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THE PITT -> Similarities between Dr. Trinity Santos and Dr. Frank Langdon
Han Kang, 'Human Acts' via metamorphesque
Let’s talk about how Gihun felt watching the other players in the pentathlon.
He’s not stupid. He knows he has to pick his battles to win this war. He knows he is powerless without allies. He went into the games alone with faith in his heart that people will help him and make the right choice.
But some of that faith is challenged—they lose the first vote. Surely they’ll win the next vote after more players see the brutality of the second game when he has no knowledge of it to protect them.
Still, he has to watch players wearing red patches get gunned down. He has to watch them die knowing they wanted to leave and he failed to sway the votes, knowing his efforts backfired and feeling the weight of that.
He watches the clock with bated breath, shakes when bodies hit the dirt, cheers like he’s won big at the tracks when players pass.
What an intense experience it must have been for him.
thinking about whitaker half a year into the roommate arrangement. him gaining weight because he's eating more than stolen hospital food. the dark circles under his eyes lightening up because he's sleeping on a proper bed. not having to think about where he's crashing that night when he clocks out of work.
First hour -> Last hour The Pitt (2025 - )
Trinity Santos nosiest bitch on the block. Sussed out that Langdon was stealing drugs and that Whittaker was homeless in less than 15 hours. And she’s a lesbian? Too powerful
bisexual dennis whitaker. bisexual dennis whitaker who got bullied by his older brothers for acting like a fag. bisexual dennis whitaker who fidgets with the cross on his neck whenever he sees a pretty guy. bisexual dennis whitaker who's honestly relieved that santos would rather talk about anything else than guys. bisexual dennis whitaker who winces when he hears the name nancy. bisexual dennis whitaker who doesn't think to experiment because he's still attracted to women. is this making sense? are you seeing my vision?
abbot is robby's work husband and collins is his work wife but dana is his work co-parent. hope we cleared this up
the unfortunate thing about the second season being 10 months into the future is that we'll never see a bit where javadi gets to private investigator levels of nosy about why santos and whitaker are Like That and concludes they are dating. and when she tells them this, they both look at her like she's killed their childhood pets.
my update on how absurdly detailed the betting board is goes as robby voted disgruntled ex emt (obvious). langdon voted meth head (obvious). santos voted chop shop (illegally broken down and sold for parts reminiscent of her SA). langdon crash out. santos tried catching him out. robby caught him. all of them voting out. santos/robby wanting him out. robby/langdon dealing with it outside the hospital. whatever.
on the pitt and its writing
I actually cannot get over how the pitt is so good at like. trusting its viewers to catch onto things while fully not giving any information at all. I don't know if I explained that correctly. but we literally are not told a single thing unless it's immediately relevant to the story or one of the characters.
we don't learn about mckay's ankle monitor until it goes off, and we never even learn why it's there because it's not immediately relevant to anything going on. we don't learn the details of why langdon needs the pills, only that the pills stem from something that happened to him. abbot's prosthetic is never mentioned until the very end because, shit, dude, he's probably in so much pain after that shift he needed to take it off to relax. nothing is explained because the characters know what they've gone through and they don't feel the need to talk about it, or it's not necessary for them to talk about it. and when we learn about stuff from the environment or the way the characters are acting, like with princess and perlah's friendship and javadi's insistence on being taken seriously and literally everything between collins and robby. it's all storytelling through implication and sometimes it's really obvious (like with javadi) and sometimes it's not (like with langdon) and sometimes it's just really good for setting up character reveals (like with santos).
this show is kind of a masterclass on the perfect balance of showing and telling, and it knows exactly when to use one, the other, or neither. and somehow it works every time???? jesus christ I need the writers team to win everything during the upcoming awards season.
