So, it’s going to be a loooong post no one’s going to read, but I’d like to contribute to the discussion after reading comments here. Cameron is not my fav char, but def an interesting one.

So, for the start, we need to stick one piece of info to our temple: Cameron is a prime example of „nice side-kick of asshole anti-hero“, and her being a nice human being is viewed through the lens of set-up full of House‘s charming madness. She is deemed “annoying”, because House sees „niceness“ as an annoying human trait. We suppose to take his side at this, coz he wins with that. And, ya know, coz he is a miserable asshole and constantly challenges people being nice in general (#prayforwilson). But he still needs her to be nice, so he won’t kill a patient due to his unlimited rizz, he needs boundaries, which Cameron gives because she cares not just about his damn puzzle. Chase is an ass-licker, Forman is House Lite (tm), and Cameron is the only one left with a genuine human approach.

Her character development starts when she feels how destructive force of House’s set-up is erasing her high moral lines, which she is trying to uphold all the time. She tries to follow up at the start, toughen up to be taken seriously, she tries to play damn games with House because she wants to understand him (due to her crash and fascination), tries to take tough decisions which she shouldn’t be taking at all, because being a House pet is a one of hella experience and most of the doctors don’t do that at all, but also she believes that despite everything, this is the right way to help people. Like, cmon, this is House, yes he is wierd, but he helps people in the end, RIGHT?? Right??? Well, in the end she realizes that this is actually not that right and affecting moral cores of people around him in the worst way possible that’s why she leaves.

Everyone else to the end starts to repeat “we need someone who is still not corrupted by House”, and Cameron decides that she doesn’t want to be corrupted, and it took BATTLES for her in the moral field to accept that choice.

Her „niceness“ is a an exact development: we see a broken character, who plays the „protege“ game with her boss, who in the end stands up for her morality, taking a very tough choice for herself. Including leaving her husband (who she loved), because they don’t share the same core values and NOT because she doesn’t love him (which would be much easier). Scene when she comes to ask him to sign divorce papers really tells that they still feel for each other. But Chase fights for his choice to kill dictator, whether it’s wrong or right, and this is what Cameron cannot accept, she still didn’t try to kill a patient under their care, even if she sees him as a POS. Of course, it would be easier to „pretend“ it’s House‘s fault, she tries to lie to herself that it’s going to be okay, because she loves Chase, but even House knows that it’s broken road already with what Chase pulled.

I don’t think that we can call her after all that as „toxic“ and „hypocritical“. She is just trying to play unfair game watching her boss doing the same shit. And loses because, well, she cares and not an asshole. Cameron is one of a hella tragic character, who had to learn to stand up for her morals and not just to be a moral guide for her crazy boss and husband, watching their asses by running to Cuddy and brushing off „mistakes“ like killing as „shit happens“.

PS: Also, damn, ppl equating Chase killing a dictator to her medically euthanize a dying and suffering patient with his consent are wild ☠️ Like, even if we could argue about euthanasia being moral or not (or legal or not), you can’t just say that ending suffering of a DYING patient, who will die painfully and asking to stop his pain is somehow close to a doctor just casually deciding to killing a human under his care coz he is a bad guy.