They only appear for about a minute each episode, if that. They are completely irrelevant now that he has a new team. Were the actors under a four year contract so they can't be axed until the end of the season? IT'S A DISGRACE.
Why are Cameron and Chase still in House?
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I guess the producers wanted to shake things up by having the original Houseketeers quit and bring in a new bunch, but the actors were still under contract.
Because they're so cute!
Plus, Chase actually did something useful in the last episode.
I don't fully get it either. Cameron and Chase are hardly in the episodes anymore but their respective actors are still in the opening credits. Forman's new role is working out quite well and, honestly, having Cameron and Chase doing fellowships under House any longer wouldn't be realistic.
Futher, I quite like the new Doclings.
Kutner, 13 and Taub are a good bunch. So maybe, we'll see next season, Cameron and Chase will be finally dropped and the other "Doclings" added to the opening credits.
Futher, I quite like the new Doclings.
Kutner, 13 and Taub are a good bunch. So maybe, we'll see next season, Cameron and Chase will be finally dropped and the other "Doclings" added to the opening credits.
The key thing to get is that credits are about money, not about screen time. People get in the opening credits because they get paid a whole bunch of money. People who aren't in the opening credits get paid less money. And the longer you've been on a series, the more you get paid. Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, and Jesse Spencer have been regulars on the show since its beginning, whereas Peter Jacobsen, Olivia Wilde, and Kal Penn were hired on a recurring basis less than a year ago. So the new guys haven't earned the right to a higher salary than the old guys. As long as the old guys are around at all, they get higher billing.
A similar thing happened with Rosalind Chao on Trek: DS9. As a frequently recurring character (and one who had been recurring on TNG even before then), she pretty much always got top guest-star billing in an episode, even when she was just there for a few lines and other actors got far bigger roles. She had seniority, even in a cameo appearance.
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em.. she? the character from the Peter cushing film?
I guees he's talking about Majel Barrett as Lwaxana Troi.
Sorry, I meant Rosalind Chao. I typed that, but accidentally deleted it in revising the sentence. I've now amended the original post so that it makes sense.
So why pay Spencer and Morrison so much money for their top billing and giving the "guest stars" so much more screen time than your top-paid cast? Doesn't make much economical sense to me.
Like I said, I kind of suspect their contracts are up this season, won't be renewed, they'll lose their billing and the three new guys will be cast as regulars next season. There's almost no way they can keep this cast dynamic and for it to continue for it to make sense for their top billing actors/"Doclings" to be little more than guest stars and for their "guest stars" (the real "Doclings") be the principal cast.
There's also no way to make Chase and Cameron House's fellows again and for it to make any dramatic sense for them to take career "demotions" -even if it IS to work with medicine's best diagnostician.
Just speculation, but my thought is that they didn't know for sure how well the new Houseketeers would work out, so they wanted to have the fallback position of bringing the original gang back. But if they released them from their contracts, they might go on to find other work and wouldn't be available to return. So keeping them under contract as regulars would've been sort of an insurance policy, to make sure they'd still be available if viewers didn't warm to the new gang.
Also, the 2 part season finale was supposed to air during the Super Bowl, but due to the writer's strike they had to change it around, For all we know, the season was supposed to go in a different direction then what we got.
I thnk Jennifer Morrison and the other guy will want to leave if they aren't going to be getting more screentime next season...surely taking on challenging roles in more important than getting paid lots of money for doing very little.
Why not do both? Didn't the actor who plays "Quark" for example kind of like that Quark didn't always have lots to do in every ep because it allowed him to go do other shows and movies. In fact that is proably why he was even able to do Principle Snyder and Quark at the same time.
We also got to consider Morrison and British guy might have been doing movies this year or something and the producers allowed them to do it because they were bringing in new characters to the show.
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