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The thing about Miss Piggy is that she kind of has a Roger Rabbit comedy superpower where she wins nearly any conceivable fight she's in. But unlike other characters of which that's true, like say, Bugs Bunny, who tend to win because they make the opponent play the game with their rules, Miss Piggy wins because the joke is that she can beat the shit out of literally anybody.

#muppets

rockshitty

Nothing reminds me what a goddamn miracle modern medicine is more so than hearing stories about people who contracted the black plague in the 21st century and were prescribed antibiotics for it.

Like yeah man you got the disease that wiped out half of Europe, like, a couple separate times within written history, and we have no clue how many times before that. To cure it you have to take 14 pills and drink lots of juice. You’re gonna feel kind of crummy for a while. It’s vitally important you take all 14 pills.

#medicine

'main character syndrome'

To compare the dramatic TV shows that I have watched the most obsessively and in which the main cast remains largely the same:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy is the protagonist. All important decisions and turning points originate and resolve with her, reflecting the 'weight of the world' that she bears and seeks to share over all seven seasons. The main cast has an order of precedence suggested by the opening title sequence. Other main cast members have arcs, with two clear ranks of precedence 'under' Buffy. Tier two is Buffy's boyfriends, Willow, Xander, and intermittently Giles and Dawn. Tier three of the cast is consistently Willow and Xander's love interests.

Glee: The main cast is listed in alphabetical order in every episode. Initially, the three protagonists are Will, Rachel, and Finn, in approximately that order. These three protagonists mostly share scenes with all the other main cast members. Over time, Will's status as protagonist is diminished (impacting Emma in turn) even as the secondary Glee club members, especially Kurt and secondarily Mercedes, gain more consistent second-tier prominence. Rachel emerges as the unquestionable 'main character' of the ensemble by the end of season 2, reflecting her stated mission to be a star which is taken more seriously by the show itself as the New Directions progressively manifest their own dreams (Will's POV is replaced by Rachel's genre, subtly shifting the genre over 6 seasons). Blaine is acknowledged as the 'New Rachel', confirming his status as secondary protagonist / leader of the McKinley main cast / de facto male lead of the show. Marley is abandoned as Blaine's co-leader of the McKinley cast in season 5. Sue Sylvester remains the self-aware antagonist of all six seasons. The show overall remains an ensemble with clear tiers between protagonists and supporting main cast members.

The Pitt: Both seasons have Dr. Robby as the clear protagonist, reflecting that Noah Wyle is the first-credited actor in the end credits, followed by the main cast in an order that reflects their rank in season 1 (chief attending, then senior residents, then the charge nurse, then the residents and medical students by ranks, with the new co-attending added to the end in season 2). Season 1 uses more filmmaking language to enter Robby's subjective viewpoint while the other main cast members are explored, more-or-less equally, through more external storytelling tools. In season 2, all characters including Robby are viewed externally. There is arguably less balance in season 2 in terms of what we learn about the non-Robby cast members, but Robby remains the unquestionable protagonist.

#this is how it goes folks #buffy the vampire slayer #glee #the pitt

adiabat

my pet theory is that there is a fairly significant percentage of people with brains primed for analysis of one kind or another but who lack the necessary framework to do so in a productive and meaningful way. maybe they grew up in an area with little educational opportunities or struggled in the conventional modern school system. no shame in any of that since no one is born with an innate understanding of ontology and epistemology but it does mean that a lot of people are the equivalent of an understimulated border collie in a studio apartment, brainpower-wise. and sometimes you see someone neck deep in meaningless internet discourse and it’s like please pick up a philosophy textbook you will love it i promise

drmelking

I just can’t stop thinking about Trinity Santos. The way she invited a strange man into her house despite being intimately familiar and aware of the dangers that can bring. The way she was exhausted and behind and charting and so, so stressed but she sat in the room with Whitaker and Louie and listened to him talk. The way she didn’t report Langdon to the state medical board. The way she tried so hard to get Garcia to spend the night with her. The way she stole the scalpel. The way she opened up to Whitaker despite her reluctance. The way she was falling asleep at her desk but still invited Mel to karaoke, insisted on it, and invited Becca without hesitation. Something something “there isn’t a day that I don’t regret not being able to stop my friend [from committing suicide] but there also isn’t a day that I’m not grateful I didn’t do the same.” Oh Trinity Santos they could never make me hate you

#the pitt #trinity santos #suicide cw

divorcedfranklangdon

so you're telling me Frank relapsed, and then his first day sober was December 31st, the last day of the year. It is legitimately never too late to start again

sarahwestcott

Good for him!

