ok so i sobbed violently after finishing this horrible, wonderful show. fuck all the medical jargon for a min, house md was fundamentally a weekly, hour-long philosophical debate about what it means to be human. it tackled these massive questions that are still super relevant today like is it better to be miserable and know the truth, or happy and deluded? can a person ever truly change, or are we locked into our nature? does doing a good thing for selfish reasons make you a bad person? all of these questions directly tying to the characters themselves and their own arcs which became such wonderful ways we learnt about the characters, through the puzzles
but obvoiusly, i cant talk about this series without talking about that heart breaking finale. it gen feels like a gut punch whenever i think about it. it was without a doubt the ultimate death of gregory houses ego. he gave up his medical license, his reputation, his apartment, his piano, and the ability to ever practice medicine again. this man basically suicide and he did ALL of this JUST to give Wilson five months of peace. The man who spent his whole life being pathologically selfish made the ultimate, PERMANENT sacrifice like i AM SCREAMING IN MY PILLOW RN. and to make matters worse house finally learns how to love selflessly, and his "reward" is the heavy, heartbreaking task of watching his soulmate slowly wither away and die. He has five months of freedom, and after that, he will be a legally dead man, completely alone in the world, unable to ever go back to his old life.
it just isnt fair. in most television shows, when a character finally "learns their lesson" and grows, they get a reward. They get the girl, they get the dream job, they get a happy ending. so why cant greg, who fundamentally changed his entire outlook on life get the shitty end of the stick, like he always does?
ok fine. that last paragraph was a bit of a lie, i think that the ending was perfect and i think it was the best way to show the immense capacity for connection House had kept hidden for so long. or rather, the immense capacity he has smothered and broken for god knows how long.
but point is, house really is dead. but greg and james are free to conquer the world
