman. Oestrogen is normal. House: Not this much, not for at least for another week. That's when you ovulate. Cuddy: You monitor my periods? Based on when I get bitchy or...? House: Once a month, when you leave the kids cancer ward, your eyes glisten. About three days later, you break your ban on sugar and chow down a bucket of frozen yoghurt in the cafeteria, sprinkles included. Based on the last yoghurt sighting, you've got another week before you ovulate. You're on fertility meds. With red clover as an herbal booster. [Cuddy starts to look upset] And the dinner with Wilson was an audition. It's too bad he didn't land the gig. He would have had fun. Cuddy: I was considering a donation, not a party. House: So... when's our "dinner"? [with accompanying hand gestures]
[And the sound of Wilson's voice can be heard outside Cuddy's office talking to her assistant, about to walk in] House: Oh he's going to be so disappointed. Cuddy: Right. You two are going to have a lot of fun with this. Forever, season 2, episode 22 "Forever" and "Who's your Daddy" serve to show the viewers a little more about Cuddy and reveal the woman behind the adminstrator. As House learns about Cuddy's desperate desire for a baby, we realize how very alone Cuddy is and this "last gasp at motherhood" may be her only chance to have a family. House realizes the gravity of this situation that Cuddy, somewhat blinded by her desire, does not see. Cuddy: The process is confidential. You violated his privacy! How did you even –
House: I looked up ‘loser’ in the cryo bank. You wouldn’t look within a hundred miles of that idiot, and yet you’re willing to have his baby. Cuddy: I’m not looking for a date, I’m tired of looking for a – ow! [House stabs her with the needle.] House: Cotton ball? I don’t care if you marry this guy, date this guy, go through his garbage, but you should know genes matter. Who you are matters. Find somebody you trust. Cuddy: Somebody like you? House: Someone you like. Who's your Daddy?, season 2, episode 23 What House is saying here, or at least what I can interpret, is that she shouldn't settle for just anything. House doesn't seem to think that this picking of "loosers" is good enough for Cuddy and it seems he thinks Cuddy should wait for the real thing. (at least that's what I think) Season 2 not only makes us more interested in Cuddy, it also allows the viewers to relate to Cuddy as more is revealed about her. As House becomes more obbessed with her, the more we as viewers find out. Season 3- Cuddy the object of desire
Season 3, the season of so much Huddy goodness it was amazing! Season 3 pushes the Huddy relationship further as we suddenly see House's desire for her in full. The viewers are entertained by masses of hilarious House and Cuddy moments and he suddenly uses "playground" politics to try and win Cuddy over. Again because of House's fanatics, the viewers are taught to enjoy seeing Cuddy on the screen due to the infamous moments to two bring when interacting. At the beginning of season 3 we see the possibility that House may have recovered the use of his leg, he stops taking Vicodin and seems to have changed as he actually cares about his patients. All that soon dissapears and his leg pain returns and with it a new, stronger addiction to Vicodin due to the bitterness of nearly escaping. Hence the "Tritter Arc" is born. The Tritter arc is the next step in how House's opinion of Cuddy changes. Although the beginning of the season was cute with scenes like, "You can't stop our love!" and the pregnancy jabs all of them resemble the regular House and Cuddy banter we were used to from the second season. The Tritter arc shows to House that Cuddy is indeed his ally, in fact the closest ally he's got. As House spirals out of control it is finally Cuddy who manages to snap House out of his little world. [Cuddy slams the file down on her desk] CUDDY: You're not impressing anyone, you may call yourself principled but what you really are is a stubborn adolescent idiot! This isn't his fault. HOUSE: I'm not the one who-- CUDDY: [Walking to wards House] YOU used the rectal thermometer on him, YOU insulted him
