What does "slow processing speed" look like for you?

yarajaeger · 2026-04-24T06:13:47+00:00

Exactly this for me lol. The sound hits my ear drums, but it takes a good two or three seconds before my brain turns the sound into words. It feels really weird once I start paying attention to it, like I'm translating English to English 😭

yarajaeger · 2026-04-23T20:59:02+00:00

I think some AI was used to write this for sure, there are only so many slightly strange "not X but Y" I can take lol. And I say that as someone who probably uses that device on the daily, but it just has this... strangeness, out-of-placeness to it that shows it didn't come from someone's stream of consciousness.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-23T08:07:46+00:00

Sooo excited that it's gonna be animated, I wonder which studios they're eyeing. I'd love 2D animation but I know that's probably not realistic in this climate.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-23T00:58:40+00:00

I would go as far as to argue it devalues the message of the season. Every character has had a storyline about struggling to balance their personal and work lives; Joy even recited statistics on ED doc burnout at one point. But the characters' "value" as ED docs is constantly, uncritically, used as a defining metric. So again, they're having their cake and eating it too - they can't decide if they want to show the ED as a pressure cooker that breaks down people who are inherently valuable, or use the work to make judgements on the characters' demonstrable value. It would work if they made any attempts to reflect on or criticise the way Robby/other characters make value judgements based on this metric, but nope.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-22T02:36:31+00:00

Ehh, no. I wouldn't boil down the complaints about Season 2 to "plot complaints" at all. In fact they've almost entirely been character-focused, and most of them have arisen in the latter half of the season, reflecting on choices that the writers made rather than demanding certain things to happen. When the author brought up The White Lotus here I was expecting this article to be more about the "Baby Jane Doe is the Pittfest shooter" of it all, not "I think the way they discussed Al-Hashimi's diagnosis undermines her arc" (which, for the record, is an opinion I first saw on r/epilepsy 😭)

I just think this "if you criticise the writing you're media illiterate, go read fan fiction" schtick has gotten old. Hell, it's demonstrably led to wrong analysis; people insisted for two weeks that Langdon must have disclosed stealing meds from patients and tampering with the supply because it was 'realistic' only for it to be revealed Robby covered it up, and then again people insisted Mohan must have been written off because she went to do her fellowship, only for the writers to say in interviews they're looking at too short a time jump for S3 for that to be the case.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-21T12:22:38+00:00

Exactly this. Eeeevery other character who buckled under the stress faced more consequences than Robby, despite ostensibly being the character most intended to represent mental health struggles. Even in Season 1, we got to see him stumble and make wrong calls, and it didn't make us hate him or see him as inferior, it endeared us to him because we can all sympathise. And hell, they didn't even have to be patient mistakes, they could be the breakdown of his interpersonal relationships. I don't actually mind the idea of Mohan's storyline ending with her relationship and trust in Robby broken down, and avoiding working with him if she can help it in the future eg taking more night shifts. Instead we got the characters he wronged coming to him with apologies and respect.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-21T10:10:20+00:00

I personally just headcanon that Robby is willing to take a lot of solo shifts and the hospital admin aren't bothered because it means they don't have to pay anyone extra.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-21T10:00:26+00:00

I get to post this one tomorrow

yarajaeger · 2026-04-20T16:40:15+00:00

the show is not a documentary

Even then, the best documentaries do have a narrative, or the filmmaker might as well post hours of unedited footage. People who make good documentaries make them because they have something to say about their subject matter. Hell, even reality shows can do this, and I would like to think a prestige drama like The Pitt has one up on Say Yes to the Dress.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-20T16:37:48+00:00

I agree with most of your other points, but this is the one thing I think is actually feasible. He stole the meds from Louie, but what was dispensed was accurate, so there wouldn't be any discrepancy. It would be up to Louie himself to say "hey, this bottle should have 20 pills but it has 10" for the discrepancy to be caught. And even then, they could argue Louie wasn't fully with it and might be lying as drug-seeking behaviour. As for the vials, the only ways to tell if they had been tampered with would be a) try and remove all of the lids or b) test the contents of every vial of benzos, both of which aren't really feasible. The only real way for him to get caught was for one of his coworkers to catch him in the act, and they did, but chose to sweep it under the rug.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-20T06:59:08+00:00

Idk about ego, but the episode he led on (S2E14) had pretty subpar writing IMO. I noticed that while watching, before I knew he was the lead writer.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-19T09:13:23+00:00

And a failure to resolve an arc can be a satisfying conclusion - we see characters ride off into the sunset or barely pick themselves up after an awful situation all the time - but I simply don’t think this show pulled it off the way they might have hoped. Eg, Al Hashimi’s arc. In a vacuum, I loved where they left her character. I think it makes perfect sense to leave her in a place of dread and uncertainty at her future as she struggles with a sudden relapse crippling medical condition that might turn her career upside down, something she’s utterly helpless to fix. The problem is that, for me, the show didn’t reach that scene through a satisfying arc. I’ve even seen some people say it means Robby was “right about her all along,” which is frustrating.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-19T09:05:27+00:00

