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I’m right here, if you’d like to discuss our differing viewpoints on Lea’s actions in season two! However, I wouldn’t want to fight anyone; I know that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I wouldn’t ever openly bash someone on theirs. So sure, I would love to discuss the differences we took from that season...but given the facts that you didn’t actually tag me in the post, that this isn’t the first time I’ve heard of you vauging about other blogs in this fandom, and you tagged your post as ‘TGD discourse’ I think it’s safe to assume that you don’t actually want to talk about things. :)

My issue with Lea wasn’t the fact she was mad, it was the fact it was out of character, and it hurt me because I noticed that, and I did care about her character— that was the only thing I was mad about. If you have a problem with it that’s alright, I’d just prefer you keep my blog’s name off yours, especially given I haven’t posted in so long so I’m very clearly removed from the situation. So thank you very much! I’d really appreciate that and I’m sure other blogs would as well. I hope you have a wonderful day ♡

It’s a good thing thegooddoctorheadcanons don’t update anymore cuz then they and me would need to fight.

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I knew Shaun and Carly would get together, aw man, all those hints that were embedded throughout both seasons, all the buildup and elaboration to their relationship, the way they looked at each other in the hospital, the deep personal way they connected to one another, the way they-

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As much as I HATE what’s happening to Shaun, I got to say, this whole storyline is interesting and makes me like this show a bit better. The first half of this season was boring, not gonna lie. I didn’t like it. It felt like everyone was majorly out of character. I’m hoping next season is more like the last few episodes of this one has been. Is that bad? I mean, Shaun deserves better but I’m enjoying this storyline. It’s interesting.

You’re absolutely right, I agree. I feel like this entire season the show’s gotten lost and it’s stumbling around trying to figure out where it is but its tour guide left, now it’s getting dark, the map dropped in the river, it stepped on its compass, and it’s run into the same tree seven times.

It’s a sad storyline, and it’s one that, admittedly doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when you actually look at it. .....HOWEVER COMMA it IS a storyline. So we shall take it. I suppose.

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We’re Surgeons

Word Count: 3,674

Chapters: 1/1

Summary: She hadn't been there for him, lately. She wasn't going to leave him now. Fix of Season 2 Episode 17: Breakdown.

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Y’all don’t even need next episode, ya welcome

NEXT EPISODE IS EXACTLY THE PLOT OF “SHOULD HAVES” BY @thegooddoctorheadcanons I AM LOSING MY MIND

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I can’t believe david shore literally stole the plot of should haves from @sandfirekat…everyone stream the ORIGINAL story on ao3 #justice4gabby

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1x01 → 2x10

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She’s SHIT.

ME TOO SHAUN ME TOO

ask @thegooddoctorheadcanons how I go kart

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2018 year in review

Rules: answer the questions about 2018 and tag some people!

Tagged by: @merryshaire

Top 5 films you watched in 2018

Bad Match

A Quiet Place

Hereditary 

Ready Player One

Halloween

Top 5 TV shows in 2018

Deception

That one TV show that didn’t deserve to be cancelled (Deception)

90 Day Fiance, because those people are just idiots and make me feel good about my own intellect 

Take Two (Just kidding, I really just mean Deception)

Below Deck, because I’m a slut for petty drama

Top 5 songs of 2018

Two by Sleeping at Last

Anywhere by Passenger 

Shotgun by George Ezra

Dive by Coast Modern

Simple by Florida Georgia Line

Top 5 books you read in 2018

I

Only

Read

My 

Textbooks 

Five good/positive things that happened to you in 2018

I got a job as a patient care technician! 

Finished my first semester of nursing school with a 4.0!

I met @merryshaire, fell deeply in love, and have never been the same

I got to go to Cedar Point, something I’ve wanted to do for years! 

Saw Le Mis at the Fox with my best friend! 

tagging: @tequila-stat @ralseiralsei @murlendez and anyone else that wants to do it, I don’t know people c’: 

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‘Sup

Alright, so. I guess this post has been a long time coming, and I’ll try to keep it as succinct as I can. But with the constant messages in my inbox and the comments on my fics (Do No Harm in particular) I’m just gonna put this here.

