The Vampire Diaries

The Vampire Diaries 

"I don't want to do this, Elena. I'm not the good guy, remember? I'm the selfish one. I take what I want. I do what I want. I lie to my brother, I fall in love with his girl, I don't do the right thing.But I have to do the right thing by you." - Damon Salvatore

           This is a show that I both love and hate, and I hate to admit that I love it. I feel like me and this show are in a dysfunctional relationship where I get mad and tell it that it's over and I am never coming back, knowing damn well that I am going to come back eventually  (and by eventually, I mean next week when it comes on again). It's one of those teen shows that you are embarrassed to tell your friends that you watch because they will think you are young and dumb (mind you all my friends are 25+ so they probably think that anyway) but I just love certain aspects of the show far to much to give it up. One of those aspects is this man: 

            Damon Salvatore.... He's hott, he's a bad boy, and he's a good. He is the stereotypical thing that women love (and feminist's hate to admit that they love them too). As much as I would like to believe I am strong, independent woman who is simply too unique to be into that of thing, I have to admit, I am in love with him. His character is the funniest on the show, and most importantly, he is relatable. He is going through a constant struggle of what he wants vs. what he should do and we have all been through something like that. I am currently going through something like that and just talking about the show is making me want to go back and watch the first couple of seasons all over again. When you want someone, it's really hard to see what is right and what is wrong sometimes, especially when your love for them is incredibly strong, like his is for Elena, and sometimes it takes him a while to see what is best for her, but in the end he always does. At the end of Season 3 when there was a decision to save her or to save Matt, Stefan was the one around to try to save them. When he realized that he could only save one of them and Elena pointed to Matt, he saved Matt (that is how Elena became a vampire). Then when she wakes up, Damon tells he in no uncertain terms that he would have saved her, to hell with Matt, because she is the one that he loves and she would have been able to live the normal life that she wanted. For me, this shows that Damon loves her much more than Stefan. I am not saying that you should;t respect your partners decisions, but I am saying that there is a point when you love someone enough, that you ignore what they want in order to protect them from themselves. Damon did that and Stefan didn't. If someone I love was drowning in a car and I could only save them or the person they were pointing to, I don't care who that other person is, I am going to save my loved one and that's just me. 

           I like the way that the evolution of Damon's character is him own and not Elena's. There are far to many books, movies and TV shows that are on this kick about how you can change your man if he loves you enough and that is simply not true. You cannot make a man change for you, he has to decide to make that change on his own and the Vampire Diaries does a very good job of showing that through Damon. He has defiantly changed for Elena, but he did it his way, on his terms and on his time. He changed FOR her not BECAUSE of her (something she said or did). I feel like there are too many woman that are unable to love a man for who he is, including his flaws, but instead want to transform him into the perfect man, and there are a lot of books the perpetuate that idea which I think is wrong. And the other thing is Damon truly was a very bad person before Elena. When he was human he was kind and caring, but he had his heart ripped out by a woman, turned his humanity off and when on a killing spree, as did his brother. Neither one of them has any qualms with killing people and they do so on the regular. So damon really cleaned up his act for her, which I think is ridiculous because I find her to be a whiny, damsel in distress, wishwashy person, but that;s just me. 

           One thing I really like that they did with this show was the character development of Stefan and Damon. The truth is Stefan may have a heart of gold, but he has actually killed more people and made more mistakes than Damon has but you would never believe that when the show first comes out. Damon is set up as the bad guy and Stefan is the poor innocent vampire who only drinks animal blood, but as the season progress, you start to see a softer side to Damon and a much darker side to Stefan. Now to some of the things that I really don't like: 1) There is at least on party in each episode. I'm not sure if in the deep south this is something that happens but where I am from, here in Georgia, we simply so not throw parties every week. 2) There are a lot of stories going on at one time, and I really don't care about most of them. I have a select few characters that I really care about, but that's it. Sometimes it feels like there have been 3 episodes and nothing has happened because there are so many stories to tell at once. 3) the show is general does not seem plausible, even from a "vampires are real" standpoint. There is no way that people are not going to notice that people keep dying at these parties and they are certainly not going to continue to throw them. I find is surprising that people in Mystic Falls don't seem upset that people keep dying and the they are found with bite marks in their neck. I mean seriously? Is that not suspicious at all? I mean I get there they have bears in Virginia but come on!  So all in all, a good show if you can get past the plot holes. Not that thrilled about next season because they killed off the only two characters that I care about, although I know they will find a way to bring them back because they always do, I'm just not excited for the few episodes that I have to be without them.  

