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I love how The Pitt's use of the small time scale shows how quickly trauma (or just collaboration in any high pressure environment) can create bonds. Specifically I'm talking about Whitaker and Santos. I'm rewatching from the beginning after watching the finale, and in s1e1 when Whitaker complains about money problems, Santos just smirks and is like "sell a kidney." By the end of the season, she offers for him to move in with her.

This is like a season's worth of relationship development and character development for Santos especially. But like. Over the time span of one day. Less than 24 hours. That is just insane to think about. And yet. It makes sense. Because they endured insane trauma together and even before that, they were comrades in arms facing a constant onslaught of patients and expectations. It is just such good writing and something I've never seen before. I'm sure this has been said a million times but like. A full season of character development. One day. Both make sense. Wow.

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I listened to a podcast on the Pitt where they talked about how much character development Santos went through in the first season and joked about how much you can grow over 15 hours, and I felt kind of superior that these people are professional television watchers, but they missed that it's not character development, it's just showing more sides of the character.

And I think the difference we see with Santos by the end is that she's too tired to maintain her walls and the facade of arrogance, so we see more vulnerability and connection, and that she feels much more safe in the ER. She also really connected with the night shift doctor who was mentoring her (as opposed to Langdon who immediately got hostile, and Robby who was too busy, Garcia who was more interested in flirting via letting her do procedures she wasn't ready for...), and that helped so much. Mohan did a decent job mentoring her, but Ellis and Santos were just such a perfect fit.

I think it helped too that the patient she wanted to connect with in episode 15 was a man. She could identify with him, without being overwhelmed by how similar she is to him like she did with the girl who was being abused by her father. The emotions she wanted to express to him were more available because they were different enough.

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sorry i keep thinking about yellowjackets i just think it's funny that shauna fans will brag about how evil and complex and vile and rotten she is but the moment the topic of racism comes up they're like "omg she would NEVER🥺 you're reading way too much into this" like what happened to your evil women. is this a bridge too far all the sudden

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I cannot stress enough, that Vic choosing to just spend a full year setting up a full force psychological assault on Sam that included FORGING A DEED TO HIS HOUSE AND MAKING HIM EAT SAND, instead of trying to win in any way was the greatest power-move I have ever seen.

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oh so ur telling it's been Them since the start. it's been misty and nat the day misty took off her mask in the pilot and pushed her broken glasses up on her face and smiled. not bc she found power in the hunt or pleasure in the kill, the way we were meant to believe all the way back in s1, but bc she was able to help nat get away w the radio and find rescue. this is where the unwavering devotion starts. its like. nat is crowned leader in s2. misty kneels. nat punches misty when she finds out abt the transponder (and keeps the secret for 25 years) and in the wake of it? misty still fucking kneels. i feel insane.

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Shoutout to Vic Michealis for being the first person to ever score negative points on Game Changer. The only person to truly understand that the game is the players vs Sam and stick to that no matter the cost. The real winner, if you ask me.

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Anyway

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i cant believe sam reich created and funded a commit to the bit competition featuring the most known commit to the bit comedians in the dropout-sphere and then was surprised with how hard they all committed to the bit.

sam fr thank you for this masterpiece

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Art from the live show voting pages.

EDIT: The artist is Frank Liu, and you can see the amazing full size versions of these [ here ]

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absolutely obsessed with the fact while the girlies were fighting travis thought to himself "clearly the obvious answer is just to murder lottie" - and honestly, good for him

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Everyone's talking about Vic stealing Sam's house and wife, but i think we're forgetting that Vic also stole Sam's Gizmo, which he had since he was five years old. And not only that, he probably told his wife about this and was pretty upset, and she had to sit there knowing that she took it and gave it to Vic for a game changer episode. And I think that's worse than giving away the house.

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congrats to the wiskayok wildernesses av club on their recent success!💛💙🐝

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Ending so devastating I had to draw a happy ending for her

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imagine shauna hallucinating jackie on her one shoulder and mari on the other one… need her to have two bad bitches ringing in her ear all the time

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Nat spawning in the wilderness afterlife: Mari, Mari I'm so sorry I couldn't save you.

Mari, 25 years later and bitter as hell: no I don't care. Tell me Shauna gaywad Shipman is fucking miserable. Also, I'm gay now.

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"Selfishly, as much as I would’ve loved a counterpart to stay on the show forever, on the other side, I’m kind of happy I never had to share Mari. I got to keep her all to myself." — Alexa Barajas

MARI IBARRA Yellowjackets, 3x10 "Full Circle"