Best. House. Moment. EVER!

[terrie]

When she told off House and Cuddy? I think I fell in love with Cameron just a little bit. And I'm rarely her biggest fan. They could show that scene over and over for an hour every week, and I'd be happy. At least for a month. I could survive a month of that scene. After a month, I think I'd want something new.

I think that when she was young, she did something typically, thoughtlessly stupid and cruel. The sort of things ten year olds do during a fight. Only it ended badly, with someone she cared about hurt or dead. Maybe directly, such as pushing someone so they struck their head, or indirectly, such as saying something cruel to a friend hours before they were killed in a car crash.

This event had an effect on young Allison Cameron, so as a coping mechanism (though, she'd call it something like "a commitment to making the world a better place, or at least, no worse than it already is -- I don't need you to armchair psychoanalyze me. I'm capable of doing that myself.") she goes out of her way to try and see the best in people, and to be caring and avoid cynicism.

I'm probably full of shit on this. And, sadly, I doubt anything the show will come up with will be any better. Anyway, it's a theory.

Comments

[neonhummingbird.livejournal.com]

That was a fabulous scene, yes. I just wisht he writers hadn't thought the only way to set up the tension with her and Foreman was to make her be whiny as hell for an episode. :P I love Cameron, always have, but the writers make it damned hard sometimes.

And it's a good theory, definitely a front-runner. I would add in something about compensating for being both beautiful and very smart by being as nice as possible, to have any hope of making and keeping friends in the hellpit that is elementary and high school. :P Which is why Foreman telling her that they're not friends hit her so hard. (And I wanted to hit him pretty damn hard. :P)

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

I'm really hoping that, since Foreman obviously didn't end up brain damaged, she insists on a second apology. It would totally serve him right.