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#he's so real for this though Josh Hartnett and Kid Cudi starring in TRAP (2024) Dir. M. Night Shyamalan

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

especially the point about how they've rewritten her character this season and diluted her main traits (ex. giving her teaching moments and attention to biases to mckay and others)

this comment about the parallel to robby and langdon as well

If you have opinions regarding Supriya/Samira’s departure from the show, please consider emailing/writing a letter to the creative team behind The Pitt to express your concerns. I’ve provided info on where to send below. Please keep a few suggestions in mind though before sending:

DO NOT send hate mail. I promise it will have the opposite effect you want it to. You can get your point across while still being respectful.

Keep it short and specific. No longer than a few paragraphs or 1 page in length.

Send both a physical letter and email to increase the odds of it being seen. Don’t expect the creative team to necessarily read it word for word, but do know that enough feedback on a specific topic will likely be communicated to them.

Say thank you. However you might be feeling, this team did introduce us to this character we care so deeply about. Offer your thanks and express how much you would love to see their return one day. Kill ‘em with kindness.

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Address it to: “The Pitt: Attn: R. Scott Gemmill/John Wells Productions”

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On the drop down menu, select “Programming Feedback” and under “Comments” consider giving it a title such as “The Pitt: Samira Mohan’s Exit” or something to that effect.

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We genuinely need all the support we can get, so please consider sending something, no matter how small or insignificant you might think it is. We all have a voice; let’s make ours heard.

So they cut a character-building scene at the end where Al-Hashimi calls her ex asking him to watch their son as she barely holds herself together, basically showing how she is collapsing at the possibility of losing everything she has sacrificed to be where she is because of Robby's dislike. Yes, I think we still can get that sense in seeing her crying alone and if the show really was tight on time then it could be somewhat excused, but 1. it takes away from what could have been a more fleshed out character and "adds realism" bc it points at her life beyond the pitt and 2. this show has been holding onto unnecessary scenes while cutting the ones that actually develop its characters.

Love Whitaker, but were the whereabouts of his ID really more deserving of screen time than Al-Hashimi’s emotional unraveling? Or Mohan's deleted breakdown after she runs out? (Beyond that, he didn’t really have an arc this season and mostly existed to explain things and be Robby Jr.. He had so much potential. Look at any fic writer! They create so many amazing prospective arcs for him! It felt like his homelessness was a joke this season and I really thought they would explore more of if he worked with the street team.). Isa has even mentioned that the writers stripped nuance from Santos and Langdon’s argument, and that she and Patrick had to reintroduce that depth themselves. I know actors contribute heavily to their characters, naturally, but it feels like they are being forced to compensate and give empathy to what these characters represent, being made of make up for what the writers had not even bothered to commit to. It gives the impression that the writing isn’t as invested in these characters as it should be, especially when compared to how much richer and more layered they could have been.

A lot of meaningful scenes were cut or were never even considered/written, yet we’ve sat through several remixes of Wyle and LaNasa’s emmy bait arguments/convos. That time could have been used to develop the ensemble cast, which would have provided the Pitt a richer, more balanced story (a la Marcus, Syd, and Richie focused plots/episodes on the Bear).

I saw a comment somewhere saying, maybe jokingly, that Noah doesn’t want anyone else to have those big emotional moments. While I'm not going to dump all blame on him, he does have a large role in a decisions made in this show. More broadly, though, it says a lot about the executives that so many non-Wyle character-driven scenes are being cut in the first place.

I recall Noah talking about how this would be a show where ego would need to kicked out the door as they would be part of an ensemble. So far, that philosophy has not been held true. (Or maybe your ego can be an exception if you're Noah Wyle)

As it stands, it feels like the show bragged about for its diversity and bringing in new faces is prioritising white, veteran performances in a way that’s hard to justify and comes across as, at best, narrow and, at worst, self-serving. (These newer actors could have been given career defining scenes but no!) This is especially uncomfortable given past interviews where Noah has talked about feeling jealous of his ER co-stars, which adds another layer to how these decisions come across. ("I hated [co-star Goran Visnjic] because I always felt like I was losing a scene to him.")

If you, like me, need an avenue to channel your feelings toward Samira’s exit in a productive way, please read my letter and consider writing one yourself. One single letter will likely make little to no impact, but the more people who speak up, the likelier we are of being heard.

