I Was Watching House S6: Divorce Edition Last Night And I Think Im Getting Obsessed With These Episodes

i was watching house s6: divorce edition last night and i think im getting obsessed with these episodes because they are so nonsensical

like we know the point was to get cameron off the show. we know she got fired. she has seven episodes and she’s gone.

but it’s so weird. the whole thing is so out of character on almost every side. like people joke about cameron being weak for leaving chase after he murders a genocidal dictator, but that’s not even it? she goes weeks having no clue? meanwhile:

chase avoids her straight up. there’s this wonderful drawn out scene where house gives foreman one task and cameron another and they peel off in different directions and chase hesitates and follows foreman

it’s never once said why he is avoiding her btw. he doesn’t say “i’m worried she won’t approve” or “i want to protect her from the fallout of this” or “i’m mad because she put the idea in my head,” there’s nothing. no inkling why he does this.

he’s sleeping in the lounge and not at home. when he does come home he leaves on thin excuses. chase does not want to be anywhere near cameron. why?? no clue

cameron for her part doesn’t seem to notice or worry. about any of this. she mentions she knows something is wrong and asks chase if he’s ok. chase says yes. she says nothing else. this is weirdly understanding and hands off for CAMERON. did we forget the liver lesbians. did we forget her “we have to tell house about addison’s guy!!” s3 thing. this is the one time in cameron’s life she goes “this is none of my business” and it’s her husband’s mental breakdown

chase continues to exhibit red flags like refusing to go near the ICU, being so exhausted and out of it he’s not even trying to engage in the differentials. foreman and house realize it. they have the advantage of knowing why and the cause but again it is not subtle. chase also goes out and gets super drunk after his confession escapade, which is implied to not be normal behavior for him. cameron is shown to be worried but apparently sees no red flags??? chase continues to avoid her for unknown reasons???

like there’s several reasons we can handwave but it’s never stated or even implied. he just can’t stand to be around her.

finally cameron decides he’s having an affair. this makes no sense. she apparently calls him on it, as he has a moment where he’s defensive like "i told you i'm not!" it makes no sense because she’s ignoring all the red flags except for “he’s avoiding me.” like yes put it on the list but farther down than that cam.

it's at THIS POINT, 7 episodes in, that chase informs us that telling her is "dumping a burden on her forever." however he's ok with her thinking he's having an affair? except he isn't ok with it and actually is a bit mad about it? also again why is this cameron's first guess???? it would have been like my fifth. she KNOWS he was stressed about dibala dying she's not stupid even if she doesn't think it was murder what about "do you feel guilty a patient died? it's not your fault!"

he finally confesses. cue a whole long mess of them deciding to leave princeton together and cameron deciding she can “live with” (red flag!!) the murder if he’s sorry enough. chase then decides he’s not sorry enough.

this was another weird thing btw. he goes from about to confess to cuddy and being afraid of taking foreman down with him to getting mad at a priest and telling him he did the right thing. like what flipped the switch chase? is it just that he officially got away with it?

cameron then decides he’s been ruined forever and dumps his ass. now i will be fair. this is sort of set up. chase clearly picked the hospital over her when he started avoiding her for weeks on end. he’d already made the jump to i did the right thing. house covered up the murder and didn’t scold him for the choice; house also spends teamwork planting doubts in chase’s head and not bothering with cameron. chase already picked house. cameron is not wrong

but again. when and where did chase make that switch? why was he avoiding cameron? why is he suddenly now so desperate to have cameron's approval and not weeks ago? again we can handwave but it’s literally never stated.

why did cameron look at the past months of red flag behavior and clear depression and ptsd and go “you feel no remorse?” clearly he feels remorse! clearly he is affected! why is she so hands off here? why was he so afraid to tell her, and why was cameron so passive? she loves telling people how they feel! she loves fixing people and her husband just did her the favor of getting fucked in the head!

lockdown then throws eighteen more retcons onto the pile because it has chase and cameron agree that actually everything was her fault. she led him on and never loved him and was a broken human. never mind that cameron was usually (if not always correctly) presented as sympathetic and right and a poor darling. never mind that that has nothing to do with the divorce. cameron is too broken to love and that’s why they broke up.

i mean it’s clearly because chase is still on the show and cameron got fired but honestly it just pisses me off. i love cameron. she deserved better

my favorite characters are cameron and chase and you’d think that would make me ship them but the writing is just such a hot fucking mess it's just impossible. they literally GOT MARRIED and it's impossible

in conclusion i could write a better version in ten minutes and it makes me mad

yk, the thing abt cas (autistic icon) to me isn’t that i want to be him, it’s that he is me but i can’t be him. i don’t get social ques, or pop culture references, or sarcasm, or just people in general even tho i try to. and i’m squinty and mean looking and generally not approachable unless u actually know me. i am the canon version of cas, but hey guess what ableism is so deeply ingrained in our society that i cannot be that. i have to suffer through smile headaches and making myself look soft and approachable and interject at just the right times while keeping my mouth shut otherwise i’m the worst thing since sliced bread. i have to actively think about what my face is doing constantly cause if i don’t then i’m no longer socially acceptable. and then i see cas get to be me and be absolutely adored by so many people, the same people mind u would would h8 me if i wasn’t masking all the damn time, and it just pisses me off. ableism i will kill you with my bare hands.

Posting these tags separately because I Do think it's really interesting

Fascinating for an entity who cannot die to manifest himself into a creature who can, into his favorite creation. The only way he thought to save his people was to become them and then die in their place. That itself kinda says some stuff about the inherent good in people, I think. One that you are worth saving and the other that your existence isn't a mistake

Sorry, but if you refuse to see how happy and good Evan Buckley is with Tommy, you don’t truly like him as his own character, I’m afraid. A person who begged his parents to love him and hurt himself for their attention, who only felt wanted or valuable when he was useful, who was left by partners and called needy, who was even called exhausting (striking to the core of his insecurities). And after all that, he still gives and cares and has so much joy. Then, he finds Tommy, someone who’s gentle and patient, someone who shows up for him without expectations, no questions asked, except are you absolutely sure about this? someone who reads and matches him beat for beat, shows him so openly and earnestly that he wants Buck, not for what he can do for him, but simply because he likes him and enjoys being with him. And come on, when have you seen our Buck smile and sigh and glow like that??

So, if you’re mad just because he’s not with Eddie, only care about him in relation to Eddie, or willfully ignore and/or vilify his relationship with Tommy, maybe reevaluate whether you know, understand, or even like his character at all.

there's nothing stronger than the bond between an autistic queer and Castiel

You know what I just realized love about Cas? Early on, he's only a sassy piece of shit around Dean, but immensely well behaved around Anna/Uriel/Others/his bosses (changes with time).

It's literally Dean that prompts his absolutely hilarious levels of obnoxiousness and the only thing I can think of is that aside from annoying Cas on Earth, Dean also bit him or something while Cas was dragging his ass out of hell.