From the moment The Good Doctor came out, I was in love with it. I loved its message, its story, its characters. And for a long time it was amazing. I found my inspiration to write again, you all seemed to like my work, people were even recognizing me and asking for me. The second half of season one, when it came back...it wasn’t as great, but it was okay still. I just figured I had to wait for it to get out of its dry spell.

But that dry spell’s still going on.

The Good Doctor's potential is being wasted. Because the writing is so bad. Not even from a personal, opinionated viewpoint, like “Oh, I don’t like how Jared had to leave, I miss him and the show’s not the same.” No, that’s not it. From the technical, fundamental viewpoint of writing, it’s bad. As I see it; you may not agree and that’s fine (I am not going to argue with anyone on this post). This is just me explaining myself and my absence from the fandom as of late.

The show...is not a show. It is episodes. Separate and disconnected, there is no flow from one to another, no overreaching plotlines (save for the one about Glassman’s cancer that is so often added more as an afterthought and somehow has little to do with Shaun) no motifs no lessons no building. You tune in for one episode (maybe the plot stretches to two if you’re lucky), you watch it, and then afterwards...that’s it. A plot/plot point wasn’t wrapped up or explained in that timeslot? Sucks, fill in the blanks yourself. (Ex: Claire’s ‘determination’ to bring Coyle to justice that was immediately dropped. Shaun leaving out tuna for the cat trying to draw it in, only to never see it again. Lim’s ticket nobody cared about in the first place; we didn’t even see where that out-of-place plot went. What happened to that lawyer guy? Andrew’s wife? She’s not important anymore, you don’t need to find out what happens even though we spent so long detailing the issue to you. Jared and the patient that liked him? What patient that liked him?)

We are expected as an audience just to...accept things in passing without question, which is not what we should have to do. Stories should be shown and explained. Not shoved in our face so quickly all we can do is accept it, or stories so vague they don’t answer any of our questions so we just stop asking. (Ex: Lea’s back from Hershey. We’ll tease you with explaining why she left and why it was such a big deal even though she was only gone for about a handful of episodes before we just brought her back suddenly, but that’s all you get. Kenny’s in jail. Yeah, he stole somethin’ or idk. Jessica’s gone. Don’t ask why, she’s not important. Heck, even Glassman being fired and Shaun being let off the hook and Andrews being made president...just glossed over. Told to us through narration mostly.)

It’s as if they don’t trust that they have enough time to properly build and structure a naturally-developing plot that makes sense, so they try to shoehorn it all into one compact episode and think we’ll still be as invested...which doesn’t work. (Ex: Melendez and Lim should have slept together more than just the once. They should have been sleeping together for some time, we should have seen them slowly round the corner into “Maybe it’s more than just sex” we should have gotten to actually associate and care about them as a couple, and then, episodes later, the quarantine should have happened, which would make the plotline so much more palpable and actually interesting...not to mention logical. Same with Tyler and Morgan. You cannot expect the audience to be attached to a person we met fifteen minutes ago and be sad when they die. Literally, we were smacked going into the finale with: “Oh yeah, by the way, these two couples are a thing, care about them.” ...No, I didn’t care. At all. I was bored. Because I didn’t even actually know that guy’s name until after he died, that was how sudden and odd his character was. There should have been build-up with that too. Even if it was just a couple flirting scenes over episodes!!! Like, it’s not hard!!!) Literally, if you told me the writers had no idea where they were going with the story, and they were writing blind and just seeing where it went episode by episode, I would believe you one hundred percent. Because it just seems unplanned. Worse than unplanned! I never know what’s going to happen in any of my fics when I start them, but I never actually show that...even I can do a better job of planning and connecting...and I don’t.

ALSO IMPORTANT: Not taking the time to build to those things specifically (couples that suddenly have to watch the other part of them die/be in danger and other situations like that) is one thing and one thing only: it is a cheap way to get the audience to be upset. It’s cheap. And that’s what the show is now. All its heart-string tugs, they’re too sudden or awkward, because the writers don’t want to show the growth and the layering to it, they just want you to be sad or ‘interested’ and that’s it.)

