Dr. Gregory House.  And last, but of course not least, there’s House.  I think House is commonly misjudged.  He is often called a heartless bastard, that cares nothing about others.  This is in fact true, to an extent.  However, throughout the seasons, we have seen House’s caring side shine through.  When, you may ask?  Other than of course saving lives, how has he been caring?  Well, we see in the first season, House lies to the transplant committee for a woman that obviously didn’t deserve the heart, but he believed she deserved to live.

Wilson claims House has the “Rubik’s” complex.  He just wants to solve the puzzle.  Of course, this is true.  Perhaps this is why he’s at times perceived to actually “care.”  I don’t think so, though.  Many speculate that House was why he was because of his leg, but at the end of the first season, we are proved wrong by this, by his ex-girlfriend of five years.  She told Cameron that House was “Pretty much the same” before the infarction in his leg.  It’s very interesting to know why people are how they are.  We also got a chance to see House’s parents, and the way his father treated him.  Perhaps this is part of the reason that House is somewhat damaged.

The Holmes/House similarities amaze me more and more as the show progresses.  House doesn’t only find pleasure in solving medical cases, but he obsesses over people.  Particularly his team (old and new) as well as patients, and Wilson.  However, he doesn’t obsess because he cares; he obsesses because it’s unsolved in his mind.  It’s a puzzle to him.  It’s unclear exactly how long House and Wilson have been friends, but it was probably a good bit of time, because of the history that they hint around at.  House likes to display his intelligence, often making fun of people’s weaknesses and problems.  Often times, it doesn’t even appear that House is analyzing people, only to impress them with the answer to their problems extremely quick.  Another exact comparison to Sherlock Holmes.  For the most part, he can figure out motives and even past events from simply how they act, or their appearance.  Of course, House hates meeting patients, and only does so in extreme situations.  If he does in fact meet them, he is extremely short with them, and has a bit of a poor bedside manner.  He takes risks when treating patients usually, almost always paying off.

Although I don’t care for the word, I would have to call House a non-conformist.  He doesn’t care what people think of him.  But, contrasting many other people in the world, he doesn’t actually have to say it.  His actions prove this more than his words.  Obviously, judging by his clothes, constant stubble, and refusal to wear a lab coat, he doesn’t care what he looks like or how people perceive him.  He even fakes his name sometimes, and claims he’s “someone from the lab,” or something similar.  We even see him tell some people at a bar, when a woman passes out in one season, to “Send her to Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital, ask for Dr. House.”

House has developed a great deal throughout the four seasons.  It is obvious that he has started caring a little more, only if it is slightly more than before.  Overall, House is stubborn and sarcastic, two qualities he will never lose.  He’s a realistic, believable, and even loveable character.  He says the stuff that people are thinking but dare not say.  Definitely a great character.

Dr. James Wilson.  You have to love Wilson.  There are hardly any aspects of his personality that are bad.  Throughout the series, we see Wilson and his numerous failed relationships.  Almost every one of the females complained that he was to “caring” or “considerate.”  That’s almost a paradox if you think about it.  How can you be to caring?  It is speculated many times by House, that Wilson feels like he needs to “fix” the women he marries, or even dates.  Then when they actually adjust, he moves on.  Hence the reason he can’t stay in a relationship.

Wilson is pretty much the only friend House has.  This is where the Holmes/House and Watson/Wilson comparison comes in.  If you’ve read any of the Sherlock Holmes novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, you’ll know that House’s and Wilson’s relationship is almost if not exactly identical to Wilson’s and Holmes’s.  It’s very interesting to re-watch and observe the comparison.  Wilson, in some ways, is opposite of House.  He obviously cares for patients 1000% more.  He isn’t opposite in all ways, though.  He knows how to manipulate, as we see in the episode “House vs. God,” where he talks House’s patient into taking treatment for an illness.  House recognizes, and also loves this ability.  House once called Wilson a “a buddy of mine people say ‘Thank you’ to when he tells them they are dying.”

We see Wilson’s loyalty to House many times throughout the series, particularly when Vogler attempted to get House fired.  Wilson was the only one to vote against the termination of House, causing his dismissal as well.  However, he quickly comes back after Vogler is removed from the board, as they realize he is the donated money wasn’t worth the problems he was causing.

Wilson cares about House, obviously.  We see him attempt to fix House’s problems with Vicodin in many times throughout the series.  He even assisted Tritter, the detective investigating House’s drug problems.  He eventually was coaxed into testifying against House; however he did this simply for House’s gain more than anything.

