#house 6x02

[housetzuyu]

house md s6 eps 1 nd 2

greatest piece of media i've ever seen in my life - not only tv but truly the best of fiction ever created by man. i wish hugh laurie and david shore could fuck me hard and raw right at this present moment

[malpractice-husbands]

House so annoying he got therapy with the boss himself

[florida3exclamationpoints]

House rapping with Lin Manuel Miranda is the cutest thing I've ever seen

[malinaa]

sometimes u have to feel the broad spectrum of human emotion because a british actor with an american accent is rapping with lin manuel miranda in a psych ward

[oldmanffucker]

“You can do this. If you hold my hand, I can do it too.”

House bringing Mr. Freedom Master out to carry the cello to feel capable, driving him out to the carnival to help him fly …. to me he genuinely wanted to help someone feel good. feel happy. even tho it was reinforcing someone’s delusions, it wasn’t Rational. but he’s stuck there and he can’t help people and he needs to help people! he needs to believe people can be happy, to be okay even with delusions. even when they’re not okay he needs to know there are ways to be okay even for a little bit.

[evenstar-ing]

brb getting a kiss from a married woman at the psych ward party and then going back to my room where lin manuel miranda awaits me

[mar-sibilina]

[kodysstuff]

SHE KISSED HIM BUT SHE HAS A HUSBAND? WHAT A BITCH

[dumbbitchawards]

House and wilson cooking class scene you will always be famous

[jjngipilled]

wtf is this hopeful ass elevator music. give me agony i want the most gut-wrenching heartbreaking instrumental chords any human has ever strung together

[housetzuyu]

just finished watching s6 eps broken pt 1 and pt 2 🥹 i'm so so so happy for house he finally got a chance in life after suffering so much like thats my BABY over there omg...i can't believe everything will go downhill again...

[malpractice-husbands]

How house md it was for house to help the girl and by this making her leave

[lucaswarmhotchocolate]

I have a very strong feeling that these next few minutes are going to be very difficult to watch

[malinaa]

SEEING HOUSE HUG PEOPLE... INSANE INSANE INSANE INSANE THAT SHOULD BE ME!!!!!!

[oldmanffucker]

House jumping in with lines for Alvie when he flounders during his rap I’m - he’s such a good boy 😭😩😩😩‼️

[raayllum]

Sometimes it hits just how tonally different The Dragon Prince is from virtually every other kids show on TV and I lose my mind. I'd argue something like Infinity Train gets closest with its emphasis on psychological horror and morality, or even Transformers: Prime (if you know, you know) with its severe focus on war (aka one of the more lowkey episodes is a main character having a suicide bomb forcibly strapped to their chest). Steven Universe Future and Jurassic World: Camp Cretaeceous/Chaos Theory are also probably honourable mentions.

All of these shows have mature content in them, which isn't different from more popular shows like Owl House, She-Ra, or even ATLA, but often times in aforementioned three that content is presented in lighter ways and/or interrupted by bathos (this is true for She-Ra in particular). Most of TOH's heaviness is reserved for S2 Hunter or S3 Luz; ATLA has some episodes that particularly emotionally heavy (The Southern Raiders, Zuko Alone, the Southern Air Temple) or are quite hitting in exploring themes of colonization (Imprisoned, City of Walls and Secrets, Northern Air Temple), but a good deal, I'd say even the majority, are also pretty fun shenanigans, too. To be clear as well, a lighter tone is not a Problem never mind a negative (ATLA has a very strong thematic point to its own about the sanctity of children and childhood amid the horrors of how imperialism strips it away), but it is a tonal difference.

And it's not as though TDP doesn't have episodes where there are fun shenanigans (Callum and Rayla's initial exploration of Xadia in 3x02 is nothing but fluff, Soren and Corvus are a more gay comedic duo in 6x02) but the series more or less operates like "What if every episode was The Southern Raiders?" due to its consistent emphasis on grief and morality. They use words like kill and death and murder all the time.

From the pilot / opening episodes

and to when characters are having breakdowns because they murdered someone (and we're still supposed to like them) or have done horrible things, with the show's heaviness ramping up particularly from S4 onwards.

When loved ones die (and the show has a body count of 20+ named characters who have died, six seasons in, some even being children) the show depicts mourning in all its stages and ugly glory. The sadness, the anger, the revenge, the desperation, shifting blame and cognitive dissonances, thinking you had moved on only for that wound (which never fully healed) to be ripped wide open again.

Characters get tortured by being electrocuted or having their blood frozen in their veins or beaten up (5x08). There are successful assassination attempts (1x03, 3x02). People, even children younger than the main cast of characters, are put on trial with the death penalty (4x06, 6x09). Within the first three episodes, a character is running down stairs and tripping over dead bodies.

Sometimes three different characters in one episode will be having a breakdown or dealing with something absolutely devastating to their emotional state (2x08, 3x07, 6x01, 6x09, 7x01). The magic system is a trolley problem on steroids. Do you kill a monster to feed starving kingdoms, or to save yourself, or to save someone you love? What makes it a monster? What if the monster isn't a monster? What if you have to kill a child? What if it means killing your child? What if it means killing yourself?

There are two characters who canonically have cannibalized other people, one being a blood-drinker / vampire variant.

This doesn't mean the show isn't fun or funny. One character consistently thinks bathroom humour is funny (while being one of the most tragic characters in the entire show). The characters cheer each other up, take care of each other, are goofy, etc. The show is ultimately hopeful.

But the emotional weight afforded to the choices the characters are making, even good-intentioned ones with unforeseen disastrous consequences, the way show focuses on their emotional processing (or lack of) is very unique in the landscape of western animation, especially to this degree, I think. Never mind the increasing amounts of blood. Nor does this make the show inappropriate for children! Tiny me was morbid as fuck at 7 years old, I would've loved it, and I know many kids from ages 7-12 who do in my work as a tutor. But when people say "TDP isn't like most kids shows," I think what that means is sometimes lost in translation in conflating it with what people usually say aren't 'just kids shows,' when TDP... really, really isn't.

The show begins with assassins sent by a grieving mother to execute a father and his child in revenge for the father killing her partner and child, and it never lets you forget it.