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:smack: Fuick.
Not your father’s Buick.
That is an excellent point. I think someone even mentioned this sounded like a season two script. As House stands now, the three principal assistants (if you don’t count Foreman) are Kutner, Taub, and Thirteen. You can’t go back to a script with the original three. Foreman’s role has changed somewhat, in that he is to report on House’s diagnoses to Cuddy (more of an overseer role, even though House is still head of the department), and Chase and Cameron might as well no longer be in the scripts. And you can’t just plug Taub, Kutner, and Thirteen into the Foreman, Chase, and Cameron roles, either. They are all still finding their levels of confidence in working with House, and don’t have the level of familiarity with him that the original three had.
In the original thread that led to this, Elenfair specified using the season 3 cast. I knew that would mean this script wouldn’t even be theoretically viable for that reason, but I was gratful not to have to work in that whole The Apprentice: Gregory House arc. I had no way of knowing where that was going. Plus I would have had to resist the impulse of creating a cynical and egotistical new doctor (who would also be a Vikings fan, guitar player and atheist windbag) and who would fall into a torrid sexual affair with “Cutthroat Bitch.”
Here is the post Diogenes is referring to, just to keep things straight. Elenfair did stipulate that the Season 3 cast be used.
-Lil
And just to be clear, I didn’t mean too late in that sense, but in the sense that it took so long to write. (Understandly so, but schedules on real TV shows are utterly relentless.)
That’s fine. I wasn’t aware of that stipulation, and to be fair, nobody really knew where the whole storyline was going with the new hires. The whole arc was in a state of flux. So I retract my most recent comments. I do want to repeat I liked it. As a House fan, I did find it enjoyable. I’m not qualified to critique it and say whether it was a viable script or not, but it was far better than anything I could ever attempt.
I’ll grudgingly concede that it’s garnered a lot more praise than my spin-off project “House Babies,” featuring House, Wilson, Chase, Foreman, Cameron, and Cuddy as toddlers playing doctor in a treehouse “hospital” in Li’l Cuddy’s mom’s backyard. Li’l House is just adorable, with his Kool-Aid mustache and Gummi Bear habit, and there’s a great new character—a talking stoat who sounds like Basil Rathbone—but I don’t want to give all the milk away before the cow gets to the abbatoir, as they say in the “biz.”
I think it’s got “Emmy Factory” written all over it, personally, but I can’t seem to get a callback. Something to do with the writer’s strike, I assume.
What, no Baby Tritter investigating Baby House’s Gummi Bear jones, trying to shake down his suppliers?
I’d watch House Babies.
Toddlers playing doctor? Sounds like Michael Jackson’s dream.
Thanks. “Li’l Bush” has helped set the bar really low.