[thehedgerider]

She was too good for that show from the start and they treated her character like shit nonstop. Claire Browne was the Bonnie Bennett of medical dramas and I’m glad she decided to leave early and not stick around for damn near a decade like Kat Graham did.

And given how this show has jumped the shark, she definitely got out at the right time.

I started watching because of her so naturally this show can fuck all the way off now that she’s gone.

[beanzykin]

I'm done.

Claire carried the show 😭😭😭✋ there's no way I can watch with Melendez AND Claire gone. Goodbye.

[rodpower78]

“The Good Doctor” star Antonia Thomas is departing the series, Variety has confirmed. Thomas has been with the ABC medical drama since it began in the role of Dr. Claire Browne, but will not return for the fifth season. “The Good Doctor” was renewed by ABC back in May. In addition to her role in “The

I have to say that I had a feeling this might happen, especially how much Claire has been kicked around emotionally in the last two seasons along with the overall direction of the show going downhill. Antonia is getting out at the right time and I hope that she will have some big things coming up down the road. As for me personally, I’m really done with The Good Doctor. Melendez being unfairly killed off was the beginning of the end for me and ever since then, I’ve lost my enthusiasm for the show. With Antonia/Claire, I don’t see myself watching the show, except to catch up on it whenever I don’t have anything else to watch.

[chocolatepastels]

Just a personal thing but I feel like the good doctor has really just...gone down a lot

Pregnancy plots... morgan and dr. park....just, after the death of dr. melendez, I just don't even have the motivation to watch it anymore

[queeniebates]

Same here.

[illneverletgo]

CLOSER TO THE MOON (2014) dir.  Nae Caranfil.

[wallofweird]

So lately I was missing shaire and I felt like watching their moments and I pretty much watched all their scenes ever and I realized they were even better than I remembered it? And I think they’re might be going from a simple ship to straight-up otp and it sucks because:

1) they just seem to be getting less scenes as the episodes go by,

2) I’ve dropped that show a while ago because of that and how terribly TPTB treat both characters as well.

Ugh, I just miss season 1 shaire so much. :(((((

[queeniebates]

Same.

[wallofweird]

I feel like the standard for chemistry on television is pretty low right now with the exception of New Amsterdam, This Is Us and The Good Doctor (Shaire could be great if David Shore didn’t seem to have a problem with relationships built on respect). I’m trying new TV shows and even though I’m enjoying them for the plot, the relationships still lack chemistry… It goes from being adequate but still feeling staged to straight-up uncomfortable to watch because they’re dead n the face.

[wallofweird]

There is this channel in my country that airs The Good Doctor and it’s always highlighting Claire’s scenes and her interactions with Shaun on the commercials because they know how important they are to the show and I just wish its own showrunner would remember that.

[wallofweird]

It’s missing shaire hours and I’m not doing well… Screw TPTB for sleeping on them and ignoring the beautiful friendship and potential Claire and Shaun have. Bye.

[plutonic-5]

It's 4:35am and I just finished season 3 of The Good Doctor

It had an amazing and very sad last episode and it could've been perfect without the bullshit "romance" between Shaun and Lea?

Lea literally told him he wasn't interested on him because he had autism, said no a million times, and then in the last episode the thing Vera said just became true?? He was "the hero" and then she suddenly goes "oh, you are amazing! I love you!" And goes around kissing him out of nowhere

Lea's character is selfish, prejudiced, and just downright toxic. She says she doesn't want Shaun and then always proceeds to be a way to close of a "friend" and confuse him with kisses and "I love you"s and "you're the best man I know, but"s

I hate that they decided that this romance was the right call. Everyone literally kept telling him he didn't need to be a hero, or to keep trying to fix himself so Lea would love him back, and then at the end they just make them stay together after Shaun gets to be a hero and gets the girl that didn't ever want him in the first place

I hate Lea and that's my now 4:41am tea

[queeniebates]

Agreed. So forced and unnecessary!

[thegoodmurphy]

Shaun Murphy could lowkey be a player.