Castle

Castle

"Richard, love is not a switch. You can't just turn it off. Can't work side by side with her and not feel anything" - Martha Rogers 

              So today I am going to talk about the only ABC show that I have ever really liked, Castle. Castle is near and dear to me in the same way that football is near and dear to me: it's something that me and my father both love. My Dad is incredibly picky about what shows he likes and he may stop liking them at any time for really any reason, but Castle has not ever let him down. Once when we were looking for something to to watch, I mentioned to my Dad that we didn't have to watch a movie, we could watch a TV show on demand. So I asked him, "what kind of shows do you like?" and his response was, "Castle." I waited a second for him to say something else, but he didn't say anything. So I said, "I asked what KIND of shows you like," and he simply said back, "Castle..." so needless to say, we watched Castle. 

            What I really enjoy about Castle is how lighthearted and funny it is for a show about death. Castle is so nonchalant about the murders, so much so that he finds them enjoyable. Obviously he is not a crazy killer or anything, he just enjoys the stories which is something that I can really relate to. As much as murder is horrible, understanding the criminal mind is something that has always been interesting, otherwise, we wouldn't have as many crime shows as we have (CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, ect) or as many crime novels as we have. When I say this show is funny, I mean that it is hysterical. It's not the usual cop drama humor that is cheesy and sometimes really doesn't make sense. He humor on Castle is related to all the banter between Castle and Beckett (the cop Castle is basing his novel on) and the banter between the other detectives and Castle and even the banter between Castle, Beckett and the suspects. None of that "sunglasses at night" humor so that is definitely an aspect of Castle that I love. 

           Another thing that I like about this show is Beckett's character. She is such a strong woman, and she is everything that I would like to be. I an the type of person that cries pretty much whenever they are sad and I always wear my emotions on my sleeve. I literally cannot hide when I am upset about something. I am the very epitome of weak when it comes to that sort of thing and I wish I could be more like Beckett in the regard. In the third season she struggles with the aftermath of being shot looking into her mother's case and even then, she is still stoic in public, although she begins to see a therapist and cries when no one is around. Despite the fact that she can hide her emotions, she also has a really big heart. She is concerned with finding who committed the murder, not because it is her job, but because she wanted to punish the person who committed the crime and give the families of the victim the closure that comes from knowing what happened to their family/friend. I am also a little jealous of her bravery. She is never afraid of anything, not gang bangers, not mobsters and not even the Mayer that killed her mother. She is always searching for the truth no matter where it takes her and not matter what happens to her in the process. I end myself in awe of her every time I watch the show. Lastly, I hope to one day be as good at that as do as she is at what she does. She is the youngest female to make detective with the highest closure rate of the department. I'm not even considered good at the job that I am at now, and I cannot wait to leave it to do something that I enjoy (what I am going to school for). 

         But the single most important part to tho show is the relationship between Castle and Beckett and how it evolves over the seasons. As I mentioned before, the banter between the two is hilarious and it is obvious from day one that they are going to end up together. In Season 1, Beckett appears to be a fan of Castle's books, but finds the actual man to be annoying and a giant pain in the butt. However by the end of the first season she appears to be more and more conformable with his following her around on her cases until he tries to look into her mothers case. This is when we learn that Beckett became a cop because he mother was killed when she was a chid and that she wanted to solve her mother's murder. However trying to do that messed her up in the head so much that she had to stop looking and became upset with Castle when he started. At the beginning of season 2, she forgives him and the continue to like each other more and more, until Beckett is shot in the third season and Castle has to confront his feelings when he sees her dying and he tells her that she loves her. When Beckett survives the bullet she lies and tells Castle that she does not remember what happened until she can sort her feelings out. When she lets is slip that she knew all along he is devastated and almost quits shadowing her. However, at the end of Season 4 another near death experience makes her realize that she loves him and the get together and have been together on the show since :). However this past season finale, when the two were going to get married, Castle was run off the road and appears to be dead (although there is no way that he is and I cannot wait to see where they take this storyline). So, all in all, Castle is an amazing show, you should definitely watch and take a look at the "evolution of Castle and Beckett" below. :)))