The characters we’ve grown to know and love (the ones that are still around...) are not the same. They are different people, and it’s sad to watch them act directly against the traits we’ve come associate with them. (Ex: Claire ‘apologizing’ to Melendez, and being proud that she is willingly making herself look like the one in the wrong just to save his ego. Claire would never do that. She is strong-willed and independent, and she has worked too hard to step down for anyone, especially a man. Glassman and Shaun told each other they loved each other at the end of season one. A moment that made us all scream, a moment that was actually built up to for once, a moment that we were waiting for, that was so important to both of them...and a moment that was immediately forgotten. Throughout season two, Shaun has been significantly detached from Glassman and his treatment for someone that was so distraught before. There have been a couple cute/supportive moments...but only a couple. For a large majority, they’ve ignored one another. Glassman giving up so easily, knowing that Shaun is trapped with a virus and not even calling anyone to ask how he is???? Nope. #NotMyGlassman. Lim yelling at Claire in season one for not supporting her as women in power that need to stick together and show one another respect, only to immediately snap and scream at the judge during her trial in season two, and stroking Melendez’s ego as well.)

Plotlines and conflicts. They are overly dramatic and don’t make sense when you step back and look at them, not to mention there are so many infuriating double standards just to make an issue. (Ex: It’s such an issue Shaun cannot express empathy, but when Park talks down to a patient for having weight loss surgery and outs him to his husband, and when Morgan is...Morgan 24/7, there’s no issue at all. Obviously Shaun is the only one in the wrong. Just like he was the only one in the wrong for Lea demanding forgiveness and calling him a jackass, even though she’s never been shown to be that high-strung especially to Shaun. He’s wrong there, too, nobody else. For reasons entirely unrelated to what you’re thinking about, yessir. These are direct plotlines just colliding with each other because the writers cannot keep track of them.)

Look...there are just so many more things I could go on to say. But this post is getting too long. I don’t want to leave the fandom altogether; some part of me still hopes the writing will pull through and the show will get back to the way it was. So I’ll keep watching and waiting for that. But for now, that is why I can’t bring myself to write headcanons or fics or anything like that, and why it just pains me when people ask me to. The show isn’t as investing, as emotional, as meaningful. It’s degraded, and I can’t be happy with it right now. Or write for it. 

There are other shows that had better writing, had better truer-to-themselves characters, kept the feeling it had from the pilot straight to its final episode, had overreaching/steady/connecting plotlines, was detailed to the very core, kept in mind everything it stood for, but have been unfairly forgotten, and I miss. And I miss The Good Doctor too, but not for the same reason. I miss The Good Doctor because ever since last winter finale, it’s gone downhill and it’s still going downhill. And it kind of pains me to see the difference between those.

Not gonna delete this blog, I’ll still be here the way I have been popping in every so often...but just for the people that ask where I am/comment on DNH/message me and ask why I’m not writing. This is why. Just made a post for them. 

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are you going to finish do no harm? itsso good that it made me really emotional that i cried lol. keep up to good work you are very talented

I am! It’s such a popular fic, so there’s so much pressure to give it a good send-off, and that’s why it’s taking so much longer than normal. I know it’s been far too long; I apologize. But I would rather wait and do it right than cram out something just because people want it, you know? With the show the way it is right now and the fandom the way it is right now, there’s kind of been a wall I can’t quite get around. 

I’m not going to forget about it! The only reason there’s been such a long gap is because I want to do it right, so. A rushed and uninspired chapter would not be nearly enough; not for me, and especially not for you guys

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Andrews making himself chief of surgery was not only entirely (and unfortunately) predictable, but it was also TGD equivalent of Trump declaring that for this Thanksgiving he was grateful for himself

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The Good Doctor Season 2 Episode 9: Mean Girls

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Park: You really don’t have any empathy for Billy.

Also Park: Ayo, fuk this patient for having weight loss surgery and being scared their husband is gonna leave them if he found out and specifically asked us not to tell him, imma tell ‘im.

Morgan: Empathy is very important as a doctor.

Also Morgan: Stfu about ur feelings. Read a book, go watch a star war.

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I mean, it’s been time, but go off I guess.

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Also, none of you care, but how B O L D of ABC to even D A R E use the name Kay again after they canceled Deception, even if it’s just a nickname.

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“Shaun, your beloved mentor and the person who practically raised you is dying of brain cancer.”

Shaun: “...okay.”

“Shaun, the pet fish you’ve had for two days just died.”

Shaun: