I just. I feel like you can't have tunnel vision in watching this show. if you put robby in the vacuum of his relationship with samira, and only that, he seems like a worse person than he is. zoom out.
out of the med students, who did he like the most this season? it's pretty obvious the ranking was 1. victoria 2. joy 3. ogilvie. do the nurses feel comfortable around him? absolutely, he has a great last scene with donnie where he's understanding and sent him home to take care of his wife and kid, dana is one of his best friends and they make each other laugh no matter how much they fight, princess and perlah joke about him and with him and appear very comfortable with him.
he checks in on mel, throughout the season, he tries to support her. he pushes trinity to see the trauma counselor twice, advocates for her to baran, and they clearly are very comfortable around each other, joking around. he clearly cares about victoria, and very much believes in her, giving her an opportunity to do a cool procedure in front of her mom, urging her to not pass another opportunity up with the brain surgery stuff, fixing things after he got onto her. and while he got onto her, she was very comfortable standing up and talking back, which is notable.
in s1, he has a couple rocky moments with Heather, but overall, their relationship is great. they constantly check in on each other, asking if they're okay. he took over the abortion case for her when she raised concerns. he sent her home early when he found out about her miscarriage, urged her to rest, comforts her. there's trust there.
he listened to trinity over langdon, believes her and takes action, more than anybody else did that day. he praises her, and already likes her, again, more than anybody else did that day, where samira, frank, and even heather were all riding her. he never did that.
even the storyline with cassie gets overinflated, and you can see him trying to listen to her. she tells him that Theresa needs therapy, and he's kind of a dick to her face, but immediately after he goes and gets theresa an appointment with a psychologist upstairs. and his admittance that he was wrong, that he "did not think enough about those girls" was genuine. his later backslide, his "your mess. fix it." is not born out of "this is all your fault" but "I can't do this right now." the apology happened before pittfest, the backslide happened after. and again, such an important moment between them was Cassie telling Victoria she "learned from the best" and looking over at him.
there are seeeveral moments throughout the show where we get glimpses into what he's usually like, and better relationships. he's generally liked, generally trusted, his staff generally feel good around him and respect him. when people call for his help, he comes running. even the good moments he has with samira are erased, standing up for her against the drug-seeking patient, praising her during pittfest, backing her up to garcia. no, I don't think robby is a good boss to samira. I do think he tried to be.
and yk I do feel like it's noteworthy, the person Robby idolizes, looks up to the most, is/was Adamson. a black man.
Robby has biases, Robby needs to work on these biases, he also needs to become aware of them first. I'm not saying he doesn't have his issues, he has a fuck ton. thank god the pitt gets baran for at least a few months. but zoom out a little. so much conflict is overinflated because it's completely lacking of any context.
