Many The Pitt Fans Are Proving That Yes, It's Possible To Be Bad At Watching A TV Show

Robbie keeps talking about his motorbike because he's The Ghost Rider and he's going to get on his motorbike at the end of the show and say "I'm The Ghost Rider, baby" and drive off

Woah, flashbacks to r/WANDAVISION back in 2021.

You mean Ralph Bohner?

That was truly the best of times.

That’s only for the secret extra episode that they didnt tell anybody about 

I’m so glad this lives on

That’s the funniest thing about the Pitt to me as a casual viewer, is the show seems to have a rule about sticking to realism over some contrived TV plot which is what separates it from any other typical prime time show. The Pitt grounds itself off of realism instead of falling prey to easy TV tropes. There was some episode about a guy with a gun and an active shooter and nothing really happened around that and at first I was disappointed but then was like “oh that’s like how it would just actually be.” And not what would only happen on television.

I think I saw a tweet that the Pitt has acquired a fambase as rabid and as large as if it were a vampire romance show. But it's a medical drama show. I think a lot of this can be attributed to fandom becoming more mainstream.

Heated Rivalry fan girls made me remember why we don’t allow bachelorette parties at the gay bar.

It was always funny seeing the rick and morty fans be so wrong in their predictions for upcoming episodes and seasons

Yeah my Listnook feed is full of things proving this. I’ve had to unsubscribe from so many TV subs to avoid the frustrating posts.

I haven't seen The Pitt yet. But I have for sure noticed similar behaviour in other recent shows. 'Why is this major character being such an a****** for no reason, it is clearly bad writing!!!' No that character is just an arsehole.. because some people are arseholes.

The only time that didn't make sense was when he had a breakdown during the mass casualty event and some characters acted like it was some big character flaw. Huh? Let the guy have a moment.

Unfortunately you have people who do the same in real life, I have seen it enough where people act like someone who just happens to be from insert any place,, is taken as a representative of insert place. As if any place or group is some monolith, who thinks exactly the same

Haven't ever seen Euphoria, but going into The Bear sub is a hazard to your mental health.

I liked Arcane fine but I never wanna see anything related to it on any online feed ever again

Oh man it’s crazy how media illiterate a large portion of the severance fanbase is. I saw a completely unironic post on their sub recently suggesting that the show might be an extended metaphor for working in a corporate office. As if that was a huge insightful “Easter egg” and not the literal point of the show. Cinematic universes and Easter egg breakdown videos have really done a number on viewers.

Please tell me that Baby Jane Doe is taking formula well, at least.

He shouldn’t have tried stealing her lollipop

That’s 110% accurate

So there is going to be an insufferable and obnoxious campaign to make to make two characters fall in love despite it be a show-ruiningly bad idea?

My first HBO show from people who only watch Netflix.

The theories the sub for this show has make me feel like I’ve missed episodes. They’re so insanely far fetched but it just seems like everyone’s on board?

Imagine going to a show's sub to discuss the themes and you see paragraphs about sexism and racism and how if you like/dislike certain characters, that's because you have biases that you need to come to terms with i.e. if you like/dislike certain characters or certain combinations of characters, you are a bad person and should be ashamed of yourself. Never seen anything like it in a fandom of a series that I consider to be "serious".

Social media really has made it difficult for people to just enjoy stuff

Yes that subset of people do that for every possible show, all I ask is that the show writers never listen to those people lol

I saw someone on the sublistnook saying that the show will have no "poc representation" with Mohan possibly departing at the end of this season, like, really dude?

I remember when Succession was airing and there were way too many posts defending Shiv Roy as the only moral person in the show and any criticism of her was sexist. The same Shiv who coerced a sexual assault survivor into not testifying and told her husband on their wedding night that she wanted an open marriage exclusively for herself.

I remember when the first season was airing, I posted a comment in the show’s sublistnook about how I appreciated how the show doesn’t spend a whole lot of time on drama and personal stuff outside of the ER, and how the general focus was more on the job than anything; and I got absolutely REAMED by that sublistnook, with some people just outright insulting me saying how I’m just a blind bigot who’s ignoring all the character stories. That sublistnook is a tumblr-injected shithole

They also tend to complain that any male character aside from Whitaker is either an awful human being, sexist or a misogynist. I love taking part in the live discussion threads over at the sublistnook but otherwise it’s become super toxic outside of those.

