BBC CASUALTY - terror rampage death guilt

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ww have David struggling with ollies decisions

Will robin be surrogate

Steve is still annoying

faith and Dylan

I hope storylines get better. Been a bit meh recently

Heads up that this is on BBC Two tonight 8:10pm.

Thanks for the heads up

Thank you have it set up to record on BBC1 but the series link wouldn't have worked.

Yes, many thanks

i feel I need the light distraction of Casualty right now, with emotions running so high.

I can't remember a character in the 20 years of Casualty I've seen who was more repulsive than Paul. Just no redeeming qualities whatsoever, I pray that Robyn has finally stopped giving him sidelong flirty glances. They killed off Noel to bring in that guy? Just why?

Have to say the lacerated trachea bit was more gory than I usually expect, that had me looking away!

Agree, I'm not squeamish about stuff but that was hard

As if the police would leave the horse at the hospital. This is a valuable, highly trained animal. I was amused that it apparantly untied itself from the post, then hoicked the reins back over its neck. How clever. Even if impossible.

was it an attempt to make us like the receptionist? If so, it didn’t work. He’s vile.

Took me a while to realise it was on so I missed half of it.

Stevie was in tears for some reason at that point.

She doesn't have many redeeming qualities either. But I want to like her as she reminds me of such lovely Irish nurses I had a while back so I somehow expect her character to be a good one.

The horse was completely pointless, nearly as pointless as the receptionist.

I don’t quite understand why we suddenly had a caring, emotional and tearful Stevie tonight?

Yes it was a busy, shitty shift, but they’ve certainly had worse.

It’s never been part of her character before to give a damn or experience human emotion so what was the point of it in this show?

They can't have her being nasty all the time.
It's normal for them to throw redeeming qualities in with the nastiness as well

I liked the Stevie from last night. If they keep her caring but justifiably abrupt she could become one of my favourite characters.

Also like the horse. But mostly because I'm all for any excuse to see such beautiful creature as a horse. (Also, got to confess, while I find the character irksome, I did laugh when he told Robin off in case her comment hurt the horse's feelings.

Like they need new cleaners. There was two if them smearing pools of blood about with a mop.

*Think the need new cleaners, rather than like!!

was she just crying because she was tired and busy, or did she actually care about what had happened to someone? I only turned it on at that point, so couldn't really work it out. I should maybe watch on catch-up.

I'd like her to be redeemed, but it'd be hard to trust her as she's shown that she's pretty awful underneath already, hard to excuse things that have been done.

Caring but abrupt I could deal with. The Irish accent just gives me such reminders of my caring nurses that I find it jolting every time she's so horrible!

Last night felt like Casualty of old. Good to see the Holby derby back on and to have so many people back on set! I did wonder where they got all those ambulances from!

Definitely a lot more about patients than we’ve had for a while. I spent the horse moments on my phone though.

I think something about that bloke and his daughter did actually get to Stevie - she seemed to genuinely care about them. It was a much better episode last night. Paul and the horse were a bit silly though (as if that policeman could have ridden there in that state).

I think this new series so far has been more like Casualty how it should be

Even Stevie must realise she'd be an utter disaster as clinical lead, unless of course she has a character transplant which is always possible in Holby. I really can't see why the mysterious board would suddenly decide they want to appoint her. Normally the NHS is unbelievably cautious in how it deals with employment issues, so the chances that they'd want to risk a constructive dismissal claim by Dylan are realistically zero.

I think she has realised, she's been avoiding Management Man where possible and dodging talk of it. Could it be that she's growing up?!

I think Stevie realises she'd be getting the job because she"s sleeping with the Boss Man rather than on personal merit.

You wonder if she has that much self-awareness sometimes!

Maybe she is developing some. But she'd have to have a lot of remorse to make up for how she's been.

And is she at all self-aware how horrible she is to everyone, how uncompassionate to patients, let alone in her relationships to staff?

I wonder how she ends up having relationships, when surely anyone watching her work can see how brutal and unkind she is to people. I can't see how that's attractive to anyone! But maybe they're not looking for personality

Oh, I think she believes she'd be excellent at the job but realises that isn't why she would be getting it.

Which is a start, I guess. Protects the patients inadvertently, even if it's the wrong reason to keep her out of the job!

Though still no awareness of the fact that she's uncaring and horrible to patients as well as staff. Let's hope that whoever is actually in charge of making the final hiring decision realises that qualities such as compassion are needed, as is the self-awareness to know that you aren't

Wonder if she ever went into medicine for the right reasons, and just developed this bitchiness as a result of events (some of which I've missed since I stopped watching for a while, though have gathered a summary over time), but it doesn't really seem possible to change personality that quickly. So maybe it was always for power, control, status, ability to be in charge etc (or money? though haven't seen her being particularly money-grabbing).

I wonder if it will transpire she came from a similar background in some way?