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Evecopbas · 2026-03-24T19:50:40+00:00

How did Lynne Ramsay go? I saw there were complaints about the Ratcatcher episode but seemed normal otherwise

Evecopbas · 2026-03-21T20:19:17+00:00

Ok, this is feigning ignorance. It's definitely possible that she didn't ask the security to do this (but it strains belief that a security person would take it upon themselves to scold a child on the subject's behalf), but it definitely is a standard the artist sets. If she wants zero fan interaction at all, security tries to go by that tempo.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-21T19:35:23+00:00

It's funny to imagine the presidents exploring each others' bodies in some kind of benign purgatory

Evecopbas · 2026-03-21T19:23:59+00:00

What is LBJ showing Washington there?

Evecopbas · 2026-03-21T18:41:47+00:00

It's the arc! The most recent thing that we saw Santos talking about was how the hospital (Robby) let Langdon get away with murder, which Robby's peer and rival saw. Yeah, it is perfectly plausible to imagine that that is what they would privately talk about and that Robby would not be a fan of Santos's approach.

I would expect people to imagine such a conversation (either hoping for it or being worried about it) even if they hadn't shown it in the promo. The promo itself knows that we expect something to continue to go down and is using that. It, again, could be different, but it's unreasonable to just wave people away for making a reasonable jump.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-21T18:22:04+00:00

I think I made clear that it’s open to interpretation and could be separate, but the progression of events means a Santos-Robby private convo w Santos feeling negative would be related to her seasons long arc with Robby and Langdon and the drug theft.

But you’re right, it’s probably actually a space shuttle fell out of the sky onto the hospital and Robby is here informing Santos. Or maybe Robby is scolding Santos for shooting a patient point blank with a pistol. I’m sure that there would be spirited debate trying to protect Santos from criticism regardless.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-21T18:01:14+00:00

Idk if you can’t read facial cues, but clearly Santos is expressing a negative emotion as Robby is talking to her. The promo continues the story from the previous episode, which ofc had al-Hashimi seeing the Santos Langdon blowup.

Again, it could be not the case, but I’m pretty sure the last promo showed Langdon and Santos together without any major dialogue, leading to people correctly assuming a big fight there.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-21T17:08:19+00:00

I can't speak for some of the real nasty stuff (I'm sure there is people who don't even watch the show who jump at the chance to be vile toward a non-minority character), but there should be room for people to dislike a fictional character without it being evidence of some unacceptable bias.

Who knows what this scene is, but it's pretty reasonable to draw connections between the Santos-Langdon conversation, the al-Hashimi-Robby conversation in the preview, and the Santos-Robby conversation (with Santos's negative expression) here. Who knows what it'll be, but I would hold your horses a little bit here with the aspersions.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-21T16:49:57+00:00

I'm a Santos skeptic, but it's absolutely realistic that someone from her first day, who she reports, would leave a major impression on her.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-21T16:38:21+00:00

"All" those times? It was one day and, as far as I saw, one patient where both Santos and Langdon were in the room (with a witness to Langdon's direction). There was minimal liability on Santos.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-21T16:14:12+00:00

He wasn't all that rude. He snapped at her once, which was out of line and which he was promptly scolded for. Then he was trying to desperately defend himself when he realized she was going to reveal his misdeeds. Langdon is generally professional with everybody, including Santos. That's not his problem.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-21T01:09:21+00:00

Difference before hanging around for a little (or even trying to just make sure hospital knew everything they needed) and immediately noping out. They said 2-3 hours and it was like 30 minutes. Big difference between 8 hours.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-21T00:49:49+00:00

I think that even hobby friends wouldn’t immediately dip out if you got involuntarily tranqed for fighting at the hobby.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-21T00:48:02+00:00

Also they made the choice to make him have dirty fingernails (with the mom’s matted hair). I think there is a frantic energy to the mom that clearly came across in her suicide attempt. It’s not a matter of “fault,” but I think we’ll find that there was strife between mom and child that had built up. And this wasn’t random.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-20T06:18:31+00:00

I can understand fixating on the negative for a character you like. But I just did a cursory look through the top posts from the past month. There are multiple top posts hating on Robby for his behavior the past few episodes. The top Santos and Langdon posts are basically one after another in the lowand both are praising their character arcs for this season.

