So another week has passed me by, as has yet another brilliant episode of House M.D.

The reason I love House and will continue to, even over the rest of my favourite programming, is that I find it’s the only show to challenge its audience.  The writers on House do not spoon feed their viewerswith cracker-jack jokes and drivel passed off as plotlines (I’m looking at you Grey’s).

Several episodes ago the writers on House really came at us with a moral imperative that I believe warrants further discussion.

James Earl Jones guest starred at Dibala, an African dictator who embodies such evil as Idi Amin of Uganda that oversaw the bloody murders of 300,000 of his countrymen.

Dibala was visiting the U.S. and fell ill, winding up as House’s patient, and effectively setting a fire the debate into the moral grounds of a doctor’s responsibilities.

Allison Cameron(one of House’s fellows), began the episode wanting to kill Dibala to prevent him from further slaughtering more people, while her husband and colleague, Dr. Chase, began to slowly engage Dibala in debate in an attempt to see the world through his eyes.

This is where the show begins to ask more of us than most viewers are accustomed to… Read the rest of this entry »