#housepositivityweek

[frenchfriedgiraffe]

day three: favourite ship

ummmm its camchase… who saw that coming,,,

i love them a lot. think they have a really sweet dynamic. i also gravitated towards them because theyre both in my top 3 favourite characters and what is better than shipping your favourite guys

house md positivity week

[thefangedman]

computer what is lor thefangedman’s favourite ship

[quillinhand]

day 3: favourite ship

i could sit here and explain myself a bit better and i will! at some point! but really the above scene in 1x01 pilot was all i needed to jump aboard the forehouse ship. from day fucking one foreman is the n1 fellow and the one that house md the show and gregory house the character care about the most, and i really don't know how anyone expects me to not melt into a puddle at that. i'm not sure how the forehouse dynamic within the show changes post s2—i'm in between the euphoria episodes right now and from what i've seen so far—man. house cares about foreman (literally entire show—like i said i'm not done with euphoria yet but man. dude. how many times do we catch house giving a fuck and how many times is it because of foreman??? yeah, exactly that). house wants foreman to stay (1x09 DNR i'm talking about you and also do we ever think about how foreman's job is never at risk during vogler arc, despite him being the newest fellow? i know i do). house trusts foreman (also literally entire show but specifically 2x02 autopsy). foreman spends entire arcs struggling with how similar he is to house and how house has wormed into his identity (too many episodes to count and i only have a database of two seasons mind you). forehouse, to me, at least, is, entirely compelling and one of the core relationships of the show even if you don't add in my delusions of them kissing and that is precisely why they should exchange saliva.

[starburned-and-unkissed]

i guess one of my favorite things about kutner (so, like, why he is my fave character) is his earnest desire to believe that people can change, that people can be that nice and that patient and that honest, that people naturally suck but they try to be good (that that's what most people do).

kutner has experienced firsthand how awful people and the world can be. he indirectly admits that he doesn't believe in a just universe and that he doesn't truly trust anyone (5x07 the itch), he states that the human condition is superficial (5x10 let them eat cake). he is very well aware that people can and do lie (multiple episodes), he is more cynical and negative than he lets on, he is way more reluctant to trust people than people think etc. he never truly opens up to anyone.

and yet. and yet.

he believes, or at least he sincerely wants to believe that people can change: he tells taub that you can't have your eyes opened to something and not act on it (4x12 don't ever change); he is one of the people that believes that the hassidic jewish woman was genuine about converting even if he doesn't quite understand her, he never once says that this change was a symptom and openly disagrees with house on this. in 4x13 no more mr nice guy, he starts the episode believing that the patient's niceness is not a symptom, he is so sure of it. he tells foreman that "people suck, but they try to be nice, to be good", that that is what (most) people do. he falters on this belief, but ends the episode being certain that the guy is truly that nice, and that he won't change once he's cured. he encourages the soap opera actor in living the dream to find the inspiring thing he wants to do and to go do it.

in 5x13 big baby, with a patient plot a tad similar to no more mr nice guy, kutner meets a patient who is a special ed teacher, who is nice and patient with all her kids. kutner, once again, believes that the traits that make her so good with all her kids are not a symptom. house... believes the opposite. kutner sticks to his guns, and while he is not right about the diagnosis, neither is house: sure, the patient technically had a condition that made her very patient, but she is just as nice with her students after she's cured. kutner is right about believing in people like half the time.

and here's the thing: I think part of why kutner thinks this is that he also wants it to be true about himself.

because kutner was a bully when he was younger (5x11 joy to the world), because kutner's not always nice: he can be kind of rude and has a bit of a short-fuse, because he can get frustrated easily and can be insensitive. but because I think kutner wants to be. and by that I mean, he wants to be a good person (even if I don't think he always sees himself as one), he wants to be nice and he wants to be friends with everyone, he feels a lot of guilt and shame about who he used to be and hates his negative traits (which is why he gets angry at the bullies in joy to the world, he is reminded of his past actions), and so he kind of... "fakes it till he makes it". which is why I think the way kutner acts may appear to be him... wanting to be a hero, wanting to be seen as a hero by other people (see also: him stating that he works as a doctor because he wants to help people), why it may appear a bit like showmanship at times.

but it is sincere.