HOUSE: I accepted the deal! CUDDY: Not until after you stole a dead guy's pills. HOUSE: Allegedly. CUDDY: Tritter has been opening doors for you every step of the way and you keep slamming them shut. There are no more openings to give House, if you wanna stay out of prison you gotta make one for yourself [She goes to her desk and brings over a script and puts it in house's hand] Vicodin, you function better on it. Talk to him. Words and Deeds, season 3, episode 11 When Cuddy yells at House it finally brings him back to reality and he realizes the seriousness of his situation, which neither Wilson could do nor his team, we appreciate Cuddy in that respect as we see that she sees cleary for House as he once did for her. Not only does she wake him up, she also saves him. She purgers herself in court, risking both her medical license and going to jail to prevent him from loosing his medical license. She was once again his saviour when everyone else failed. As we as viewers see Cuddy come to House's rescue again, House realizes this and suddenly something very different starts happening with their relationship. After the "Tritter Arc" House suddenly spends a
Another trend we see in Cuddy that comes out in season 3 and continues into season 4 is Cuddy suddenly breaking down and not being the hard-ass boss she used to be. Suddenly, it seems, something is comprimising her judgements and she seems much more leniant than she used to be. Suddenly Cuddy has become House's enabler, which is not a good thing mind you. Cuddy: I have to tell him. He was right! Wilson: Why did you do it? Why did you think he might be right? Cuddy: Because he's House? Wilson: Medically, what made you think he was right? Cuddy: Nothing.
Wilson: He got lucky, that's all that happened. Telling him no was a good thing because next time he won't get lucky, he'll kill someone. Just because he was right doesn't mean he wasn't wrong. Meaning, season 3, episode 1 Cuddy: You win, you can have vicodin. [she shakes the bottle she's got in her hand and gives a rather funny grin] House: Words have set meanings for a reason, you see an animal like Bill and you try to play fetch, Bill's going to eat you because Bill's a bear. Cuddy: Are you on something? [House gives her a look that confirms her question] You got your hands on pain meds. Merry Little Christmas, season 3, episode 10 House: She doesn’t know me. In fact she doesn’t know anything except what you tell her. And you told her that you were never going to give me that space, didn’t you? Just tell me – do you at least feel a little guilty? If you want to teach me lessons, don’t make commitments you can’t keep. (Cuddy heads toward the hospital, House turns to parking lot. Wilson approaches) Wilson: How’s it going? House: How guilty does she look? Wilson: Hmm. About an eight. House: That space is mine. Veni, vidi, vici. Needle in a Haystack, season 3, episode 13
House: Nothing on the scan. I think it’s her nerves messing with the temperature control. Amyloid, sarcoid, there’s a lot of candidates. I want a biopsy. Cuddy: Fine. If that’s what you need, go get it. (when before she had said no, unless the patient showed neurological signs) Insensitive, season 3, episode 14 WILSON: House has to realize he needs someone who stands up to him. Cameron's in love with him, Chase is afraid of him, and I enable him. House needs limits. CUDDY: [protesting] I give him... WILSON: You authorize magic mushrooms. The Jerk, season 3, episode 23 Suddenly Cuddy gives in left, right and center constantly giving him what we wants and sometimes barely putting up a fight. Now I realize this is her trust in his medical ability but sometimes this blind faith in him can cause problems which is explored in "living the dream" which will be discussed later. Cuddy suddenly is viewed as a weaker character, submitting much easier to House t
Season 3 offered a lot of good Huddy moments which built up the sexual tension and had many fans excited for season 4. Season 3 showed the viewers House's jealous streak and also proved how Cuddy is a constant source of reliability for House. Season 4- Cuddy the submissive Season 4 was a brave step for the writers as they cast aside beloved characters and made way for new members to join the House MD family. The
A common trend in season 4 dealt with the idea that Cuddy was not the all powerful boss that season 1 made her out to be. Starting in season 3 and cultimating in season 4's "Living the Dream," Cuddy's new found blind trust in House suddenly becomes a much bigger issue. LISA CUDDY: Why are you here? GREG HOUSE: That's my patient down there. LISA CUDDY: You're here because I'm here. [confidently] I am done enabling you. GREG HOUSE: I know. [They stand and watch the surgery in silence. Cuddy cracks first.] LISA CUDDY: [without a pause] The alcohol didn't cause the pancreatitis, the internal bleeding did. The question is, what caused the internal bleeding? I hate myself. Alone, season 4, episode 1 CUDDY: I can fire him. I can fire him now. I can fire him tomorrow. I don't even need a reason.
