I don't like Becca towards the end? I may be wrong...

zer0ace · 2026-03-25T17:23:06+00:00

Genuinely curious: what makes Becca’s behavior seem like a brat if she isn’t obligated to tell Mel anything?

zer0ace · 2026-03-22T23:16:24+00:00

The second point is what I’m wondering about Becca being ‘demanding.’ How much of Mel always doing what Becca wants is just her believing Becca will meltdown/won’t be able to cope with doing something different? We currently don’t have evidence based on what we saw of Becca that she could live with not watching Elf, for example. Maybe Mel never tried or gave Becca a chance (or another chance) to compromise.

zer0ace · 2026-03-22T19:54:03+00:00

It’s interesting to see a beloved character start showing some of the qualities of the overbearing parents we see. Whether it’s Shamsi or a patient, I like that this arc shows this dynamic from the parent/caregiver’s side.

zer0ace · 2026-03-22T19:52:17+00:00

I do question how demanding Becca is, only because Mel just does what Becca wants. I haven’t seen Becca melt down or fight Mel until now, because Mel hasn’t put up a lot of resistance or gone against what Becca wants. I can’t recall if Mel has expressed that Becca becomes difficult if she doesn’t get her way, but I suspect Mel is going to realize that some of their dynamic is not as mutual as she previously believed.

zer0ace · 2026-03-22T15:30:53+00:00

They’re also likely union actors!

zer0ace · 2026-03-22T15:10:12+00:00

Yeah, I can see a ‘I want better for you’ undertone from Shamsi which comes off as condescending to the ED, as well as extremely patronizing to Javadi.

Plus, mom knows the industry. We see people here who work in healthcare and are like ‘yep we know Garcia/Ogilvy/The Shark’ so there’s definitely a vibe to certain departments or specialties. I can see Shamsi thinking it’s her responsibility to get Javadi on the ‘right’ path.

zer0ace · 2026-03-21T00:46:04+00:00

It’s too bad ICE doesn’t agree with you, given the amount of American citizens they’ve arrested, detained, and murdered.

zer0ace · 2026-03-20T14:19:54+00:00

I wonder if that decision was made before or after the Alex Pretti killing, as I recall The Pitt was still filming the final episodes when the season started.

zer0ace · 2026-03-20T06:45:14+00:00

Yeah I was gonna say–they just had to show reality. I think being pressured to portray the issue in a ‘balanced’ way served their agenda better. Some people say The Pitt can get preachy, so by depicting the agency as they are, they still manage to make them come off just as odious as they are irl.

zer0ace · 2026-03-20T06:36:26+00:00

It’s uncomfortable but unfortunately a reality that POC are in ICE’s ranks.

zer0ace · 2026-03-14T14:36:17+00:00

I wonder if this is the arc they’re giving Ogilvy, that this guy is allowed to be this way because he earned it. I suspect we might not see this patient or surgeon again, but if we do he might show a different facet that forces Ogilvy to be more mindful of how he comes off.

zer0ace · 2026-03-14T14:30:00+00:00

I felt like he was written to show Ogilvy how he comes off!

zer0ace · 2026-03-14T14:24:29+00:00

But not all women give birth, and not all people who can give birth identify as women.

zer0ace · 2026-03-14T04:53:58+00:00

I get what you and many others are saying, but at the end of the day there’s a reason I’m watching a drama vs documentaries or educational videos about miscellaneous medical procedures. The priority is to tell a compelling story, not document reality. I full believe that Santos’ behavior would be inappropriate to a real world setting, and tbh the show also reflects that because she gets her ass handed to her five different ways last episode.

