It refreshed my memory of when SATC was such a good programme. Not good in terms of clothes but how it delineated the four key female characters. It told stories so well.
This episode was one of my favourites and I did have it on DVD until family members swiped it.
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I found this cute blog on WordPress when I was searching for 30 Rock. It follows a writer whose dream it is to work for Tina Fey and literally that is the whole aim of the blog: for Tina to discover the writer in question.
Cute!
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'Liz Lemon': Besides wanting Tina Fey's tiny waist as my own, I respect this woman's work ethic. I watched the whole first series of 30 Rock this past weekend. It is one of the funniest, sharp, witty and general joke programmes that has come out of the US for many years. I am not normally a massive fan of US comedy to be honest. I think a lot of the sitcom fodder like Friends was dull and unoriginal. 30 Rock is not a sitcom but it is like a new form of comedy that is self-referential and makes fun of itself. Do yourself a favour and watch it please.
It's no secret that Tina created the show, developed it, writes on it sometimes as well as being the lead actress on it. I can barely find time to work on my website as well as doing my assignments for my journalism MA and this woman is doing so many roles on the show. Tina is 38, married, a mum of one child and this hard working woman who has basically built a brand.
Mean Girls: It has not come overnight for her. Who can forget Mean Girls? It was a joke film. I remember one scene in the film that me and my friend P found hilarious, when LL is walking down the corridor with her ''friends'' and falls into a bin head first. It is that kind of sarcastic humour that has propelled Fey into the limelight. I know she is now a huge star because of the Palin impression.
Maybe because I am not American so the Palin impression thing was not the pinnacle of Fey's career for me. She just worked on and on an Saturday Night Live, did Mean Girls, and now 30R. 30R is her magnum opus. It just proves that every woman's route to success is different but essentially you have to work hard for it. It doesn't just come overnight like the way it appears on TV.
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OMG.
This is so exciting.
I cannot WAIT for this episode to come to the UK. Mos Def's sexiness is almost unparalleled. He has so much of it.
Cannot wait!
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On my personal wordpress blog, I wrote a post called The Allure of Older Men. I think it can be related to Hameron in obvious and subtle ways. Is C attracted to H because he is older? I think that is a tough question to ask but hopefully my essay will shed light on some points.
The series 1 episodes were the lush beginnings of so many people's favourite ship of the show (and many people's most hated as well). There's exchange between H&C that I love, just because it is so amusing, but again tells us so much more than is clear at first.
Cameron: What about sex?
House: Well, it might get complicated. We work together. I'm older certainly but then you like that
--1x02/"Paternity"/Series 1
The emphasis here is the older man's recognition of the younger woman's (apparent) crush. House will not be the last programme to touch on this so I haven't a CLUE why Cameron haters go on and on about it being a big deal or a cliche. Hello, it happens! The imdb boards have people who go on about Cameron acting like a schoolgirl, infatuated with a father like figure.
House as C's father like figure? I don't think so! I almost feel like some people are clearly not watching the same show as me. Cameron is sexually attracted to House, as if I need to state the obvious. Remember 1x15/"Mob Rules" when both Foreman and Chase learn of her attraction to him? It's clear she fancies him and is growing feelings for him too. It is not a father-daughter relationship, but an emotional one.
In general, there are many reasons why younger women fall in love with older men and vice versa. A lot of it h as to do with respect and admiration for someone with more life experience. Cameron sees that in House. She sees someone she has professional and emotional respect for. Her 'pining' for House in all but words in S1 is excruciating and made worse by the fact that he is not her peer. This also highlights the older man dynamic.
I think Cameron & House are an interesting couple because there is definitely a repressed love aspect to them being together. Him being older than her definitely plays into it, and bloody hell, it makes it more romantic and endearing to me as well. I absolutely love this aspect of their story and it is such a shame that the writers did not exploit it in future series. Just seems like such a waste!
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In particular, look at how she interacts with House's cane because it tells us much about how she feels about him and for him. The cane plays a central part in Cameron's love for him. (I wrote 'crush' in my first draft but in fact, it is more than just a crush as we all know).
Look at episode 1x21 when he comes to her flat to ask her to come back to work. Cameron asks, almost fleetingly in passing, whether he has a 'new cane'. This is her way of reaching out to House, her way of letting him know that she cares about him.
At face value, it sounds like a normal comment, almost like how is the weather but beneath this cloak, her question again is an attempt to put her feelings onto a canvas.
At this point, she is not in the employ of the hospital anymore but wanting to ask about House's cane is so entertwined with the corridors of Princeton Plainsboro. In 2x05, when House gets that new motorcycle, she asks him again where will he put her cane.
Cameron is so caring and almost so dutiful in how she cares for House by asking him about his cane. The real question is, does House realise this concern?
