Hey everyone. I am writing this article because I have noticed the last year that everybody just feels a little let down, and blue, and frustrated about the show. Besides that I saw that there are hardly any new fanfics and fan art. I think that the show still has its magic and that think that makes us deeply love it. We just need to take another look to re-recognize it. We need to reconnect.
First of all, we all know that after six years it’s natural that we, fans, don’t have the same enthusiasm as the first season. That’s expected and nothing new. Like marriages and long term commitment to political parties and noble causes, it’s never like the first time. Things grow old, familiar, tired. BUT, if someone asked you to just stop watching the show altogether, it would feel like ripping off a piece of your heart, wouldn’t it?
Secondly, now that I have watched season five and six four times (!), I came to see the things that were skipping my attention. The way the show is very much the same as the tree first seasons, like the bittersweet endings (and sometimes only bitter, even in the first 3), the same lightning, the same colors, the same ironies and impossible to answer questions. Besides if you watch again you’ll see that the last two seasons have had incredible soundtrack.
Thirdly, we are going through THE MOST intense seasons of House yet. It hit top. Now everything hangs from a thread, everything could either go well or go to hell. Personally I don’t feel that safe that House will end up with Cuddy all happy and healed in the end. I keep fingers crossed every time, in every episode. And I deeply like these seasons cause they have given the hope that House might just change. Might just decompress all these feelings and parts of himself that he has buried deep inside.
Fourth, I have to ask you, would you like it if life (in particular House’s life) was always an immature, playful, cool world? I don’t think you would, even if you think in your head that that would be an enjoyable life. Because if he stayed the same as he was the first four seasons you wouldn’t have liked him for much more. Nothing would ever get better. From the person he was in season 3 there was nowhere to go. What would the show be about? How House solves a few more dozens of cases similar to the ones in seasons 1-4? There would be no development, now growth. The story would be just the same, always. Now, I see that this is a hard time in the show, things have gotten very tough, BUT this is the middle of the road, that we have to cross to finally reach some place that will make us (and him) feel at home. And, after all life has two sides: light and rough. We went through light for four seasons, now it’s rough and we will get through it. It’s not worth being in denial. Since we have tough and deeply emotional seasons we should express that feeling, not ignore it, or deny it, or get angry. We should make appropriate icons, gifs, fanfictions. Let yourselves sink into it and enjoy it, and the rough times won’t last forever! Nothing lasts forever, neither the goods, and definitely nor the bads.