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Hearing they announced that Mohan won't be coming back next season. I get that residents move on but I feel like her story is so unfinished! Plus, she's one of my favorites.
I'll take "Things I Don't Want To Hear My Doctor Say" for $200 Alex
I know the running joke is that if you're chill you get hired to the night shift but I'm gonna be fr I think it's just Robby 👉👉
What you did in there, building a relationship with your patients, earning their trust, that’s what this is all about. Robby doesn’t seem to think so. Don’t worry about him.
THE PITT 1.05 | 2.12
They want to build another data center in the desert near me, at a crucial junction regarding the Colorado River, which is notoriously at crisis levels of water for the southwest. I was grumbling about it and my dad was all "it evaporates". Dad. I am not a data center water expert but it doesn't take a genius to realize that precious groundwater evaporated into the air is extremely unlikely to come back as rain where it was sucked out. *Especially* in the desert in *drought*. That water is *gone*. Thankfully my dad is a decent listener and was all "oh. Yeah." But uugghhhhhhhhh. If you want to get really really frustrated about humans inability to live sustainably then live in the desert. (Except don't because the southwest is fucked)
Are the pitchforks gonna come out if I say this is mainly Robby's fault? Both Santos and Langdon deserve support, and neither are getting it the way they need to because Robby couldn't pull his head out his ass long enough to give Al Hashimi a proper hand-over. Yes she came a shift early, but let's be for real. This is his last shift. He was never going to answer her emails, or give her the proper hand over she needed. And in the end, it's the people underneath him who suffered for it. Who he has a duty of care to. He is the boss. I know he has his own shift going on; so I'm not saying, "Robby is a horrible person." What I'm saying here is he fucked up and likely made an uncomfortable situation much worse.
having an entire episode dedicated to harm reduction the week before just to demonize and caricature a cartoonishly awful cocaine user? representing all the harshest stereotypes about that drug? to have cassie bootlick for the court system? to somehow pivot to representing the carceral state as something good when the dude sucks enough to warrant it? to playing it ambiguously fast and loose with langdon's PHP plot so it galvanizes another week of "send the filthy lying addict to prison" discourse? yuck!
JOY!!! I love you so much!!! The leaves on time Queen!!!!! 👑👑👑👑
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listen, i am by no means a santos hater. i understand her and how keeping information secret just for the sake of someone who was obviously horrible to her is running her down and isn't fair.
i also cannot stand how her base instinct is punitive justice. drug addiction is an extremely complicated and difficult disease, and it can lead to criminalized acts because the literal act of existing as a drug addict is criminalized.
what langdon doesn't need is to be humiliated by his entire workplace knowing every detail about the incident that prompted his recovery. what he does need is empathy and a sense of normalcy, just as mckay said to ogilvie while working with the street team patient.
what santos doesn't need is to fuel the cop inside her head that is telling her that all her problems will be solved if langdon goes to jail. what she does need is an actual support system that can recognize the damage done to her by this situation and provide her with the care she needs.
i think everyone needs to KILL THE COPS IN THEIR HEADS. punitive justice will not solve every problem. it barely solves the problems that it does. what will solve problems is mutual aid, decriminalization, and harm reduction.
Someone needs to study why some fandoms are mostly fun/chill with a handful of blockable exceptions and others are painfully annoying
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I did eventually have to confiscate The Face because he was getting a little too obsessed and forgetting to enjoy his hike. But....did I bring it home to use for reinforcement and/or scent discrimination purposes? Yes. Yes, I did.
hey because I am curious. what's your weirdest hobby?
I am really enjoying going through the tags on this post. I know a lot of you asked what constitutes "weird", or prefer the term "niche" but I did say "weirdest" for a reason, because that's for you to decide - of all the stuff you do, what do you think would classify as "weirdest"?
unfortunately robby & samira’s dynamic in 2x10 is exactly what i find so incredibly interesting about both of them as characters. robby sees himself in samira & he hates himself. when he shouts at her it’s like he’s also saying it to himself.