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crushed - Music:Switchfoot cover of Crazy in Love
In 2x19, the episode called 'House vs God', there's a fantastic exchange between Cameron and the healer patient.
-Patient: "God told me I would meet a woman, a healer who was harbouring vengeful, thoughts about a man she works with. That's God's job."
-Cameron: "I'll keep that in mind."
Even though, Foreman was standing there and C's aversion to him evident. However, this exchange can relate wholly to how Cameron can evolve from her feelings. On my personal blog, I've touched on the play, Phaedra, by the Greek playright Euripides and how the play's theme of forlorn love features in Rihanna's song Rehab. This song is practically Cameron's song and I think it can be applied.
Let's look at some key chunks of the song for the proof.
Rihanna purrs: It's like I checked into rehab, baby, you're my disease
--The focal point of the song's focus, could we argue that her mentor is her disease? Lovesickness exists for a reason. In series 1, House's aloofness from her (like when she buys him the Xmas gift) can be seen as way to enable her crush to turn into something that makes her love sick, ie, sick of having a crush on House and sick with love for him.
The Bajan singer then continues: And I'll never give myself to another the way I give it to you
--This lyric is exemplified in 1x21 when the 'ingenue doctor' asks him whether likes her. This is one of the most heart wrenching scenes of the programme. Most House aficionados know what follows next. I do think the way Cameron opened up to House when she asked him was like her laying herself bare to him (emotionally). His ambiguous 'no' simply acting as an affirmation that Cameron needs to protect her heart, avoiding having to go to Rehab for her pain. Of course, she does get with Chase as we know. But he's not House and he knows that.
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[I first wrote this essay @ Charcoal Ink, my personal blog. Please tell me what you think!]
Cruel: That should be the word to describe what fancying someone can be like. It almost feels like a practical joke that has been played on you. We got snowed in today so I didn’t go into uni. I spent most of the day watching vintage House episodes from series 1-3. House is a programme that has spawned some great fan videos of YouTube over the supposed (un)requited love between the eponymous doctor and his female employee, Dr.Cameron, best exemplified below:
It’s always devastating watching or reading something in which people get rejected for their feelings, even if it is fiction. Then again, we have all been there where we invest so much of our feelings onto someone, when it is not reciprocated, the cruelty of it becomes all the more apparent.
Respite: That’s what I had been searching for a few years ago when I had this big old crush on this guy, a long time before I fell for the man who would be my boyfriend. The guy I fancied, this Gentleman X, is something I hate talking about just because how irrational it made me. But after watching Cameron *suffer* in silence, it made me think, for me, it was like this never ending cycle of fancying someone to the point where it drove me (and my suffering friends) crazy. When I fell in love for the first time with my boyfriend, it all changed from there, but I still know what Cameron felt like; I know why she asked House ‘I need to know’. She needed to be set free from the torture of pining for someone who may or may not have any interest in her. It’s agonising not being allowed respite because you know it’s not love, but it feels that way.
Under the weather: The tell tale sign of a hardcore crush on someone is when your mood starts to change, like Transport for London’s live travel news. When I look back at my days of fancying Gentleman X, my mood was like an inverted rollercoaster at Thorpe Park - I wanted the person to like me (when I didn’t *know* him). I wanted him to like me for all the wrong reasons. And it made me miserable thinking that he didn’t know who I was or what I was about.
This is why having a crush is like a brittle branch of the tree of infatuation. It isn’t a full blown obsession yet but when the feelings are not reciprocated, be assured that the tree will start to lose its’ branches just as your feelings start to plummett to the floor.
School: Please let’s not even get into the schoolgirl crushes some of us had on our teachers! In House, Wilson described Cameron’s situation best when he said:
Hope: When a crush mutates into infatuation or love, this can be the desired effect for many people. I think when you fancy someone, you like the idea of them but it only becomes whole when you fall for them. Falling in love and having a crush are two separate things. Secretly pining for someone is never the way to go in order to grow a healthy image of your self-esteem.
In that sense, Cameron is effed. She has that rare condition where you fancy someone & you are falling in love with them, without even saying the words. But then again, that affliction touches us all at some point in our lives.
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- Music:Rehab by Rihanna
I can't believe I just discovered this video now. I am such a Hameron stan and I love that ship to death. I think it's the best LOL but House/Wilson comes a close, close second.
Check out this fan video called House/Wilson - Best Moments. It's really good.
Video credit: Uploaded by violeteyes5835
Does anyone know the name of the ep @ 2:15? The 'seriously' part got me rolling. I love House/Wilson. I'll be doing a write up of their friendship pretty soon.
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- Music:Keri Hilson/Return The Favour
So, I hope to keep this journal up to date with all sorts of random thoughts on television as well because I am such a telly show addict.
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