Ok, I need to talk about Morgan Reznick and Claire Browne a lot.
Since the first appearance of Morgan I just knew she will become one of my favorite characters, as I have a really soft spot for hard and rude characters with a good heart inside. In the first chapters, this was not so obvious but we can see that plenty in S3. With Claire I have the opposite case, I really like her and
she’s a character portrayed to have an empathetic big heart, and she has, but I also think that deeper, she’s not so nice as it seems, we can see that in some of her important interactions with Jared, Morgan and even Shaun.
And the thing is I found both cases perfectly fine, Claire and Morgan grew in very difficult environments that forge their characters in very specials ways. For Morgan, her lack of validation makes her harsh, competitive, and direct, the kind of person that actually cares about others but doesn’t know how to show. Claire, on her part, is compassionate, and empathic, but deep down is very, very closed on her real thoughts and feelings, she doesn’t like to share, and because she spends so much time dealing with her mother mess don’t like to take the shit off anybody. In her own way, Claire is as egoist and reclusive as morgan is.
In S3 we could see how Morgan stand for Claire when she needs her, yes her approach wasn't the better, but she does what she could until claire shut her up, even covering Claire’s mistakes at work or her constant lateness on her shifts (this is a very unlikely behavior for someone who since her first minute on the show made it clear that would use peoples mistakes to take them down).
Then as the chapters go Claire continues her path of autodestruction on her own until could assume her mourning. After that we get all the thing of Morgan complaining about Melendez's preferences, which to this day I think was because of Morgan's jealousy on Claire but not exactly for - professional - reasons. In resume, all the second part of season 3 makes the relationship between them very rough or, rougher. They have a complex relationship because they can take the other out of their comfort zone and have zero chills on calling on the other errors but as never really have a talk can’t understand each other. I mean, they do, they have similar roots, but can’t understand how different that similar roots makes them.
In S4 everything becomes even more complex because Claire is mourning (again!) even is not so bad as in season 3, and Morgan is mourning too. I think she wanted to be a surgeon (at first) because is a very respected and important career, that she thinks could win her family and other people approval, she is so competitive because she needs to be the best, to feel the best, she needs to feel special because she never was. Her actual arc is really difficult to see because now she doesn’t have anything, not her dream, not a support system, anything. Suddenly, she doesn’t even have a voice in her patient cases.
And okay, Claire and Morgan are not in a good place (but neither where in season 3) still that doesn’t get in the way for Morgan to try to support Claire in her pain. Now that Morgan is suffering not only Claire is not supporting her but is also being very bitch about all Morgan’s situation constantly reminding her that she is not a surgeon and is never going to be again.
And this situation is hella confusing because they have 2 forms of communication, the first one being normal words and the second being body language and glances. For Morgan, I always think it was obvious the peeks she trews at Claire and her jealousy, but in 4x03 we could see that look in Claire on Morgan’s interactions with the fireman. This could be my imagination or something, but I’m sure of one thing, and is that they want to talk but don’t know how to do it.
I wish the show works on this soon because at this pace Morgan is going to a breakdown point and her relationship with Claire (friendship, sexual tension, romantic or wherever) is going down with her.
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How I saw that one scene in the begining of season 4 ep 3 of the good Doctor
handsome fireman with chest exposed : Ha ha, flirting, I'm handsome, I'm a flirting handsome fireman.
Morgan reznick actually in the show : Heh heh, cool, smiles back.
Me, Audibly, Out loud, speaking for Morgan : No thanks, I'm GAY!
*Bonus
Morgan Legit in the show later on : I've watched Wicked 50+ times. Also I'm a theater nerd.
Me whispering in pure awe and worship :
~ L e s b i a n ~
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