BBC Casualty: keep calm and cartilage on; it's going tibia ok

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The virus is spreading will Holby be ok?!

No, there was football.

No Casualty last night! Sob Sob! Bloody Football!

But both Holby and Casualty are better than bloody football!

(I'm in a minority there, I know )

Wondered why wasn’t on my sky planner

Bloody football

Do we know why the woman was beaten up outside the hospital the other week?

When a new female doctor turns up and is called Archie, you just know she's going to be annoying.

I can’t make my mind up about the new doctor yet....

I really didn’t like Connie this week - and she looks so, so thin.

Need more Dylan.

Can't make my mind up about new doctor either. Annoyingly or entertainingly straightforward type.

Lots of comments on Connie' s weight on social media. The actress was on Twitter defending herself saying she doesn't have an eating disorder:

I’m forced to address something I’d hoped not to. My weight. Luckily for some of you & your insensitivity I am not struggling with an eating disorder. I am in extreme & constant back pain and have been for nearly a year. Standing for 11 hrs a day takes its toll. End of.

Poor thing.

Charlie's 'acting' failed the challenge as ever last night.

I can't work out why they are down a consultant. Have I missed someone leaving? Ethan is still there, isn't he?

Don't think that matters Isitmybathtimeyet, something as minor as numbers when it comes to Holby recruitment!!

Think there might be another new character next week.

I know that! I just wondered if I'd missed an 'on the day' consultant departure given how speedily they disappear!

Maybe. Could have been cleaner who trained as a doctor in six weeks at night school, straight in as consultant, then left after one shift to become a lead brain surgeon in New York.

(Except we didnt see all that because the football was on.)

I think they've been short a consultant for ages

Short a consultant? With Connie, Elle, Dylan AND Ethan all consultants, surely that's more than we've ever had... Short a registrar, though- that would be Alicia's former position. They do have very unorthodox recruitment policies, for sure...

They don't seem to all be there at the same time though.

No Ethan last night. They may well suddenly be short a consultant to give the new doctor a storyline arc, but the 'sore spot' line made me feel I've missed something. Maybe it was just a reference months ago in a single episode.

Yes, Charlie's acting was dire last night - the scenes with him and Duffy reminded me of school kids reading a play in class.

Can't help but feel that if Connie actress were to abandon the killer heels for a while her back condition would be relieved, but I have no medical qualifications to make such a suggestion!

Haven't watched Saturday's episode yet but saw the trailers of the new doctor...why are "edgy" characters all the same? Ooh, let's give her short hair and a bloke's name and that'll make her edgy and cool. No, it'll probably just make her tediously stroppy. Has she got a dark secret in her past? Probably. Is she arrogant and mouthy but we're meant to admire it as go-getting confidence? Probably.

Like I say, haven't seen it yet - am I close?!

Ooh, let's give her short hair and a bloke's name and that'll make her edgy and cool.

Completely agree!! Casualty is predictable when it comes to its characters and is awful for perpetuating stereotypes.

I said the same when Marty appeared....They introduce a male nurse so surprise, surprise they wrote him as gay and camp. Yawn.

It drives me mad!

As an aside, although I don’t like Jacob I am wondering where he is?? It like he’s disappeared.

Didn't Jacob go off to do some dancing? Or was that last year? Mind you I can't recall if there was a reason given for his absence whenever he did.