#holby liveblog

[kerryweaverlesbian]

The Supernatural fake Facebook is called PALZ!!! I love this kind of thing.

[jacnaylor]

NOT SILENT WITNESS USING THE HOLBY CITY SET

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

im back watching the terrible cruise ship murder show i was liveblogging last night and heres some more notes:

i havent mentioned the show's intro yet but its exactly what youd expect it to be, both in style and budget. i have friends who have made much better videos on less of a budget and those videos were ship edits for holby city.

said friend showed me said videos whilst we were sat on a curb at like 9:30pm just before we were approached by police thinking we were lost children. we were in university

im beginning to adore the red colour filter over the ocean, unironically

showing a giant cruise liner docked at any small island really does not make the cruise ship look good. it towers over the island like its about to attack.

...you know, everyone laughed at isambard kingdom brunel for his big fuck off ship, we should bring that back.

oh hey, a case i actually know about prior to this show. im sure this will not highlight any flaws of the show going forward

[lonelier-version-of-you]

I’m about to watch S15E30 “Only Human”, this is the liveblog post, people probably get the idea by now. 😆

Edit 1: Lol, Malick complaining about a lift test and Nathan saying “you take the stairs every day”, to which Malick replies “it’s the principle of the thing!”. I suppose he’s got a point!

Edit 2: Jac always looks great when she’s wearing black. It’s a colour that really suits her.

Edit 3: Oof, Jac misreading Mo and thinking she (Mo) knows that she (Jac) has slept with Jonny again... leading to her letting it slip to Mo that she’s slept with Jonny again. Yeah, that’s a bit awkward.

Edit 4: Dom really has always been Dom.

Edit 5: Oh, this is the one where Malick treats the serial killer, isn’t it? In later Holby no one would’ve cared, it’s not like they didn’t see the same thing from their own colleagues. 😩

Edit 6: Ric pointing out that Sacha shouldn’t be involved in treating Rachel because she’s his daughter. Again, remember when Holby cared about this? *cough* Ange operating on Dom *cough*

Edit 7: Sacha’s shirt in this episode is yet another one for the list of great Sacha shirts.

Edit 8: This episode is already being really unsubtle about Chantelle’s autism.

Edit 9: Henrik talking to Malick about Malick treating a serial killer is hilarious. Given... well... who the love of Henrik’s life is.

Edit 10: I do kind of hope that this patient “faking” her disability turns out to actually have something wrong with her that hadn’t been picked up on. I’d much prefer that as a storyline. I guess I’ll have to see how the story plays out though.

Edit 11: Hang on, so about Malick’s patient, the DCI said: “She may not have murdered anyone herself, but we know she helped him [her boyfriend] cover it up.” Ahahahaha that makes Henrik talking to Malick about her even funnier - like, sound like anyone we know?!

Also, Malick’s comment about having seen a lot of “women who will do anything to protect their boyfriends”. Oh, Malick, it’s not just women, as your boss will prove in five series’ time.

Edit 12: Oh my goodness, the patient’s serial killer boyfriend committed suicide. Again, sound like anyone we know?!?!

Also, Malick, my beloved.

Edit 13: Oh, Sacha :( Bob Barrett is so good.

Edit 14: The actress playing Amanda, Malick’s patient, is fantastic.

Edit 15: Rachel :((

Edit 16: “Ego is the distance between one’s capabilities and one’s ambitions. There’s no room for it here.” That’s all very well and good, Henrik, but utterly hypocritical - Mr. Clarke the psychiatrist didn’t call you a narcissist for nothing (I know that didn’t happen until several series later). Come on Henrik, up until, like, the beginning of this series you were making your entire identity revolve around how great you thought you were (or wanted to think you were, rather).

Edit 17: Michael sticking up for Malick!

Edit 18: Sacha is breaking my heart. :(

Edit 19: Jimmy Akingbola is excellent, as always.

I can’t help imagining if this patient storyline had happened later, after Gaskell, and Henrik had been the doctor involved instead. It’s interesting to think about how he would’ve reacted. I can imagine him having a yelling “you said nothing, don’t the families deserve answers” breakdown like Malick did, but obviously it would be coming from a place of projection as much as one of moral anger.

Edit 20: The foreshadowing for Jac being pregnant is quite heavy-handed. She’s literally just said she’d never want offspring with Jonny.

Edit 21: These Sacha scenes really are heartbreaking.

Edit 22: Amanda: “You know, it’s not easy to love someone like me, but Thomas did. Even though I didn’t deserve it.” She is a perfect parallel to Henrik.

Edit 23: That Sacha and Rachel scene. :(

Edit 24: So the Darwin patient was just a generic “faking disability” narrative then, it seems. :/

Edit 25: And there we go, Jac’s pregnant.

Edit 26: I was not expecting Malick getting slapped!

