I love Dr Robby so much and I understand that some people don’t but I am confused as to how so many people are confused by his character.
The entire first season was about him having to get over the grief on his mentors death in the most horrific global disaster of this day and age, clearly he had plans to still be off of work and to go to a music festival with his step son. Then he gives his ticket to his step son’s girlfriend and now he has to work in the place that mentor died on, the same day a couple years later. The first time he’s done this. He’s having a rough day and like literally within the first 5 minutes it says he’s having an off day.
Then his step sons girlfriend dies, he has to deal with multiple horrible deaths and cases, play social worker for a concerned mother, he finds out his golden boy is using drugs in his ER and he had zero clue about it, and I love all of the doctors but he has to keep a constant eye on all of them all the time because you have the ones that are so eager to go through patients so fast they can miss stuff or the ones that take an hour to leave a patients room. He has a breakdown, it’s too much for that day.
I’m glad some people can’t understand grief but having no empathy will get you nowhere. It does funny things to you, years and years later when you have no clue why it did that.
Cut to season two, that breakdown from season one appeared to be the downfall. He’s stuck in his own head and he only has one answer to it all, and if you can’t tell what that answer is, then you’re genuinely too naive to be watching this show.
The ENTIRE season two was about Dr Robby’s declining mental heath and his plot to end it. He saw a mirror image of himself in Mohan, yes, but he also saw his ER doctor be distracted all day by her phone and her own worries (not that Mohan is the issue, idk if you know this but life is complex and everyday you come across issues)
He had to welcome back his mentee that called him a nut case and blamed his drug use on him, he knows he’s going to be dead soon, and he’s terrified by what he’s leaving behind. Point blank.
His entire life is in that hospital and he’s scared of what it’ll become when he’s gone, and personally I don’t even think that’s an ego thing. That’s a “I’m going to be gone forever I hope they can pull this off and be proud of themselves and push themselves to always be better” type thing.
His friend comes in and has a fatal diagnosis pretty much, his other friend is shot in the line of a duty he doesn’t have anymore.
His systems go down, his nurse is arrested, and he loses a good amount of staff bc of the ice stuff.
Then he finds out his replacement is having seizures. I don’t know why this is a super controversial take but if I go to the ER, I would prefer to not have my doctor have seizures while seeing me. I understand all sides of it, including being Al-Hashimi and just wanting to do her job that she enjoys, and I see the patients that might suffer from her diagnosis. Her newly active one at that.
I love everyone in the pitt, (Javadi actually kinda ticked me off at that last part but whatever) and they are so genuine.
I don’t see Dr Robby as an asshole, I see him as a struggling guy. I know that will make a lot of people mad, but genuinely about everything he yelled about was pretty valid for the most part. He just didn’t do it correctly most of the time.
My thought process is that if you genuinely hate Dr Robby, then you need to open up your black and white thinking.
And also my immediate thought is that you’ve NEVER had a job in your life. And also you would be the very last person I would turn to in a mental health crisis. The stuff people are saying about Dr Robby, is actually concerning. I’m concerned about your empathy and I’m concerned that the people around you aren’t safe to talk to you about their struggles.
This show was made because the doctors now are the ones who watched ER growing up, and they sent Noah wyle letters during Covid because they were struggling so badly, and Noah Wyle decided to make a love letter to some of those doctors and nurses, an accurate and depressing love letter but still.
The entirety of this show was the message of giving empathy to your fellow wo(man) and you are all severely lacking in that, I sincerely hope you don’t get into health care.
I’m tired, I just got so worked up about like 6 posts in a row about how people didn’t understand Dr Robby and blamed it on bad writing. Yes the biggest show in this time is the biggest show bc of bad writing. That makes total sense.
