#house vs. god

[housepilled]

( s02e19 house vs. god / s08e19 the c-word )

[mfjenks]

“Faith healer” says that House doesn’t trust anyone and has no faith, but later he shows that his trust and faith in Wilson is his only hope.  “Faith healer” says that House tries to be alone, but later he shows that he wants Wilson to be with him and tries to make sure that nothing is wrong after their small fight. I love that

[astrolavas]

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[yoyosuitehearts]

disney+ adding star vs the forces of evil and gravity falls to their pride collection feels like such a slap in the face because if how much they were censored and told they couldn't add lgbtq+ characters

[atomicradiogirl]

we as a fandom have to bow down at doris egan’s feet. we have to grovel and praise her work on this show. doris egan wrote son of a coma guy, don’t ever change, HOUSE’S HEAD, WILSON’S HEART, BIRTHMARKS, THE SOCIAL CONTRACT, BOTH SIDES NOW??? HELLO WHAT??? idk how you live your life knowing that you wrote and helped write some of the greatest house episodes of all time, and the greatest hilson episodes of all time, and don’t shout it from the goddamn rooftops. i know i would. i bet she sleeps so good at night. what is her secret? HOW DO YOU DO THAT? i need to know. praise doris egan.

[shots-of-wilson-and-whiskey]

incredibly attracted to whatever the fuck he's doing with his hands here

[keefechambers]

All hail the new Planetary Governor of Arrakis!

[appendixsaucy]

Transgender Gregory house looka like da bible

[honkytonkdyke]

“so we’re okay?” “house, you are…as god made you.” what in the homosexual behavior is this.

[starcloud-nova]

house, after being a jerk to wilson the entire episode: but we're okay, right 🥺

[batcavescolony]

I saw a comment awhile back about Tommy Shepherd and how they didn't understand why Tommy didn't stay with the Kaplan's. they're such nice, kind people, and they felt it was wrong that Tommy didn't stay. but I can't help thinking that that was the problem. They were kind, they were nice, and they were everything Tommy didn't get.

Imagine finding out you're the reincarnated child of the Scarlet Witch, and your brother got reincarnated too! But you got shitty parents who don't care about you and didn't fight for you when you were being turned into a human weapon. Then you meet your soul twins parents, and they are kind and loving to everyone, even you, and you just can't help but wonder. Why did my twin get kind, accepting parents, and I got ones that couldn't care less? What did I do to deserve what I got? So I think the Kaplan's were nice and kind and loving, and everything that Tommy didn't get was just too much.

[heathcliffgirl1847]

frodo with elanor!!! part 2 of fellowship with the babby!!!!

part 1

[metalinjector95]

The Unseen Confrontation. Honestly in a world where the Owl House wasn’t screwed over by Disney, we might’ve gotten this.

[fischiee]

hhrrrnnnn,, thinking about the way that both tex and carolina reply “thanks, i won’t need it” at the same time in response to f.i.l.s.s. saying “good luck ladies” before they fight

like the way that they are actually so similar bc the director (and alpha) must have seen so much of allison in lina which warped his perception of who she really was and now they are mirrors of each other.

the way we never actually know allison so we don’t know how much of tex is the director and how much is carolina and how much is the memory of her

[sneckoil]

id have to personally thank doris egan for house vs god. it’s the episode that makes you confront the fact that something is wrong about wilson

[madqueenalanna]

sorry (lie) to defend hate crimes md but. i think a lot of 2020s discourse misses the context within which the show originally operated. and this is NOT to say "well racist jokes were funny back then" cause that is NOT my point. my point is all the stuff that isn't the racist jokes

like, house md started airing one year before supernatural and bones, two other shows i'm deeply familiar with. supernatural is rife with casual homophobia, racism, misogyny, you name it. bones is so deeply entrenched in boot-sucking post-9/11 government that it's almost unwatchable these days. house... isn't very topical. he makes a lot of 80s references, or older. there are maybe two troop episodes? but let's be real we've been in the middle east so long that hardly dates it. and like, what does the show house md have to say beyond house's personal bad actions?

prisoners on death row deserve respect. homeless people deserve the same treatment as anyone else. mental health conditions like schizophrenia (presumed or otherwise) or munchausens don't disqualify people from actually being sick. being fat is sometimes a symptom instead of a cause, and people overlook genuine health concerns in favor of blaming obesity for everything. orthodox jewish beliefs deserve respect, while christian grifting should be mocked. there is significant, murky overlap between chronic pain and opioid addiction and there is no easy middle ground (the show itself muddles this point repeatedly, to be fair). autism is more akin to another language than anything else, and autistic people deserve to be met where they're at. abortion UP UNTIL BIRTH is acceptable, even desirable given circumstances. it is acceptable, even preferable, to repeatedly defraud insurance companies and bureaucracies if it's in the best interest of the patient. eating disorders are dangerous/fatal and should be treated as such

like, i get it. a lot of aspects of this show have not aged well, particularly the main sell of "edgy epic atheist" house, which WAS a very mid-00s type of character. and i'm as guilty as anyone as doing pepe silvia on this show to make it sound epic (like here) but i do genuinely believe i'm not wrong. even if you don't read house/wilson as romantic, and you don't need to, their relationship is so intense that it eclipses either of their various romantic entanglements. wilson went through 3 ex-wives and an ex-fiancee, house gave up on at least 3 significant relationships. house gave up his vicodin, his medical license, his entire life so that wilson didn't have to die alone. how can that not be poignant, even now? how can anyone deny the emotional impact of that? fuck your destiel, fuck your good omens. you didn't earn eight years of THIS

rambling as usual but i'm right. this show can be a really difficult watch at times for cringe reasons but it can also be so unusually astute that it takes the breath away. what other show, especially in 2005, was giving the circle speech from "lines in the sand"? that episode aired the same year as supernatural's racist truck or bones' "troops did friendly fire but iraq was still justified" penultimate ep. can i say house was a GOOD show? idk. but it raised a lot of interesting points and had a lot of against-the-grain compassion that i still find sorely lacking even now, 20 years later