Supernatural

Supernatural

"No, it’s exactly what you meant. You want to know what I confessed in there? What my greatest sin was? It was how many times I let you down. I can’t do that again" - Sam Winchester

        So the show I am going to be talking about today is very near and dear to my heart, it is the only show I have watched from the very first season (I usually come in after I know a show will last because I'm am very sensitive when my favorites get cancelled). For the past 9 seasons I have tuned in and I am still in love with show, even as we are nearing the 10th season in October. This show, as mentioned above is Supernatural which airs on the CW network (which I am not usually a fan of). Supernatural is the story of two brothers who hunt all things that go bump in the night in order to save innocent people... at least that is the line they feed people. The truth is they are on a revenge mission to find the "thing that killed their mom" and then the "hunt" becomes all that they know. Before I really get into the show itself, I want to discuss how happy I am that it is still on the air. This show truly is amazing in my opinion, but the creator had planned out the show for 5 seasons and was afraid it would start to drag if it went on any longer (he was quoted as saying "like Smallville" another CW show, which really did drag), but due to the high ratings the network bought him out and kept the show on the air. The fifth season ended with Sam dead/not dead and Dean living with some girl he had spent one weekend with. Needless to say, I would have been devastated if the show had ended at that point.

        While we are on that subject, lets just take a minute to talk about the women of Supernatural and how they never quite seem to last long. The very first women we see in the very first clip, dies in a fire, suspended from the ceiling. The next women we see, Sam's college girlfriend Jessica and she dies the same way. Next women we see is actually an evil demon who comes and goes. And it just goes on and on from there, Whatever reason they give, the females characters are always gone before long. The question is why is that? And the answer is actually pretty hysterical. The main fan base of the show is women, and apparently the idea of one of the two leading men having a long term female companion is too much to handle! I'm just going to run that by you one more time, the female fans of this show are so fanatical that even the thought that these two fictional characters could be happy in the long term with a woman that is not them, is just too much to bear to keep watching. The whole concept makes me laugh, not because I have not had celebrity crushes or anything (I mean have you seen the men on this show?), but I am not convinced that the only thing keeping me from dating them is that they have a girlfriend or their character has a girlfriend. There are plenty of other reasons like: we will never meet in real life, we possibly have nothing in common, they probably would not find me attractive, we may not have the same sense of humor, ect. However the two brothers, Sam and Dean, and the angel Castiel are really nice to look at.....



        Now onto the fun stuff, the characters in the show. Obviously Sam and Dean are the main characters and the best, but the angel Castiel has certainly changed things in the show since his arrival. In the very first season the show had a bit of a "freak of the week" vibe which was really good. The show was more like a procedural than it was a drama, but it certainly evolved over that first season into the drama season that it is today. In the beginning the brothers, Sam and Dean, lose their mother in a horrific supernatural accident and the father begins to hunt these things, (ghosts, demons, ect.) and he drags these boys along with him as he goes and teaches them how to hunt these things from a very young age. So the entire first season is basically the boys searching for their father while he searches for the "thing" that killed their mother, known as the yellow eyed demon at this point. At the end of the season they find the YED and a way to kill him, but they do not succeed because they would have to kill John in the process and Dead refuses to allow this (which is what started my love affair with Dean). The season end with them in a car accident, which then opens the second season with Dean dying in the hospital. At the last minute Dean is saved by his father making the first demon deal of the series, his life for Dean's (which was the only time I liked their father John). The second season still has the freak of the week feel, but the death of John leads to a more angst driven season as they continue to try to kill the YED. What is most interesting to me about the second season is that Dean is finally on the revenge train to a certain degree. Before it was Sam and John when wanted to find the YED for revenge (for killing their girlfriend and wife respectively), but now Dean is trying even harder to find and kill YED. However unlike Sam, Dean is not willing to lay his life or anyone else's on the line for the sake of revenge which I think is a really beautiful aspect to Dean. It is noted throughout all the seasons that Dean is far more like his mother and it shows when we meet his mother over the seasons, She is kind and loving, despite her growing up as a hunter and her biggest wish was that her children would not grow up the way that she did (which John ruins and that is one of the many reasons that I hate him). I think the fact that there is far more Mary in Dean than John, and that is what makes him such a beautiful kind person and the character that is always morally right in this series.

