Hey, Foreman, What's Up?
Oct. 16th, 2016 10:50 amMy memories from the last time I watched House are hazy, but I had definitely not forgotten the episode 'Autopsy'. A terminally ill nine-year-old girl asks Chase for a kiss because she's afraid she isn't going to get one before she dies, and he actually does it (just a peck, I should probably clarify) because he is Robert Chase and he makes the absolute worst decisions.
The kiss itself has always made for uncomfortable viewing, but it's much worse now that I'm closer to Chase's age than to Andie's. CHASE. CHASE, THIS IS SUCH A BAD IDEA. I realise you're trying to be kind, but seriously.
(Characters who make catastrophically terrible decisions tend to be amongst my favourites to this day. I wonder whether that started with Chase.)
(EDIT: It's now 2020 and I have realised it definitely did not start with Chase; it started with James Sunderland. Oh, dear.)
In the second-series House episode 'Spin', Wilson and Cameron have a guilty talk about their respective sexual/emotional affairs in their marriages.
'They would have such regrettable sex,' Rei observed.
They really would, and I'm now extremely sad that Wilson and Cameron never canonically had miserable, guilty sex (or at least they didn't when I was watching). It would have been amazing.
I was never especially into Cameron/Chase as a pairing (because it wasn't Cameron/Foreman, grumble grumble), but on this rewatch I'm finding that their scenes together tend to be pretty great. My favourite scene in the entire first series was Cameron giving Chase a lengthy monologue on sex while Chase stares at her and quietly dies inside. And, although the circumstances are a bit uncomfortable, I love Chase's '???????????????' expression when he goes to her apartment in 'Hunting' and she immediately pushes him up against the wall. (The only good-quality video I could find was this one, which has a slightly odd aspect ratio. Warning for impaired consent; one party is high. Chase really isn't coming off well in this entry.)
My problem with House is that the characters I'm most interested in are House's underlings. I want to focus on Chase and Cameron and Foreman, but House very much wants me to focus on House himself. House's barbs are amusing, and I don't think the show would work without him, but he's probably the character who interests me the least. Each of his underlings is a terrible mess of complicated issues, and they interact with each other in ways that bring out even more issues, whereas I feel House takes less digging; he's grumpy, sarcastic and ruthless, just as he appears on the surface. Wilson definitely falls into the 'fascinating mess of a person' category, but he gets very little screentime. I wish he interacted with House's underlings more often.
The kiss itself has always made for uncomfortable viewing, but it's much worse now that I'm closer to Chase's age than to Andie's. CHASE. CHASE, THIS IS SUCH A BAD IDEA. I realise you're trying to be kind, but seriously.
(Characters who make catastrophically terrible decisions tend to be amongst my favourites to this day. I wonder whether that started with Chase.)
(EDIT: It's now 2020 and I have realised it definitely did not start with Chase; it started with James Sunderland. Oh, dear.)
In the second-series House episode 'Spin', Wilson and Cameron have a guilty talk about their respective sexual/emotional affairs in their marriages.
'They would have such regrettable sex,' Rei observed.
They really would, and I'm now extremely sad that Wilson and Cameron never canonically had miserable, guilty sex (or at least they didn't when I was watching). It would have been amazing.
I was never especially into Cameron/Chase as a pairing (because it wasn't Cameron/Foreman, grumble grumble), but on this rewatch I'm finding that their scenes together tend to be pretty great. My favourite scene in the entire first series was Cameron giving Chase a lengthy monologue on sex while Chase stares at her and quietly dies inside. And, although the circumstances are a bit uncomfortable, I love Chase's '???????????????' expression when he goes to her apartment in 'Hunting' and she immediately pushes him up against the wall. (The only good-quality video I could find was this one, which has a slightly odd aspect ratio. Warning for impaired consent; one party is high. Chase really isn't coming off well in this entry.)
My problem with House is that the characters I'm most interested in are House's underlings. I want to focus on Chase and Cameron and Foreman, but House very much wants me to focus on House himself. House's barbs are amusing, and I don't think the show would work without him, but he's probably the character who interests me the least. Each of his underlings is a terrible mess of complicated issues, and they interact with each other in ways that bring out even more issues, whereas I feel House takes less digging; he's grumpy, sarcastic and ruthless, just as he appears on the surface. Wilson definitely falls into the 'fascinating mess of a person' category, but he gets very little screentime. I wish he interacted with House's underlings more often.
