coming back after a year to talk shit about the pitt, how ya doing
eventually i will be talking more in depth about samira mohan and the absolute audacity of them to write her the way they did in season two only to then not have supriya ganesh come back in season 3, but.
But.
I think the way they just unceremoniously wrote her off should worry people a lot more. None of us really know the reasons why they did this, the only thing we can do is try to extrapolate why based on previous decisions (we lost Heather, Gloria, and Kiara in one go) and their contradicting answers anytime someone asks them about why Supriya is not returning ('she can't hack it in an ER setting' vs. 'she's just not working that day'). Frankly, the optics of this looks like shit, but even if I ignore this, if I decide to offer this decision the MOST grace I possibly can, what I'm left with is, at the end of the day, they just stopped caring about her character. Gemmil alleged's that he didn't know Samira was going to be written off until partway through writing season 2 (I don't fully believe it but again I'm offering grace here for arguments sake), but nothing in her final moments suggests that she's moving on from the Pitt. 'We need you here,' she says to Robbie, the 'we' being an obvious inclusion of herself. Samira could have easily said 'they need you here' which would give us a glaring insight into her state of mind and where she feels her place is. But she doesn't. She says she's considering a geriatrics fellowship, there's nothing about going to Jersey anyway for the job she had lined up previously or moving on because she feels she doesn't belong. If they knew they were writing her out, wouldn't they want her to go out with some proverbial bang? Give her a proper exit?
Instead what we get is a frankly lackluster storyline that meanders and doesn't seem to know where to go, a deplorable lack of screen time, and an ending that gives zero implication that Samira is even considering leaving the pitt. Next season takes place only 4 months later so by rights she should still be there, except she's not. All this to say, the most generous read I can give these writers is that they lost interest in her character so bad that they basically just shrugged their shoulders about her and decided she wasn't worth writing a meaningful story or exit for. That could happen to any other character at any time, and they have the very convenient explanation of a revolving door teaching hospital bullshit excuse to pull out of their pocket anytime they encounter any criticism. I just think a lot more people should be very wary of this whole situation and how it can effect the other characters (and the actors more importantly!) in the future.