       Towards the end of season 2, Sam is stabbed and consequently dies. Throughout the series so far we have seen that the only thing that is keeping Dean going: protecting Sammy, not vengeance. So in the finale of Season 2, Dean bargains his soul to save his brother, which leads to the entire 3rd season being about Sam trying to save Dean. This season is very bittersweet because the entire season, until about 3 episodes before the finale, Dean is convinced that he is supposed to be dead anyway and there is not reason to try to save him (because doing so could kill Sam). So finally when Dean decides that he is worth saving, it is too late and he dies anyway. Also, throughout this season an evil demon named Ruby begins to weave her way into Sam's mind, but she doesn't really show her sinister self until season 4.

       At the beginning of season 4, Dean obviously comes back to life and he is determined to figure out how he came back. This is when we meet Castiel and Angels are now a part of the Supernatural fandom. Throughout this season and season, the demons are trying to raise the devil, while the angels are trying to stop it, but the most important piece to this whole season is the development of Sam and Dean's character. We discover that Sam was sleeping with the demon Ruby while Dean was dead, the demons are successful in raising the devil, the YED killed Sam and Dean's mother (which started all of this) to make him into a vessel for the devil (because the devil did not have a corporeal body) and Dean is the vessel for Michael and the two of them need to allow these entities to use them as vessels in order to start the apocalypse. What was really cool about both of these seasons is you really see the brothers argue over what is right and what is wrong while the devil and the angels fight over what is right and what is wrong. And throughout the whole thing you are taken to this beautiful gray area where you really have to think and consider what you would do in those situations. With certain things, it is really hard to say one way or the other.

       Seasons 6-9 and awesome, no doubt, but they are all stand alone seasons when each season there is a different goal, whereas the first 5 seasons all tied together at the end. I think of those 4, the season that had the most depth, was season 9, particularly the end of season 9. At the end of Season 8, there is this beautiful moment between the brothers where Sam confesses that after all the bad decisions he has made, he feels like he cannot do anything right in Dean's eyes and Dean tells him to just let go of the past. I cried so many tears. But at the beginning of Season 9 Sam is still dying so Dean tricks him into letting an angel take over his body in order to heal him over time. Midway though the season it turns out this angel is the not so nice variety and hijacks Sam's body. Then Sam and Dean have to fight and eventually forgive each other for the whole thing, and Sam has to find his will to live.

      And then in the finale, something amazing happened. As much as I love Dean, I could not be more excited for Season 10. In every season, the roles of the brothers has been clear. Dean is the moral, kind, compassionate brother who is rough around the edges, while Sammy is the moody brother who always seemed to understand the monsters more than he should and ended up crossing the blurred lines so to speak. But now, Dean has come back..... as a demon! So the whole dynamic of the brothers is going to change, not only as individuals, but also between the two of them. There was a cure for being a demon that was introduced in Season 8, however I don't think that they will turn Dean back into a real boy right away. It seems like all of the strife and all of the previous seasons have been leading up to this moment, Dean's fears from season 3 of becoming a demon are coming true and Sam is going to have to be the moral compass for the two of them. I literally cannot wait to see how this new storyline unfolds in October!

