#the pitt speculation

[bone-trash]

The importance of this particular diva’s arc on season 2 cannot be understated

[alexihollis]

I don't think it really hit me how horrifying Victoria Javadi's life is to me until that conversation with her mother in Season 2 ep. 10. Like. This girl isn't even 21 yet.

She isn't even 21 years old and she is a year out from graduating medical school. She's graduating on average five years earlier than most people. Javadi started medical school at 18 years old.

And yes, she could have sped through college, there are definitely ways to graduate in under four years, but I'm putting her at graduating at three years at the earliest. Maybe there is some insane way she graduated in two years, but that puts Javadi at fucking Sixteen Years Old when she started college. At The Absolute OLDEST. And in some scenarios, she's starting college at 14 years old.

and i know that this is a thing that happens. i know that, but good fucking god, has Javadi ever had any moment to be a kid? has Javadi ever had any chance to make a choice for herself? what the hell did summer vacation look like for this kid? of course her tiktok account is all about work and being a doctor - javadi doesn't know anything else, at all!

and her mother has the absolute gall to be upset that javadi has found a specialty she likes? Shamsi is honestly going to be fucking lucky if javadi doesn't turn thirty years old and realize she completely hates being a doctor! Javadi chose her career at sixteen (lets be honest, probably 14) years old and it was the job both her parents have - did she even conceive of any other options??

seriously, javadi is breaking my goddamn heart

[cokezerovape]

[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?

[ghostofhiim]

Robby is such a strong example of what happens when someone seen as a hero, a pillar of strength, the go-to guy, the mentor, the father figure, starts to become painfully human and vulnerable. The audience so quickly shifts from loving him to vilifying him, because a mental health crisis is ugly. It isn’t charming, it isn’t something you can romanticize or comfortably watch unfold, and it’s not easy to love someone who is doing unlovable things. The lack of empathy for Robby, while simultaneously demanding empathy from him, is astounding.

[melkingsbush]

sometimes i do wonder if mel will be forced into independence because becca wants more of her own, not the other way around. becca who enjoys her time at the facility and the independence it gives her, who wants to break away and make her own friends, and mel who fully rejects this, because they’ve always been the king sisters, becca can’t function without her because she can’t function without becca. mel who might actually need becca more than becca needs her. mel who is terrified of this fact because who is she if she’s not caring for someone else? what worth does she have if she’s not needed?

[codeblueberry]

Robinavitch and Santos being worried about Whitaker’s “farmer’s widow” situation is so funny to me because Dennis is giving such aggressively repressed queer farmer twink energy that I genuinely cannot believe they haven’t clocked him yet

[wychmoor]

I know Joy is getting absolutely bulldozed by the menace that is Ogilvie but I like the idea that she also just maybe…. doesn’t like emergency medicine…. everyone we saw in season one was all in on the Pitt and that included Whitaker and Javadi who even as students decided immediately that they wanted to stick around, what if Joy is just on an essential rotation and simply doesn’t like EM…. I would love the show to reflect on someone who is capable and skilled but is just kind of fundamentally uncharmed by the Pitt… I think it would show a self awareness in the writers that would reflect well on them if they stick the landing