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[thetrashqueeeen]

sorry are we supposed to believe Flynn’s only 40? Flynn who canonically went to med school with Stevie? Stevie who is played by 44 year old Elinor Lawless, who I think at one point said she was 42, who fucked around plotting revenge before becoming a consultant for said revenge and has been a consultant for like 5 years already post the revenge fuelled fucking around? A job where the average age for first appointment is 38? Making Stevie pretty much analogous in age to aforementioned Elinor Lawless? Who is five years older than we’re supposed to believe flynn is????

[thetrashqueeeen]

can we just- for a fucking moment- talk about Stevie in these bloody box sets. Stevie who had seven bells beaten out of her in a hospital corridor, who then watched a junior member of staff take a beating knowing it was meant for her, who was cornered in a bathroom by the man who did that, who was emotionally abused by her intimate partner, who witnessed ongoing violence from a young age due to growing up in the troubles, who was so rattled by someone being aggressive near her that she administered a sedative to stop him at severe detriment to her career, who was stalked lest we forget and actually say something about what the impact of that day would be for her? She literally had a gun pointed at her, which would be hard enough for most people but for someone who’s been on the sharp end of violence so much in her life i feel like someone should be saying ‘right we really need to make sure Stevie’s ok that would hit pretty close for her’ and nobody ever does

[guppysandhu]

just a normal man

[thetrashqueeeen]

just seeing the back of Maggie’s head is enough to heal me i swear

[nooneyouknow2143]

Bring back stupid little subplots in casualty

Make Jodie bring a stray cat home which seems to hate Cam and only Cam

Make Dylan spend a whole episode in the background fighting to cancel a membership he doesnt want.

Make someone say a backhanded compliment to Teddy who spends the whole episode asking people their opinion on it

Make Indie obssesed with stupid online stuff and every so often you'll hear her in the background explaining who Tyler Catastrophe is to Jacob or quoting tiktoks

Make Rida find 67 unnecessarily funny and every time someone says it she smirks and trys not to burst out laughing

Make two random characters spend multiple episodes argue about stupid shit

BRING BACK POINTLESS STUFF WHICH ISNT FOR SHOCK VALUE

[mx-piggy]

every time i look into nicole piper's big, beautiful eyes i can't help but fall a little more in love.

[guppysandhu]

the dream team!!!!!!!!!!!

[thetrashqueeeen]

the cold fish and the doughnut. i hope they’re ok fr😭😩

[thetrashqueeeen]

idk if this is a weird thing to say or if it’s actually even intentional on the part of the crew but i often forget how small and pretty stevie is if that makes sense? like she’s always the centre of her scenes even when she’s not and she’s so opinionated and clearly in charge that her beauty kind of takes a back seat somehow? and then sometimes she enters a scene on her own (and quietly) and i kind of see her from the outside for a moment and im reminded that she’s this like incredibly beautiful person if you get me

[thetrashqueeeen]

Look I know this is meant to be a somewhat serious scene- I know OK?

But this is face is BIBLICALLY accurate. This is EXACTLY how you would look at your best friend when she tells you she’s been fucking your bosses husband💀

[thetrashqueeeen]

I would like to add to the annals of ‘biblically accurate faces made by actors in bbc soap casualty in response to very specific situations’ and propose this screenshot of lesbian Jan Jennings after inviting the straight woman she’s fallen in love with to sleep on her sofa in response to an incredible trauma and said straight woman calling her pal in return

[thetrashqueeeen]

i’m lowkey (highkey) loving the Stevie Rida friendship and i lowkey (highkey) want Stevie to be the person Rida shares her diagnosis with and they connect about feeling unconfident in their bodies because of medical issues

[thetrashqueeeen]

I’m finally catching up with lethal legacy and I’m having some thoughts about the stevie matty mess. I’m gonna put it under a cut cause these thoughts are scattered

OK so first of all i just want to get what the fuCK out the way right at the top because genuinely Stevie what the fuck are you playing at??? This is genuinely the worst example of Stevie just absolutely putting her life into a shredder as a form of self-punishment to cope with bad feelings. What I will say is she does seem to finally be facing up to that a little bit (that I’ve seen) so hopefully this is the beginning of her character development away from that.

Now we can get into the juicy stuff cause I think this is actually a really complicated mess that they’ve found themselves in, and I don’t think it’s really as clean cut as one of them being at fault more or less than the other. I think the power dynamic between her being senior to him is made different by the fact the senior person is her. Let’s not pretend more junior men aren’t treated with the same respect more senior women are on a regular basis and, while that’s not the case here, it’s not really fair to say Stevie has the same systemic power over Matty as if it was gender reversed. Therefore I think the power dynamic is reduced slightly but not removed.

