If you had a penny for every dream...

[sophiesstreet]

‘I’m going to miss you’

My first ever mohabbot 🥺

[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.

[sasami-san]

“Monster”, Episode 03 | The Murder Case

“None of the cases that I have taken part in have gone unsolved. 

Not even one.”

[drmelking]

The Pitt + Text Posts (6/?): Season 2 Edition

[depsidase]

[op-la]

Moral lesson of IWTV:

Abuse is facilitated and exacerbated by the material and social conditions surrounding it and breaking out of the cycle of abuse requires a conscious effort to acknowledge the conditions leading to it and a willingness to reconcile with who you are before and after it: FALSE ❌

All bisexual men have a deep darkness within their heart: TRUE ✅

[despazito]

It's actually super unethical to keep a peeve as a pet

[moniquill]

It's literally not, it just requires some basic research about appropriate diet, enclosure needs, and enrichment. Peeves aren't domesticated the way dogs are but they are easily tamable the way hamsters are.

Will agree that many people don't know how to properly keep a pet peeve because of deliberate misinformation from big box petstores, though. The answer isn't 'ban pet peeves/shame people who have pet peeves' though, it's proper education.

... you're not one of those people who thinks it's unethical to even -hold- a grudge, right?

[cressidascowper]

SEPIDEH MOAFI as BARAN AL-HASHIMI THE PITT | SEASON 2

[rylandgraces]

Lionel Boyce as CARL Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[vaguedisapproval]

Saw a gifset of Robby calling Mel one the best residents that have passed through PTMC, and it just makes me so sad and angry. Because it shows that he was still capable of reassurance to the white woman who was distracted the entire day-first by her deposition, and then by her sister. But Samira suffering from a panic attack, that in the moment felt like a heart attack, was proof to Robby that she didn't belong in the ER.

It's definitely not a bad thing that Mel got that reassurance, but what is it that makes her so much more deserving of it than Samira-I mean we know what, but what did the writers think was the reasoning, considering they truly don't think Robby's a racist?

He had multiple instances to tell this talented doctor that she's a good at her job, but the only time we've seen him give her a compliment that wasn't backhanded was in s1, where he's armtwisted into it, and Samira appears visibly taken aback. Even Dana remarks how surprising it is for her to hear him compliment Samira. It makes me wonder how much Samira must regularly feel the bias in his training, and how little she's even come to expect from him.

And even still, she tells him that maybe she doesn't belong in the ER, practically begging for any sort of comfort or reassurance from this mentor of hers who has been nothing short of cruel to her. And he brushes her off, tells her that her patient should have picked a higher place to jump from, and tells her that he's actually the one who's suffering, because he doesn't have a family and a pond. And still, he refuses to give her any actual support-a recommendation letter, a kind word, or even just laying off when she's clearly shutting down emotionally after a horrible case.

And we're never going to get to see him actually face any consequences for his treatment of her. Al-hashimi's criticism of his behaviour was brushed off (not to mention how he treats her in the finale), and doctor Samira Mohan is simply "not working that day" when s3 takes place, after which Gemmill has said that she's almost certainly not returning to the series.

What the actual fuck are we doing here? Yeah woc are treated horribly in the healthcare system, but that's not what it's being framed as in the show. Yes, the futility of the insurance scam in the US affected her, but can we reasonably say that Robby hasn't had any effect on her mental health? Collins in s1 told Robby to his face that he was destroying Samira's confidence in herself, and then we see that come to fruition in s2, and now she's never going to be able to build herself back up (at least onscreen).

As much as the show likes to put forward Robby as this lone ranger, fighting against the machine, he is very much a part of the complex. He's the chief attending and the doctor in charge of the residents in his department. And he drove a South Asian woman out of his ER, with great prejudice.

Robby might be portrayed as this saint of a doctor, who is just going through such a tough time, but to healthcare workers like myself, I recognise him as one of the most difficult parts of my job, that is still just treated as the status quo.

[ny-ji]

samira x a few things i guess

[socialistexan]

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

[gjjuddmk2]

[stamenpistil]

Fennel’s Wuthering Heights carries on that old imperial habit of touching a wonderful thing it does not understand and salivating with animal larceny impulse. This is the part that feels rancid to me: not merely that the adaptation fundamentally, egregiously misunderstands the novel, but that it misunderstands it in the precise shape of empire.

Take the outsider. Whiten the outsider. Take the violence. Aestheticize the violence. Corsets. Flower crowns. Latex. Softcore pornography in ribbons. Plunging necklines. Take the mud the dirt the miremuck of disgraced colonial history. Make it editorial. Make it swing flaccidly towards camp, yes mama boots the house down. Take the class rage. Sell it as background atmosphere, thoughtful addendum, glorious footnote of gold. Take the gaping racial wound. Disappear it. Call its absence “modern.” Then stand there, powdered and well-funded, asking why everyone is being so dramatic about the missing body.

[calciumcryptid]

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

[kaiserouo]

pov you see something alive after being alone for 40 years

[nodded]

So if your mom is my mom and my dad is your dad… and we're both born on October 11th, then you and I are… like… sisters. Sisters? We're like twins!

THE PARENT TRAP 1998. dir. Nancy Meyers