HOUSE: She doesn't fire me, she never will fire me, she needs me. CUDDY: He's a good doctor. That's all. I respect his expertise, and I... HOUSE: She's hot for me. Always... PATIENT: Shut up! CUDDY: Well, that could have been either of us. PATIENT: [Looks at Cuddy.] You have great yabos. [House looks at Cuddy.] CUDDY: That still could have been either of us. [Looks at House.] HOUSE: You lose. CUDDY: Seriously... [House starts celebrating.] I have always thought my breasts were one of my best features. Mirror Mirror, season 4, episode 5 LISA CUDDY: What the hell did you do? GREG HOUSE: [shrugs innocently] You told me to hire Kutner and Taub. LISA CUDDY: Because I knew you wouldn't. GREG HOUSE: Oops. LISA CUDDY: I can't let you hire two men. GREG HOUSE: Now that is sexist. LISA CUDDY: You've already got Foreman. GREG HOUSE: Is he a dude? LISA CUDDY: [conceding] Hire a woman too. GREG HOUSE: Hire two women. LISA CUDDY: You can have the one that gives a crap about people. GREG HOUSE: [seriously] They both do. LISA CUDDY: Right. Hire "Thirteen". [House nods obediently. Cuddy starts to walk off. An evil smile forms on House's face. Cuddy stops midway to the door, suddenly understanding.] [CUE MUSIC: "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum.] LISA CUDDY: This was your plan all along.
[She turns to him. House keeps smiling. Cuddy chuckles at being had.] LISA CUDDY: Well, at least the games are over. GREG HOUSE: [sideways] How long have you known me? Games, season 4, epsiode 9 Cuddy: 100 milligrams of methylprednisilone is an overdose. House: We were wrong about the infection. He’s suffering from a severe allergic reaction. Cuddy: The team hasn’t finished the test for allergy. His symptoms don’t – House: In rare cases… Trust me. At the end of this conversation, I’m right.
Cuddy: Then confirm it. Get a blood test. House: What is it about this severe and deepening coma that makes you think we got time for protocol? Cuddy: Protocol has saved your patient from having his thyroid destroyed and his blood drained. House: If you think I’m wrong, tell me I’m wrong. Don’t talk about protocol. Cuddy: My job’s on the line. You’re job is on the line. House: Okay. Here’s what you do. You wait three minutes, then you call security. By the time they get here and lock me up, I’ll be done. He gets to live and your ass gets to be covered. Cuddy: If he dies, let me know. So I can pack my things. Living the Dream, season 4, episode 14 These quotes are used to prove how Cuddy's dominance over House is called into question come season 4. House at first finds it funny and a joke as he manages to overcome her in "Mirror Mirror", which only proved to the audience that she was suddenly a much more submissive character considering the Cuddy of season 1 would have kicked his ass. But come "Living the Dream", House realizes that this weakening is not all too great. House, and the viewers, are used to seeing Cuddy put House in his place and be his safe-guard against going too far. Sometimes his do anything to cure the patient attitude blinds him and he thinks desperate times call for desperate measures. He (and we) depend on Cuddy to stop him from going too far and killing somebody in his attempts to cure them. Season 3 and Season 4 saw her slowly starting to concede to his will and "Living the Dream," sees them both realize what is happening. Cuddy: Hello? House: Don’t hang up. What was the verdict? Cuddy: $200,000 fine. House: You should have been fired. Cuddy: Good night, House. House: There are bubbles in his glass. Cuddy: Can’t this wait until – House: My patient is allergic to quinine. [Cuddy turns on the light and sits up.] Cuddy: And you got this from bubbles? House: The symptoms started two months ago. It’s also when Brock started downing gin and tonics like a Brit staving off malaria. The gin was fake. The tonic was real. Cuddy: And tonic water is loaded with quinine. Huh. Nice job. House: You should’ve been fired. Living the Dream, season 4, episode 14 Season 4 may have been a bit slow for Cuddy but a