do you think whitaker had someone close to him seriously ill or suffered a fatal accident and he couldn't save them due to the hospital being too far away in broken bow. do you think he held them in their last moments and that's why he took mr. milton's death so hard. do you think when he calls home he always feels so so guilty after because they need to work harder in his absence and he knows he's practically homeless but he's supposed to be "living it up in the big city" like one of his older brothers said. do you think living far distance from his family makes him anxious as hell because what if something happens and hes not there??? do you think when he closed his eyes at night on that rickety cot up in that empty hospital wing he tucked that raggedy blanket as close as possible to remind him of home, curled up by the fireplace and listening to the nightlife and rustle of the fields. do you think he sits outside in the park and just *listens* so he can pretend he's back in broken bow playing in the sun, roughhousing with his brothers. do you think he felt lonely when they slowly pulled away from him once they had to do more work on the farm. do you
Rip to this part of my current Sangihun wip. I didn't take it out fully but I had to change part of it to fit with the flow of the whole thing
Cho Sang-woo + Life Time Warranty by Cyberbully Mom Club
hot take. Despite having the biggest saddest eyes and pathetic vibes, Whitaker is not shaking like a chihuahua nervous about life, he's actually pretty fucking steady and rolls with things as they happen to him. things just happen to him A Lot
just drew the stupidest looking sang-woo ever. he looks so lost
Fem!Sangwoo sketches for you guys!!! Eat up!
i read a post somewhere that said something along the lines of “dr santos wants people to believe she doesn’t care but in reality she cares too much” and you can really see that when she invites whitaker over at her apartment. she lives alone in an apartment with a spare room. maybe it was a temporary situation, maybe she simply can afford it. it doesn’t really matter. she lives alone and it could stay that way if she just turned a blind eye. she could leave whitaker, pretend she didn’t see. people could argue that basically everyone in the pitt is kind enough to extend a landing hand and i believe that to be 100% true, but what matters is that dr santos did it. the one who everyone thought was heartless just for being arrogant. trinity santos saw this guy and said “fuck it. you’re coming with me. i’m not gonna stop making fun of you but if you don’t come with me now i’ll use my krav maga skills to bring you home myself.”
trinity santos the woman who had a close friend kill herself because of an abusive older man. trinity santos the woman who could’ve been that friend because mental illness has a hungry grip that spares no one. dr robby could be that person and dr santos doesn’t know. every single character could be that person and we wouldn’t even know because we, much just like dr santos, were allowed no more than a peek in these people’s lives. we only have a vague idea what they look like on the outside, what demons they’re fighting against. any day now, that person could be whitaker. could be any patient dr santos can’t save.
dr santos’ arrogance isn’t a lie, but it’s not a complete truth either; there are so many layers etched under her façade and it think whitaker is a great way to show that. they can be so beneficial to each other in terms of character exploration and development.
everyone at the pitt be trying to fuck someone, meanwhile 2 rats are still missing
wet dog. sad farm boy. huckleberry. first in his family to go to college. has to change scrubs multiple times over just a few hours. a hint of religious angst. recites scripture from memory. i need to know more.
whitaker eating ube baked goods w santos. that's it.
Apparently the Squid Game director made the cast test out the pentathlon game to figure out the right time limit, and now all I can picture is a cursed behind-the-scenes AU where Inho is like:
“Circle guards, we’re playtesting. Mask up. Game time.”
So now you’ve got a bunch of poor exhausted guards, who thought today was just gonna be corpse disposal and trauma, suddenly lined up for Red Light, Green Light like it’s gym class. And then Inho shows up—fully masked, trench coat flapping in the wind like some kind of dystopian PE teacher—and joins the game.
He’s doing everything with them, completely dead serious. They’re crawling through the honeycomb challenge and Inho’s right there, carving his shape with surgeon-level precision, muttering “Inconsistent sugar texture. We need a 12.3% longer boil.” like it’s a bomb diffusal exercise.
Specific sensory experiences I think Gihun would find triggering from his time in the games:
- Hearing the endless ticking of a clock. Imagine it wearing on him with each soft sound, filling him with panic as the seconds pass by, convincing his nervous system that something awful will happen when time is up.
- Losing his footing. Have you ever walked on glass or ice or another slick surface, especially on your socks? It’s easy to slip. He also lost his footing during tug of war and was hanging off the edge for a terrifying moment, so I think that moment of adrenaline when he slips would be hard to recover from.