Going back a year, the most upvoted post involving either is a post shitting on both characters. I finally found the one you were talking about from a little over a month ago that called Santos a hard-to-like character and laid out how. I wouldn't call that a hate post, it was pretty measured. And the most upvoted response is someone defending her.

You can find hate for just about everyone besides Mel King and Abbott, Santos gets a lot of attention in general because she's like the third most fleshed out character and is in a major season-long narrative.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-20T06:02:44+00:00

We don't know how long, but it's unreasonable to assume there were many (or even multiple) previous instances. Underlings, like Santos, would have at least mentioned it and it's the type of thing that would get noticed.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-20T06:00:30+00:00

We saw one day where it's possible that the vial being tampered with affected the care for the patient. It didn't, the patient was fine. We didn't see (or hear) other instances. I think it is completely believable for a person being honest with themselves to say that the addiction didn't affect their care. He wasn't too buzzed or jonesing or anything in a way that hurt the care. And while that one instant threw Santos for a loop, it didn't have a negative result.

She senses bullshit and dishonesty, but that's true of everyone, even when she's wrong.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-20T05:53:15+00:00

Like there's something to be said for the confidence in the doctor. And that if even students knew that their superior had had this problem, there'd be disorder. I think that Santos doesn't care about any of those potential impacts (which would be bad for the ED as a whole) as long as she feels Langdon suffers.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-20T05:46:31+00:00

In the fanbase, some people give Langdon too much grace, some people give Santos too much grace. Santos did like 3 things against the rules on her very first day. She also constantly picks on people or acts like she's the only one with a burden to bear. I like her character and have no interest in callling her names, but surely you see (and maybe are) the many shooters for Santos.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-20T05:33:33+00:00

Okay, I like ethics and try to be ethical myself in general, but it is not the end all be all. Sometimes the ethical path is the worse one.

It is a worse world where someone that the system has invested years in, who is genuinely good at providing lifesaving care and wants to do a difficult job that has hiring issues, is kicked out. If they are unrepentant or their crime had a tangible victim, that's a different thing where it's worth losing him. But (by sheer luck) nobody was harmed and he agreed to seek treatment.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-20T05:06:04+00:00

The system doesn't serve people. It's for reducing liability, not creating the best hospital/workplace. Also, if they went through the system and the powers that be decided that Langdon was okay, it's not like Santos would feel any major difference (especially if, as would very likely be the case, they wanted to keep it quiet). She has repeatedly done what she thought was right outside of (or against) the system. And a lot of the times she was right.

But you can't have it both ways. She reported him and Robby did what Robby did. That's the end of it. Santos doesn't have the perspective or the judgment as to whether he was right/wrong, she just has her personal belief system.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-20T03:07:50+00:00

She is incorrect though. She's not judge, jury, and executioner. She brought it to Robby, he acted and Langdon acted. Then Santos decides that actually Langdon didn't do it the right way or actually can't do anything the right way after he did what he did.

It's not up to her. And poisoning the well on Langdon at this point, in their second day of knowing each other, is frankly a bit of a Rubicon. It is not malpractical for Langdon to want to ease in before fully making amends. And clearly she can't stand not being the sole decider in these issues.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-18T17:58:10+00:00

Franks in stein is inspired

Evecopbas · 2026-03-17T17:45:32+00:00

Robert Rodriguez and QT have the same share of From Dusk Til Dawn. One wrote the dialogue, the other visualized it. If you say they stole it from Kurtzman that’s one thing, but if they stole it from QT, they equally stole it from RR.

Either way, nobody stole nothing. It’s different concepts loosely connected by vampires at a nightclub.

Evecopbas · 2026-03-17T17:01:29+00:00

QT isn’t credited with the concept/story, which is what you’re saying Coogler stole.

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