Baelorsaurafarming

[baelorsaurafarming]

Watching how the Pitt fandom falls to madness and despair brings me an unfortunate sense of deja vu, because I'm literally an ASOIAF fan and I remember what happened with the GoT season 8 ending

[ny-ji]

let’s say you don’t want to hear about sexism, racism, discrimination … then can you tell me how the pitt’s production choices are narratively relevant ? and i mean something other than playing the "it’s realistic" card

let’s make sure we’re on the same page. we agree that the pitt set out to critique the usa healthcare system, one that’s plainly poisoned by structural discrimination, and to explore the mental health of the ER medical staff, right ?

so… how was it narratively relevant to erase samira mohan, a south asian woman whose entire character arc is built on medical racism and a conflicted relationship with her boss (a white man) while she's still a resident ? especially when they could've used that space to actually make robby confront his own biases, and to show that being in mental distress is not an excuse for abusive behavior toward a subordinate, and therefore actually say something meaningful about both discrimination and mental health.

how is it narratively relevant to bring in someone as rich a character as baran al‑hashimi, an attending of iranian/iraqi origin, who knows samira, who’s done humanitarian work in WAR ZONES, who has a completely different vision and approach from robby, only for her arc to end with "robby was right to doubt her and to be on her case all day" ? and don’t tell me he said a couple times that she had good calls, that means literally nothing compared to everything they could’ve explored with her, and didn’t, because apparently we needed more shots of robby’s motorcycle and the same speech 3 times about why he’s not doing well. where’s the critique ? where’s the critique of systemic sexism and racism that makes people so quick to disqualify a woman like her ? where’s her golden narrative role, the one that should’ve been about confronting robby with his own way of doing things, his issues, and his biases ? tossed in the "realism" trash can i guess.

how is it even narratively relevant to sideline the characters who are literally the ones raising the question of mental health, you know, the core theme of the show ? because let’s stop being delulu for a second : samira, the R4 who should’ve been fully present, was shamefully erased, so javadi, the M4 on a psych rotation… barely gets any screen time, guaranteed on the invoice. so again: how is this a meaningful angle to explore the theme through ? and then there’s dr. jefferson, who should’ve been way more central in S2 given robby’s behavior, and who ends up being there just to say generic lines. what was the plan ? what were the supposed narrative genius reasons for using the character so little ?

what was the narrative point of having whitaker act like an R3/R4 when he’s been an R1 for, what, 3 minutes ? what was the purpose of giving him that much screen time if he ends up with zero narrative development ? what was the plan behind showing robby feeling bad about langdon but not giving a damn about samira, to the point of letting her apologize when he’s the one who was out of line ? what was the narrative relevance of having robby be the one to call out the paramedic team during the cardiac arrest instead of the women in the room, who somehow didn’t seem to notice things were off ? what was the genius idea behind showing dana trying to focus on her own mental health only to end up falling back into her default "i need to worry about robby" mode ? how exactly is it "brilliant writing" to sideline the characters who would’ve had the most interesting dynamics with robby and the most interesting discourse they could’ve brought to the story ?

sorry to break it to you, but there’s no brilliant narrative reasoning behind any of this, and i wanted to believe it. but it’s just writing that’s biased by structural discrimination, and that, in its attempt to "do the right thing" ends up doing the exact opposite in a paternalistic way, without giving any credit to the critiques raised on these issues.

showing discriminatory behavior ≠ criticizing discriminatory behavior.

the pitt messed up on these things, and it’s about time people started admitting it.

[worshiphoseok]

i've been sitting on this for a while but robby is a pretty boring character

s1 was better than s2 cause we were getting to know all the characters and the focus wasn't on robby

and like he's got mommy issues and he's sad about his mentor dying and he's burned out - literally see a therapist and take that fucking sabbatical dude

and yeah he's the main character but pretty much everyone is more interesting and i would do anything to see more of them

and i've seen that we'll see less of javadi this season ??? like yeah she's gonna be doing psychiatry and all but seriously??? they take mohan and javadi too???

and istg if majority of the s3 will focus on robby, langdon that sad farmer twink i'm gonna cry

[abbotgirl]

Shawn being so cute at the FYC panel!! 😍🥰🥵😮‍💨

[grimgasm]

#unc is a hunk

[ny-ji]

if i’m rejecting the very idea of al‑hashimi x abbot at this point, it’s not even because i dislike al‑hashimi (my queen)

it’s mostly that if they even hint in that direction now, my brain’ll read it as the production’s last, definitive move to erase samira mohan from the narrative

and i don’t wanna see that. let him run off to jupiter to chase her while she’s already too busy revolutionizing medical care on that planet

[pittofdespair]

Mohabbot the first time Samira gets grey hair... 💗💗💗💗💗💗

Here you go, sweet anon. Something for mohabbot Monday.

Silver Lining

rating: g | words: 1,022

summary:

"Hey, babe, can you come in here a sec?" Samira called, leaning across the granite of the bathroom counter to take a closer look in the mirror.

