thinking about how chase is all the worst parts of house and all the worst parts of cameron and all the worst parts of foreman. about how he is cameron's guilt, cameron's blame, her white-knuckled grip on the past, her need to believe things are her fault, but none of her care, none of her sympathy, none of her bone deep kindness. about how he is house's disdain, house's offhandedness and indifference, house's resent, but none of his drive, none of his anger, none of his kicking and screaming stubbornness. about how he is foreman's rationality, foreman's skepticism, foreman's need to prove house wrong, but none of foreman's objectivity, none of his calm, none of his knowing when to egg house on and when to put his foot down. about how chase isn't a good doctor, but he's a yes-man and he's a devil's advocate and his moral compass swings wildly in every direction and he's a shit disturber and he's a snitch and he's an asshole and he's a doormat. he has no good qualities, he just has whatever bad ones house can exploit at whatever given moment.
just rewatched s2 ep5 the one about the father and son and the radioactive keychain, also the one where house's parents are shown for the first time. lots of thoughts. two different father-son relationships are shown, one father that lies out of love and one father who says the 'truth' no matter who it hurts. house tells cuddy that he hates his father, last thing the patient says is that he loves his father. house has a very rare moment of vulnerability with cameron only for cameron to later ask wilson "his father tells the truth, so what?" house also says to cameron "they seem like perfectly pleasant people don't they?" house's father was canonically abusive, i bet the only person he's ever admitted this to was the patient in one day, one room. probably kept it secret for fear of the exact reaction that cameron had, being brushed off or told that his father seems like a pleasant person. even wilson has more sympathy for house's parents than for his best friend when he says it must be hard for house's parents to see him being miserable.
- chase makes "lol americans experience gun violence" jokes
- cameron engages in online discourse and starts a lot of arguments with "as a doctor..."
- foreman uses 4chan but just to sit in shock at the things he sees on there
- house is a mod and frequent poster on r/newjersey of all things. only wilson knows, not because house keeps it a secret, but because its so weirdly out of character that nobody would ever bring it up
- wilson sends reels of edgy standup comedians to house on instagram
- cuddy frequents gentle parenting forums, occasionally uses tactics on house
- taub used to run a food review channel on youtube but stopped when people called his videos "mukbangs"
- thirteen introduces herself with her name and pronouns, everyone makes a joke about this at least once
people who aren’t in the house md fandom assume that the batshit craziness of these plotlines starts and ends with the old man yaoi and the malpractice. you all think you understand? [grabs you by the face] listen to me closely. these patients specifically seek out house because he’s known as the capital-G God of diagnostics. on MULTIPLE occasions someone has come in with seizures, coughing up blood, in multi-system organ failure and the team is like “it says here in the chart that you’ve had sex before?… yeah so we have concluded that ur allergic to cum :/ sorry.” and then are genuinely shocked when their treatment of “no more taking big fat loads from peanis” doesn’t reverse sepsis. this is a medical drama. about medical mysteries