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones

"I am Daenerys Stormborn. Your Masters may have told you lies about me, or they may have told you nothing. It does not matter. I have nothing to say to them. I only speak to you. First, I went to Astapor. Those who were slaves in Astapor, now stand behind me, free. Next I went to Yunkai. Those who were slaves in Yunkai, now stand behind me, free. Now I have come to Meereen. I am not your enemy. Your enemy is beside you. Your enemy steals and murders your children. Your enemy has nothing for you but chains and suffering, and commands. I do not bring you commands. I bring you a choice. And I bring your enemies what they deserve." - Daenerys Targaryen

Above is my favorite quote of all time spoken by one of my two all time favorite characters. If either of them die, I do not think I could watch the show anymore through my grief. I am of course talking about the show that has destroyed many peoples hearts with the deaths of their favorite characters, Game of Thrones. My favorite characters are Daenerys (who according to the true line of succession should be the Queen of Westeros and the 7 kingdoms because she is the only living heir to the Mad King), and Tyrion Lannister, almost the only source of comedy in the whole show. I have a few other characters that I enjoy, but none as much as those two.

First I want to raise two points. 1) I have not seen the last three episodes of this season, season 4, so all of my opinions are coming from the knowledge of the episodes previous to those three. 2) I only have one true complaint about the show and that is the amount of violence towards women, specifically violence that was not originally in the book. I understand the urge to add sex and drugs to TV shows to interest people, but why does the sex have to be non-consensual. For example, the scene where Cerci is raped by her brother/lover beside their sons dead body (because that is a real turn on apparently) is not originally in the book. The scene in the book was originally consensual, but was turned into a rape scene by the show. The questions that I want to ask is why??? In a show that already has enough rape, what is the point of changing it? I feel like every episode this season has had a rape scene. I think the one that bothered me the most was all the daughters that was raped by the rouge Night's Watch. The main guy who was in charge (I forgot his name, I hated him so much) made the comment that they should rape the women until they die. I have never been so happy to see someone die when he died in the very next episode. Thank you John Snow!

Now for some things that I enjoy about the show. I am going to start with the current Sansa story line, as far as I have seen of it. So..... Sansa is now with Littlefinger and her aunt living in the Erie. The problem, which I saw coming from the moment Littlefinger started talking about how much he loved Catlin Stark, that he was going to make a pass at Sansa. Then the aunt (who is married to Littlefinger and in madly in love with him) threatens to throw her out the moon door (a cliff essentially). So I am thinking, this is it. Sansa is finally going to die, but then in comes Littlefinger to calm her down....or so you think. But then he tells says the cruelest thing I think I have ever heard:



Even though me as the audience already knows that that is true, I am still shocked by the fact that he said it. And then he throws her out the moon door! As much as it pains me to admit it, I felt a little bit of sympathy for her. She was crazy no doubt, but love has made a lot of people crazy right? I just think it is sad how completely and utterly in love with him she was, and he was only using her the entire time. We know the extent of this love because she was the one who sent Caitlin Stark the letter that started the 5 Kings War! And she did it under Littlefinger's orders. I have some very recent experience with being in love with a man who is in love with another woman and I know how much pain she was in, however I never threatened to throw someone out a moon door.

As for Tyrion, I have loved his character for the very beginning of the show. She is hysterical and all he wants is find a woman to love him and to get his dad off his back. However, now his father is trying to have him executed and the woman he is in love with is testifying against him. It seems to me after watching for 3 and a half seasons that Tyrion and Daenerys are the only two characters with any moral compass at all. Tyrion's twin brother and sister are sleeping with each other, and his father is an evil jerk to everyone. However, his family looks down on him for being a dwarf and "killing their wife/mother." I don't think I could make it if I lived my whole life being blamed for being born. Why does Tywin not blame himself for getting her pregnant? Or 'the Gods" for taking her? I guess it is easier for him mentally to blame Tyrion, but he does not deserve it. I feel like the mother would be so upset if she knew the way that the rest of the family was treating her baby. I think I feel in love with Tyrion as a character when he first slapped Joffery. While everyone else was sitting there bowing down, Tyrion was still treating him like the punk little kid that he is. For example, when Joffery wanted Sansa to strip naked so she could be beaten in front of the entire court, Tyrion is the one who shows up, puts Joffery in his place and saves her.

