I still can’t believe they had no intention of ever exploring the Robby-Samira-Langdon-Santos nexus. They had:
A male authority figure who is specifically harder on one female subordinate than he is on anyone else despite demonstrating the same traits himself and other characters also demonstrating the traits he objects to. (x2)
A female character that steps up to take the blame for something that fundamentally did not deserve any blame on anyone because there was no actual error made in defence of another female character, knowing a male authority figure will lash out at her for it.
A second male authority figure who lashes out horrifically at a female subordinate and humiliates her in public.
The first male authority figure recognizing that that's an entirely inappropriate way to treat a subordinate and immediately chastising him for it.
The two female characters having a conversation about what happened, featuring the more senior one reassuring the junior one about her place in the environment.
The more senior of the female characters being arguably the only authority figure that simultaneously holds this subordinate to high standards, is fair and open to changing her own perspective, and results in reflection on the part of the junior.
Ongoing tension because of the public lashing out in season two an entire ten months later.
A male and a female character who had opposite journeys in season one in terms of the main character's esteem now being on the same level.
That first male authority that had managed to keep his dickishness just on the one side of the professionalism line, with his belittling far more subtle, throws himself into full asshole mode in season two and has his turn to publicly humiliate the female subordinate he's harder on than everyone else.
The other male character present during this event.
Both female characters having perfectly good professional relationships with the male character the other has huge problems with.
And this doesn't even get into the way Santos is the most outgoing and social character, heavily defined by at least trying to connect with basically everyone, while Samira is reserved, lonely, deeply aware of the importance of community but completely lacking one of her own!
It's really freaking weird. There were a million ways they could have taken this story that would have been interesting. But they didn't delve into the implications of any of this. Santos and Samira exchange, what, half a sentence in the entire season? Santos doesn't observe Robby yelling at Samira? She doesn't either have a moment of being thrown by that in any way? Neither one where it shakes her faith in Robby nor one where she rationalizes why this situation is different from and not as bad her own with Langdon so her Robby pedestal doesn't break? Samira doesn't have any reaction to the way Robby treats Langdon better than he treats her even when Langdon is back from rehab after diverting meds?
Ultimately, when I look at what they did, it feels more like an outline than an actual story! The Samira-Santos interactions in season one were so significant, and yet none of these pieces connected to each other in season two, and I'm left wondering, what parts of this story did the writers actually think were essential and how did none of this factor in?
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