[uhhholby]

guys that transplant sequence truly.... I didn't see it coming. utterly destroyed me

[holbysideblog]

i have had dom's mum for 5 minutes and if anything happened i would kill everyone in this room and then myself

[friedaaaaaaargh]

Honestly hoped she was gonna run away and bonk Frieda but alas, I let my imagination run wild

[botheredbuck]

'i should have fought harder for ya' EXCUSE ME-

[jasnahmybeloved]

Jac: gets held up at gun point, has to relieve the last time she got shot

Jac: right time to go to theatre

[diamedical]

nobody:

literally nobody:

Jac Naylor bauble: 👁👄👁

[ktlsyrtis]

Ah hahahahaha haha this is already terrible!!!

[dominicscopeland]

standard holby solution to fucking anything seems to be iv in a store cupboard

[kimbayskafe]

right guys I’m forming the Chloe Godard Protection Squad

items on the agenda are:

a. kill evan

i haven’t got anything else yet but im working on it

[twilightwonderer]

"That's our Dazzle"

[lonelier-version-of-you]

I’m gonna continue my series 15 watch with S15E20 “Unravelled”. This is the liveblog post. IDK, I’m running out of ideas for ways to introduce these posts lol.

Edit 1: Mr. Clarke, my beloved!! This is the only episode of his I haven’t seen before. I’m excited, but I feel a bit sad that after this I’ll have no more new Mr. Clarke content. He’s one of my favourite Holbyverse recurring characters.

Edit 2: Mr. Clarke talking to someone about their trauma from being held hostage is kind of funny when you consider that his next two appearances were both to talk to Henrik, who has also been held hostage, but just never told anyone about it. (Now, there’s something for a fic, actually - would Henrik ever mention the hostage incident to Russ?)

Edit 3: Mo to Jonny: “You’re not still moping about Jac, are you? Because it’s getting really tired now.” Agreed, Mo. Jonny was never good enough for Jac, so I’m utterly uninterested in him having anything to say about their relationship.

Edit 4: Mr. Clarke’s office looks so cosy and spacious. Plenty of room to pace (as I absolutely would while talking about my feelings, or anything really, because pacing across rooms helps me think). He’s a psychiatrist I’d like to go to, if only he weren’t fictional! Lol.

Edit 5: I like Serena's coat.

Edit 6: These episodes are making me really like Gemma, I don't think I've appreciated her enough before.

Edit 7: Oh, Jonny is so going to end up sleeping with this patient’s mum or something, isn’t he?

Edit 8: Omg the AAU patient’s wife that he kept mentioning actually passed away a year before. I was genuinely not expecting that plot twist, even though Holby and Casualty seem to use it fairly regularly. (Or at least it feels like they do, but I can’t actually recall any other episodes with such a storyline.)

Edit 9: Chantelle likes roller skating! A random bit of trivia to know about her, but I appreciate knowing it nonetheless. I do love Chantelle.

Edit 10: I like the shirt Serena's wearing.

Edit 11: Yep, Jonny asked the patient's mum out.

Edit 12: Gemma having a panic attack. :(

Edit 13: I don’t even like Serena, but they still managed to make me feel sorry for her just then.

Edit 14: Patient parallels can sometimes feel clumsy or too obvious, but the way they’re paralleling Gemma and her patient over their un-dealt-with trauma is really well done!

Edit 15: Serena’s struggle to balance her overwhelming worry for Adrienne as her daughter with her desire to go straight into doctor mode to cope is actually quite cleverly done.

Edit 16: Not Serena lashing out at Chantelle!! I get why Serena’s so distraught, I really do, but... leave Chantelle alone.

Edit 17: I like how Michael’s being really nice to Gemma now, even though he was a bit of an asshole when she first showed up. <3

Edit 18: I love the Sacha and Mo friendship.

Edit 19: Oh, Gemma. :(

Edit 20: Gemma’s patient was comforting her after she had another panic attack, and then, while she was still clearly upset and crying, he went in and tried to kiss her?! Mate, don’t you think that’s the last thing she needs or wants right now?

Edit 21: Okay, Michael’s gone right back to being an asshole to Gemma. He’s blaming her and calling Henrik over the incident with her patient trying to kiss her, saying she was getting “too up close and personal” with him (the patient), when HE initiated it and she didn’t want it or ask for it, and in fact she immediately pulled away and told him no?!

Edit 22: I relate to Mo being annoyed with Jonny. Glad she's going out for a meal with Sacha instead.

Edit 23: Michael is... not being as much of a jerk as he could’ve been, I guess.

Edit 24: Chantelle :(

Edit 25: Gemma went back to Mr. Clarke and agreed to continue getting psychiatric help! Good for her. <3 I think this is a way better handled trauma storyline than some of the ones later Holby did.

[uhhholby]