SEASON 4 FINALE- CUDDY THE STRIPPER...I MEAN THE CARING Ok, so I had to do one section on the finale since it had a lot of Huddy scenes and left us with a very touching moment that every Huddy fan spazzed over. But besides the spazzing, the finale actually told us as the viewers a lot of things, though obvious to the 'huddy trained eye', were finally admitted in the finale. First of all the most obvious one......House wants to have sex with Cuddy. If the stripper pole dance didn't give that away to everyone then I don't know what can. The fact that he
Luckily for me, the rest of the episode, Cuddy's actions anyway, made me feel a little better. She came to his apartment to personally look after him and make sure he got the rest he needed. This says a lot with such a simple action. We as viewers have never seen Cuddy invited into House's apartment, and she stays the night. This shows a comfortableness between the two, and once again shows the viewers that Cuddy cares very much about House's well-being, though again many people will have already admitted to themselves.
Lastly for House's head, further proof of Cuddy's caring for House. The way her voice broke at the end of the episode after she gave him mouth to mouth the, "You idiot, your heart stopped." Showed us all how scared she really was. Alright moving onto "Wilson's Heart." JAMES WILSON: That wouldn't be there if you hadn't... LISA CUDDY: It's where the disease was going. We needed to know that. [House gets up and walks away from the argument near his table.]
GREG HOUSE: [to himself] Inside voices. LISA CUDDY: House wanted to warm her up. You just guilted him into changing his mind. [Wilson sighs. Cuddy goes over to House.] LISA CUDDY: Heart, liver, rash, and now her brain. GREG HOUSE: Autoimmune fits best. Crash trauma could've set it off. Start her on prednisone, then we'll warm her up again. [sits] JAMES WILSON: House, if this is some other infection, the steroids will trash her immune system. [Cuddy looks at House. House looks away. Cuddy turns to Wilson, putting her hand on his shoulder.] LISA CUDDY: [softly] He's the attending. You're the family. Go spend more time with the patient. Wilson's Heart, season 4, episode 16 When House feels the pressure of Wilson's demands for caution, Cuddy steps in and reminds Wilson of where he stands on this issue. She helps House by doing the very thing he needed to do, warm Amber up, but was afraid to because of Wilson. Cuddy suddenly becomes the boss we used to know her as, putting Wilson in his place, and although she feels for Wilson she realizes that House needs his space to work best. The viewers are reminded of the "bad guy" character Cuddy could be from season 1. LISA CUDDY: Hey, I'm here. Blink if you can hear me. [House blinks absent-mindedly.] # There are things that drift away #
[Cuddy sighs deeply in relief. House inhales, about to say something.] LISA CUDDY: No, shh, don't try to talk. Just rest. [House closes his eyes.] This scene again says a lot. When House wakes up, the only person there for him is Cuddy. She's the one he wakes up to and as bainmoussant put so well a while back the amber scene ends with ,"well you can't always get what you want," and then we see Cuddy, which is "if you try sometimes you can get what you need." Coincidence? Its up to you. Anyway, this scene is further proof to the viewers about Cuddy's feelings for House, now displayed quite openly for both us and House to see. Finally, we deal with the last scene as House mules over his new found situation with Wilson, the camera pulls out from Cuddy asleep in the chair next to his bed to reveal House and Cuddy holding hands. This was shocking, and incredibly touching. It was the second time the show has very blatantly shown House allowing an intimacy with another character. (Stacy being the first time) By allowing Cuddy to hold his hand, House has accepted her support. The finale finally showed to House and the viewers how much Cuddy cares about House's well being. Her tear stained face, and broken voice told everyone that she was worried about him, something we've never seen before.
