chris-handsom

*Due to your actions, Papyrus won’t play with you*

Like during his rotation it’s a little overwhelming, the kids are gross and loud and scared and he’s not the best at dealing with some of them at first but over time he gets his bearings and figures out they’re actually not that hard to deal with.

Ogilvie who keeps stickers in his pockets because he finds that the kids prefer it to verbal praise/comfort. Ogilvie who plays a lot of video games and can talk for hours to a particularly skittish patient and it calms them down. Ogilvie who doesn’t have the capacity to talk down to the children so they feel he respects them and open up to him better. Ogilvie who’s back starts to hurt a week into his rotation because he likes to kneel down to the patients level when he talks to them.

Ogilvie who learns through observation that the kids actually like it when he rattles on about niche and somewhat gross medical facts and so comforts a startled little girl by doing the whole “you wanna know something really gross?” Thing to great success.

Ogilvie who’s bluntness is appreciated, who’s somewhat unrefined people skills can be used on difficult parents. Ogilvie who quickly becomes attached to every patient that comes in and advocates for them the best he can.

“Oh! Doctor Whitaker, it’s been a while how are you?”

“I-…Ogilvie? What brings you here?”

“It’s Doctor Ogilvie now, I’m here for the Peds consult for your little girl.” He adjusts his ID badge, showing off the ‘DOCTOR’ under card on the clip fixed helpfully on the front pocket of his bright pink scrubs, there’s a glittery dinosaur sticker next to his unflattering picture.

Queue the whole ER, jaws on the floor as they watch from through the windows of central 4 as Doctor “asshole” Ogilvie kneels next to a quivering little girl, smiling at her warmly and offering a little sticker sheet of cartoon animals to her. Trinity is the other doctor on the case and Ogilvie is equally as concerned about the child’s home life to her amazement. He is the one that recommends a consult with Child services after reviewing the old bruises on her stomach and arms with a tone that sounds damn near distraught before she can. That throws everyone off even further.

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

It is kinda fascinating to me how a lot of fans on Tumblr are ironically doing exactly what we have seen Robby doing this entire show. (Not a dig or read btw just a observation)

The Pitt has antagonists but it doesn't have a *main* antagonist, well it does, but I'll get back to that. But since it spreads out the antagonists from the main character (Robby) to random patients, to even just a bad decision (Al-Hashimi and her goddamn AI) people are doing exactly what they are prepping for with season 3.

The main antagonist of the story is the Healthcare System, which may sound like a cop-out or obvious but let me elaborate. Its not just the system, it's what the system symbolizes mentally to the characters.

Almost *every single* struggle in this show can be directly pointed towards a lack of resources and people, and the build-up it causes. But, it's hard to fight a entire system structure. Some try (Al-Hashimi), some try and burnout, and some just burn (Robby).

It becomes such a mental mountain that it's just so tempting and easy and natural to turn towards humans as the problem. The breakdowns, yelling and detachment from each other are all desperate attempts to release those emotions because they can't direct them at the actual problem and get results.

Which is exactly what fans online are doing, they are desperate to grasp and point at a single character as a main antagonist and are right to do so because again, how the hell do you blame a system and then come up with a solution??? It doesn't have any progression you can feel, so we go around it or tackle what's right in front of us. Not to mention given the state of things around us it feels too real to want to grasp.

And then, the 3rd season is suspected to be about Medicare and we are starting to slowly see the big picture of what the Pitt is painting. (Whether on purpose or on accident)

Take for example Santos and Langdon’s conflict.

Trnity is well within her rights to be mad at Langdon, and clearly her anger towards him is something that’s continued over the course of the time skip as Garcia notes trinity is “talking about this Langdon shit again”. It’s apparent in this moment that to her, Langdon SHOULD be fired, because he stole medicine from the hospital, trinity is mad because she feels he doesn’t deserve to be here. Langdon publicly shamed her, harassed her in front of all the staff she’s just met as it was her FIRST DAY to make her seem untrustworthy because he knew she could blow the lid on him. He, as a senior resident holds not only seniority in the professional sense but also socially, he attempted to misuse the power he had over Santos to keep his addiction a secret. This alone is objectively reprehensible and places trinity as obviously justified.

However, Langdon is sober now, has been for ten months, and it’s clear he’s trying to make amends or start on a new leaf. While trinity is still goading him and trying to get him to fuck up in a way that could harm a seriously injured patient so that in a way she can feel vindicated in her distrust of his competence as a physician and by extent his role in the ED. Their roles have effectively swapped in a way as suddenly now Langdon is the one out of his depth, and trinity is using the power she has in regards to his past actions as a means to demonstrate her viewpoint of him.

It’s understandable, but immature in a way that makes the conflict holistically difficult to mark a clear moral superior as you can see both sides doing something sketchy, however you can’t easily mark an obvious, black and white argument.

From the beginning of the season it’s been increasingly apparent that this sabbatical is some form of abstract suicide attempt Robby doesn’t intend on coming back from. He’s started saying his goodbyes and getting things in order, matter of fact I think the only reason he even came in to work was to make sure he could say goodbye and leave the ER in a state he deemed acceptable when it came to his ‘temporary ’ replacement.

It’s all very planned out and organised, he’s picked a length of time to be gone that isn’t too suspicious while also being enough for people to become accustomed to his absence, he was supposed to have a friend come and check his bike while at the hospital, clearly as a way to placate Dana and Jack to show some veneer of safety around the sabbatical. He keeps mentioning the idea of his absence, keeps reminding everyone he’s going as a way of habituating everyone to the idea.

And of course, when someone attempts suicide like this, with such careful consideration and planning. The matter of his belongings has no doubt crossed his mind. His home is likely already payed off (fancy doctor salary and all that), so it’s not like he can just cut the lease, selling it would likely take too long in his mind aswell and would probably seem unappealing given he likely has some level of attachment to it. So what to do? Well, you give it away. Who to is the real question though.

Out of everyone in the cast, Whitaker is the only one that it would make sense for Robby to give it to, Jack will most definitely have his own place that he is already attached to, and he isn’t exactly close with anyone else. With Whitaker, he’s someone Robby knows has a difficult housing situation, someone who would accept his offer under the disguise of ‘house sitting’ because it’s Whitaker and he’s too nice to say no. He also stands to benefit the most from it as in Robby’s eyes he’s a struggling kid who can barely make rent (he clearly doesn’t know Whitaker was given his room rent free). So it’s settled, it has to be Whitaker. There’s also the narrative idea of handing off a piece of Robby for Whitaker to carry onwards, literally his last act as a mentor towards him will be providing a roof over his head, providing a safe space in the form of his old home in his wake. There is no one else it could’ve been.

Furthermore, the whole scene where Robby makes the offer feels practiced, like it was a conversation Robby had already mapped out and was just looking for the time to drop it, the ‘Amy talk’ simply provided the best opportunity for him to drop it and leave. A precursor to his final goodbye to his mentee.

HIS SUSPICION ABOUT AMY WAS HIM CONSIDERING HOW DENNIS WOULD SPEND HIS TIME IN ROBBY’S HOUSE!!! HE WANTED THE HOUSE TO BE FOR JUST WHITAKER AND NOT FOR SOMEONE WHO SANTIS EXPRESSED CONCERNS OF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF HIM.