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Oh boy, a complex character who's a woman! I love messy characters who hurt everyone around them and continue the cycles that hurt them!! Can't wait to share this joy with fellow fans– why's everyone calling her a bitch

englafab

I just wanna point out that it’s nice how The Pitt allows their characters to have experienced several traumas in their lives that aren’t connected to each other. Like I often feel that media likes to give their characters one Big Bad Thing™ that happens to them and if it hadn’t happened their life would be all sunshine and rainbows and that can be nice from a narrative standpoint but that also usually isn’t the human experience. I think this show gives us a really realistic angle. Like how Al Hashimi both struggles with a seizure disorder that developed in childhood AND trauma from experiencing a massacre in a maternity hospital, or how Mel lost first one parent and then another years from each other under different circumstances, or how Robby was abandoned by his mother as a child and later lost his mentor to covid. Idk i like it

#santos and her “unfortunately my mom's gonna live forever”#the pitt #dr robby #michael robby robinavitch #michael robinavitch #dr al hashimi #baran al hashimi #dr king #mel king #dr santos #trinity santos #the pitt season 2

samirasystole

i actually think it was really hot for trinity santos to walk in on her first day with that amount of confidence, make nicknames for every loser in there, try and get to do as many cool procedures as she could, catching some asshole stealing drugs, flirt with a 30+ year old surgery resident and still bag her after stabbing her in the foot, and just in general walking around and taking up her rightful space. i think women should do that more

#and like I UNDERSTAND and AGREE that if someone asks you not to call them XYZ nickname you SHOULD stop calling them that #BUT #you can't in good faith say that she's a bully #that requires a level of maliciousness that just isn't there #she doesn't think they're insulting nicknames #she sees them as affectionate #the shitty part is that she doesn't accept the fact that Javadi feels insulted by it #the pitt #trinity santos #dr santos

shanebuffys

I know I don’t usually pittpost butttttt Trinity calling patients stupid like the one who ate too much tumeric is not her lacking empathy or her being a bad doctor. It showcases how badly the ER doctors get burnt out. She is so exhausted by this job (that she has had for less than a year!) that it is turning her somewhat nihilistic. She has a blasé attitude about that because she has seen so many cases in such a short amount of time. It’s just like Ellis and Shen having no real reaction beyond annoyance to a guy dying in the waiting room. It just is what is because they see this and much much worse everyday. If anything Trinity has a lot of empathy and her keeping an emotional distance from her patients (except the little girls who she can’t help but see herself in) is her keeping herself safe.

#good point I hadn't thought of that #the pitt #pitt discourse #trinity santos #dr santos #john shen #dr shen #parker ellis #dr ellis #the pitt season 2

rejka-art

made lino prints of Abbot to match my prints of Robby! they are both hand printed from carved blocks of lino. prints available here!

#the pitt #the pitt fanart #dr robby fanart #dr abbot fanart #dr robby #dr abbot #michael robby robinavitch #michael robinavitch #jack abbot

angieflynns

Also, the reason Noah is the "loud" "smug" one is because he didn't just involve himself with The Pitt because he wanted to make a fun, entertaining show.

He's trying to do activism for Healthcare workers, and real activists do often focus on one cause instead of spreading themselves thin trying to be the most terminally online version of activism where you have "right" opinions on everything. And with how trashy the president is we need a famous person loudly screaming for saving lives.

#wait people are genuinely bothered by him being so visible & “loud”??? wtf #he doesn't seem smug to me #maybe if someone has only seen short clips then I guess they could assume that?#maybe?#but every interview I've seen he's been very humble & very grateful to healthcare workers & spotlighting them #like grateful that it's been received by healthcare workers the way it was intended to be #the pitt #noah wyle

lissa

Noah Wyle & Shawn Hatosy | The Pitt Televerse FYC Panel (x)

club-medical

If they have a rivalry it’s of the heated kind

#the pitt #noah wyle #shawn hatosy #rabbot

Does anyone know of a fanfic where Langdon & Santos separately being friends with Mel ends up with them having to be around each other socially, that forces them to work out their issues, realize they're twins separated at birth, and become friends?

