A blog dedicated to the British TV show, Green Wing.
A Channel 4 comedy-drama which follows the adventures of the childish and slightly mad staff at a hospital.
If the Green Wing Gods see this -
please re-release the show in HD!
Would you by any chance have the gif of (or know the moment in the series when) mac goes to handshake someone and pulls his hand back, and does the "put ur thumb to ur nose and wiggle your fingers" thing? I'm searching high and low and I can't find it. Thank you in advance, ur a green wing deity xx
Here you go anon, made a larger gif from this scene in 1x05 :)
do we think mac asking guy, "so have you given up on her?" at the party is maybe our first hint that he's pining for caroline? can we work out a timeline of mac falling for her? and/or of the scenes when he's looking for ways to get closer to her? or when he's testing the waters or working out whether she's into guy? they're like the ultimate angst/fluff fic and i need something cute to occupy my head aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Note: For some reason I wasn’t able to answer directly to your ask and had to make a text post as HTML kept messing up and wouldn’t allow me to do a “read more”.
1x05 - “Housewarming Party” was a true blessing for Mac and Caroline shippers as this was really the beginning of Mac and Caroline’s romantic journey. This is what I deem to be as Mac’s timeline in series 1.
I have put this under a cut as naturally I decided gifs should tell the story, so this is a looong and very image-heavy post. May not be app friendly, best viewed on a browser!
Let us thank the student in 1x05 during their hospital tour for “sowing the seed”.
And so our tale begins!
It was no secret that Guy had been attempting to sleep with Caroline since her first day at the hospital. He even spread rumours about being successful to the staff which resulted in Caroline making him sign a confession which stated the truth.
At Caroline’s housewarming party, Mac asks Guy the following question.
Guy replies with, “Far from it. It's all part of the grand scheme. Anyway, she's TDTF.” Guy then approaches a drunk Caroline as she’s dancing with attempts to “woo” her and leaving her wanting more.
This resulted in these looks from Mac as he watches on. This is the moment he realises he has feelings for Caroline.
Fast forward to later during the party and Caroline has been enjoying a few too many shots of tequila with Martin (whilst he has been enjoying shots of undiluted orange squash, bless him).
Mac catches Caroline as she falls and does the moral thing and takes her to the bathroom to look after her as those many shots of tequila make a reappearance.
Caroline confesses to Mac that she has only eaten Hula Hoops that day and also tells him, “You're a very attractive man, aren't you?”.
Cue the romantic music.
Ah, romance. But he doesn’t seem to mind as they go in for round two, until they are interrupted.
1x06 - “Tests” brings us to the next day.
And Caroline is currently the “brave explorer returning from the uncharted regions of drunkenness”. Seeing her suffer, Mac tries to help.
It seems to work and Mac seems pleased with himself.
Now that Caroline has recovered, slightly, she wants to discuss the previous night, which we find out later she has difficulty remembering fully.
Knowing that Mac finds it difficult to express his emotions, and possibly not knowing how Caroline really feels about him, he sees Martin as a chance for a distraction and a way out of a potentially serious conversation.
After surgery, Caroline wants to discuss what happened at her party, again, and wants clarification on a certain “incident”. Mac teases her by not knowing what she’s talking about.
Caroline ends up describing how she kissed Guy, getting her drunken memories confused, as well as remembering that she kissed Sue White. Mac continues to tease her and finds the situation humorous until she says, “First you say you don't remember any kissing at all and now you're saying there was kissing in the toilet, which one is it?“
And before Mac can answer, they are interrupted by a certain Swiss anaesthetist.
Caroline, again, goes to Mac to find out the list of everyone she kissed at her party. Mac smiles as she mentions him and that smile soon fades as she mentions Guy. A pang of jealousy, perhaps?
Later, Caroline manages to pull Mac somewhere private and demands to know how the kiss happened between them. Again, knowing Mac struggles with being “serious”, he teases Caroline again by beginning to jokingly act out what happened. Things do finally get serious and there is some strong flirting and tension, although both try to act like the kiss was an “accident”. (Ha!)
Mac pulls away before they can fully re-enact the kiss, leaving Caroline hanging a little. She tries to play it “cool” and acts like she only kissed him because she was drunk. Hm, does she actually like him?
Mac watches on as Caroline leaves. She falls against the wall, weak at the knees...
Next episode! 1x07 - “Tangled Webs”
"Mac, do you think you'll ever have kids?” asks Caroline. Again, this being a “serious” question and his history with “Holly, the tear-your-life-apart baby-killer”, Mac manages to deflect using a pair of random glasses he finds.
“Oh, Nurse Todd, but you look beautiful with your glasses on.“
There is some playful teasing going on here.
