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David Shore will pay for his crimes

#the good doctor #david shore #daniel dae kim

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A Proper Goodbye

So the season finale has unsurprisingly prompted a lot of Discourse among fans, and even casual viewers. Jasika was right; people will be talking about it until the show returns.

The word 'disrespect' has been used a lot: fans have been accused of 'disrespecting' the writers by calling the finale (and many arcs we've seen in Season 3) 'bad writing'. While I do think that term gets thrown around a lot whenever something happens a fan doesn't like, in this case I can see where they're coming from.

I only watched one episode since the winter finale, but that last episode has been everywhere. From what I've seen and read (including that infuriating David Shore interview) it very much seems that they wrote themselves into a corner. They wanted a big, life-threatening catastrophe for the season finale that would culminate in Shaun and Lea in each others' arms. The stakes had to be so high that Shaun would forget about Lea's prejudice and Lea would forget that Shaun screamed at her that she deserves to die alone. Someone had to go and, for whatever reason, they decided Melendez.

I wasn't a big fan of his since he demoted Claire and generally got off easy when he did something wrong but I appreciate why a lot of people liked him. To kill a major character so suddenly, and with fairly little fanfare does feel cheap. If that were the first time this show had killed someone off for no other reason than to develop another character or relationship then perhaps it wouldn't be so egregious. But this season alone, they killed Patricia just to drive a wedge between Neil and Audrey, they killed Claire's mom to bring her closer to Neil and they killed Shaun's dad to bring him closer to Lea. Finally they've killed Neil. To what end? My best guess is that it's the same reason they do most things: to make Claire suffer.

When this show started out it was so different and refreshing. A cast of mostly people of colour, an autistic lead character, an apparent willingness to take on social issues and represent the marginalised, ...Jared. It's not that show anymore and hasn't been since season one. The cruel death of Claire's mother and subsequent treatment of Carly made me start to hate the show, to be honest.

Respect goes both ways. When you make characters people care about and then mistreat them the audience gets tired of it. If deaths start to feel random, then why get attached to a character if they could be picked off just to serve someone else's story?

Possibly worse than death is to be forgotten. Used as a plot device or to develop another character then simply discarded without so much as a word. (Let's play a game: How many women has this show yeeted into the void so far?)

Shore talked about how the show needed to stay realistic and credible. The way I laughed when I read that.

But maybe he's right. There's nothing more realistic than killing people of colour and treating black women like shit.

#The good doctor #This show doesn't deserve antonia or jasika

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Due to personal reasons I will not be watching any more of The Good Doctor

#The good doctor #I don't know why I thought this show would be any different #Neil couldn't be with Lim because of the power dynamic but yeah sure put him with his subordinate instead #Anyone who thinks they'll give Claire even 5 minutes of happiness must know something I don't #Guess they figure this will fix the rapid decline in ratings smh #Don't even get me started on gd Shaun and Lea jfc

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Claire: it's so hard for women to find professional mentors because everyone assumes a man and a woman can't maintain a platonic relationship

Claire (3 episodes later): I have fallen in love with my boss

#The good doctor

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Man, the way they ended Claire's story with her mother really hurt, and for what?

To think I was actually looking forward to watching again after the way they ended season 2 and they set up all these interesting plot lines and just threw them in the trash in favour of tropes and tired clichés.

Sorry to see you're leaving too, you made beautiful edits! I feel exactly the same - I dread what's gonna happen to Claire next season and am so mad about Carly. The second she wasn't dating Shaun anymore it's like she never existed. I've never been so disappointed by a show so quickly.

It’s upsetting that she was thrown into the void when they still could’ve kept her around. I really enjoyed her character even prior to her and shaun being a thing. Also agree on Claire’s storyline for the next season. I’m just not looking forward to it. You see I had high hopes at the start of this season, but it all just became “Okay let’s see how we’ll make Claire suffer this episode” for most of the season. Also I know Breeze was a horrible parent for the most part, but I wish they really made the chance for Claire and her to work things out and not just k*ll her off 3 episodes in. Upsetting since we actually saw Breeze progress more in 2x12, but then just act like nothing happened that episode. This season overall just disappoints in many ways and to think I thought season 2 was bad.

#Ain't I just boo boo the fool

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RIP Carly Lever

They either gonna kill her in the earthquake or continue to forget she ever existed and I honestly don't know which is worse

#The good doctor

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#the good doctor spoilers #The good doctor

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Due to personal reasons I will not be watching any more of The Good Doctor

#the good doctor #I mean seriously just wtf #Nope #It's a huge no from me dog #Top ten anime betrayals #First we lose Carly now this #Can't watch them do this to Claire

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Thought about this, but then I remembered

#breznick #The good doctor

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Audrey Lim in motorcycle gear appreciation post

#the good doctor #audrey lim

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2x01 ➩ 3x17 

#Im crine

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👀

#the good doctor #new amsterdam #What is this a crossover episode?

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1.02 // 2.08 // 3.17

#the good doctor #claire x shaun

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Episode 3.17

The show unites the entire Good Doctor fandom by making an episode that almost everyone will hate

Dash was back for like two seconds because Claire didn't tell him her new number which seems odd but OK!

Claire and Shaun are working (together!) with Melendez on a woman who has an undiagnosable condition or something

Shaun spends a lot of time figuring out how to change Leah's mind about dating him by trying to act less... autistic I guess? Definite yikes from me dawg

This was very cute though (and reminded me of my sexi boi Jared!!!)

Their patient's husband threatens to leave her if she has surgery which isn't even the worst part of the episode

Dash asked Claire out (off screen for some reason) and she's conflicted as she's not sure what to do with a man other than ride him. Hard same, Claire.

Lim, Park and Reznick had some dude with kidney failure, there was a whole thing about whether a kid could donate a kidney, honestly I find it so hard to care about the plot devices patients on this show. Glad Lim is getting screen time at least???

Claire goes on a date! And cooks a terrible meal. I find this so confusing, when did Kayla die? Where was Dash this whole time? Why didn't she give him her new number? Is wearing a plaid shirt on a first date a red flag???

It was pretty revealing that Shaun said he wants to date Leah because she makes him "a better version of himself" and his idea of being "better" was trying to be more neurotypical. Seems a lot like internalised ableism

This was so painful to watch. Shaun refuses to take no for an answer and pisses off Leah, who kind of confirms she won't date him because of his autism. So he lost his supportive, adorable girlfriend and his friend for no good reason.

You really hate to see it.

#The good doctor #The good doctor spoilers #Recap

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Dr Carly Lever in The Good Doctor Season 3 Episode 17

#the good doctor

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Dr Claire Browne in The Good Doctor Season 3 Episode 17

#The good doctor #Gifset