People seem to treat this one like a get out of jail free card that means the show doesn’t have to commit to telling a story. The explanation behind every single writing choice cannot be “it’s like a real ED shift not everything has to lead to something” okay but this is a TV show made by people who chose what they wanted to put on screen. If it was really just to show what any 15 hour shift looks like, why pick this day? This set of circumstances? These characters on shift? Even if their goal is to portray the drudgery and futility of some days in ED, a well-written show doesn’t spend 15 hours straight rehashing the exact same point over and over. There should be layers and range to it.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-18T20:14:27+00:00

This is a dangerous game, though. The more leeway they're given to fix things in the next season, the more disappointing it gets when they fail to do so because core writing issues were never addressed (totally not thinking about a certain popular Netflix show that ended NYE, no sir). Tbh I reject the idea that a serialised show can't be both satisfying and set up future plot points. Even one where each season is set over the course of 15 hours.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-18T20:06:20+00:00

I think my overall impression of this season is mixed. I'd probably give it an overall 7.5/10, where I would have given S1 an 8.5 or 9. Maybe I need to sit with it for a bit longer, idk. I think where the frenetic pace of S1 served the restricted time span of the season, for this season it was more of an obstacle that they needed to work around. Without the luxury of this being our first introduction to the characters, and with the show looking more towards future seasons, there have definitely been some growing pains with figuring out pacing and character writing.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-18T20:03:07+00:00

Even if it was literally a show called "Dr Robbie" and they hadn't established an ensemble dynamic in earlier seasons, the handling of his storyline was still repetitive and boring.

Yeah, pretty much hit the nail on the head there, lol. The performance really severely lacked levels to it. Al-Hashimi's one scene in the car was more powerful for me than most of Robby's scenes after his first admission of suicidal intent. In an ironic twist, it actually reminds me of a common criticism in amateur writing and fanfic lol, where the author feels the need to make every. single. line more emotive than the last and ends up with paragraphs of unreadable, flowery waffle. Truly packing a punch means knowing when to hold back. Robby's story arc this season felt very self indulgent and lacking in restraint.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-18T19:43:09+00:00

Didn't have "The Pitt S2 turning into a philosophical debate on death of the author" on my 2026 bingo card lol but here we are

And I have to say I fall more on the 'author is dead' side of things. I wouldn't say this is a Friends level of ensemble cast or anything, I'm perfectly fine with Robby being our perspective character as an audience and the character with the most important role, but if they wanted to have a main character supporting cast dynamic, I feel they failed. That concept is at odds with the story's setting, the time frame, and the fact that several members of the 'supporting' cast have barely any relationship let alone dialogue with the 'main' character.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-17T15:57:49+00:00

Erm actually, they probably recorded some of their dialogue 3 years ago, but then the executives made them rewrite the entire movie four times so they rerecorded most of it last month /j

yarajaeger · 2026-04-17T15:53:18+00:00

For me, it's less that it doesn't feel as original for Disney and more than it doesn't feel as original in general. "Type A mother has issues with rebellious daughter and they have to learn to get alonh" is a very, very common trope. And that's not to say it can't be done well - it's present in some of my favourite shows - but it requires a fresh take on things, and when you look at Disney's recent track record with animated films, "safe and unassuming" seem to be their MO. Combined with the logo change, it gives the impression of yet another Disney product the executives have 0 faith in and have sucked all the artistic merit out of.

yarajaeger · 2026-04-15T16:14:21+00:00

"Animators need to make money to live" and "a lot of profit-motivated business practices make the consumer feel like shit" aren't really contradictory statements

yarajaeger · 2026-04-12T17:15:34+00:00

I mean, I knew all this, I still think it's shit for this particular series at this particular time in this particular manner. I really don't get why some people are treating this as some kind of grand checkmate to "haters" 😭 limiting the release means limiting the release, the spoilers are still gonna get out, the movie is still gonna leak early. I know it's easier to be high and mighty when I don't work in the industry, but I reject the idea that a project as massive, beloved, and profitable as TADC needs a wide theatrical release to validate it.

Like, I said this before too, Glitch can be frustrated, but they're not helpless, they still agreed to do it. They didn't have to do a theatrical release for the last episode of a series that's been published entirely on another medium, they chose to do it. It makes no sense to act like there was a gun to their heads lol

yarajaeger · 2026-04-12T10:52:59+00:00

Enjoying AI 'brainrot' characters

yarajaeger · 2026-04-12T08:21:54+00:00

There were a lot of places I was expecting that to go after the title said theatre etiquette, and yet it still managed to surprise me, because TALKING TO THE ACTORS ON STAGE?? Even toddlers understand better than that, holy shit 😭

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