Also, also “Iain pushes Teddy for answers” what fucking answers? What are people going to be expecting from Teddy here?

I wasn’t going to properly talk about it but if I don’t I won’t be able to do anything else all night:

This is like a perfect example of how Casualty has taken everything in this storyline a step further than I even predicted it would. How when they get stuff right, like Earn Your Stripes, they add something unnecessary onto it, Teddy having to clean the ambulance at the end. How when they do something that feels exploitative but pretty typical for soap SA storylines, like Hayley’s return, they drag it out for a minute longer than they would usually, with the stuff that happened in the ED after he confronted her.

I KNEW everyone would find out about it against Teddy’s wishes, I KNEW they’d act like him being upset about it is some unreasonable and shocking response. But this? Not only people finding out about it but watching it happen??

I’m sorry, I don’t think they actually care about this whatsoever - all they want is exploitative drama for people to gawk at.

(Also, him breaking down alone after Jan tries to reach out to him? They’re completely highlighting this ‘Teddy’s so alone, no one gets it’ stuff now, except someone would get it: JACOB.)

so many good (sad) paramedic songs on Lush… all ones I know it would be pretty hard to edit

I wasn’t going to properly talk about it but if I don’t I won’t be able to do anything else all night:

This is like a perfect example of how Casualty has taken everything in this storyline a step further than I even predicted it would. How when they get stuff right, like Earn Your Stripes, they add something unnecessary onto it, Teddy having to clean the ambulance at the end. How when they do something that feels exploitative but pretty typical for soap SA storylines, like Hayley’s return, they drag it out for a minute longer than they would usually, with the stuff that happened in the ED after he confronted her.

I KNEW everyone would find out about it against Teddy’s wishes, I KNEW they’d act like him being upset about it is some unreasonable and shocking response. But this? Not only people finding out about it but watching it happen??

I’m sorry, I don’t think they actually care about this whatsoever - all they want is exploitative drama for people to gawk at.

(Also, him breaking down alone after Jan tries to reach out to him? They’re completely highlighting this ‘Teddy’s so alone, no one gets it’ stuff now, except someone would get it: JACOB.)

CASUALTY WHAT

Every single way I think they might fuck this storyline up, they somehow manage to take it a step further.

It’s 9pm! I can return to Tumblr! I HAVE DONE NOTHING ALL DAY!! I’m gonna wait until the spoilers because I lack self control but I haven’t watched the episode and probably won’t until Monday night, I hope it was good and am glad Dylan is back though.

continuing to force people to looooook at herrr!!

unless I missed something (I just +10seconds-ed my way through the episode to see what he was up to because I have stuff to do), the most that can be said in the way of stuff happening with Teddy today is that he’s changed his hair

if current casualty is lacking anything it’s the absolute chaos of series 1 staffroom scenes

I wish I could have proper, actual, fully-formed thoughts about Sandra like I do about Teddy because I love them the same but all I feel like I can ever get out about it her is “isn’t she great?”

been going through my older posts and this one made me laugh

him (real)

4am thought: if there’s anyone currently in the show who would know better than to make (weird) assumptions based on overhearing part of a conversation, it’s Jodie a-rumour-that-she-and-her-father-were-dating-went-around-the-hospital-because-Ryan-made-assumptions-based-on-part-of-a-conversation-he-overheard Whyte

the past month my brain has felt like three guys and two of them are arguing because one of them thinks that if I don’t finish all of my uni assignments immediately the world will end (extreme) and the other one thinks that I could finish all of my uni assignments in the hour before they are due so I should put them off until then (also extreme) and the third guy just wants to look at casualty stuff every 5 minutes (he always gets what he wants)

^ This is what I was trying to express yesterday except actually written out in a way that makes sense and isn’t just swearing about the writing choices

Okay, now that I finally have the energy to comment, I want to say: that BBC site spoiler for next week that says Iain "discovers Teddy's secret" is worrying me.

I really, really hope the secret Iain finds out about is "only" (quotation marks because it's not like it's not a big deal) that Teddy's going to the fight club. I think it probably will be, thank goodness - I think Casualty will probably end up using "everyone is angry at Teddy for going to the fight club" to isolate him even more for a while. But even then... I'm not looking forward to seeing Iain "save Teddy from himself" by holding off a bunch of blokes at the fight club or something, taking all the focus off of Teddy and onto Iain's heroics, which I expect to happen because when is Iain getting involved with something not building up to him playing the hero?

Iain and Teddy don't really know each other. They work together, but that's about it. I don't see any reason for Iain to get involved. I like him as a friend to Jacob but I don't want him to drag himself into the terrible idea from the off that is the fight club storyline and make it all even less about Teddy.

when writing the teddy/paige half-divorce arc they really failed to use those paige and ffion parallels they did not mean at all to establish during driving force

we tied your nephew's ideas of independence and freedom and agency to his job. yeah, he saw you as a symbol of those things that he had been desperate for and constantly denied and now can't untie them from being a paramedic. sorry. he's going to go through hell for this job multiple times but he won't ever leave it. yeah, he actually can't leave it, this job will kill him one way or another. his best-friend-soulmate was able to escape the tragedy but he can't go with them and they both always knew that. so, it seems like (between just the two of you) you've broken the generational curse of your family but actually you've invented a new generational curse of being a paramedic. yeah his unhealthy ideas about the job might be based on yours... sorry, he's got even more trauma now but at least he's a paramedic and no one can take that from him. sorry again.

I wish I had the time to sit down and write a post about how the argument at the end of Switzerland is a scene that actually deals with Teddy being angry and treating Jan horribly really well and then the other writers seemingly completely misunderstood what worked about that scene and lost track of who Teddy is actually supposed to be, leading to the train-wreck that was AHOV!Teddy and whatever the fuck is happening right now.