#neil melendez deserved better

I stopped watching The Good Doctor halfway through season 2 because it was boring, I started it again only because of Neil and Claire because apart from Melendaire and some little storyline I liked, I still didn’t enjoy the show how I did once.

I always shipped Melendaire since season 1, so I was over the moon because it seemed clear that they would have made them canon. Finally, after three years of waiting, I was getting my OTP together. I would have watched the next seasons just for them, no matter how boring they would have been, because I wanted to see them happy, their relationship grow, Claire getting the brilliant career she deserved and Neil finally becoming a father.

I was pretty sure they wouldn’t kill Neil because I really thought the showriters learned something about killing characters randomly just for the shock value from shows like Gray’s Anatomy, and more also, they couldn’t be so stupid to kill Neil the same episode he would have probably declared to Claire. Oh, I was wrong. I was so horribly wrong. It’s like the season 4 finale of The Magicians all over again, I feel the same betrayal as when they killed Quentin without even giving him the chance to reunite with Eliot one last time.

I still can’t understand how they thought this would have been a good idea. Not only killing half ship moments after making them canon is a d*ck move, but can we just talk about how they keep torturing Claire? Why making her fall in love for Neil and then denying her the chance to be happy? Why couldn’t we have a good interracial couple with an happy ending? That’s not funny if you don’t give the characters you torture some peace and happiness at some point, and I genuinely don’t understand what’s the problem with showrunners and poc women who wantsuccessful careers and healthy relationships.

Despite my own bad history with tv shows (especially with ABC’s ones) and disappointments, I still had faith. And I was disappointed once again. And I’m sorry because I loved this show, I loved the idea of a main character on the autistic spectrum, but honestly they took away the only big reason I still watched the show, so I think that my journey with TGD ends here with 3x19, not even with the season finale. It’s a pity, but I almost don’t have time to watch the shows I like, let alone shows who keeps disappointing me.