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The House episode Euphoria, Pt II sees Foreman having contracted an obscure and deadly illness. He attempts to infect Cameron through an infected needle, and doesn’t succeed, but it was an illustration of his abject selfishness; forget that I may have given her a death sentence, it will make her work harder to cure me.

When Foreman’s illness becomes critical, he asks Cameron, doctor-to-doctor, to be his power-of-attorney. All the things he saw in her that were weak - her conservatism, … READ MORE

I can’t stop watching House, M.D. It gives me too much material for this site. This post contains spoilers for this past week’s episode “Top Secret”.

This week’s episode featured a main plot, a B plot, a C plot and a couple of B-cups. The main plot was House trying to save a Marine he’d never (supposedly) seen before, but about whom he’d dreamed the night before. (Kept trying to tell him it was just Buffy’s old boyfriend, … READ MORE

I wasn’t entirely intending to focus entirely on issues of sexual assault on television, though having volunteered counseling survivors for almost four years, it does tend to be on my mind. Last week’s episode of House (”One Day, One Room”), which I finally watched last night, is making me change my mind.

I mentioned in one of my posts on Veronica Mars that women who’ve been assaulted react in many different ways. You’d think that people who have been … READ MORE

I finally got around to watching last week’s House episode, which thankfully wrapped up the show-wrecking Tritter arc, and I couldn’t help but notice: Cameron was practicing medicine again.   While other people were distracted by personal issues.   And she wasn’t in my face the whole time.   She did give House a big silly girly hug, but instead of seeming shippy, it just felt like her usual childish idealism… which I could accept as characterization if they made … READ MORE

Liz Friedman of Xena fame has written three episodes of House.   Last week’s was “Merry Little Christmas”, in which Cameron managed somehow to keep her mind on cases, visit House and tend a wound without making googly teenage crush eyes at him, and basically stay out of the story’s way.

Before that was an episode called “Forever”, in which Cameron actually practices medicine instead of letting herself be drawn into a debate over her last-episode decision to order a dangerous … READ MORE

THIS POST CONTAINS A MAJOR SPOILER FOR LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE, INFORMED CONSENT.

I give up. I know I said last week I kinda liked Cameron for one episode, but this week it was back to the same old. However, she did cough up another symtom that aided me in my differential diagnosis for why she sucks so much more than Foreman and Chase.

It’s because the writers just won’t tell me her motive for anything. It’s none of my … READ MORE

Something extraordinary happened in this week’s episode of House, titled “Cane and Able”: I kind liked Cameron (Jennifer Morrison).

Which was strange because her behavior wasn’t that different from the usual: she got a bee in her bonnet about something and proceeded the crusade about it for the episode. The difference was, for once she got to make the argument the audience was meant to sympathize with, instead of playing the foil to House.

Then I realized there was just less … READ MORE

I’ve been thinking lately about an argument that often gets raised when I mention a woman character behaving like a stereotype: that there are men on the show doing the same things, therefore it’s not a statement against women, it’s just how some people are. It’s a valid consideration, one I always make before declaring characterization to be stereotyping. For me, the deciding factor is whether you explained to me why the character is the way she is, … READ MORE

I watched an episode of House called “Skin Deep” last night, and instead of having to look for potential meta-messages, I found the message right in the dialog: “the ultimate woman is a man.”

House is treating a 15 year old female supermodel who turns out to be chromosomally male. Don’t ask me about the science: according to this website about intersex conditions, the science was wrong and offensive, anyway. But to give you the story’s context, House talks … READ MORE

As much as I love House, I have this creepy feeling of déjà vu whenever I see Cameron: she’s very clearly everything many Stargate fans felt Sam Carter became.

She has no leadership skills. She crushes on her boss, sometimes in a sugary teenage way, sometimes as a stalker (a dichotomy I’ve never seen a sane, stable person exhibit). She’s so repressed and uncertain who she is that when a drug-using HIV patient tells her how freeing his … READ MORE