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

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The virus is spreading will Holby be ok?!

I’ve been watching it for about 20 years. It was a sad episode but more for nostalgic reasons.
Derek is a very lucky actor to have kept that (highly paid) role, he is terrible. Equally it will be very odd when the time comes for Casualty to not have Charlie in it!

I can't imagine Casualty without Charlie.

TBQH I reckon they could merge Casualty and Holby City. I think both are getting a bit tired.

I rarely watch casualty now. Like Ken Barlow in Corrie , the two that play Charlie and Duffy have been very lucky. They are dreadful actors.
I watch classic Holby and Casualty , both were great back in the day when they were medical dramas and not tedious soaps relying on boring storylines about the personal lives of the staff

Someone up thread mentioned they hadn’t seen the actor who plays Charlie in anything other than casualty. I think he was in the film “The Long good Friday “ it was about the IRA and stared Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren

He was an IRA assassin in Harry's Game, he wasn't bad in that.

So maybe his acting's got worse then. I can't remember his acting in enough detail from years ago to judge how good he was

I will miss Duffy but only because her and Charlie remind me of the good old days when my Dad and I would play “guess who will die this week”
Now I agree, it’s more like a soap

He's probably been resting on his 'fat BBC cheque' laurels for the past 30 or so years. Doesn't he earn about £450,000 a year from being in Casualty?

I'm sure Harry Hill used to do a skit about how Charlie can't make eye contact. I also seem to remember somebody writing in to Points of View to complain about it some time in the early 90s. So it's a long standing issue that we faithful viewers have had to get used to.

Derek Thompson has a medical condition (dystonia) that affects his neck muscles, so that might partly explain why he's so wooden. linky

Just caught up on last Saturday’s episode and I did have tears in my eyes on a few occasions.

I did cry a bit at that episode too, @QueenofmyPrinces - but nowhere near as much as I cried at the episode with Jeff's funeral and the [[ Last Call]] bit.

Sorry - linky fail -

If anyone wants to watch the older episodes, Drama are showing them at 11am every day. I think they’re on 1996 episodes at the moment. Old Holby is on at 10am.

Just seen last weeks

Didn’t know she was going to die

Not sure what she died of ? Hyperthermia

The end with all in the corridor was lovely and seeing lisa Duffy go out the door all looking nice

Maybe I'm being unnecessarily picky, but how come he saw her smiling and standing in the distance before she had actually died? I find the idea of that kind of thing quite comforting, but the fact that she was technically still alive at the time slightly ruins it for me.

She wasn’t alive - the ventilator was keeping her breathing but she’d had a brain stem death test which had shown she was brain dead - I.e dead.

Yes, the ventilator keeps the organs viable for donation, I think?

Yes, it keeps the organs oxygenated prior to removal. Once the removal was complete they would have just taken her off the ventilator.

But what did she die off ?

I thought it was a combination of hypothermis and complications caused by the dementia, but I have to say my attention was drifting at that point.

It's the funeral tonight, so more of Charlie's wooden anguish to get through.

She had another stroke didn’t she which led to catastrophic brain injury?