especially people thirsty for doctors robby and abbott

I go to that sublistnook often and it's actually shocking how obnoxious some of the discussions there are. Everyone who works on the show has said the show is a love letter to medical staff with an emphasis on realism where possible through and through. The focus is the *medicine*, not the people practising it. The people have their moments, but watch an episode of the Pitt and tell me how many conversations happen in the episode that aren't to do with a particular patient that's been brought in. I reckon you could count them on one hand. The showrunners (including Noah Wyle) have said the thesis of the show is to give a voice to the medical staff who have to deal with the American healthcare system in the modern era. It's not about badass doctors being cool or s***, it's about competent workers doing their jobs and you see one day per season. There are countless incredible stories about how medical personnel in the real world have literally performed miracles with the goal being to save lives; the show is inspired by their stories and wants to give them their roses. Watch any interview regarding the MCI in season 1 and they talk about how medical personnel actually navigated this when a shooting occurred in Las Vegas, right down to the coloured slap bands. So naturally when you go to that sublistnook and one of the top posts about the ending of season 2 is someone's theory about how Whitaker and Santos actually love each other, you're just left with a feeling that some/many of the users there are completely missing the forest for the trees. But at the same time, I don't want to yuck anyone's yum. If they're enjoying the show their own way and not hurting anyone, more power to them. You can still have great discussions with people there and it's cool to see actual ER nurses and doctors chime in to help people understand.

Pluribus sub is entirely off the rails

This may make me sound like an absolute idiot but I watched severance season 1 and just thought it was a show to show the absurdity of high level work, and the issues found with interdepartmental communication, rather than a show with twists and a real story. Then I went on Listnook and was kind of shocked to see all the fans that had caught on to the obvious which I had missed lol.

White Lotus is at least a mystery show. So some amount of wild speculation is to be expected.

Yeah it feels like "lonely men are dangerous and bad" is a pretty topical subject in modern society, but it's always way overblown. Like the incel kid in Season 1 of The Pitt didn't actually do anything aside from "think bad thoughts" (and yes, he wrote a list, but didn't actually act on it), he wasn't even the shooter at Pittfest.

I think Robby’s chastising of Mohan’s panic attack was a little hypocritical given his meltdown last season, but I just took that as a person doing what people do: being hypocritical. They’ve been laying the idea that she’s not a star pupil since season 1 when she was told to speed up, and now they’re setting it up for her just not cutting it and deciding to change career track. Which is just something that real doctors do!

So I’ve only just started season 2, so this is fresh in my mind, but the first conversation Dr Mohan has on s2 is with McKay complaining about how she’s agreed to move to another hospital nearer her mother next year. So her leaving at the end of s2 seems to have been stated right at the very start (assuming the next season also has a time jump between - which would make sense for a show like this)

I remember 15 years ago, online comments in some places were incredible and really helped foster a community around a show and added to many people’s (mine included) enjoyment. Like all things, the rise of social media killed it by bringing in way too much toxicity and tribalism

Best way to ruin any show is to read a sublistnook for it. There are some that remain positive but damn some just are hate incubators.

Goes for almost every piece of media at all I find

Yeah I don’t need to speculate on it with randoms. I enjoy the hospital show because it reminds me of my old job

That’s every TV show sub

or are we back on tech?

Besides Riker, what was so unrealistic about the TNG crew being in the same spots. They were on the flagship of the Federation, meaning they were at the pinnacle of their professions. Data wasn't really going anywhere off of the Enterprise, because outside of there, he was still seen as a toaster. Crusher did a year at Starfleet Medical, then came back. She was a Doctor first, so she was where she wanted to be. Troi was a counselor, so same as Crusher. However, she did get a promotion and became a commander. Geordi had already been promoted twice, from Lt. JG flying the ship to Lieutenant Chief Engineer to Lt. Commander Chief Engineer. Worf had also been promoted already, from JG miscellaneous bridge officer to Lieutenant head of security. And all of them seemed fairly happy in their jobs, and in the caee of Worf and Geordi, were putting in years on a prestigious ship being heads of their departments and learning their jobs. The only one who, rationally, should've been out of there was Riker. But still, putting in time as second banana on THE ship of the fleet was probably worth more than being Captain of the USS Fuckwit out in the a****** of the galaxy mapping gaseous anomalies. Oh, and I didn't address Picard. Picard was damaged goods going into TNG, and he was extremely damaged goods after Wolf 359. He was probably lucky to retain command of the Enterprise after that. ...sorry. I felt nerdy today.

I've noticed that too! It's great. I also really love the level of nuance they give a lot of characters- I started season 2 really despising Al-Hashimi and her AI schtick, but since then her level of compassion juxtaposed with Robby's villain arcs have given me a lot of pause to reflect and reassess each character's actions and intentions.