LOUDLY AND PROUDLY JEWISH. YOUR ANTISEMITISM IS NOT WELCOME HERE.
Just another neurodivergent lesbian obsessing over queer coded fictional women on Tumblr. Rebecca, 30s, she/her. Icon by @blackbird-brewster, header by me (yes the dog is mine).
yeah you people who think you're fans of the pitt get to talk about noah wyle and robby in any way when you show you're capable of disliking him without posting ancient christian antisemitism because mohan was written off. literally mohan stans are never beating the "just wanted a chance to do antisemitism and do it scot free" allegations
I have seen this exact screenshot posted multiple times and I do think this fandom is legitimately evil.
"Jews are actually Satan in disguise/Satan's agents" is literally ancient Christian antisemitism. It is fucking CHILLING seeing it be shared and supported by self-declared "leftists."
I mean, I hate that they framed the shot this way because I don't like the use of Catholic symbolism with a Jewish character, but fuck these assholes.
“Hey Trinity! I’m not sure if you saved my number, but this is Mel from work. I had a lot of fun the other night at karaoke, thank you so much for inviting me! I was wondering if you would like to hang out again sometime? I think you and I both have the next few days off, and my sister Becca is spending the weekend with her boyfriend. No worries if you’re busy! I know this is pretty sudden haha. Just let me know, and have a good weekend 😊”
“@ drag brunch pull thru” *Trinity Santos shared her location*
i absolutely loved the glimpse of abbot as an attending this episode—watching him in teaching mode. it makes his leadership feel so distinct from robby’s.
abbot narrows. he pushes questions until only one usable answer remains. when he poses them, they are not open-ended invitations—they function as calibration, forcing reasoning toward resolution. his corrections are immediate, exacting, almost pressure-like in their precision.
the room tightens around him. there is very little space for drift. every answer must justify itself immediately or be reworked. when nazely incorrectly suggests etomidate and roc, he does not linger—he redirects the entire logic of the moment toward propofol for seizure coverage and succinylcholine for what it allows them to assess. the answer is never just an answer; it becomes a test of judgment under constraint.
even his “wait and see” is not passive in a time-sensitive room. it is controlled patience—unknowns contained within a very narrow margin, never allowed to sprawl.
what he does, repeatedly, is collapse ambiguity. he constricts the frame until each step becomes intelligible, defensible, operational. clarity is not a conclusion; it is a precondition for intervention.
robby does not work by tightening in that way. he lets people move while they are still unsure; direction emerges inside action rather than before it. where abbot compresses, robby holds space open long enough for things to take shape in real time.
he distributes tasks quickly—“you’re on suction,” “get ready for compressions”—and lets thinking unfold across the team instead of pulling it upward into a single point of control. when residents propose ideas, he does not immediately override them. he lets them hold, tests them in practice, and only then confirms or redirects.
his authority functions differently as well. it’s not interrogative in the way abbot’s is—less “why is that?” and more “that is correct.” it’s subtle, but one draws out reasoning under pressure; the other stabilizes care once it is already in motion.
what stands out most is how they treat uncertainty. abbot treats it as something to be reduced—quickly, decisively—until the path forward is unmistakable. robby is willing to let it persist longer, trusting that things can settle into place through doing rather than prior to it.
abbot believes clarity precedes action. robby is willing to let action and uncertainty coexist.
both operate under the same pressure and stakes, but their instincts diverge in how they bring others through it: one tightens the world until only one answer remains; the other keeps it wide enough for an answer to form inside it.
absolutely love this analysis. I think so much of Abbot’s style speaks to his military background where there is no place for uncertainty. what I wonder is, did the military build this in Abbot or was this pull toward clarity part of his draw to the military in the first place?
most definitely!! abbot's characterization and background is one of my favorite things to turn over in my mind...
in a combat zone, ambiguity is a liability—you don’t have the luxury of exploratory thinking. you’re operating in triage logic: what is immediately killing this person, what can be done right now, what has to wait. it’s fast, pared down, and it prioritizes survivability over completeness. there isn’t space for lingering in possibility when delay itself becomes risk.
i've wondered much of the same, too, and it really does feel like a chicken-or-the-egg question, especially since we don’t know anything concrete about why he enlisted. but even setting those specifics aside, the military does offer a very particular kind of structure—high-definition, uncompromising, and constantly reinforcing decisiveness under constraint. so the question becomes: was there already something in him that responded to that kind of environment—an existing orientation toward things like order and control—or does that orientation get produced through exposure to it?
and i think it’s hard to treat that as purely one or the other. the military doesn’t generate that style of thinking from nothing, but it also doesn’t passively reflect it. it sort of selects for certain tendencies, then reinforces them under pressure until they become the dominant mode of operating.
which is so, so interesting to think about—not either/or, but something more like overlap: a process that shapes what is already present in looser form, and gradually tempers it into something more fixed.
that do the right thing and you will be reincarnated as a lotus flower meme but about santos doinking tf outta that tightly wound autistic woman
the context in which season 1 was written: we have no clue if this show will be successful or if it will get picked up for more season, this might flop, we have to make it a fairly self-contained season with relatively few loose ends as a result
the context in which season 2 was written: we have infinite seasons to address storylines, we can leave things much more unfinished because there is no chance we won't be renewed
Every week a new episode of HBO’s meat and potatoes medical drama The Pitt airs and after watching you think “that was a great hour of television” and then you log online to discover that it was the first episode of TV for adults anyone has ever watched. This will repeat next week and the week after that and so on.
