#bbccasualty

You cannot criticise Dylan’s actions during the domestic abuse storyline while hailing Connie a hero. She was great with Ciara during last nights episode granted but if she had done her job in the previous episode as seen above rather than blaming Ciara for the inspection then it’s a possibility that the events in last nights episode might not have happened. 

Not that i’m just blaming Connie , As I said she was great in last nights episode but my point is she’s not blameless in this - nor is Dylan. 

He was pushy and ignorant and made things worse but there is a reason why Doctors don’t treat family/people they care about. All reasoning goes out of the window - you’re too emotionally involved. If I was in Dylans situation I would do everything in my power to protect Ciara and it would drive me crazy knowing she might go back to him. 

Just because someone out of desperation tries to control a situation where someone they love is being hurt does not make them an emotional abuser. They may be wrong and stupid but it’s not abuse. If Dylan stood by and acted calmly and rationally while the woman he loved was being abused, he would be accused of being a psychopath. He’s human and reacted badly to feeling helpless and scared for Ciara.

I’m going to try to be unbiased here and say certain scenes where people are saying Dylan is abusive can be open to interpretation, such as the one where Dylan pressed the emergency stop button in the lift. Some people clearly saw him pushing her into the lift, trapping her inside and forcing her to stay in there and listen to him. I saw a scene where Dylan wanted to talk to her in private, led her into the lift (which she walked into willingly) pressed the emergency stop button to extend the conversation (which she didn’t object to) and didn’t stop her when she had enough and pressed the button to start the lift again. 

Same with the bathroom scene. Yes it was pushy but I saw him follow her in there, talk to her, offer to leave if she told him to and try and persuade him to open up to her. He did threaten to climb in there with her but that was clearly out of concern for her well being. I am 110% certain that if Ciara had said “I’m ok, leave me alone get out” He would’ve done. 

I think the main thing for me that sticks out particularly in those two scenes is that Dylan was pushy yes but he respected Ciaras limits and didn’t force her to do anything she wasn’t comfortable with. He brought subjects up she didn’t want to talk about and tried to push her to admit the truth and accept help but he never physically forced her to stay somewhere or do anything.

The only time he didn’t listen to her when she told him to stop talking and leave her alone was during the counselling scene which was just after he had seen the scans of her broken bones. 

They were literally on their way to a womans refuge when they crashed so I don’t know why people are saying Dylan didn’t want her to get aftercare or whatever. After the truth came out and Joel went, Dylan did everything by the book because she was safe. He was only taking her because that’s what Ciara wanted which leads me on perfectly to my next point. 

People talk about Dylan treating Ciara like a pet or a child but seriously the way you dismiss every choice she makes is ridiculous. She is damaged and has been through a lot but she is a grown woman capable of making her own decisions. 

From what we’ve gathered next weeks episode is going to prove that (and actually it’s likely it will also prove that Dylan respects her decisions). 

Sam was gone for 6 years. Since there marriage ended, Dylan has not been romantically involved with anyone. Then, as soon as she dies (like literally 48 hours after), he is all of a sudden lighting up a spark with the first female he has any extended period of interaction with. This same someone is a woman that a) he did not particularly get along with the last time they were together, and b) is an alcoholic. None of this is a coincidence, and here’s why.

• It’s almost as if Dylan has been in denial that everything with Sam is over. Even though he knew they had ended and could never realistically be together again, while she was alive there was still a tiny part of him which told him that there would always be a tiny chance and that it would be wrong to be with anyone else while that subconscious hope was still there. Now that she has died, that chance has gone from almost non-existent to completely non-existent and he has told himself he has to finally move on.

• Ever since he broke up with Sam, there has been a piece of Dylan missing. He ignored and didn’t even really notice that this void was there due to his refusal to admit to even himself that he was not really over her. As soon as Sam died, this void become impossible to ignore as she was now completely and physically gone. It was being talked about all around him and his own personal loss that had been there all those years became obvious to him. Ciara is his way of trying to fill the hole that he is afraid of and desperate to be rid of.

• Dylan was drinking whilst he was with Sam. The fact that an alcoholic has come to him for help straight after she has died forces a connection between Ciara and the time in which he was married to Sam. Getting with Ciara is actually just his way of feeling closer to Sam due to the memories that her struggle with alcohol are bringing back for him.

To think #ShaunEvans was behind of every single second of this preview as the Director of #CASUALTY S32×E36, it’s totally surreal. Tonight, Saturday, May 26, 2018, BBC.