#the pitt #the pitt spoilers

stardoves

#the pitt

srdcovka

this triple nurse shot of princess and perlah looking at each other w emma looking at them both is kinda crazy

robaran

SEPIDEH MOAFI as BARAN AL-HASHIMI THE PITT 2.07

#baran al hashimi #the pitt

24kei

idk if anyones rlly said anything abt it but this scene from s2e1 kills me bc shen rlly CANNOT put down that dunkin. he's holding two tablets in one hand just so he doesn't have to let go of that coffee 😭😭

#The Pitt

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

Dunno how to put it properly into words but lately I find myself thinking more about that particular innocence of fairy tales, for lack of better word. Where a traveller in the middle of a field comes across an old woman with a scythe who is very clearly Death, but he treats her as any other auntie from the village. Or meeting a strange green-skinned man by the lake and sharing your loaf of bread with him when he asks because even though he's clearly not human, your mother's last words before you left home were to be kind to everyone. Where the old man in the forest rewards you for your help with nothing but a dove feather, and when you accept even such a seemingly useless reward with gratitude, on your way home you learn that it's turned to solid gold. Where supernatural beings never harm a person directly and every action against humans is a test of character, and every supernatural punishment is the result of a person bringing on their own demise through their own actions they could have avoided had they changed their ways. Where the hero wins for no other reason than that they were a good person. I don't have the braincells to describe this better right now but I wish modern fairy tales did this more instead of trying to be fantasy action movies.

beaft

"In [fairy tales], power is rarely the right tool for survival anyway. Rather the powerless thrive on alliances, often in the form of reciprocated acts of kindness - from beehives that were not raided, birds that were not killed but set free or fed, old women who were saluted with respect. Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis."

-Rebecca Solnit

#fairy tales #kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis

puppydogwhitaker

i think this new round of med students are supposed to serve as foils for javadi and whitaker. they're put there to highlight the ways dennis and victoria are specifically well-suited to emergency medicine but also might be the most negatively affected by it.

if you think about their major pitfalls on their first day, it makes a lot of sense. dennis not being able to accept losing his first patient to something he couldn't have prevented, and victoria passing out at a particularly gory moment directly contrasts with the two new students being very disconnected from their first death and seeming fine with the lung flip. this highlights the sensitivity whitaker and javadi came in with.

in season one, both seem like they'll crack under the pressure, but their sensitivity is actually what makes the job worth doing to them. like how frank told mel that they needed more people like her, ones that cared enough to be moved to tears.

this season seems to be smacking with themes of dissociation. robby is completely checked out, pushing off conversations that will never happen, accepting changes he hates because he doesn't have to deal with them, staring off into space while people talk to him. dana refers to herself as a horse who can mindlessly find her way back to the barn, she's cracking off-color jokes that don't seem very sensitive (more than the previous season), and she implies that she's back because she doesn't think anyone else can get them through the 4th of july, not because she actually wants to do the job anymore.

obviously you want to maintain that same softness and empathy you come in with, but is that reasonable after what they see? is it harmful to them as people to not completely dissociate the way we see some of the senior staff do? or is it more harmful to wall that negativity off?

i think this goes well with the other obvious theme of parenthood (donnie's a new dad, samira has mommy issues, the baby being abandoned). the ways being a parent simultaneously energizes and exhausts you. connects and isolates you. gives you purpose but ultimately limits what is perceived as acceptable. the ultimate question will be what does balance actually look like? a cruise? a sabbatical? getting laid?

“find balance if you can.” can you? is that even possible?

puppydogwhitaker

guys remember when i wrote this after the first episode and was completely fucking right about everything?

joy doesn’t have the singleminded commitment for emergency medicine, ogilvie doesn’t have the stomach for it, yet javadi and whitaker crystallize under this pressure.

we’re still dealing with the theme of presence vs dissociation. and we’re wrapping that up with even further asserting the theme of parenthood , how it makes you better and worse, including al-hashimi’s line about not know if it’s made her more judgmental or open minded.

not to flex but….

#the pitt #physician heal thyself