r/HouseMD

Im watching for the first time and just watched the episode where Kutner killed himself and all I can say is wow. It came out of nowhere and it pissed me off cuz I liked him.

Otherwise I like the show

Everybody dies

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Seeing the season 5 spoiler tag already gives you everything you need to know.

Amber's death left me in shock in season 4, i simply didn't expect significant characters' deaths in House. It was so episodic that I wasn't expecting the formula to change.

Then came S5E20.

Kutner's death broke me.

I'm currently going through the harshest time of my life so far, and binge watching house as a means of escaping. His suicide occurred in a way that, looking from the team's perspective, is exactly how i imagine it would go with me.

Abruptly cutting contact and being left to be found by someone not expecting. Then, following the different ways people went on to cope with it, just left me kinda speechless.

I was grunting and screaming "Oh no" with Amber, but watching S5E20 i was just silent the entire way, trying to process it.

From season 1 i thought "i wonder if they will ever have to deal with suicide" because it couldn't get more personal than that. Some other episodes still hit close to home, but seeing them having to keep on going, solving random cases and trying to push forward as normal...

Man. I don't know what to think. What to take from it.

I just saw the episode where Kutner randomly dies. God, I was holding myself from crying the whole episode until the ending scene where Taub starts crying. I knew that Kutner would eventually leave but I had no idea it would be through a death scene and I just had to talk about it with someone 😭 I feel like his death is so out of place, he was such a happy person, yet again it was probably to make it seem like happy people can also be depressed, it was just such a sad death. He was my favorite out of the casts and him and Taub as a duo was my favorite. Also it surprised me how much it affected House that he passed, I understood the others but House actually being that affected made no sense to me either. Sorry I just had to get this off of me I wonder if anyone else feels the same way

Currently watching the show for the first time, I'm at season 6 and I'm loving it thus far. I was wondering if any of you can think of any examples of characters with a conflict similar to House?

Of course I know the tortured genius is an entire trope with many characters that fit a similar criteria (heck, House himself reminds me a lot to The Doctor from Doctor Who), but I was specifically wondering if there are any other characters with the same conflict House has of obsessing with puzzles and mysteries?

Not only being really determined to solve mysteries, but basically being his main drive as a person, becoming a huge way for him to connect with both his job and other people. To the point it becomes dehumanizing, treating anyone as a puzzle that needs to be solved and himself as the detective forced to take any case he encounters in life. Going beyond trying to solve illness, it gets to a point he tries to solve the mystery beyond people's emotional conflicts, because for him, everything must have a logical answer and reason.

I know House is meant to be a pseudo adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, does Sherlock have a similar conflict? Is this a common trope in detective stories? I would like to know of any other characters with similar traits. Not only from tv shows but any medium. Anime, books, movies, comics, etc.

Went through a rabbit hole after the kav magah or whatever. iamjocelynalice on ig did a video on it.