It is revealed in Season four that Wilson was dating Amber (a.k.a. Cutthroat Bitch) which was one of House’s former students which qualified for the job on his team.  It was speculated by House, and also Cuddy that Wilson was only dating her because he wants a change from his typical neediness, but his need to be desired will feed off her need to control, and eventually it will destroy Wilson.

Overall, Wilson is a great character, and an excellent reflection of House in many ways, as well as a polar opposite.  In my opinion, they contrast each other quite well.

Dr. Lisa Cuddy.  To describe Cuddy, I’d have to say resilient.  You would pretty much have to be resilient to put up with House and his antics however.  She doesn’t take anything from anyone, House in particular.  I would say that she’s pretty much the only other character on the show that can control House at all, if you’d even call it control.  In reality, you can see the good relationship between House and Cuddy.  They fight a lot, and of course there is sexual tension.  She loves him and hates him all at the same time, but in a different way than Cameron.

There hasn’t been any information about Cuddy’s past revealed, or any about her family.  House and Cuddy had a history before the show started.  They supposedly met at the University of Michigan.  She also treated House when he had the infarction in his leg, and at that point, she wasn’t the Dean of Medicine, simply a doctor.

Cuddy sometimes reminds me of a mother, and House a child, with her keeping him in line.  It’s obvious that Cuddy agrees with House’s decisions about risking lives to save lives, but has to keep a political point of view, since she’s the “boss” as House has so many times stated.  Cuddy seems to also prefer Foreman to the other Doctors’ of House’s team, even before the new team.  She often took Foreman’s side in minor situations throughout the seasons.

We see a couple of episodes where Cuddy and Wilson went out on dates, and this of course made House insanely jealous, although he never admitted that.  She was looking for a father for a child, and Wilson was a candidate.  It’s fairly obvious that a lot has gone on in the past between House and Cuddy, particularly a one-night stand.  House’s attraction is also apparent in many situations, where he makes sexual jokes toward her.

Overall, Cuddy is a great character, and is the perfect person for keeping House in-line.  It’s obvious that deep down, she’s a caring person that just wants to live a normal life.  We see her excellent parental abilities when she’s given custody of a patient that was a young girl.  Although at first she thought she was doing a terrible job, in the end it turned out better than she expected.

Dr. Eric Foreman.  Yet another character that displays many qualities of House.  However, Foreman actually becomes more like him as the show progresses.  There are many subtle examples, such as the identical sneakers during one of the episodes in the first season.  Foreman eventually quits because of the fear, only to return because he got fired for performing a House-type action, then he was blacklisted.  He also admits that he has problems with his ego, particularly admitting that he’s wrong.  Sound familiar?

Not very much has been revealed about Foreman’s past.  We know his family was somewhat poor, and his parents relationship is anything but good.  He was also a thief in the past, when he was much younger, having stolen cars and robbed houses.  House reveals that this was partly the reason he hired Foreman, knowing those skills would come in handy.

He has an interesting relationship with the other members of the team.  In one episode, he stole Cameron’s article and had it published in his name.  Even though he apologized for it, it was still a terrible thing to do.  Also, at numerous occasions, he has told the other members of the team that he didn’t consider them friends, simply acquaintances, or co-workers.  Although he didn’t become extremely close to his co-workers, he at least holds family in high regard.  Foreman’s parents, particularly his father is extremely religious.  We find him in the chapel during the episode where Foreman was deathly ill.  His parents obviously care for him very much.

Even though Foreman has a shady past, he’s probably the most clever of House’s former team.  In one episode in the second season, Foreman was temporarily House’s boss, by the order of Cuddy.  Overall, Foreman respects House’s ability to diagnose patients.  We see House target Foreman with many racist-type jokes throughout the series, mostly as humor though.  Foreman’s fear of turning into House was very apparent, especially near the end of the third season.  When Foreman finally did quite, House made an attempt to keep him from leaving, although it didn’t work.  It’s obvious since Foreman returned after quitting, House respects him a lot more than before.  He tells his students to “listen” to Foreman next time, because he knows what he’s talking about (paraphrasing.)  Overall, Foreman is a great character.  Although he has problems getting close to people, he’s still a respectable guy. 

Dr. Robert Chase.  Chase is a House Jr. so to speak.  He doesn’t have quite as many “ass” type qualities though.  Although I think he has potential.  He has the ability to deduce, and not only medically.  We see him lay some of these skills down late in Season 1 and Season 2.  Chase has issues with his father, very similar to House’s and Foreman’s.  It seems like everyone has problems with their dad’s these days!  But when Chase’s father visited, it was the last time Chase would ever see him, and he didn’t even know.  His dad even told House about the problem, and asked House not to tell Chase, which surprisingly he never did.