My other favorite is Daenerys because of her heart. She is the sweetest person on the entire show which is why she is so beloved by her army, who chooses to stand with her. I think there is a real strength in her that is shown for the first time when she learns how to love the man that scared her and essentially raped her. Then the sadness she felt and what she did to save his life, inadvertently killing her baby in the process. Then she comes back from all of that pain to save her dragons (now he children) and to free the slaves at each city she encounters. There is something wonderful about someone who wants to stand up for those that cannot stand up for themselves. When she saw the children hung to the crosses along the roads to Maureen, she stated that she would get them justice and asked someone to count how many there were. Then when she arrived there was a way that she could have gotten around the city without sacking it, and she refused, because it meant more to her to free the slaves than to be a Queen. I think of everyone on this show, she makes the best leader and would make the best Queen for the 7 Kingdoms.     

The Walking Dead

"That's the third time you are pointing that thing in my face. You gonna pull the trigger or what?"

So I had planned to write this post so much earlier than it is being written, but life kind of got in the way as well as school work. Plus, the show I am writing about this time around is a show I had just started when I planned to talk about it but now I am almost through the fourth season so my opinionated self has a lot to say. For this post I am going to be talking about The Walking Dead, so spoilers ahead.

First, I really, really like this show. One of the most important things that I like about it is that despite the fact that it is a show about a zombie apocalypse, there are still a lot of aspects that are true to reality. First of all, they aren't any easy beheadings. TV shows today make it look like beheading someone is so easy that it could be an accident if the knife was short enough. Truth is, it take a lot to hack off a head or a limb (both events happened to the same person, Hershel). Also, once someone is death on this show, they stay dead (except Lori, but I'll get to that later). No one miraculously comes back to life or heals which really adds to the suspense of the show. When you are watching you know, if someone gets bit or scratched, there is no coming back, so you spend the whole time worried that the character might die.

And then there's the drama. So lets start with the most obvious Drama, the Lori, Rick, Shane love triangle. First of all... I am not happy with the way that the show treated Shane. I feel like every single time there is a love triangle/affair it is never representative of the reality of what it is like for people who are in an affair. I had a best friend who fell in love with a married man. At first I didn't know what to think because I had known her since I was five years old and I had never expected that from her. She wasn't a bad person, and neither was he, and neither was his wife. They were all just in a bad situation. But on TV, there is always a bad guy, even in situations where there really in no bad guy. In the first season (only 6 episodes) it was representative, but starting in the second season they started to make Shane into a crazy person which killed me. I was much more in tune with his character than the Rick character and I felt bad for him. He was completely loyal to Rick when he found out he was still alive and then he out of nowhere goes crazy for a few episodes and tries to kill Rick? I just didn't like it nor did I find it believable.

Then there is the issue of Lori being a bad mother. That was the only thing that I knew about this show when I first started watching, and I have to say.... I AGREE!



In every single episode you see Lori asking someone else to watch Carl, or if she is watching Carl he is running around outside the house aimlessly. First, he steals a gun from Daryl's motorcycle. Where is Lori? Probably in the house doing laundry. Then he is throwing stones at a Walker (zombie) antagonizing it to chase after him, then it later kills a member of the group, Dale. Where is Lori? Again, no one knows, but not with Carl. Then when the walkers are swarming the farm and they have to leave, out comes Lori yelling, "WHERE'S CARL?" to which everyone watching responds with, "WHY DO YOU NOT KNOW???!" It's a zombie apocalypse! If I had a kid,  I would never let them leave my side.

Last thing I am going to discuss for this post is what everyone is obsessed with: Daryl Dixon. When I first started watching the show I was determined not to like him, because he was everyone's favorite. So I went in thinking, "I am NOT going to like this guy" and guess what? I fell in love. His childhood consisted of being beaten by his father (so much so that he still has multiple thick scars on his back) who has a heart of gold, but no way to express it. He was never shown any affection (as far as is noted in the show) until his short time with Beth. Beth is a complete and utter sweetheart and he is able to really be kind with her for a brief moment before she was kidnapped. There was also his relationship with Carol, but it was not quite the same level of affection. While this show is slow at time, I think is definitely worth the watch. I will definitely watch when it comes back on  in October.

House M.D.

