House

House is probably my favorite drama on tv today. yes, it has surpassed Lost. it's close to Prison Break.

anyway, i should not admit this, but what the heck. only a few people who read this actually know who i am anyway. the show actually makes me a wee bit weepy.

house, the doctor in the show, is a rough individual who generaly thinks the worst in people and who has a warped sense of humor. probably only a facade.

however, his humanity often comes out at the end of the episode. call it a feel-good moment, but, hey, it works.

during this week's episode, an autistic kid came in. he'd been having problems, going into screaming fits, vomiting and one of his eyes rolled back.

house ended up saving the kid's life. as the parents were taking the boy home, house and a fellow doctor were watching them. house, in typical skepticism, is rating things. he says, first kiss with tongue, 8.5. saving someone's life, a 10. going back home with the autistic kid, the parents are feeling a tepid 6.5 (since it was back to their routine-set lifestyle).

the family walks by and the parents thank house for saving the boy's life. they begin to walk away. the boy turns back and walks up to house. he's moving his head back and forth and his body moving spasmatically. then he hands house his hand-held computer game he played throughout the episode. house took it. the boy stared at him, head still moving back and forth. he never spoke -- he couldn't. then he walked back to his parents. the doctor with house (jim wilson) said "that's a 10."

perhaps cheesy, but still, it hits home.

a few weeks back there was a man who was really thought to be comatose. house insisted he suffered from some condition, but since there was no proof, on one would believe him, even though he insisted. in a second episode he came back. another doctor injected the man with chortizone. he became moving, very slowly, but still moving.

i guess i like the show because it shows theree's hope in life, even in times when there's very little hope. i don't know why the show sometimes affects me the way it does., perhaps it's my dad and his cancer. even in his journey, which has gone up and adown, with most avenues exhausted, there's still hope. so if anything, the show is a real pick-me-upper and despite house's negative attitude, ends up coming up as a positive.