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Long John Silver’s is in rehab, so Santos will be stuck with the other two dweebs when there’s no attending probably…
ready for the trinity santos and dennis whitaker bestfriendship of all time on levels that no one else can comprehend. i need them to walk into the next season arguing about how trinity broke the coffee machine in the one singular way where it's unfixable. need dennis to talk about how someone tried to break into the apartment and trinity broke their arm in five places. they watch shitty medical dramas together and get genuinely angry at inaccuracies and use said inaccuracies to quiz each other. trinity took no less than 100 pictures on dennis's residency match day. dennis tells trinity that he's survived multiple tornadoes and her only reaction was calling him a loser because he's never been stormchasing. this isn't even all the thoughts i've had and i finished the finale 15 minutes ago
something about how losing a mentor figure and blaming himself for it fucked robby up so bad he couldn't work on the anniversary of his death for 3 years. how he tries and tries and tries to find hope, to find a way to make death easier to accept, to work hard enough that blame is impossible (even though he'll blame himself anyway). something about santos losing a close friend, a confidante, maybe one of the only people in the world who had gone through the same shit she had, and it sticking with her so intensely that she risked everything multiple times to get to the truth, to get to emotional cores of situations even when she didn't have to. something about samira "we don't bring our baggage to the job" mohan getting upset with the dad who refused to admit he was an addict. something about javadi losing it with the dad who loved his son but couldn't just love his son. something about mckay understanding addicts, understanding people and parents who risk everything for their kids. something about abbot spending three hours trying to save a vet. something about how the pitt looks you dead in the eye and says don't you forget for one second that these doctors are people too.
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yeah i think he does deserve a smoke break after that 1st hellish shift
kind of obsessed with whatever this pose is.
so, season two will be langdon's first day back from rehab, right?
i hope no one tells him about santos and whitaker. obviously when langdon comes back there's going to be some tension between him and her, like there was when he came back during the crisis.
so, whitaker's got constant one-sided beef with him in the first couple episodes. it's subtle enough that no one picks up on it, just hard stares across the room and terse words whenever it's just the two of them. and he's not even doing it for santos or anything—she would hate that—he just can't act like he doesn't see the way langdon behaves with her.
langdon's really confused. whitaker seemed like a nice kid when they met, so what gives?
then there's a scene where it's him, mel, and whitaker. mel asks whitaker what his plans are for after his shift and he offhandedly mentions movie night with a "trin" and eventually (an embarrassing amount of time, actually) langdon makes the connection and curses under his breath.
yep, looked it up because an anon beat you to it. however i'm definitely keeping casual boxer santos as a headcanon. because of course.
hey, santos nation, what sport(s) do we think she played (since she's canonically a former athlete)?
Word of god says santos was a gymnast which is interesting in terms of her backstory but I get soccer vibes from her tbh
just looked it up and yeah, former gymnast. not what i was expecting but i can see it now. also the second soccer mention. she really does give soccer vibes, huh?
no idea if netball is a thing in the us but santos rly strikes me as a netball player.. maybe soccer? but not as a consistent thing she's just really fast and enjoys running. However. boxer santos has my whole heart though im going to keep thinking of that wow ..
it might be played recreationally but, as far as i know, it's not played professionally here. this is also the first time i'm hearing of the sport.
i got the boxer idea because i doubt krav maga is the only martial art that she's into. i feel like she's dabbled in jiu-jitsu. nothing to back this up, it's just a feeling.
soccer is a solid option, i think. your remark about her enjoying running makes me imagine her doing morning runs on her days off.
hey, santos nation, what sport(s) do we think she played (since she's canonically a former athlete)?
trinity and whitaker in ten months
THE PITT -> Similarities between Dr. Trinity Santos and Dr. Frank Langdon
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
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
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.