Well, having said that, everything I can find indicates they'd use a whole new team for the spinoff, so I may be entirely off base.

The last press I saw said that it would be like the CSI spinoffs in that they didn't spin off any of the cast. I hope that's how they go. A Garcia/Morgan rift wouldn't make me a happy puppy. AJ Cook and Thomas Gibson seem a bit defensive.

medical fiction should surely not be totally irresponsible about this

But hasn't House been totally irresponsible about a fair amount of other stuff? I know that disability is an important topic for you, but is House much worse than any other genre show in misrepresenting its actual science? It's not like Dr. House even gives doctors a good name, much less disabled people, or people in chronic pain.

And I speak as someone with a chronic pain problem, but who got turned off House partially because of the idea that it's acceptable for it and genius to make someone a prick. Someone who needs to deal with people as an integral part of their job to boot.

I love Hugh Laurie, but not enough to make it past the unpleasantness.

I don't think Cameron is right about House being unredeemable. He has moments of humanity and realized weakness--he's just never let anyone see them, unless it's Cuddy or Wilson. He wouldn't tell Cameron about that moment when the fetus he was operating on grabbed his finger and he changed the procedure he was about to do.

I wish we could get a look at House before the injury, so we could see how much of a jerk he was then. Didn't that DNA sample he got from his dad prove he wasn't his father's kid after all?

Cameron is hardly alone in believing there have to be Good Guys and Bad Guys, but you'd think some of what she's seen and done would take the edges off that. It has for me, and I don't hold actual lives in my hands. ETA: I think drugs were already beginning to be an issue before muscle death, Connie. Because in Three Stories, he was pretty emphatic about "Addicts get sick too," and that wasn't directed toward the farmer or the volleyball player.

Re: Criminal Minds. CBS is supposed to be thinking about a CM spinoff. I just figured they were setting Morgan up to lead the new crew.

why do they need a spinoff? Everything is perfectly fine. And doing a CSI like thing doesn't make any sense since they travel all over the place anyway.

Just FTR, CBS, I don't want any of the current CM cast to go anywhere, so any spinoffs must involve entirely new cast members, so that Thomas Gibson and I can ignore them.

I don't even like Morgan all that much (I know! am I blind!), but I like how he works within the team.

Cameron is hardly alone in believing there have to be Good Guys and Bad Guys

I certainly hope it's not common among doctors, though.

Yeah... that sort of thing doesn't hold up under scientific scrutiny.

Cameron doesn't really have a place to talk about what House has taught them to do, because she allowed/helped the guy (played by Joel Grey) to die a couple of seasons back.

Edit: And House came up to her and said he was proud of her. Bit o' humanity, right there!