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Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

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i saw someone annoyed at the implication that s2 of the pitt would continue to focus on the characters’ lives, as if that would automatically make it a drama-fuelled primetime series and negate the focus on medical accuracy.

and what really pissed me off is the insinuation that the pitt isn’t already character-driven.

r. scott gemmill said that they plotted the first season off of the character arcs they wanted to explore and then got medical consults on what specific procedures would allow for that growth.

the pitt is a character study!! it is an examination of the lives of healthcare workers over a 15-hour period. the point is to show them as humans first, then to make the medicine as accurate as possible to support that.

focusing on what makes these people human (their relationships, goals, flaws, feelings) does not equal “drama.” it’s a show of good writing. it means that the writers understand good television and how to make their characters real people that audiences want to relate to.

i saw this with the last season of the bear, too. people for some reason have it in their heads that character studies and shows that prioritize character-driven plots are somehow less than. and it pisses me off!!! no!!! you can understand a lot about the world by looking at the people who live in it.

gah!! i need to get off the internet!! i sound like an insufferable film student!! (but i love it, so…)

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she is so real

— Georgia O'Keeffe, from a letter to Russel Vernon Hunter, from Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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The Pitt Interview: Taylor Dearden on Mel & Langdon

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playing cyberpunk 2077 is so fun until i have to talk to panam who, for some reason, is the most annoying woman to ever exist.

no hate if you love her or whatever but I Cannot Stand Her.

i get they were going for the rebellious bad bitch who gets shit done her way, but she just comes off very immature and selfish to me. she claims that she acts in the best interest of the aldecaldos but she continually makes decisions without considering how the group will be affected by them.

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huge for me

Langdon: Guess what I got her for our anniversary, Robby.

Robby: I don’t know, maybe some jewelry, or—

Langdon: That’s right, a clarinet!

Robby:

Langdon: Doesn’t my baby look like she would go stupid on a woodwind?

Mel: Guilty!

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Patrick Ball talks about the scene with Langdon begging Dana for help by having her vouch for him and about the scenes with Robby in the last episode and the threat of what he calls mutually assured destruction between them.

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In Canaan House, straight up "jorking it". and by "it", haha well. let's justr say. My sword

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feeling very normal about pball’s instagram rn

need that

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"sorry. i did a fellowship in cynicism."

bro shut up! he's so annoying.

NEED THAT BAD

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him saying that he and noah toss verses from shakespeare at each other on set is simultaneously the most annoying and sexy thing i've heard.

god i hate (love) theatre boys.

this is what happens when you ask Patrick Ball for one of his favorite Hamlet lines.

yes we're all currently patients in The Pitt for the time being but I want it noted that I'm equally living in Patrick's Hamlet era.

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Patrick Ball talking about how often with addiction stories in the media you only ever see a "few types of stories" and their usually told through the lens of external suffering. Is so on point. We don't see that many stories about high functioning addicts, who's struggle is internal. Who for the most part, to the rest of the world present as fine. Also it doesn't hurt that he's white, male, and likely at least middle class. You don't expect someone like him, to be an addict, but the reality is anyone can be become an addict at any point. There is not one way to be, or look like an addict.

I think what I'd like to see in s2, with how Patrick talked about seeing someone in early recovery. Is them not sugar coating how hard it is, but also them not falling into the tried and tested media trap of them feeling like a character has to go through a "certain amount of suffering externally" before they can be forgiven. The character is already suffering, and yes they have to make amends to the people they've hurt, and yes people have a right not to forgive them if they don't wish to. But I hate it when you can tell their putting a character they perceive as "morally bad" through basically trauma porn before the character can be redeemed.

And I know some people may say I'm just rooting for the "attractive male character" but my father was a high functioning addict, so I come at it from having experienced this first hand and wanting to see an accurate nuanced portrayal that can change the way we discuss addiction.

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she is the people’s princess!!!

the way mel has scenes with a dog, two babies, and a small child and she still outcutes... no creature on earth cuter than her... I fear she is too powerful...

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the thing about langdon is that i understand him. and that's what makes the portrayal of his addiction so raw and scary and new. this is a guy who needs to run a mile per minute: for his job, for his family, for himself. so, when an injury stops that from happening, maybe leaving him with chronic pain that requires indefinite management, it's understandable that he would try anything to make it stop.

and maybe the running and ice baths and adrenaline-seeking were already ways for him to cope with the pressures put upon him; the expectations to be a good student, doctor, husband, and father during an unprecedented pandemic were probably crushing him.

and when you take away the ability to have healthy coping mechanisms, the unhealthy ones creep their way in.

the thing that's scary about langdon is that i can see how i could've been like him. as a former competitive dancer who got overlapping severe injuries that caused me to quit something that i thought would be my career, i'm still dealing with the ramifications. i am living with chronic pain, it interferes with my acting, with my life. there was a time where i would've done anything to have it stop. and thankfully it didn't get to the point of substance use, but there was a very real risk. and there still is.

it's so refreshing to see an addict portrayed in a way that doesn't condone his actions, but treats him with empathy. it's a disease, there are so many things that may cause someone to go down that path. and it's obvious in the way patrick speaks about it that it's important to him to approach everything with empathy first and foremost.

basically i just have so much love for langdon as a character, and for patrick in his portrayal of him. and i cannot wait to see him in early recovery in s2, and to see him navigate everything that comes with it!

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i love him he’s so annoying

frank langdon + text posts

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Happy Pride 🫡 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

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if they aren’t going to make kingdon a thing (which is probably most likely and i wouldn’t care either way because fandom is lovely) i just want to know what that mel/langdon and robby/collins parallel was about in episode 1.

the editing of mel and langdon criss-crossing each other to go treat the weed gummy kid and robby watching them followed by a glance over at collins is WILD. that is intentional storytelling. that is supposed to suggest that robby watching mel and langdon made him think about him and collins.

i would give so much money to know what the thought process there was. I NEED TO KNOW THE MOTIVATION BEHIND THE EDITING.

because from a reader response standpoint, that is a gap that the viewer fills in as a parallel between the two relationships.