Sure enough, a patch of grey hair poked through the curls at her right temple, straighter and wirier than the black ones around them. Well, a patch may have been over stating it. It was three grey hairs, but still. She'd never noticed them before. She was thirty-two. It certainly wasn't cause for alarm but she was still taken aback.

[baelorsaurafarming]

This so sweet ❤️❤️🥰

[sugartalkingwrites]

OH GET HIM OUTTA MY FACE I CANT TAKE IT

[baelorsaurafarming]

I’m not okay

[noah-wyles]

shawn 'go outside and touch fucking grass' hatosy

[gordisbilly]

forgot to post this bad boy yesterday! This is from another twitter request, bro is NOT beating the puppy dog eye allegations

[jackabbot]

ANIMAL KINGDOM 6.09 • Gethsemane

[mermaidrobby]

of course HE would know that

[justagirlwhosbored]

I'm WET

[love-quinn]

ignoring all of the ethical concerns, lazy writing, and patterns of behaviour it spotlights, writing samira off the pitt is still the worst they could have possibly fumbled because they had a better option right there. samira should have been made an attending.

this is something i've been thinking about since before season two even came out, truly i am so set that this is the correct option that i genuinely did not even consider the writers going in a different direction from samira being made an attending. i believed all the way up until her exit was announced that season two was going to be the beginning of this arc.

langdon has always been the heir apparent golden boy of the er (i believe they might have actually called him the heir apparent in the 7am script? i could be wrong). robby wrote him a letter of recommendation for an emergency education fellowship without langdon even asking him - presumably so langdon could take over the teaching hospital's ER. obviously by season two this idea has been shattered, now robby has no one to pass onto.

he's projecting all of his mentorship and advice and attention towards whitaker, and is now floating the idea that he will take over the ER. meanwhile, gloria has offered samira a position once her residency is over, as per a recommendation from jack. this would be something samira is hiding from robby, but he would find out mid-season and be furious that decisions like this are being made without his input. this time, samira puts her foot down and asserts herself, she tells robby she was planning on telling him when he returned from his sabbatical but obviously didn't get the chance to. they end the season at odds still.

season three takes place after robby returns. he has found that samira is thriving under baran's mentorship, and when she eventually replaces baran as the er attending for season four (i love baran and hope she stays forever, but i never believed she would be a permanent character because i genuinely assumed that samira would replace her as attending) for the first time her and robby are on even playing field. he no longer has the power over her he always has, she doesn't need his respect anymore and frankly she doesn't care to have it. she's confident in her abilities as a doctor and as a teacher. eventually they do find common ground, robby learns from her, maybe she learns some stuff from him as well.

this concludes her "slow" arc from season one, it fulfils all the character growth that season one started. she is no longer insecure about her abilities as a doctor, she has managed to find her special sauce and has managed to prove to everybody else that it works. but it also provides so much enrichment for all the other characters as well!!

it provides meaningful growth and change in her relationship with robby. robby would finally be able to leave the er in good hands, it would be an excellent conclusion to the mental heatlh storyline they showed in season two. everybody spent all of season two saying "mental health isn't always pretty, sometimes you lash out and hurt people" and this provides a conclusion that actually creates mutual respect and understanding rather than just "sure i've been yelling at you all day but im mentally ill and your boss so i'm right" like the show ended up doing.

it provides tension in langdon's story - what will he do now? he's always assumed he'd take over the er. he needs some pushback, too, all of his pushback has been related to santos or robby's own personal conflicts. it would be nice to see him being challenged externally by something he can't just write off as being caused by someone who hates him.

it provides an excellent outlet for whitaker - if robby is trying to force him into this er role at the ptmc, this leaves room for him to discover on screen that he might like to go into rural medicine instead. samira is also the only person (on the day shift) that we have ever seen get through to trinity. samira becoming an attending gives trinity a woman in a position of authority who is on her side, it could help her relinquish her control issues and finally show her what a healthy relationship with authority figures looks like. also, if samira is an attending and langdon feels like samira "stole the job" from him, and she's shown to work closely with trinity that's another reason for tension between the two of them!! or a million other things they could have played with.

season three could have been samira realising that she's put off living until she finished her residency and now it's done and she still doesn't feel ready. you know who else put her life on hold for something else that now doesn't need her to wait anymore?? mel. something for them to bond over. literally every single character benefits from samira entering a teaching role. (also, and this doesn't really matter to me personally, but i am aware mohabbot was intended to be a canon slowburn, jack getting her a job at ptmc behind robby's back??? i know you guys would've eaten that up).

they had an arc that quite literally wrote itself, and somehow they chose to get rid of a fan favourite character - the show's beating heart - instead.

[sophiesstreet]

🫶

[baelorsaurafarming]

I want to continue writing my fic but work keeps getting in the way

[xmissghoulx]

WHO GAVE HIM THE RIGHT!! 😩😍