People who say if you like Langdon you can’t dislike santos
Now I want to start this by saying I by no means hate santos and she really rose in my ranks of favourite characters in season 2 though Langdon has been one of my favourite characters since season 1.
I’ve seen so many people say if you like Langdon you can’t hate santos and I understand where it comes from as them being similar personalities, confident sometimes overly, brave, witty, sarcastic I understand that side.
For me how they interact with other people in the show especially in season 1 is completely different. It’s Santos first day there she knows no one, she immediately start mocking and demeaning the students that are lower rank than her, as a person that’s always been quiet in school and social settings to not draw the attention of people that would be mean like that for no reason this especially pisses me off, and continues to do so every rewatch. She immediately names Dennis and Victoria, Huckleberry and Crash, Javadi evens asks her multiple times to stop and she never does, even going as far to say things to make Javadi feel better than saying no she didn’t, like Javadi was the idiot for thinking she might of been actually nice to her like when she said she shat herself and when Javadi said really she said no.
Langdon also teases and makes fun of other people near him, Collins, Garcia and Princess to name a few, this feels different to me because they have known each other for a while at least and the other party are comfortable to give it back to him. With the new doctors/students he’s professional, mainly with Mel telling her she performed a good crike and lightly joking with her about the scurvy guy, he does says that he’s always right to Whitaker but that is also after he tells him to take a win after they saved that tonsil guy.
They are both definitely bold in their profession as well but I think people forget that Langdon is a senior and santos is very new, so when Langdon does something bold he’s backed by experience.
When santos does it it’s a direct violation of protocol, she was told multiple times she needs to present first and multiple times she doesn’t. The trigger point injection and putting bipap on the pneumothorax guy. One that does make the patient worse. She does have good ideas namely with the mdma overdose but she runs it by Mohan because she’s in the room, but she still needs to run everything by a senior resident or attending.
She also repeatedly asks to do procedures that aren’t necessary just because she wants to and sometimes in really bad situations, namely when she asked to do something on mr Milton because he’s dead seemingly acting like he’s just a cadaver for her to work on when he’s a patient that has a family that loves him that doesn’t even know he’s dead yet.
Now with the drug situation santos was absolutely right to tell Robby if she thought he might be stealing and my dislike of her and love for Langdon in season 1 has absolutely nothing to do with that. Also the way Langdon went about reprimanding her because he could see her being suspicious of him the whole day was way out of line and wildly inappropriate, he never should have done it.
Now in season 2 I like her a whole lot more because she knows her coworkers more and they can actually have a back and forth with her and she doesn’t make out of pocket requests or does things she’s not supposed to.
I know this has been long and I’m sorry about that but I literally can’t stop thinking about it every time I rewatch it and I want it out of my head and enjoy it without thinking about it when Langdon or Santos do anything.