As time passes, Chase becomes more of a supporter or House.  And, because of this, he sometimes unnaturally follows Houses orders, no matter how outrageous they may be.  I think sometimes that frustrated House, due to his tendency to desire arguements.  He was a bit sneaky, too.  He turned information regarding House over to Vogler, in order to save his own job.  Sneaky, but it’s not out of the realm of something House himself would do.  This was of course in the first season, before a relationship had really been formed between the two.  We see that when Tritter comes to Chase for information, Chase refuses to work with him.  This didn’t stop other team members from accusing him of working with Tritter though.

Overall, Chase is a good guy.  We see him become attached to Cameron when they slept together, simply because he couldn’t handle a purely “physical” relationship.  Chase is a Christian in the show, and was in Seminary before entering medschool.  This never prevents him from assisting House in morally questionable situations however.  This causes many arguements between Chase and Foreman, due to Foreman’s resentment of House.  Ultimately, House fires Chase because of an assertive comment made toward House.

Dr. Allison Cameron.  Cameron is funny to me.  She, of course, had a thing for House, although their philosophy on life was the complete opposite.  That’s what makes their relationship so interesting.  If I had to choose one character to call the polar opposite of House, it would be Cameron.  To sum her up in three words, I’d have to say honest, idealistic, and selfless.  She hates lying to patients, regardless of whether or not it’s for the good.  She prefers to obey to proper practice of medicine, yet another contrast to House.  If you remember early in the first season, House caught her trying to manipulate her peers using information from a “How to manipulate” type book.  This tells us a lot about her insecurities as a person.  It shows you that she isn’t as confident as she sometimes comes of as.

Obviously, the relationship between Cameron and Chase would never remain simply sexual.  As Chase put it, she has a problem not getting attached to a puppy she sees on the side of the road.  We will probably never know whether or not she actually did that because of attraction, or simply to make House jealous.  Nevertheless, they are together in the show.  Cameron is the kind of person that befriends others very quickly, in my opinion.  She was totally unaware that Foreman didn’t consider her a friend, as obviously, she considered him one.  That’s one problem that comes with being selfless; people like her tend to put way too much trust in others, and assume their relationship is more than it is, and I mean that in friendship relationship terms.

Cameron reveals numerous times throughout the show that she is an atheist, but at times you see that she would like to believe that something bigger is out there.  She’s very ethical, and at times, I believe she has trouble thinking that the strong ethical standpoint she has was 100% natural.  That’s never revealed in the show, just an opinion. 

House makes a great point that there’s no logical reason that she would be a Doctor.  He deduces that she’s damaged, which is later revealed to be true.  He also believes this is the main reason she is attracted to him, and he’s a “sick” puppy that needs to be nurtured back to good health.  This makes perfect sense when in the third season, after House’s leg is temporarily healed, she refuses to go out for a drink with him.  So what did Cameron see in House?  If you remember, in the first season I believe, she asks him at one point if he likes her, and he says no bluntly.  That’s pretty harsh, but what else can you expect from him?  She wanted to feel special, obviously.  She wanted someone that didn’t like anyone on earth (House) to give her the hard, cold, truth about his feelings.  I guess it was more of an acceptance thing than anything else.  It’s probably the main reason she likes him so much.  She even said once, that it’s because he’s brash, brutally honest, and even mean.  What can we learn from Cameron?  That it’s hard to be a completely selfless person, because sometimes you get walked on.  I’m not saying we shouldn’t, but it just shows you how bad the rest of the world is.  Instead of getting treated great in return, you get walked on.  Not that Cameron gets walked all over, but I think you see my point.  Good people don’t always get equal treatment back.

A character analysis of the fictional characters from the show, “House, M.D.” is coming soon.  As I see every day, my “Lost Character Analysis” gets far more traffic than the rest of my blog.  Although my blogging is not really see how many users I can get to read, I like to keep the readers happy.  I used to do it only for me as a private, password-protected blog.  But, one day I changed that, and noticed a fair amount of readers.  Consequently, now, I blog not only for, myself, but also, you, the reader.

So, within the next couple of months, I’ll analyze (to the best of my ability) the characters, in this order:

1) Dr. Allison Cameron
2) Dr. Robert Chase
3) Dr. Eric Foreman
4) Dr. Lisa Cuddy
5) Dr. James Wilson
6) Dr. Gregory House

I know that Cameron and Chase are no longer regulars on the show, however, whether they come back or not, it will prove to be an interesting analysis.

Keep an eye open for the first one late March!  Thanks for reading.

Kelsey