Our perception of the characters is very much dependent on House's perception of them. As he sees characters differently we are taught to do the same. Cuddy's meaning to House changes with each season and so the importance of her character grows. Although she is not always seen in the best of lights and can sometimes be considered just "the boss", Cuddy is a character who is constantly brought under a different light because House's fasanation with her changes and evolves. As season 4 was wrapped up so nicely, many questions about the Huddy relationship are being asked, and frankly I have no idea what the writers are planning for us. The only thing I know for certain is that once again the viewer's perception of Cuddy will change because as long as House remains interested in her, the viewers will remain interested. |
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I love how you examined Huddy by season. I think you have hit the nail on the head with your analysis.
What particularly struck me though, was when you talk about how we see everything through "House's "rosy" colored glasses". I had never really thought about it that way before! For example, when you talk about why we hate Tritter, my theory had always been that I hated him because he was the uncharasmatic version of House, or House minus the flair! But I think your theory is more accurate. We hate him because House hates him and we are looking at the world the way House looks at the world. I think that it is subtle, but definately there. That is such an interesting way to look at the show!
Once again, great job on this article!
I agree with 100% of what you said ! This really shows how well you know Dr Lisa Cuddy ! She's my favorite character so I had a great time reading this ! Thank you for writing this =D
I never realized how much Cuddy changed.I never noticed her become 'softer'
Excellent job oldmovie!
I agree with you 100%
This shows how much you love and know Cuddy.
Excellent Excellent Excellent
Superb Awesome job!
Cuddy,House,and Huddy.
I knew House had feelings for her,but I never realized how much he had feelings for her.There are not enough stars for this article
Minimum star limit:
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Basically just...WOW. You did an incredible job on this!! This article is so interesting, and it also made me 100000000 times more excited for season 5 which I didn't even think was POSSIBLE!!!!!
xoxo
Again, though, great article and even given the above I definitely think that the heart of this, the evolution of House's as well as our own perspective on Cuddy is spot on.
p.s. i am soooooo giving you props for this!!!!
The one and only part that irks me though is the explanation on the Cuddy hallucination. Now I'll say it: "I LOVED that scene." And I can certainly understand why you would be "thrown into a tail-spin" by it but when I look back on that scene I realize some things missed at first glance. So yes, she is stripping, and yes that is most obviously for House's entertainment. Though what is she doing as she twirls around in that tight little costume? She's helping him, letting him bounce ideas off of her, keeping him focused long enough to get the problem figured out. And surprisingly by the activity at hand (House's idea of entertainment) I see a lot of Cuddy's character in the scene, in the sense that she's doing what she does best: uses her skills to serve her given situation, taking advantage of an oppertunity, giving House just enough to please him but more to what needs to be done. By the end of scene Cuddy is nearly naked on and almost on all fours before she snaps out of it, this tells me a lot about House thinks of Cuddy, him knowing full well that Cuddy may skate the thin ice of "the end justifies the means" (in other words if stripping gets House to figure out all the clues she'll gladly do it), and drawing the line between allowing House whatever he wants and knowing when to say "stop".
She's good at what she does, which he is VERY aware of, and that's what makes Cuddy stop before going any further. Cuddy knows that, despite a pouting episode, House will resign himself back to the interest in the case and not the glamor of a momentary distraction, which happens once Cuddy appears once more fully clothed and sitting next to him with the sardonic response to his desperate "Dance, woman!" along the lines of "because you'd rather be diagnosing. How sick is that?" Personally this scene says ALOT about what House thinks of Cuddy, whose willing to go the extra length for House to be himself while still maintaining a level of control in the situation, something I think House is (perhaps unknowingly) thankful for. :D
Other then that tid-bit paragraph I must say that your article is exceptional and that you should definitely continue with your article following the season 5 finale. Hope to see more!
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