the best fanfic is the one the author had fun writing actually.
the second best is the one the author used to work through some issues.
it's crazy to me that over the next few weeks we'll go from this version of Noah Wyle
to this one
it's just like... this man is such a great actor i don't know what to say. people who are falling in love with Noah as Doctor Robby are going to be in for the biggest shock of their lives when they watch Leverage Redemption
if this gets 100,000 notes then i, the worlds greatest space agency will personally shoot donald trump into the sun
200,000 notes to also shoot the republican party leaders who don’t want to fund science into the sun
i am asking once again to help me get donald trump to the sun
Every now and then, a show comes along that changes the game for the genre it is a part of. The latest series to shake things up is The Pitt. It has garnered the attention of audiences worldwide for the thrilling and tension filled format.
We arrive at work at 7 am with Dr. Michael Robinavitch, who is the ER attending Physician at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital. It is established right from moment one that this is no ordinary medical drama. We are spending the day with Dr. Robby (how he addresses himself with staff and patients) hour by hour.
As the show progresses, we get real-world incidents that will test the boundaries of the doctors who are working alongside Robby. Both professionally and ethically, these doctors are faced with complex choices that are true to life and very emotional.
Noah Wyle takes on the lead role here and he nails it. Right from the opening scene he establishes Robby as a flawed but caring individual. He takes time to remind the doctors that when a patient is lost, they should take a moment of silence. In the early going, Wyle presents Robby as unwavering, but over time, we get to see the cracks in his own foundation, and his past is brought into the mix.
We see the toll a life of this nature has the private and professional lives of each of these doctors. We learn their most intimate of secrets down to the final moments of the season. That's why The Pitt is so hard hitting. It never quite settles on one emotional moment to hit home. It is a quick and unrelenting barrage of emotional cases and interpersonal reflection. We see these doctors thinking, processing, and applying first-hand medical knowledge in the closest thing we could get to real time. We watch as the pressure mounts for them throughout the day.
As the season drew to a close were shown a mass casualty event which had some of the most emotional scenes a medical drama has ever showcased. It was the breaking point for Robby, and it completely changed the scope of how a story like this can lay out mental health for audiences. We get to see that even the people society leans on for guidance and help also have their breaking points.
Every show that has ever come in and changed the landscape of television did so by generating conversation. They did so by creating hard-hitting stories that made you laugh and cry. Stories that made you mad for the characters made you understand more about the characters. What all of these shows like The Pitt have in common is a new bar is set once they arrive. Without a doubt, The Pitt stands among the greatest medical dramas we have ever had. The most amazing part is that most shows have to earn that distinction over a lengthy run. The Pitt did it after just one season.
everyone make sure to set out cheese & crackers for neil tonight <3
[ID: a photo of Neil, a rat, sitting in front of a toy xylophone. It's captioned "Neil banging out the tunes, April 13, 2006." End ID.]
Just had a thought that is gonna linger and fuck me up:
We know that Jack Abbott is a widower from the recent news from the prod staff.
What if he lost his wife/husband to Covid around the same time that Robby lost Adamson? What if he blames himself just like Robby does - maybe for bringing the virus home from his work at the hospital?
These men are just being painted as such parallels, different elements of the same trauma and different ways of handling it and perceiving it, so I think it would be another parallel that would make sense.
Okay so as a PT looking back on Jack abbot’s gait on the Pitt. Shawn Hatosy did his WORK for this job. He’s got a weight shift more to his organic/actual leg when walking from the FIRST EPISODE. Even more of a limp/trendelenburg gait in the last episode when he’s leaving the last patients room due to standing and walking on the prosthetic for the whole shift. Big props to these actors/writers/everything for even putting in these little details even just with how he walks
THE PITT: SEASON 1 • HOUR BY HOUR