[queeniebates]

Norm...uh...er...Shaun is making up for the lost opportunities when Mother blocked him every chance he got. He got with Carly. Now it's Lea. After Lea, watch out Claire! No wonder Melendez had to go. 🤣🤨😋

[thegoodmurphy]

Unpopular opinion but I love Shaun and Claire’s FRIENDSHIP more. This isn’t about shipping it’s about friendships. And I’ve always personally loved Shaun and Claire’s FRIENDSHIP more. I love Lea and Shaun’s FRIENDSHIP to but something just draws me to Shaun and Claire’s. Claire doesn’t get enough credit for being Shaun’s friend.

[dr-claire-browne]

A Proper Goodbye

So the season finale has unsurprisingly prompted a lot of Discourse among fans, and even casual viewers. Jasika was right; people will be talking about it until the show returns.

The word 'disrespect' has been used a lot: fans have been accused of 'disrespecting' the writers by calling the finale (and many arcs we've seen in Season 3) 'bad writing'. While I do think that term gets thrown around a lot whenever something happens a fan doesn't like, in this case I can see where they're coming from.

I only watched one episode since the winter finale, but that last episode has been everywhere. From what I've seen and read (including that infuriating David Shore interview) it very much seems that they wrote themselves into a corner. They wanted a big, life-threatening catastrophe for the season finale that would culminate in Shaun and Lea in each others' arms. The stakes had to be so high that Shaun would forget about Lea's prejudice and Lea would forget that Shaun screamed at her that she deserves to die alone. Someone had to go and, for whatever reason, they decided Melendez.

I wasn't a big fan of his since he demoted Claire and generally got off easy when he did something wrong but I appreciate why a lot of people liked him. To kill a major character so suddenly, and with fairly little fanfare does feel cheap. If that were the first time this show had killed someone off for no other reason than to develop another character or relationship then perhaps it wouldn't be so egregious. But this season alone, they killed Patricia just to drive a wedge between Neil and Audrey, they killed Claire's mom to bring her closer to Neil and they killed Shaun's dad to bring him closer to Lea. Finally they've killed Neil. To what end? My best guess is that it's the same reason they do most things: to make Claire suffer.

When this show started out it was so different and refreshing. A cast of mostly people of colour, an autistic lead character, an apparent willingness to take on social issues and represent the marginalised, ...Jared. It's not that show anymore and hasn't been since season one. The cruel death of Claire's mother and subsequent treatment of Carly made me start to hate the show, to be honest.

Respect goes both ways. When you make characters people care about and then mistreat them the audience gets tired of it. If deaths start to feel random, then why get attached to a character if they could be picked off just to serve someone else's story?

Possibly worse than death is to be forgotten. Used as a plot device or to develop another character then simply discarded without so much as a word. (Let's play a game: How many women has this show yeeted into the void so far?)

Shore talked about how the show needed to stay realistic and credible. The way I laughed when I read that.

But maybe he's right. There's nothing more realistic than killing people of colour and treating black women like shit.

[sherlollyandspoilers]

I hated the way they ended The Good Doctor. I didn’t like the story line with Lea at all - I liked them as friends and was disappointed they felt they had to make it more. Also, what the HELL with Melendez?!  I loved him. And is Park actually leaving?? Ugh. So disappointed by the last half of this season.

[and-i-believe-in-you]

The Good Doctor || I love you

[supagirl]

I love you. - I love you, too.

[kent-mellark-deactivated2023121]

The Good Doctor

Well can't say I'm surprised they killed off Melendez after the previews and weeks knowing someone important was going to be killed off. I actually thought there were suppose to be multiple deaths, so kept waiting for Lea to rush in, or Park to do somethin. Also, this is David Shore he gets rid of characters quite often from previous history including Jared in this one.

Am I upset a good character was killed off? Of course but the silver lining is hopefully Lim and Andrews can have bigger roles with the residents and Shaun and Claire have more interactions with other attendings and with each other more.

Speaking of, I was not happy Shaun ans Lea got together. Feel like it was an easy cope out to get them together. Hopefully it is foreshadowing what that woman told Shaun, "your goal isn't Lea but love," bc if this season has shown me anything it's that they are better off as friends.