“It’s possible to be bad at watching a tv show”
What’s troubling me, though, is that some viewers seem to be treating “The Pitt” like a puzzle to be solved. They approach the show the way fans used to obsessively approach “Lost,” a mystery box series that became appointment viewing and seemingly broke everyone’s TV-watching brains in the process.
All of which is to say, “you’re enjoying a thing the wrong way…” Who gives a fuck? Let people read into things and try to guess what’s going to happen next. If it doesn’t turn out like they thought, and they get mad about it, that’s on them. But don’t shit on people for enjoying something.
“Let people enjoy things” is a thought terminating clichee, though.
Not really different than “I didn’t order a yappuccino”.
It’s denying any criticism, and with that mindset you get flat earthers, vaccine deniers, and trump voters.
In other words: “Let people criticize things”.
Nobody is denying anyone a counter argument, but “let other people do what they want” is not a valid one.
I don’t care about this show, just fed up with it becoming the standard to validate any behavior with those thought stoppers.
When the criticism is, “you didn’t enjoy the thing the way I did, therefore you’re wrong,” that’s not a valid criticism and they need to stfu. It’s an air of superiority saying that there’s only one correct way to interpret media, which obviously is their way. That’s the issue. And this is about entertainment, not science.
It’s the same argument about an author’s intent vs the reader response, if people find other meanings and themes within a work other than what the author of a book intended, are they wrong?
At least in that case, the author is an authoritative figure for that medium, after all, it is their fictional story, so you could make that argument, even if it is weak. In this case, the author of the article has no relation to the medium and is just shitting on people for not enjoying a thing for the exact reasons that they do. Criticism on people seeing themes in a work that the critic denies exists is bad form.
If you haven’t read the article, I’d highly suggest that you do, and I’m sure you’ll understand where I’m coming from.
TLDR: People are trying to find a mystery to solve instead of just taking the whole story at face value as its literally just a “normal” day in a hospital.
Meanwhile the only storyline I am trying to figure out is when will the fucking AI kill someone to prove we shouldn’t use the clanker that randomly makes shit up to take notes.
When you get paid in RVUs, even bad notes are good if they’re fast.
if you search Twitter/X, or Instagram, or social media platforms in general, you will come across “Pitt” fans undergoing what seems to be some sort of mass delusion.
If my source is “someone on Twitter” I can prove anything. The Pitt is actually about unicorns, source: Twitter.
I wish I could understand if this is an actual trend or just one person. Hell I’ve had conversations with people in real life about certain shows only to realize they completely missed the point or got stuck on something minor that “ruined” the show for them, even though that thing was just a minor part of it.
Yes, people die on “The Pitt” (it’s set in a hospital emergency room), but it’s not really the type of show to bump main characters off like “The Sopranos,” or, again, “Lost,” which killed main characters left and right
At the height of its popularity ER killed off a main character. One suddenly (with John Carter surviving) and one slowly over the course of several seasons. More similarly to ER we have characters who just leave. Dr Collins was a big character in season 1, in season 2 she’s just gone with a quick mention.
I don’t expect someone to die ever week because this show takes place over one shift. But between seasons? Dr. Al-Hashimi is great this season, but is clearly hiding something. She could easily be gone next season. (Or she could be around for the next 10 seasons.)
Isn’t a season supposed to take place over 1 shift? How would they even go about shipping people that aren’t already together? There isn’t enough in-show time.
I’m gonna make a show that takes place in 2 hours real time following one character over 12 hours of runtime, and a side character will get pregnant in the 3rd episode and give birth by the 9th.
There was a timeskip between seasons, maybe that has something to do with it?
Since when do you need to confine yourself to in-show time to ship people?
I once fucked a co-worker in a LAN closet on a Friday afternoon.
A buddy of mine used to get his dick sucked in the supply closet during the work shift.
When there is a will there is a way.
What a strange article.
Imagine getting paid to produce shit like this.