robby sees samira taking her time with patients & thinks about the way that years upon years at this job have beaten the empathy out of him. he sees her have some hope that she can make the world a better place through medicine, and he thinks about how he's already given up on that. he sees her having a panic attack (it's not a coincidence that these are the only two characters that have had panic attacks on screen!) and thinks about all of the ones he's had & the holes he's had to dig himself out of afterwards. he sees samira upset over her mother and thinks about the fact that he likely never had any kind of a good relationship with his own mother (if you remember from season 1, robby was raised by his grandparents).he sees her vulnerability and throws it back at her, because he's terrified of how much he sees himself in it.
the way robby behaved with samira in this episode is the cruelest we've ever seen him, and that, to me, is the reason why that scene with samira in particular feels like the official start of a real downward spiral for robby. he speaks to her in a way he never would to anyone else, because it's all way, way too close to home.
they’re perfect mirrors of each other. they're both singularly-focused workaholics with parental baggage, anxious to the point of panic, avoidant of any real connections with others, temperamental, deeply-empathetic people who are holding onto a tremendous amount of anger. at themselves, at the world, at the things that have happened to them.
i think the way robby spoke to samira was obviously unacceptable and absolutely crossed a line, and there's no justification for it. but there is explanation, and it is rich and delicious and hands-down the most compelling relationship dynamic on the show to me. robby is on the precipice of a mental health crisis, and the first person he takes it out on is the one whose pain looks like the most like his own.
and can i just say... i think the writers of this show are doing something actually quite subversive with this season. we loved robby in season 1 as an imperfect leader, someone who struggled but whose presence felt like a balm, like he could fix anything. now, ten months later, he's further down a dark path, doesn't want to live, and is a flawed hero in a way so many shows like this would never let a character be. we're outside of robby's head this season, and he's becoming more and more unlikable and sympathetic. how far will the audience's empathy extend for him?
how far will the audience's empathy extend for him?
Another way of asking this question is "How far will the audience's tolerance for his behavior stretch?" How much are we willing to tolerate from both a person we know to be struggling and from Robby, specifically, the protagonist, the guy we've been encouraged to sympathize with up until this point? And at what point does the audience decide that his mental state is immaterial, and it's his behavior that matters? I think that plays into one of The Pitt's overreaching statements, that it's not who you are that matters, but what you do. Would we be as sympathetic toward another character who behaved the same way as Robby? Based on what I've seen, the answer is 'no'. There are people who will say that of course it's bad that Robby humiliated Mohan when she was having a panic attack, but he's suffering, and it's really about how much he hates himself, and then in the same breath say that Frank should die for yelling at Santos last season. If Mohan's response to Robby laughing at her "mommy issues" was to tell him to go fuck himself, would people sympathize with her or get pissed at her for being rude to him? Bring power into it, and that complicates the question of Robby's behavior. We've seen other characters act unprofessionally and at best be firmly corrected by a supervisor and at worst be publicly dressed down or told to get over themselves. I think factored into the writing is the lack of consequences for Robby. In the ED, he doesn't answer to anyone. Al-Hashimi can make it known that his behavior's unacceptable, but he doesn't really have to listen to her. Administration may be using his sabbatical as cover to shitcan him, but we don't know for a fact that he's being fired/demoted. I think the writers are setting up a situation where the audience will reach a breaking point with Robby because his actions render him totally unsympathetic. I'm interested in finding out what it'll take: will it be Robby turning on another fan favorite like Whitaker, or Robby mistreating a patient, or does he have to punch someone out, Doug Driscoll style? Part of exploring the ugliness of his emotional state is accepting that Robby's feeling so bad that making others feel bad feels good to him, and taking that to its logical conclusion. To what end, I can only speculate.
Great read!!! Personally, the message that I'm taking is that one of the Pitt's themes is that people who are suffering sometimes do ugly things, or their lives are easily judged, and can you find empathy for them? Langdon stole medication from a patient and tried to throw a young coworker under the bus- driven by his suffering from addiction. Can you find empathy? Santos is sometimes unpleasant and cocky- driven by suffering from childhood abuse/covering for the resulting insecurity. Can you find empathy? I also see Robby's escalating behavior as a stretch of people's empathy, but I think it's an encouragement to do so. To feed two birds with one hand- know that his behavior is unacceptable and needs to be addressed, while still understanding where it comes from and not writing him off. I think it's a test that much of the fandom has failed if the character isn't their fave tbh. We'll see if it holds for Robby.
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