I also think referring to a 25 year old as a child is infantilising and weird. His brain is fully developed, he’s a grown person and, while I think a 25 year old and a 43(?) year old is not a sustainable or healthy age gap, I don’t think it’s inherently exploitative. Where I do think we’re missing some nuance is that I think Matty is very inexperienced in adult work-life and this is something I would regularly see in the medics when I was at uni (and obviously this doesn’t apply to everyone but I more mean as a general observation). Medics often were not kids that had saturday jobs, or jobs at uni or basically anything outside of education and extracurriculars. By the time I got to my post-uni job I’d worked in bars, restaurants and a call centre in both part time and full time capacities. I had created and sustained friendships with coworkers and managers and come to understand how work was different from school. All the medics I knew at uni or even the doctors I know now- being a doctor was their first job. Matty also talks about his dad paying for him to go to medical school which implies his living costs were paid for and therefore reinforces the idea he’s never had a job before this. With this in mind I think my issue with the relationship is that Stevie was expecting Matty to function as an older and more experienced person and was then surprised and annoyed when he acted young and inexperienced (which he is)

This kind of links into my third issue here which is that Matty’s response to Stevie’s mistake was fundamentally childish and she is right to be annoyed with him about it. Stevie may have made a mistake but she made a mistake that was identified, corrected and had no long-lasting impact on the health of her patient. She had recently had significant health issues, took medication prescribed to her by a doctor, had side effects that caused her to make a mistake and then proceeded to stop taking it. If the mistake had been properly flagged at the time she may have had some kind of interventional meeting but I would expect she would have probably just been given a warning or put on some kind of probation for a period of time as this mistake had significant mitigating circumstances. The act of hiding the mistake is fundamentally worse than the mistake itself and, at the time she was informed about it, the mistake had already been hidden. Stevie seems to have been hiding the hiding more than hiding the mistake. Matty’s response to her mistake is like that of a child, who can’t see the nuance of what would actually happen. However I don’t think it’s his age that’s causing him to act like that- I think it’s the fact he’s never worked anywhere before. I know it would likely shake down the way I said above because I have experience in the workplace and have seen those situations shake down before both on the outside and the inside. Matty can’t seem to see the difference in circumstance between he and Kim paralysing someone because they didn’t want to ask for help and Stevie’s mistake despite them being poles apart.

Which swings me back around to my final point which is that Stevie had casual sex with a younger and more inexperienced person and should not be shocked that it became a big deal to him and that he acted as though he was young and inexperienced. I am also big mad with Stevie for not just going to Flynn in about episode 3 and saying ‘OK so after the death of our close personal friend and mentee, Matty and I slept together. It was a really bad decision, I’ve ended things and I want you to be aware so we can try to professionally distance ourselves as much as possible in the short term and i’m telling you this because he tried to cover me missing the morphine in the handover and yeah i think i do need to talk to someone’ and it literally wouldn’t have been that bad.

So basically the end of this big long ramble I probably could have structured much better but couldn’t be bothered is that firstly it’s wildly stupid for them to have slept together in the first place, the way Matty acted in response to that is ridiculous and I can see why she’s annoyed but equally you chose to have a casual sexual relationship with someone completely new to the adult world of work and maybe even casual relationships as a whole truly girl what were you expecting to happen????

[fellwjavachips]

im gonna need them to Stop putting stevie in Situations now. give her the ol dr masoum and send her off screen for most episodes except for when she gets to come back and be an Excellent Doctor for like. three patients. please leave her alone!!!

[thetrashqueeeen]

outwardly i agree with this but i would miss her so can i suggest instead of just sending her off for a bit she gets to be in the back of all the Other Situations that don’t involve her making hilarious commentary just being fully on her bullshit and completely protected

[thetrashqueeeen]

i’m getting late stage barson brain rot in the year of out lord 2026 and i don’t know what to do with that

[thetrashqueeeen]

hey so erm as a person who’s had an ED, Kim was probably reminded how much she missed exercising when Matty ran in on the first day and she may have from then started to exercise and from there fallen into other behaviours she couldn’t stop sorry for pointing it out

[thetrashqueeeen]

hey not to be depressing on main (who am i kidding i can’t remember the last time i wasn’t depressing on main) but do you think stevie thought about all the absolutely insane things that have happened to her in her life after kim died and got curious enough to not eat for a day at work- just to see if she could understand why kim would do that to herself- and when she felt that smoky, heady feeling she kind of got it but not enough to die over. do you think it was when Flynn found out and commanded her to eat and she refused even though hunger was gnawing at her middle that it dawned on her with such staggering force that she immediately went to eat a full meal in the canteen even though she was on shift and swore to herself she would never ever do that again. do you think she understood kim after? cause i do

[thetrashqueeeen]

rip kim you would have loved olivia rodrigo’s new album single

[thetrashqueeeen]

… is Flynn approaching the roof?

[thetrashqueeeen]

i was wrong to post this the only time Flynn is approaching the roof is when he throws Chris Banfield off it by the scruff of his neck

[thetrashqueeeen]

yano what i really can’t wait for? and i know im gonna potentially be waiting forever but if anyone in that writing room lurks this tag pls do this for me. i cannot wait for the most awful fucking call that stevie simply cannot bear the weight of and she comes back and she’s just stood there- that stupid red jacket in one hand and a white t-shirt streaked in blood and dirt tucked into her trousers, and dylan comes over to ask her if she’s injured and she just drops the high vis and starts to cry and dylan pulls her into a hug and she’s like shoulders shaking sobbing because faith nearly died so many times and pearl is hooked up to 17 different kinds of tubes and kim is dead and her sister is dead and it’s all her fault and she’s just watched yet another innocent person die because she wasn’t up to par and it’s all so awful that she simply can’t stand to hold it anymore and everyone looks on their eyes widening and heart rates picking up because if stevie’s crying something must be very scarily wrong