#David Hide

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the mutuals love me for my comedic casualty posts. my funny guy swag.

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[casualstea]

I MISS THEM YOUR HONOUR

[maraudersmary]

they should bring back zoe hanna or lofty or david or literally anyone dylan has ever been close to for this dervla storyline he cannot get through this by himself

also where the FLIP is ELLE GARDNER

also peek Artem Chernik from holby Fletch’s gambler patient ugh fletch loved him and then the fall out from that god i miss holby i spent the whole episode trying to figure out who he was then it clicked

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Black Manta: Sure Devil Ray tried to kill us and also literally every person in Atlantis, but whom among us hasn't done that? Dr Mist: Almost all of us, Manta. Everyone but you has not done that.

[scoriasoil]

I’ve been indulging in self-care by watching old David-centric episodes and urgh, anything with little Ollie is just horribly tainted now. I hate what they did with him so much. YEAH I still have something to say about this in 2023 bro.

Not only is it painfully tired, reductive and downright inaccurate to blame school shootings on bullying, Ollie was clearly an insightful and empathetic kid. Growing up around his dad’s illness instilled a precocious emotional maturity in him and that glimpse of parentification was always the most interesting thing about him to me.

Ollie doesn’t tell David about a school play he’s in because he doesn’t want his dad to attend and be embarrassed by all the parents gossiping about his bipolar; he recognises that David buying extravagant gifts is the beginning of a manic episode and decides he’s going to “take care” of his dad. And you expect me to buy that they suddenly become completely unable to relate to each other in the space of a few months?

I rarely get annoyed at ludicrous or sensationalist soap twists because it’s like, whatever, I know what I signed up for. But asking us to believe that a child who grew up having to keenly understand and accommodate complicated mental health issues would wind up unable to express his own without murdering people is just insulting. What a horrible, cynical note to end the Hides’ stories on.

[realorunreal]

Rewatched the episode where Marty and David walk out after Robyn’s death today and I really wish they’d had David in particular leave on a happier note (or at least had someone comfort him!). The only things David really had left were his job and colleagues. Then one of his best friends dies in front of him. He leaves with his life absolutely shattered and that’s just so…💔 I miss him your honour.

(Also Charlie’s acting is so bad lol he’s unaffected like 10 mins after she dies it’s so jarring)

[petersheart]

Doing some rewatching and I JUST realised David has a literal tattoo of «Oliver» over his heart and that just kills me

[nooneyouknow2143]

Any David Hide headcanons?

Only got a few I'm afriad

This is so specific but he seems like he would get into arguments defending mint choc chip ice cream when anyone says it tastes like toothpaste

Isn't really a dog or cat person

Nerd. Massive nerd about 1 certain topic and nothing else. Most likely a very niche topic

[riverstardis]

is that david and marty gone for good then? i mean we already knew david was leaving but marty?

[casualtyfandom]

the amount of respect I have for David for quitting his job by calmly walking past Jacob and Marty whilst they were having a scrap is limitless 👏

[lonelier-version-of-you]

So tonight’s Casualty was absolutely brilliant. So brilliant, I had to wait nearly 2 hours to properly put together thoughts on it. I’m in awe of the show in a way I haven’t been since Jade’s centric episode years ago. What a masterpiece.

Goodbye, Robyn Miller. What a way for her to go out! I’ve never been the biggest fan of Robyn as a character (though it probably didn’t help that the show didn’t give her much to do all that often - I did, however, love the Glen storyline), but this was an incredibly powerful and impactful exit.

The show has had patients die because of the lack of resources at the hospital before, but this is the first time I can think of that it’s really happened to a main character. I applaud Casualty for being brave enough to go there. Having a character we’ve known for years die as a result of the NHS crisis - a character who might’ve lived if she’d been able to leave on her last shift when she was supposed to instead of staying, or if they’d had the resources to send an ambulance to her sooner, if they could’ve got her to theatre sooner... - makes such a bold statement. Massive, massive kudos to the show.

We saw Robyn’s friends and partner grieving, saw her daughter left traumatised and orphaned, and it was made all the more impactful by the fact that we know these characters. It was deeply upsetting and heartbreaking, but it needed to be. (I keep mentally comparing it to the Holby finale. This achieved everything that the Holby finale didn’t. This was a meaningful tribute to the NHS and this was a character death that actually mattered, rather than being done for misogyny and fridging like Jac’s.)

Amanda Henderson has been great as Robyn all these years, and I hope she’s as satisfied with this exit as the rest of us. It was a great way to go out and I bet it’ll be remembered for years.