Fifteen weeks in a row of this nonsense while watching some of the best television has to offer. I will miss it terribly while it’s on hiatus.
Remembering that Fiona Dourif interview where she talked about McKay’s profound loneliness and was like, “when was the last time someone other than her son hugged her?” And then Langdon offering her a hug and she immediately recoils. But the SECOND Javadi is there her arm is reaching out for that hug and Javadi just sort of melts into her and they’re cuddled up on the roof of the hospital watching the fireworks after a long and brutal shift. Which could mean nothing.
robby thinking that baby and her mom were the last patients he’d ever treat. needing them to survive so his final legacy and last memory of the pitt wasn’t of tragedy and death
Anonymous asked:
re: your reblog about baran and robby: no because the fandom is still too busy insisting that robby has no right to question baran at all. in fact there are probably already think pieces going around about how she’s crying in her car because big bad robby “bullied” her all day. i do wonder if any of these people realize that in their rush to defend these women they are repeatedly infantilizing them.
tanely answered:
There is a continuous theme for Robby through both seasons where Robby’s criticisms are usually correct but he handles them EXTREMELY poorly. It actually is serious that Al-Hashimi has had two seizures in one day. It’s not just dangerous for patients but for herself. Even if he presents hypotheticals it IS the reality of the job, and the reality of danger in that line of work.
Do i think he would have treated anyone who stepped into that role the same?? yes. Do i think he’s a hypocrite and approaches his criticisms often inappropriately and unprofessionally?? absolutely!!! And there are nuances related to the work environment (upper i’m looking at you), identities and each of their illnesses. That’s the reality of humanity and care fields.
I 100% am a very vocal individual where I believe that treating the women as ONLY attached to Robby and ONLY in Robby’s story and ONLY about Robby reactionarily, is its own sexism (and it often DOES include discrimination). Because you can very easily not talk about Robby at all if you wanted to.
Myself and many people who write lovely meta on the women of the show have been able to do that. They’re mirrors NOT entwined. There IS a reason why the women went up collectively together on that roof to celebrate “freedom” that they don’t feel. Like that IS intentional.
At the end of the day, both Al-Hashimi and Robby have been ignoring illnesses that are beyond their control to do a job they both extremely care about and believe in and it IS impacting their judgment. The solution is the same! The work environment is not producing great ways to accomodate work load and it’s dangerous for everyone on both their ends.
Al-Hashimi recognizes it faster because she’s had the reality of the situation far longer! Robby is JUST in realization stage.
A lot about illness is you have to go through extreme boughts of forced realization that life as you thought you would have is not what you can expect (Robby’s talk to Mohan!). And it’s a process (Jack literally says it cause he’s there too, he’s the inbetween stage of Al-Hashimi and Robby). You go through periods of hope and set backs and reality and “how do i work around this and get everything i want”. and a horrible reality is there just….isn’t. sometimes there isn’t a clean solution to getting everything AND IT SUCKS ASS.
The cry in the car is nothing to do with Robby. It’s ALL about the reality of life for those with illness who experience that illness WILL hinder them their entire lives and you have no choice in the matter. Forced to always accomodate, forced to always ensure the safety of yourself.
In care fields that’s also realizing that there needs to be safety in your care as well. It IS your moral and ethical responsibility to ensure safety for patients/clients. And she knows that and realizes that. That’s why the crying in the car cuts so fucking deep and why it’s so emotional.
I am once again reminding the entire Pitt fandom that Al-Hashimi is a TEMP. She is coming in for three months as interim chief of emergency medicine while Robby is on sabbatical, and that is the extent of her contract with PTMC. She has never worked at PTMC before and may or may not be offered a full-time position after Robby comes back, but right now she is NOT a full-time permanent attending physician. She is a TEMP.
So part of what makes her storyline so devastating is the fact that she has to admit that she straight up CAN’T do the job that she was hired to do at PTMC, because that job was specifically for THESE THREE MONTHS. Right now, PTMC doesn’t care if she’ll be safe to run traumas and perform procedures on critical patients in six months because they didn’t hire her with the intention of having her there six months from now! They hired her to work NOW, and now is specifically the time when, after YEARS of being able to practice safely and provide excellent care as an emergency medicine doctor, all of a sudden, she CAN’T do it, through no fault of her own.
It’s cruel and unfair and heartbreaking and it’s also Just One Of Those Things that happens when you live with a disability or chronic illness, and Sepideh Moafi captured all of that so well in this episode.
how i sleep knowing javadi finally found her purpose, mel is reclaiming her identity outside of becca, santos let someone else in, langdon finally got to speak his mind to robby and be heard, whitaker is off somewhere funking it up with lil’ theo, digby is watching the fireworks with the er’s true diva, and robby saw a younger version of himself in baby jane and showed himself the kind of kindness he hasn’t been able to in years
taking unbelievable amounts of psychic damage thinking about Robby at his bar mitzvah keeping a seat empty for his mother
5ivebyfive
I certainly hope, with so many seemingly starting to watch ER, that these people better be hyping up the amazing female characters as well.
Cause like holy shit what women.
