BBC CASUALTY: we stare into the middle distance for Charliexit

[AnImaginaryCat]

Counting down to the long awaited day!

What do we reckon?

Abducted by aliens
Falls into woodchipoer trying to rescue someone
Gets sucked into a black hole
Possessed by demons, priest exorcises him out instead
Sudden Xenomorph attack at Holby
Sudden Predator attack at Holby
Norman Price from Fireman Sam starts a fire & Charlie is finally killed off for good

Surprised by a Christmas cracker is my bet.

Oh for God's sake. My friend messaged me to say it was finally happening Charlie was going. I got all excited and now it's not for ages.
Apparently he has already "been run over by an ambulance on his wedding day, shot in the chest by a schizophrenic man and suffered a cardiac arrest during a gang siege". The heart attack was an especially cruel trick to play.

This. Dear BBC. I am your core casualty viewer. I’m mid 40s and have been watching it since I was about 8. I remember megan. I went to Bristol uni and saw it being filmed. Charlie was behind me in the checkout queue in Clifton sainsburys in the 90s.

Casualty, bake off with Mel and sue and 80s neighbours are the only tv shoes I’ve ever actively caught up on missed episodes or made plans to include.

it is utter shite at the moment. I was happy when Robyn died. I’d be glad if faith fell off a cliff. I’m eagerly awaiting jan’s retirement bash. I don’t care about the new junior doctors- they’re ridiculously childish and unprofessional. We want people falling into dodgy combine harvesters. Falling off ladders into glass roofs. I only want staff having emotional crises if they’re on the unlocked roof gazing into the middle distance. Or in the basement of doom with a knife wielding psycho.

Sort It Out!!

The childish group of four are actually nurses, not junior doctors. It’s quite depressing actually as I don’t think a group of junior doctors would ever be portrayed as being so ridiculous, unprofessional and clueless, but as they’re nurses it’s “fair game”.

And is Faith doing cocaine now??

Last time I checked she was just taking Diazepam pills?

But its a classic Charlie move! I'm sure they do it deliberately!

They NEVER have a notice period. It's so weird.

Maybe Charlie will have a notice period and just leave like a normal employee would? They could give him a card and he can bring in cakes.

We could see him going to an ‘Understanding Your NHS Pension’ seminar and looking puzzled.

Hang on, what did I miss? Why is Iain now having a crisis?

Did an old writer come back and not realised that had been Holby Solved?

The incident last night reminded him of that one that caused him to have his breakdown.

He needs to get away from faith though!

She was crushing and snorting diazepam bizarrely.

Ian and Faith is a disaster waiting to happen. Neither is emotionally stable enough to support the other. And why is Sah having top surgery if she is a they/them not a he/him?

I thought exactly the same thing about Sah.

I always just assumed Sah was a female but didn’t feel like either sex hence why she preferred they/them.

She can’t be non-binary if she wants to surgically alter her appearance to look like a man though can she as surely it means she wants to present as male? ?Ergo she will be a trans-man and a him and not a they/them?

Or maybe Sah will change to a “him” instead of a “them” after the surgery?

I find the spectrum of all the transgender terms quite complex though so I try not to ponder over it too much as I don’t know enough about it to make it any valid
comments really. I just accept it’s a soap and take the realism of the storyline with a pinch of salt, like I do with most of the other storylines too 😂

Because they don't want breasts I imagine. Possibly not so that they will be male without them, more not female?

Does Sah know about whatshername's diagnosis? Or was it just Rash and Robin? If not I image Sah is going to assume that its all about them and whatshername is being bigoted. Then we will be treated to yet another staff story at the detriment of weekly building disaster patient stories.

What's that sucken thing, where you stick with something just because you've done it for so long? Think I've got that with Casualty!

Apparently the actor who plays Sah, who identifies as they, has had the surgery in real life.

I do find it difficult that they treat the subject as lightly as ‘top surgery’ as a double mastectomy is a big operation. It’s good I think that Paige is shown to find this a difficult choice although I’m sure it will all be nicely resolved in an episode.

I do think this story line is going to go the way of Teddy and Sah thinking Paige just doesn't approve of Sah"s choices without realising why she is finding the idea of 'top surgery' a bit problematic and triggering.

Weird

@AnImaginaryCat - sunk cost fallacy?

All long running TV series seem to go down the route of focussing on the staff's personal lives rather than what they do. I've been watching ancient episodes of The Bill, which were tightly-written 30 minute ones focussing on the crimes they were dealing with. By the end it was messy with tedious storylines running across several episodes, and the number of dodgy murderous cops they had was absolutely phenomenal. Casualty is very much in danger of going the same way.

What's that sucken thing, where you stick with something just because you've done it for so long? Think I've got that with Casualty!

Do you mean ‘sunk cost fallacy’? 😂

sunk-cost fallacy
noun

1. the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial.
2. "the sunk-cost fallacy creeps into a lot of major financial decisions"

I think we’ve all got that with Casualty 🤣

You might be onto something here @nahwhale! The amazing unique storyline he's come up with is he actually works his notice period!!

Haven't watched for ages. Do they still have a steady stream of patients who decide to re-wire the house electrics whilst wearing copper wellies standing in a bucket of water?

Sadly not. Instead we just tend to get the ambulance turning up to haul the patients back to Holby whilst discussing their personal lives along the way. Unless it's Jacob, of course, who will probably help them make the accident happen.

Those were the best type - you could play guess the accident