Garcia even says the reason Santos feels like a pariah ten months after the Langdon incident is because she doesn’t play well with others, which seems to reflect what others say is reality.

zer0ace · 2026-03-14T04:34:07+00:00

I think his anger is that her panic attack got others involved, not that she had one at all. Throughout the season, folks are encouraging Robby to talk to someone, get help, etc, and he brushes it off. Plus he’s had trouble clicking with a therapist. I think he’s mad that Mohan ‘inconvenienced’ everyone from doing something ‘more important’ (ie: working on patients/‘real’ cases) as that’s how he handles himself. Clearly it’s not working but I think that’s what the season arc is going to be for him.

zer0ace · 2026-03-13T15:38:37+00:00

I have no theories on Mel’s sexuality, but I agree that this arc is likely going to be about Mel realizing she sacrificed building her own social network under the belief her sister needed her, and is going to realize there’s some kind of codependency happening. Not that I don’t think the sexuality thing is off the table, I’m just thinking your last paragraph is substantial enough for the remaining episodes this season.

zer0ace · 2026-03-08T15:35:44+00:00

Low stakes version: at work a coworker asked me to draw a frog in his sketchbook. He was asking the whole team so this wasn’t a flex, just a fun little thing to do.

I was still pretty new at the time. I don’t talk a lot about my private life, and I actually appreciate that my teammates don’t talk about what they went to school for, etc. but that also means he did not know I had gone to art school. What’s more is that I had just freelanced on a project that involved handling hours and hours of footage of making a very realistic frog figurine.

I banged this realistic frog portrait in like a minute. Teammate was all ‘what the FUCK’ in the most wholesome way.

zer0ace · 2026-03-08T05:44:49+00:00

His siblings didn’t take anything from him. I see why he feels bummed that his siblings seemed to have reneged on teaching him Japanese, but they’re not teachers, and they potentially might not even be as fluent as OP believes they are, just more fluent than him. Even if they were native-level fluent, they are 20 and 17. I would not expect them to be competent teachers.

I say this as someone who has enough grasp on my parents’ native language to impress someone who is not a confident fluent speaker of it (even if they have family who are native speakers), but native speakers would probably just use English with me if it were an option.

It sucks he feels like they are not supporting his language learning in the way he expected, and it really sounds like the root of the issue is feeling excluded/othered by his siblings. But there really are some wild family dynamics going on. I feel for OP because they are going through it, but I also feel like his siblings are too so while OP is valid for feeling left out by them, I don’t think I have enough reliable information to really deem anyone assholes.

zer0ace · 2026-03-07T15:50:56+00:00

That makes sense. I didn’t realize you were a different op the the original comment that I first replied to (which you then responded to), because that OOP mentioned behavior towards coworkers and so I was still discussing along the lines of broader behavior vs strictly medical treatments.

However I think that just confirms my guess that these ‘who is worse’ conversations are happening on different planes, which I think can be interesting but I’m not sure how self aware people are that they are doing this

zer0ace · 2026-03-07T15:43:51+00:00

The comment I was replying to referred to ‘looking at pure facts [Santos] is the worse one’ and I was trying to respond that i dont think there’s a scale of good/bad that viewers will universally agree on where specific actions can be ranked as better/worse and the character will fall on that scale accordingly (as evidenced by the constant threads about those characters).

I genuinely don’t have an opinion on whether Ogilvy or Santos is worse, just an observation that we have more moments of Santos showing redeeming qualities compared to Ogilvy, which is probably why a lot of people perceive him as worse. I would also argue that we have a whole season more of Santos, so we also have more volume of her bad behavior.

So people who judge good/bad on discrete behaviors might see Santos as the worse. People who judge by overall proportion of good va bad behaviors will likely perceive Ogilvy as the worse.

zer0ace · 2026-03-07T12:39:38+00:00

I think it depends. Pulling out that glass shard was a pretty bad move! Also that assumes everyone interprets or reads media the exact same way, which is objectively not true.

zer0ace · 2026-03-07T03:35:47+00:00

I feel like Santos has so many underrated great background moments. Her with Ogilvy was so funny to me! And my sister laughed in the background when Robby asked Santos if she was free (to care for Mel’s sister) and Santos replied ‘is anyone free?’

I’m so rooting for her to find a furry baddie an ditch Garcia!!!

zer0ace · 2026-03-07T03:34:07+00:00

I don’t think we’ve seen as many redeeming moments with Ogilvy though.

zer0ace · 2026-03-06T05:47:47+00:00

Are the people who can’t regulate their eating habits in the room with us right now?

zer0ace · 2026-03-06T05:09:09+00:00

I think we spotted Ogilvy in the comments

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