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All the characters & plots are great when the show is fresh. Its getting past the first two years where you’ll see a true litmus test of one’s longevity onscreen. By S3, I already found Cam to be annoying in her assumptions about House and the others. Plus, fellowships last only 2 to 3 years. So the old ducks were always going to have to be swapped out. The writers needed a plausible way to write them into the plot. I just think that Cameron is one of the more “creatively dry” characters on the show. Short of her feelings for her ex-boss, what else is driving her actions and personality. And, YES, she has been a great foil for House, but then again, Taub has stepped up to that plate. So she is not essential. Just my opinion…

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Chase, Cameron, & Foreman finished their original fellowships prompted by their respective exits. Foreman comes back as ‘mgmt’, Cam in ER, and Chase a surgeon. Its unclear how long has passed for 13 & Taub since S4 was a shortened season because of the strike & most of that was dominated by the Survivor-style screening of candidates. Nothing indicates that its been more than 2 years for them. As for Chase rejoining, it would have to be regarded as a new fellowship since his previous one terminated at the end of S3.

Being “creatively tapped out” is an apt phrase when all you’re brought in for is to have your pedastal pushed around for narrative purposes. To me, her ‘ethics’ became a prison around her characterization, since it made her preachy while also making any drama involving her a reaction to her morality. Not that ethics are bad–but consider how Taub has played that foil to House. The irony of a plastic surgeon being an insightful, skin-deep type of guy is actually very clever, along with giving him some proper failings to keep him real. Now, I couldn’t care less about 13 & don’t think she does much for House, but she is new blood and a better foil for Foreman. As for where Cam stands among the Old Ducks, well like I mentioned about Taub, I feel Chase and Foreman have proper flaws and failings. They each have done ugly things, admitting unfortunate truths about themselves in ways that ‘pine-fresh’ Cam doesn’t have to. I don’t think her storylines have impacted or altered her like they have for the rest of the cast. That brief fling with drugs [like 13] can laughably be forgotten. Now, Im not going to compare Cuddy to Cam. There’s really no point. In the end, Cuddy was in love with House and has did some ridiculous things because of it–JUST LIKE Cameron did when her feelings for House had her doing foolish things.

I’m not saying all the items above make getting rid of her justified, but I can see why the writers chose her as the first to go.

Not to mention it will basically impossible for Cameron to smoothly return after her little departure speech to House without slaughtering her character in a hypocritcal pile of misguided moral values. Chase still murdered the guy and Cameron still thinks House ruined Chase. Any about turn in opinion she makes in an effort to return her to House’s presence is just going to make her look like an idiot. It’s not going to happen. The writers had Cameron take the moral high ground for one reason – to finally give her a reason to break away from House, and hence the show.

Thanks, L. That’s exactly IT.

I agree!