BBC Casualty: everything from the cranium to the phalanges

[StripySocksAndDocs]

New thread as the old one comes to its end.

[frazzled3ds]

Crikey......

That was a belter.

[Violetroselily]

That ending felt a bit odd...like they want the person that (probably) dies to be a surprise, but it just seemed a bit unrealistic. Would she really not realise she had that injury

[Highfever]

Wasn't expecting that!!

[alwayswingingit]

@Violetroselily I agree. The ending was a bit weird for me.

[greathat]

AW :'( I don't want anyone to die! (might be watching the wrong show) People I have no attachment can die!

[Jaxtellerswife]

As soon as she hit the ambulance in the explosion I thought she was a goner.
Well made episode

[SerendipityFelix]

Uh???? Wha????

I missed 5 mins in the middle because my dog is poorly and had to be let out in an emergency :-(

That was too much going on, I need to rewatch pronto. I thought it was clever how it started by going back in time a little. I got confused though because I thought the woman being chased was Sam, but it wasn’t was it.

[StripySocksAndDocs]

Isn't there something about shrapnel that it can go unnoticed for a while?

Beginning confused me. Took me a while to figure out it was back in time a bit.

[Violetroselily]

And where is Eddie?

Presumably done a runner, you'd think someone would have questioned whether he'd been apprehended

[frazzled3ds]

There's a short season trailer on the Casualty Twitter feed if anyone is interested.

Nice to be seeing a bit more of Dylan again.

[Icecreambythesea]

I was expecting Sam to have suffered a head wound, so the ending came as a big surprise. Do you think she's actually dead? Poor Ian is going to have to live with this.

[ellesbellesxxx]

Literally can’t believe that just happened..

[TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross]

The trailer does answer some of these questions.

I thought it was a very well done episode. Ruby stood out for me: some lovely little moments with her. And Dylan was great. Liked Duffy’s advice to Ethan too about how to be with Alicia now.

[SerendipityFelix]

What was with all the radios conking out. Are there no phones in the ambulance station - was her best bet really to treat herself in an ambulance and wait to be found, rather than go in the office to use the landline, or to her locker and get her mobile, and call for help?

DP (copper) says it is realistic that she wouldn’t have noticed the wound though, he says when people have been stabbed they often don’t realise, just think they’ve been hit/punched until they notice the blood loss.

[zukiecat]

Haven't watched Casualty for ages, but I used to be an avid fan, watched it from the very first episode in 1986

That was a belter of an episode! Casualty always used to have the most unlikely character die, you always used to know that when there's a huge fight to save someone's life, then that character would survive, and something very swift and unexpected would happen to someone else

Holby is a dangerous place to be a paramedic

Josh - Stabbed
Jude - Stabbed
Polly - Stabbed
Nicky- Stabbed, then thrown off a building
Jeff - Killed in an explosion

Now Sam, possibly fatally injured in an explosion

Various nurses and doctors have also been killled in accidents

[MrsSnootyPants2018]

I have watched casualty religiously since I was about 10. I'm now 25 and that was one of the most emotionally draining episodes ever.

Pregnancy hormones and Casualty don't mix.

[purpleme12]

I was shouting at the Tele, so tense. Shocked. Cried at the end.

I agree it was emotionally draining although I can remember episodes that were worse I think.

[Rebecca36]

I'm still traumatised from tonight's episode. I had a feeling that a member of staff would die and then it looked as though they were all safe - until.....
Oh poor Sam.

[spiderlight]

Bloody hell, that was intense. Sam probably didn't notice the shrapnel wound immediately because of adrenaline, and the shrapnel subsequently shifted and nicked an artery (this happened years ago to an old friend of mine who fell down some stairs and broke a bone, was thought to be fine other than that but died two days later when a tiny tiny bone fragment that hadn't even shown up on her initial X-rays moved internally and pierced an artery).

[MadisonAvenue]

I was really confused with the beginning. I thought I'd somehow missed an episode showing the aftermath of the crash.

[Girasole02]

I was convinced that Bea's taxi would be in the pile up. The way they wrote her out was so lame that I was expecting more.

[purpleme12]

Isn't Bea coming back?

[SerendipityFelix]

along with Ethan’s bad eyesight

Maybe he had laser eye surgery 🤓

Bea hasn’t been written out has she? She’s just gone away on a course, she’ll be back.

Am rewatching, just to get my head around it.

[PaddingtonBearHardStare]

I think they messed up and forgot to put x hours previously on the screen. It made no sense!!