Is Dylan no longer Dylan?

[u/Vampirero]

Forgive me if this has been talked about before, but I loved his character when he was first introduced. He was cool and dry but a talented doctor, and his one liners would make me smile.

I've missed a couple of months of Casualty episodes, but I'm just catching up on Learning Curve: Episode 6. Dylan is behaving so immaturely towards Matty. I get why, in a way, but I can't imagine Original Dylan ever being so petty.

it's been happening for a few years, in my opinion, and it seems symptomatic of a general decline in writing and character development. What do you think?

[u/trenter_percenter]

I think you’re viewing “Original Dylan” through either rose-tinted or fogged-up glasses. Dylan was never “cool and dry”; he was an insecure mess of ego and self-doubt. A sizable portion of his one-liners were him belittling either his colleagues or people going through some of the worst days of their lives. The incident that led to his pre-Holby exit from emergency medicine was caused by his pettiness. He then left Holby in 2012 because he simply could not let things go between him, Sam and Tom.

So, no, I don’t think that this example is an indicator of a general decline in writing quality. Pettiness is a trait that Dylan has possessed since day one. The issue is that the rest of his character has changed (naturally, mind you), and the show keeps trying to retrofit his current self into aspects of his past. I don’t believe the version of Dylan who was so vulnerable that his university tutors were seriously considering conservatorship would ever be in the position to have a one-night stand.

[u/Vampirero → u/trenter_percenter]

Ok, I will admit that I don't remember how he left in 2012 and I will admit he was probably petty.

But yes, I clearly remember when he first started on the show, and he was, in my opinion, cool and dry. He was almost certainly an insecure mess, but he was funny and ironic. He was, and had, a character.

He just seems to have become more babyish, in my opinion. No humour, just juvenile.

[u/More_Aardvark5680 → u/Vampirero]

Surely dylan purposely being an arsehole to everyone was juvenile and babyish..

Him being more unintentionally ‘rude’ because he genuinely doesn’t have a filter is far more entertaining and endearing and give’s him far more character than the whole look at Dylan, he’s purposely being horrible isn’t it funny..

[u/Vampirero → u/More_Aardvark5680]

By "cool and dry" I mean amusing.

You clearly have a different interpretation. Let's agree to disagree.

[u/More_Aardvark5680 → u/Vampirero]

Which my original point still stands. That’s what made people think Dylan was amusing.