#forced proximity trope for friendship #the pitt #the pitt fanfic #the pitt fic #trinity santos #dr santos #frank langdon #dr langdon #langdon and santos #santos and langdon

mortalfaerie

trinity santos: gives a homeless guy she's known for 15 hours a place to stay and then covers his share of the rent for 10 months while he finishes school, consistently worries he'll be taken advantage of because he's a nice guy never mind the fact she's literally letting him live with her rent free, identifies and scares the shit out of a child molester where the system is otherwise failing, talks a stranger who attempted to end his life into seeking help, doggedly pursues a potential child abuse case and when she's wrong accepts it without pushback and turns her attention to treatment and being a good doctor, turns away from her charting that's stressing her out to go comfort a friend who lost a patient, invites mel out to do a stress relieving activity after what she sees is an incredibly taxing day, etc etc etc

some random tiktok commenter always: oh my god i can't stand santos she's so mean to everyone

#I get annoyed with her frequently but you can never make me not love her #the pitt #trinity santos #dr santos #the Pitt season 2

mortalfaerie

some people fail to realize that the big issue with what langdon did was not that he had an addiction to benzos but that he was skimming them from patients in a way that compromised the efficacy of their treatment, even down to emergency situations (re: the lorazepam vials that were tampered with and put back), and it shows

the-pitt-hbo

It's also a very rare type of drug diversion. Yes, drug diversion is common among healthcare workers dealing with SUD, but it's almost always done in ways that don't affect patient care & safety. Like stealing meds that are on the way to disposal or over-prescribing and only taking the extra pills (so the patient still has the full amount they need).

Tampering like he did with the vial is NOT typical for healthcare workers who divert medication.

the-pitt-hbo

Personally, I'm not very bothered by him stealing Louie's Librium. Not because it wasn't unethical, because obviously it was, but because there was little-to-no risk of harm in that case (unlike the Ativan). It was probably an example of the over-prescribing method of diversion. But more importantly, Louie is a regular. They know he isn't going to take those pills no matter how many or few he's given.

I think that's why Langdon's amends to Louie was so sincere and self-reflective when the rest of his amends weren't. It's much easier to reconcile his self-image as a practitioner & a caring person with this instance of his behavior since there wasn't any real danger. It's much harder to reconcile his self-image with the far more dangerous and unethical diversion methods he used. So instead he lashes out and continues to downplay his role in what happened choosing instead to believe that his life was nearly ruined by Santos, not himself, and that Robby is overreacting/should be over it already.

He's making progress, but it's a long process.

#also he knows Louie will understand as a fellow addict but tbh I think it's more this #the pitt #frank langdon #dr langdon #the pitt season 2

mortalfaerie

the-pitt-hbo

Tampering like he did with the vial is NOT typical for healthcare workers who divert medication.

#the pitt #frank langdon #dr langdon #the pitt season 2

puppydogwhitaker

y’all only like night shift because their flaws have been exclusively implied in very missable throw away lines (and towards people y’all don’t sympathize with anyway).

ellis told trinity nobody gave a shit how tired, traumatized, or exhausted she was when trinity was on the fourteenth hour of her twelve hour shift. a season of that, to more universally sympathetic characters, will NOT be palatable to a lot of gen z. ellis doesn’t care if junior residents are overworked, she doesn’t coddle or encourage. she is a tough love, ‘put me in coach,’ rub some dirt on it kind of person, and the gen z viewership will become overly critical of her life philosophy that demands a lot of grit.

shen is insensitive and detached. robby was wondering where his step son was, there was a mass casualty rolling in, and shen was relaxed enough to sip on his dunkin. he was bothering robby about if he could get thanksgiving and christmas off that year. shen’s blasé attitude will start to grate on people as he extends that lack of fucks given to more patients and coworkers than just robby.