Marty’s exit was perhaps the biggest surprise of the night. I’ve always felt he was a bit underused, and it’s a shame to see him go, but what an exit! His scene outside with Paige, despairing at the situation, was a particular highlight - it was fantastic. Shaheen Jafargholi played that so well. <3

As sad as it is to see all these characters leaving, the way they’ve been written out - Robyn dying because she couldn’t get treatment soon enough, Marty and David giving up because they simply couldn’t cope anymore - is heartbreakingly realistic and sends a very powerful message.

And we knew David was leaving, but we didn’t know it would be this episode. I guess everyone theorising Sacha would be involved in his exit was sort of right! We got one last brilliant performance from Jason Durr before he left. Every scene he had in this episode was fantastic.

It felt odd, though, that his exit didn’t involve the Ollie storyline at all - indeed, that story hasn’t come up in months. I kind of think the aftermath must’ve been cut short or something. It’s a shame, because it really does show how that story never needed to happen. But it did happen, and thus, I’m - in a way - glad David has left. I remember what Holby did to Henrik after the Fredrik storyline - they suddenly latched on to this idea that now all Henrik could do was suffer. I wouldn’t want David subjected to miserable story after miserable story like that.

I am sad we didn’t get a final Dylan and David scene, although I suppose it showed how utterly exhausted and broken David was that he didn’t even say goodbye to his best friend.

I would’ve liked David and Marty’s exits to happen a few episodes after this, but for the same reason. Cramming it all in one episode was a bit much IMO, and I think spreading it out (even if only so David and Marty could work their notice after resigning in this episode) would have worked better, so they could each get more individual focus.

It was nice to see Sacha again, but I’m not sure whether to be glad or upset that he didn’t mention Jac. (Speaking of mentions, I’m going to cling on to the fact that he mentioned Dom as a general surgeon who could be called but not Henrik as an implication that Henrik did indeed leave the hospital.) I think I would rather if they’d used Dom instead, as there’s a lot that needs to be talked about with Sacha after Jac’s death that... didn’t get talked about.

It was great to see Dylan, David, and Sacha all working together - some people have said to me before that David and Sacha are similar characters and they’re so right. I also appreciated the whole thing of all the theatres being in use and how they struggled to find anywhere for Robyn. It really does highlight how ridiculous Holby got in its final few series, when there were hardly any patients and the staff had all the spare time imaginable to go around having dramas. This was way more realistic.

Bob Barrett was very good, too. He always is. <3

I’m really frustrated at Faith’s involvement in the care home storyline, though even she couldn’t ruin this episode for me. Like... it’s supposed to be Dylan’s storyline?? I guess I’m glad they had Elsie directly tell Faith what was happening rather than Faith working it out when Dylan couldn’t. Also, this episode made me believe Faith cared about someone (Elsie), which I haven’t been able to believe in years. She’s still a monster, obviously, but I’m surprised they managed to convince me she’s a monster who does occasionally have some sort of feeling or care for people who aren’t herself.

Apart from Faith, all the characters I usually can’t stand were quite decent tonight - Charlie, Paul, etc. So that was good.

Charles Venn was fantastic in this episode, and I really think this is all going to lead into a mental breakdown of some kind for Jacob.

I probably have even more thoughts on this episode, that’s only a smattering of them! But that’s all I have to say for now. <3

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Crowley: We need to make this the tiniest, most insubstantial, fractional half a miracle we have ever performed. No traces of anything miraculous left behind. No alarm bells ringing in Heaven.

Aziraphale: Right. Count of three.

Crowley: One, two, three, now.

*Crowley jumps on the chair and checks an orangey-flowy-something with a tip of his finger*

Crowley: I think it took. That was a class-A surreptitious half a miracle. No one will have noticed a thing.

*happy Aziraphale*

*unamused Michael sighs as alarms are blaring in Heaven*

[casualstea]

Damn in case anyone forgot how brilliantly acted David Hides ‘coming off his meds’ storyline was im here to remind you it’s something special. Jason Durr is sorely missed in casualty.

[paperlignes]

aziraphale and crowley, good omens / francesca, hozier

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

Love that the new Good Omens Kiss Revelation ™️ basically boils down to “Yeah we had a whole scene choreographed but David and Michael just immediately started making out and wouldn’t stop so we deleted two takes out of embarrassment”

[realorunreal]

I finally watched the crossover eps of Holby from 2020 where they send David up to work on Darwin and he’s such a weird, sarcastic lil shit the whole way through. I’m SO here for it. I wish we’d gotten more of that in Casualty. He had his moments, but I wish we’d gotten to see more of his oddball side…

Also there were a few moments of unexpected (and kinda uncomfortable) sexual tension between him and Jac…which…