“People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.” -Dr.Gregory House

Hello! My name is Megan and I am a TV show/Movie junkie. I guess part of the reason I love them so much is because I spend almost all my time between work and school and in my off time I need a hobby which doesn't require as much brain power as reading (although I love reading as well!). However, if you consider how much thought I put into the stories behind the shows and movies, it would seem I am putting almost as much thought into them as it would require to read a book. I work at a company called Coyote Logistics on the overnight 3rd shift (hence my blog title, lyrics to an Iggy Azalea song "up all night trying to get that rich"). I am a senior at Kennesaw State this year as an Accounting Major, so again, I only have so much brain power left over after school and work. So I thought that throughout this blog I would share my thoughts on certain series and movies that I enjoy or do not enjoy and discuss why I feel one way or the other (and believe me, I have PLENTY of opinions). 

 SPOILER ALERT!

House MD was an amazing show that lasted for 8 seasons and ended in 2012. What made this show so incredible was the main character, Dr. Gregory House's unwillingness to be a kind human being. He believed in truth above all else despite his famous quote, "Everybody lies." Every case he would take was purely because it interested him and he often mocked anyone he felt was being an idiot. He would have his team break into his patients homes to help his diagnostic process and would hire team members based on superficial reasons that he felt were important. He hired Dr. Allison Cameron purely because she was pretty and when she confronts him about this he replies with the quote listed above. This gives way to what I really wanted to talk about. Despite how cruel House was, he was never wrong. Cameron was a good doctor in spite of her looks because she worked so hard to get where she was. All he needed was one look to figure out that she was a hard worker. As someone who thrives from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (and note I did not say "suffers from" I am proud of who I am and all of my quirks) I can appreciate his ability to make snap judgements without questioning himself. He never once thinks, "maybe I am wrong" or "it could be any number of things." He makes decisions and he sticks to them which is something I envy because I simply cannot do that. I second guess everything I do and think and sometimes I do not speak my mind about things, even when I have been right about it all along. 

This brings rise to the question: Is it better to be right or kind? As someone who is also very blunt, I think it is better to be right. I would like to believe that there is a middle ground, where one can tell the truth and be kind about it. Unfortunately sometimes the truth itself if not kind and their is nothing anyone can do to change that. If House had been kinder and wasted time talking to patients, he may have been more like me and second guessed himself. Perhaps if he had created a relationship between himself and the patient then he may not have ordered the tests that were needed to save the patients life because the treatment was too risky. So is it better to be kind and hold the patients hand while they die? Or order a test that could kill them, but has the chance of saving their life? If I was the patient, I would rather have the chance to live. What was so astounding about this show is that made you want to ask those questions, and to accept that House was the way he was. When I think about it, this show could have tanked in season 1 because people felt that House was too much of a jerk. However it did not simply because people were fascinated by the thought of a doctor who was not there to help (he simply wanted to "solve the puzzle") but was going to save lives anyway. 

No discussion of this magnificent series would be completely without discussing the relationship between Dr. House and his best and only friend Dr. James Wilson. Wilson was an oncologist who knew House through everything and was the only main cast member other than Cuddy (the Dean of Medicine and House's ex) who knew House before the medical procedure than mangled his leg and got him addicted to Vicodin. According to Wilson, House was a jerk even before the constant pain in his leg, which is an ongoing to debate for other characters in the series. However through it all, Wilson stuck by him and acted as his conscience, no matter what crazy thing House had done. Throughout the 7 seasons we see Wilson stick his neck out to show that he and House are best friends. We also see House mess things up, be depressed about it despite the fact that he would not voice it, only to see the two of them make up. The bad guy House and the ultimate good boy Wilson who holds the hands of his patents and goes out of his way to not be mean to anyone always ended up friends again without too much effort on House's part. That is, until Season 8. In season 8 we find out that Wilson has Cancer and for the first time we see House having a heart and taking care of someone else. He administers a crazy amount of Chemo that no other doctor would in his living room and does not take Wilson to the hospital even though he knows that is what is RIGHT, purely because Wilson asks him not to. Then when the Chemo does not work and Wilson refuses to take anymore, House falls apart and tries to change Wilson's mind. Finally, he accepts that he only have 5 months left with his friend and he fakes his own death (to avoid going back to jail for revoking his parol after he drove his car into his Ex's living room) in order to spend those months with him. That was the crowing moment for House and the perfect ending to the series. It is a must watch and I highly recommend it!!