Keeping House
So Cuddy is raising a baby on House. Isn't that a classic Jump-The-Shark development? I realize each season has an arc to complement the stand-alone plots and shake things up a bit. This season, in fact, the show is lousy with arcs. But really, this doesn't make Cuddy more interesting and it doesn't add anything that I can see. I only hope they keep House away from the baby, because the idea of Cuddy and him raising it is terrifying.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:22 AM
4 Comments:
It seems curmudgeonly to rule babies out entirely from all plots under threat of shark-jumpdom. While I agree that many shows have jumped the shark when they have added a baby, I think that is because they get too sentimental. It is the sentimentality that is the real shark-jumping -- the baby is just the means. It would seem to rule out a major area of human life and endeavor to exclude all reproduction/children from plots. Ultimately, it's how you handle the baby that matters.
Okay. Could you give me one example of a show that got better after it introduced a baby as a regular character?
Lost.
Perhaps, but they have never had a baby as a character where we watch another character spending a lot of time taking care of it. The only kid we see a lot of Aaron, and he mostly gets a thumbs down from fans.
The buildup to a kid can be fun, but, dramatically, it's like the buildup to a romance--once the thing happens, it's downhill.
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