“See you later, smelly four-eyes.“
“Oh, I always wanted one of those.”
“What's that, a small boy?”
“No, a remote-controlled car.”
And so Mac bribes a child, with a lighter, to use the remote-controlled car, and then passes the remote to Caroline.
“Ready? Live the dream.”
To mimic Mac’s words in the previous episodes “there was a lot of looking going on.” And again, more tension.
Mac pays a visit to Sue. He is not happy with the shift pattern which allows Caroline and Guy to be off at the same time, obviously knowing about Caroline’s date with Guy. Mac, in a roundabout way, admits aloud his feelings for Caroline.
The plot thickens in 1x08 - “Slave Auction”.
After her unsuccessful date with Guy, Caroline realises she loves Mac. She tries to set up a date with him, not knowing that Mac is now seeing Emily, or as Caroline calls her, “Emilily”.
(Note: At this point, this is where I get a bit ??? I’m not sure if Mac is aware that Caroline’s date with Guy ended sour. We also find out later in the episode that a hospital in Sheffield offered him a consultancy and that Emily is going with him.
Does Mac think he lost Caroline to Guy and thus stared seeing Emily? Did Caroline take too long to admit her feelings? Or knowing he’s moving does he not want to pursue Caroline as it would be easier not to? Questions, questions, questions.)
Anyway, Caroline pretends she doesn’t like Mac and was doing an early April Fool’s joke... In September...
Mac whisks Caroline away as she becomes increasingly catty towards Emily.
Later, Caroline talks about “Emilily”, bitterly, with Mac.
“No disrespect, but she is a bit posh.”
They spat back and forth before Caroline leaves, sarcastically saying, “She sounds great.” This leaves Mac looking a little puzzled.
Later, Martin goes to Mac for advice. He has “bought” Caroline at the hospital’s charity slave auction and they are going to go out for dinner. The advice Mac gives is... questionable. Is he jealous that Martin is going to dinner with Caroline? (Even though he most likely knows Martin doesn’t stand a chance with Caroline.)
And finally, we get to 1x09 - “Emergency”
It’s Mac’s last day at the hospital and a certain “scatterbrained floozy” isn’t too thrilled.
“This is stupid. You've got to tell him how you feel. What have you got to lose? You're never going to see him again. The worst that can happen is that he rejects you, totally humiliates you.“ Angela advises Caroline. Ah, friendship.
Caroline finds Mac and tries to put him off going to Sheffield, with reasons such as flesh-eating spiders up to six feet in diameter. (Hell no.)
She then tries to speak to him seriously. Mac tells her why he acts the way he does. (#Realness)
He finally agrees to be serious for one minute and Caroline speaks to him about how they failed to get on at first.
"You thought I was some sort of incompetent neurotic who went to a boys' barber, and I thought you were a rude, offhand bloke with lady's hair.”
"Being serious, maybe I would have said that, but I wouldn't say that any more.”
Hm...
Caroline spends her day searching the internet, “trying to find fault with Sheffield”. She approaches Mac, who is with Emily, at his leaving drinks. She reads from a print out of her findings on Emily, accusing Emily of being a “fraudulent little tart”. This turns out to be a misunderstanding and Emily puts Caroline in her place, causing her to leave. Mac’s reaction to Caroline’s antics speaks volumes.
Instead of jumping to Emily defense, Mac doesn’t and he finds what happened incredibly humorous. This results in beer being poured over his head.
Mac goes to look for Caroline, who he finds upset in the hospital lecture theatre.
“Go away.”
“Shan't.”
And now the two are alone and are able to finally admit their feelings for one another. (About bloody time.) I’ll let these gifs speak for themselves.
And then Mac makes the move. CUE THE DAMN ROMANTIC MUSIC.
After the long overdue kiss and finally getting together, they leave the hospital and some very suggestive flirting takes place.
And then everything was fine and lovely and nothing else happened after - oh wait, this is Green Wing we’re talking about here.
PLOT TWIST!
Their night is ruined as they get interrupted by Sue, who informs them that there’s been an accident at Guy’s flat. They head over in an ambulance. A very drunk Guy then decides to steal said ambulance with Mac and Martin in tow, leaving Caroline with very shell-shocked Joanna Clore...
And then the series ends on an actual cliffhanger.
But not before Mac smiles at the thought of finally getting together with Caroline.
“Today I'm sad because neither Mac nor Caroline remember the first time...”
I watched the season 2 finale in the middle of pulling an all-nighter to complete a uni assignment... THE STRESS
When Green Wing is described as a “comedy”, I want to laugh because that’s what they want you to think. Then you get sucked in and then your soul gets destroyed.
Actual footage of me during and after the season 2 finale (and for many months after until the Special aired, but let’s be real, this was also me during and after the Special).
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