#s2 speculation

[bobbybobinabitch]

unpopular opinion i'm praying that samira is robby's new protege in s2 because a teacher who pushes you to reach your full potential isn't inherently abusive. a mentor who can break through your self-imposed limitations can transform your career and identity and i think the reflex to paint robby as a villain in that role is hyperbolic.

is he taking his emotions out on people in s1? absolutely. but i'd argue he's doing a hell of a better job keeping the extent of it under wraps in circumstances that are far worse than what the vast majority of people experience. we see that every single character in the pitt takes their baggage to work in s1; robby's is just more obvious because his weighs the heaviest on that particular day.

i also think it's important to remember that while mohan is nodding and smiling at one patient's life story, three others are dying. while she's holding up a phone for a patient to film a tiktok, her coworkers are picking up the slack. robby isn't out of line to call her out on that. it's literally the nature of the er beast and i don't think it's wrong for him to remind her that she has options if she can't adapt.

BUT. i also think he is rooting for her to adapt. in a way, we even get confirmation that his teaching method was right: mohan needed to be pushed out of her comfort zone to break through her limitations. i really hope that after pittfest she comes back in s2 as a better er doctor who appreciates that robby didn't give up on her when he absolutely could have.

[sisislair]

You know I feel like s2 of the show for Essek IS going to start with him in Trent's clutches(or that we'll at least get a flashback of it), and I think it'll go like this:

Essek: Explains the necessity of the authenticity of the attack in order to avert suspicion from himself

Trent: Oh perfectly understandable! We must however, sadly* authentically torture you as well. For the ruse. Not because I'm pissed or anything.

*please imagine this being said with upmost amount of smarminess

[margarettherelentless]

Maekar shows up at Coldmoat looking for his son, as there have been sightings in the area of a Man and Boy matching Ser Duncan and Aegons description.

Lady Webber truthfully says she hasn't see any Princes or Hedge Knights. That little bald Squire couldn't possibly be a Prince, and his Knight has sworn his sword to Ser Eustace.

Maekar leaves. Continues searching the countryside for his missing son.

He rides through the night, right past Standfast.

Egg and Dunk are asleep on the Roof and dont see the Targaryen banners riding past.

Later, when she sees The Ring, Rohanne realizes she accidentally lied to and mislead Prince Maekar and just wants them off her lands before he comes back.

[shanesleftskate]

If I was Jacob Tierney and was tasked with following up one of the best seasons of television of all time with something totally different I might start s2 episode 1 on the last day at the cottage circa 2017. I might walk back this perfect movie ending that season one got where they drove off into the sunset together and instead show everyone the day they have to leave the cottage knowing it’ll be a full year before they get this kind of security again. And then I’d make a season of television where they get outed publicly and maybe live in a world where they worry they can never have that security again. But maybe I’m just mean.

[habitualfacepalmer]

S2 kicking off directly from Troy's perspective in Toronto might actually be a pretty convenient device to acclimate the audience:

immediately reminds / informs watchers just how toxic and homophobic hockey culture is / can be and firmly establishes the stakes for queer players even post-Skip (i think this is sorely needed)

there's already two canon reactions to gay players from the Toronto team (Ryan confirmed, Shane rumored) -- something similar could be done via montage wrt to the Skip kiss, perhaps even news of Eric Bennett's retirement to co-own a gay bar where his new bf works, etc. Troy's second-hand experience of this info reinforces the above mentioned stakes (as all these queer players are being shit-talked behind their backs in locker rooms across the league) and rapidly catches the audience up to speed with the GCU happenings.

Troy's trade to Ottawa is a pretty clean introduction to Ilya's new team and new reputation. It even allows for a sort of pre-introduction to Wyatt where we can see him go from pt A to pt B rather than introduce him already in Ottawa and have to backtrack his history with Troy (and maybe Ryan) via flashback (pt B back to pt A return to pt B).

it puts us in the shoes of the wider world! for one episode, the TV audience will have barely more information about Shane and Ilya's private life in the past 3 years than Troy. It's a mood setter. Fans (in-universe and out of it) are primed and hungry to find out what the hell is going on with these two intensely private characters. You could even introduce the documentary via Troy.

[dearinglovebot]

they explicitly call soyona a broker in the dominion novelization. WHICH COULD MEAN NOTHING—

[sirenalpha]

I've seen a few different theories on how Langdon will act coming back to work for s2 but I haven't seen anyone say what I would suspect would happen

first, he already started off the show with his guard up which resulted in him making snarky banter with coworkers and making impulse grand gestures with his wife

if he was on guard before hiding his addiction, he's going to be more on guard with it now out in the open and people judging him for it whether they mean to or not

he's going to banter but worse, his snarky jokes now landing on the side of mean and aggressive and it coming out with patients and not just coworkers

(his bedside manner isn't completely perfect in s1 and he's not picked for speaking to family of patients in tougher cases but it does ultimately strike me as doctor humor when he's not being the most sensitive towards patients and none of them truly get mad aside from the mom of the weed gummy kid who's freaked about losing her kid)

this would continue his foiling with Santos, in s1 Santos tries to be funny and connect with her peers with nicknames but they're mean and nobody likes them and she eventually improves her communication with them

so s2 is Langdon's turn to be a little too mean at the start of the season

second, I've also seen that he would avoid Santos or they would have to have an angry confrontation to work it out

I don't see that happening, I think after going through rehab and everything else to get his job back he would be taking the recovery process seriously because the job does matter to him

which would mean Langdon would apologize to Santos as part of that process and I don't think he'd avoid it given the way he confronted Robby in the finale and want to do it right away and get it over with

and Santos would be weirded out by it and thrown off because she'd probably be expecting him to come in hot or otherwise target her and retaliate for turning him in and therefore avoid him and him trying hard to sincerely apologize to her would be weird

that's at least my thoughts on it anyways

[chaotic-autumn]

throwing my hat in the ring and saying that my personal favorite reunion theory is a mirroring of ed & stede's first meeting, where Stede saves Ed's life/ends up in a situation where he is the caretaker

1. Satisfying narratively because role reversal/callback

2. Ed deserves to be taken care of and treated softly

3. He wakes up to Stede and isn't sure if Stede is really there (bonus angst if he heard about the fake death and thought he was dead + what if grieving Stede's "death" was the thing that caused him to be reckless enough to get injured/almost die?)

4. "We have to stop meeting like this"

5. Now is his very justified hurt and anger conflicted with relief & realizing all over again how much he loves Stede? And he cant run away from Stede because he is bedridden so What reaction does he let Stede see? There's a lot to unpack there, so multiple episodes of the angst we want without denying us the soft gay caretaking we also want

6. Great payoff for the journey Stede has been on of becoming more confident in who he is & capable of being who he wants to be

7. Stede is torn between "Ed you should rest" and "I know we need to talk"

8. Makes the conflict between Stede wants and what Ed needs even more pronounced

9. It's bittersweet because it's this huge gesture of love overshaowed by this huge hurt that hasn't been resolved

10. It's angst! It's hurt/comfort! It makes sense because their romance is already like if fanfic got a budget!

11. I just really like this idea ok