jack is not the woke guy everyone projects him to be. i believe they kept him far away from the ICE episode because the writers had no truly satisfying answer to how jack’s character would act in that situation. this man participated in imperialism for free college and healthcare (or for valor which is even worse). he continues to listen to police scanners and joins SWAT. he is on the side of the establishment as it relates to exerting force. he may have unpacked some conservative values, but there will be nuance there that will make black and white thinkers very uncomfortable.

the night shift doctors characterization is much less developed, but the seeds of complexity are there. ellis hates whining, shen is largely emotionally removed from any patient outcomes, jack is a mess of contradictions. people just can’t pick up on that because they watch the show while scrolling through their phone.

you. don’t. want. night. shift. you want to know less about the characters so you can continue to project your values onto them.

unfetteredautism

this is very true for most people. unlike ME, who wants those fuckers and their big fat ugly flaws on blast. give me more mentally ill assholes doing mentally ill asshole things. so i can write fanfiction making them even worse. i deserve it.

#if any day shift doc said half the shit these night shift docs said they'd have been RIPPED APART in fan discourse #the pitt #the pitt night shift #john shen #dr shen #jack abbot #dr abbot #parker ellis #dr ellis

noah-wyles

the writers of season three - the pitt

#prev…..#literally a majority women writers room but you all want to hate noah wyle so much youd rather erase everyone elses contributions #than acknowledge reality #racism and misogyny at its finest tbh!#the pitt #the pitt BTS #the pitt writers #the pitt season 3

merlepsblog

Gerran saying that Whitaker lets people trauma-dump on him, to deflect from having to reveal his own feelings, but "doesn't commit to relationships" himself is so fascinating and opened a completely new door to his character that I hadn't really considered before. Because it's true that it's not as simple as Whitaker being a pushover and letting people take advantage of his kindness, no: Whitaker actively invites that by turning himself into a kind of chameleon, like a siren who appears to people in exactly the shape they need him to be.* For Robby, he is the perfect student, the one he feels safe to put his trust in, like a malleable male Galatea that Robby can mold into the ideal doctor who will carry on his legacy.

For Santos, he is the brother she needs, someone who allows her to express her affection through insults and teasing without threatening to leave her for who she is, because they are family.

For Javadi, he is the gossip girlie, a friend her own age that she desperately needs, someone to vent her frustrations to without the pressure to perform beyond her years.

For Ogilvie, he is the confident, mild-mannered teacher, someone with little ego but a lot of life experience he is willing to share. For Amy, he is a man, a protector, a strong shoulder, someone who takes care of her family and performs the physical labor her husband was supposed to do. And then, there's Langdon, who (without perhaps realizing) also has a role in mind he wants Whitaker to play ... and God, it's so bewildering and strange and also incredibly juicy to think that something about Langdon, of all people, wakes in Whitaker the urge to reject, for the first time, a label someone else is trying to put on him, someone that makes him want to be seen for who he is, not for what other people can project on him. And I really, really want to know why that is.

Inspired by this interview

*(Supernatural fans will know which episode I'm referring to)

#the pitt #dennis whitaker #dr whitaker

puppiegracie

I don't really watch cast interviews but I love this clip because it shows how it actually works. noah wyle is not calling the shots. he sat in a writers room, as a fucking writer, pitching his idea to a group of people that were agreeing— only to look to scott gemmill, who denied it. that's how it fucking works. the entire writers room has input and influence (don't even get me started on people discrediting the amazing team they have) but scott can choose whatever he wants in the end. you can draw your own conclusions with that, but at the end of the day, that is what's going on.

#the pitt #the pitt discourse #the pitt discussion #noah wyle #scott gemmill

bberry005

that is NOT a found family. that is a mentally unstable group of emergency department coworkers who aren't even all friends with each other

#the pitt

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