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because according to noah wyle, robby's treatment of samira was just "tough love, because he thinks so highly of her." she's his reflection, but only temporarily. robby is the one whose perspective gets interrogated & fleshed-out & given meaning, while samira is written off the show at her lowest point, and robby absolved of that responsibility by an audience that's eager to say that clearly mohan just couldn't cut it in the ER. does it matter that robby saw himself in samira if she's shuffled off in favor of whitaker or langdon, people that robby can think of as his reflection without doing any sort of interrogation of what that means?

tv fans being upset with the showrunners and writers of their favorite series is not a new concept. its happened as long as television has existed. it’s not exclusive to the pitt, and it’s not exclusive to young women, but the way that the tide in this case has so quickly turned to “you people are hysterical and you don’t get how tv works” i do think has to do with the fact that so many of the people expressing their dissatisfaction about this decision are women in their twenties and thirties. we must inherently be acting from an irrational place!! it must be about samira’s proximity to fans’ favorite white man on the show!! we just don’t get that it’s not bad, actually, because her place on the show is being filled with another queer woman of color!!! we’re so blinded by our desire to self-insert that we can’t appreciate how many woc are still on the show!!!!

i think there are people that have written thoughtfully about how ayesha harris’ promotion to series regular has been overshadowed in a really unfortunate way by supriya’s departure, and i do think the fact that parker ellis is likely a canonical lesbian & samira is likely not (& is involved in a fan-favorite heterosexual ship) is an interesting factor to consider in people’s varying degrees of attachment to both characters. but the fact of the matter is that (intentional or not on hbo max’s part), these announcements arrived in a way that implied a message of “don’t worry, we’re not racist!” that i don’t blame fans for taking in bad faith. the characters are not equivalent; we as the audience have different relationships to them. right now ellis is a character that we haven’t had a ton of substantial time with, and we don’t know well. samira is. it makes sense that there’s a more intense relationship there. is it worth integrating whether some of that is tied to mohabbot as a ship? yes. but to say that’s all it is is, to me, quite frankly, the same flavor of misogyny that implies women can’t understand dramatic storylines without the inclusion of romance. young women related to samira in ways that had nothing to do with whatever romantic dynamics they were or were not developing for her in the show. the character is more than her relationship to abbot, and fan’s love for her is more than that as well.

i’m also disturbed by how quickly the online conversation shifted from “supriya’s leaving, that’s upsetting, that sucks, why is this happening?” to “look at these insane, unhinged fans in noah wyle’s comment section!!! on second thought, it’s good she’s gone!” the vast majority of people expressing anger about supriya being written off the show were not taking our frustrations to noah wyle’s instagram to leave death threats. acting like that was the average fan’s baseline response to this news is, again, lumping a very real frustration about the pitt’s pattern of dismissing women of color into a relatively fringe & extremely shitty response. i can only speak for myself, but i’m aware that noah wyle is not the sole creative force behind this show. there are several other executive producers and a whole team of writers. i think targeting frustration at noah alone is misguided & unfair, and those frustrations taking the form of harassment or spreading misinformation is helping absolutely no one, including supriya. but i don’t think that frustration is in and of itself wrong or irrational or representative of some unique brand of never-before-seen fandom psychosis.

it’s troubling to me that people have been so eager to do hbo’s work for them in going a) “well look! they added another woman of color! you can’t be mad!” without considering that woc are not interchangeable, and people can be upset over losing supriya specifically because of the character they played, not just because of their race or gender, or b) “all these samira stans clearly don’t know how to watch tv, her whole storyline this season has been about her leaving!” when her entire storyline this season has actually been about her scrambling to find a way to stay in pittsburgh (side note: i think a huge issue is that people don’t understand what a fellowship is, and that samira isn’t deciding to leave emergency medicine for geriatrics or whatever she chooses but rather specialize further in EM, and i’m going to blame the show for not making that clearer), or c) “it’s just realistic for her to leave! it’s just realistic!! people don’t make it!! she’s not suited for the emergency department!” when the show is perfectly happy to bend reality for other characters to stay (langdon, whitaker) or return (dana) when in real life they might not, and when “she’s wrong for EM” has quite frankly never been the story that the show has been telling.

not to be petty, but all of the above reasoning is making me feel like the people making those arguments are the ones that are bad at watching tv! to be honest, i watch tv & movies professionally. i know that i’m good at it, and perfectly capable of character analysis. despite all of that (or maybe because of it!) i’m upset about supriya’s departure. not because she’s the whole show to me, or because i don’t understand that robby is the lead, or because i don’t care about other characters, but because i do, and i think the pitt is a weaker show without samira as a character. and i’m a woman who related to & felt represented by her. multiple things can be true.