so, kutner doesn't really see himself as much of a good person, but he wants to be. he wants to do good in the world. he's changed, maybe (although I think life's messy and even when kutner was a kid and a bully, he still had his characteristic compassion and kindness etc), he tries to do better and to be nice, and so he believes that that's what people do, that that is what people should do (although, he is aware that there are exceptions to every rule). he wants to think that there's good in mostly everyone, because he wants it to be true about himself too. he wants to trust people but struggles with it, whenever he tries to trust people he does seem to be reluctant to fully do so. he's been through so much pain, he's seen the world for all its awfulness... and yet, he really tries to see it for what it could be. because if the world can be better, then so can he.

kutner tries to be a kind person, tries to do good in the world and to trust people (reluctantly, but he tries). and so, he thinks that trying to do better is what people do, because it's what kutner does. because he wants it to be true about the world, and about himself too

[irrationalityi]

day two: favorite episode

girlbosses! billionaires! malpractice litigation! organ transplants! baba o'riley needledrop! control (1.14) has got it all.

look, my favorite episode is probably house's head like every other basic bitch. the episode i watch most often is probably you don't want to know or games because the survivor arc is so nostalgic for me. but i wanted to pick a classic potw episode, and control has everything i love about this show.*

marking the beginning of the vogler arc, control confronts house's philosophy of medicine. maybe cuddy is right. in the long run, the outcomes of vogler's clinical trials probably would save more lives than one diagnostics patient a week. and rules exist for a reason. organs are in short supply so wouldn't people prefer they go to where they can do the most good? but in practice, following those rules means signing the death warrant of a young woman because she struggles with her mental health.

where vogler sees the big picture, house sees the individual. his department is built on that philosophy; most of the time, diagnostics treats rare diseases that've already been missed by ordinary gps and specialists, for which there are few treatments and little financial incentive for pharma companies like vogler's to find a cure. the whole show--conceived in an era with rising health care costs and where your insurance could drop you for any preexisting condition, no matter how minor--is like a fantasy of medical system that would actually do anything, up to and including crimes, to save your life. "how much is your life worth?" house demands of the patient, carly. to house, here, today, everything.

unlike most medical shows--and unlike most real life doctors--house sees himself not in vogler or cuddy or any of those people sitting in a conference room deciding patients' fates, but in carly. cameron draws the comparison right at the start of the episode, by suggesting that carly has what house had. like house, carly has "that one thing that hits 'em that hard and that true . . . the thing that you think about all the time, the thing that keeps you south of normal." and like house, she hurts herself.

in the episode's key scene, house demands that carly fight for her life. his logic has an interesting tension. if carly has control over her eating disorder--that is, if she chose freely to destroy her own health--surely she deserves the transplant committee's judgment. after all, house usually has little patience for others' self destruction. but if she lacks control, it doesn't matter what she tells house. she will inevitably "screw it up."

but i don't think house really believes that a good talking to will cure carly's self-hatred. after all, if people don't change, how can someone break out of a mental illness through sheer willpower? i think he just wanted her to admit that she wanted to live. that just because you hurt yourself in ways small and large everyday, just because you sacrificed everything on the alter of your "one thing," just because you carry that self-hatred everywhere you go doesn't mean you don't want to live. it doesn't mean you aren't deserving of life.

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*the show agrees. the show's central preoccupations are everywhere in this episode. the critique of clinical trials. chase's mistake is a comic precursor to his more serious one in the mistake. carly's ambivalence about her life feels a lot like thirteen's, down to the note about her mother. and vogler's backstory is an echo of foreman's: the prodigal son who returned home a success only to realize that the parent they remembered was gone. but vogler tells his story to a crowd, to burnish his credibility, whereas foreman can't admit the truth of that story to anyone, even to himself.

[beesintreezz]

i like cameron :)

[sylviedonnas]

house md positivity week - day 1 (favourite character)

i love all of them but to the surprise of absolutely no one, the title of hailey’s favourite house character is bestowed upon robert chase :)

i think chase is misunderstood by a lot of the fandom. there’s so many layers to him that most fans don’t see (or care to see!). his development is the best out of the supporting cast by far. chase from season 1 is not the same as chase from season 8. he loves and loses and learns and grows and his journey is just so amazing. i will always be a chasenator 4 life 💖🩺🇦🇺

[gloryrulz]

House Positivity Week Day 3: Favorite Ship, Taubman (Chris Taub x Eric Foreman

I thought of shipping taubman after watching Lockdown. their segments in the file room were my favorite in the whole ep, them chasing each other while high on vicodin. “woah my 2 favorite characters interacting?! yippee!” I said (exaggeration).

their relationship carried season 7, I love them being roommates, the basketball scene was funny I really thought taub was going to win

I like to think in post-canon, taub quit his job but still hangs out with foreman when's he's not at work. then they kiss and make out 👍🏾