BBC CASUALTY: we stare into the middle distance for Charliexit

[AnImaginaryCat]

Counting down to the long awaited day!

It felt a bit like a reset.

I was thinking that too re Ryan! Why is he foregoing his sick pay?
Re Ngozi - hope she sticks around!

The mum under the car could have been a proper old-school spot-the-victim buildup where you're not sure whether it's the mum fiddling with the car or the daughter rushing to get her shopping who's going to be the patient. The patients really are incidental to it all now, though - there's no sense of investment in them at all.

Think I must have fallen asleep in week before last

How did Ryan get injured

But yes surely he would wait for sick pay .compensation etx

Agree Paige dumped teddy when called off engagement

Don't want to marry you but want to be with you

Well once she finds out teddy been dipping his dick elsewhere she won't want to know

Any another flies off with no warning or notice

Ah found it - fast forwarded the episode

37m

man in chequered shirt at bed of Woman/wife went crazy

Stevie froze

And not sure why they said found a pulse - I didn't think he was that badly beaten in 30 seconds

I obv fell asleep in that it. Don't rem that at all

Ruptured spleen

Are we going to see the back of Sah and their moping around?

So are we to assume after their surgery they are not coming back?

It does seem that way. These characters really don't like their sick pay!

Yes it was all very odd. Going for surgery and Jan saying if you ever want to come back. Surely sick pay to the max at least 🤷🏻‍♀️

Didn’t they say when the surgery was first scheduled (before Casualty’s long break) that they would work until their surgery date and then be handing in their notice? I do have a vague recollection of this.

Doesn’t explain why nobody wants their sick pay, of course. That’s just weird Casualtyland logic!

I have vague memory of Sah saying that too. I wonder if they wouldn't be getting sick pay as the surgery is elective and could be viewed as cosmetic? But jacking in your whole career rather than just taking an unpaid break seems a bit extreme.

Fairly sure there'd be a good few weeks recovery for top surgery.

I think we can conclude contracts don't exist in Holby World. Therefore it's possible sick leave doesn't exist.

Though mind you Sah didn't say she wasnt taking sick leave, just she wasn't coming back. That could mean coming back after sick leave.

I mean there is nothing to stop someone handing their notice in whilst on sick leave, but outside of TV drama I've only known it to happen if someone has another job to go to, or is about to be sacked.

I think they were leaving for other reasons - they’d struggled with being put in dangerous situations and didn’t want to continue putting themselves at risk - hence the “time to put yourself first” narrative of this episode. But there might’ve been more nuance to it that I don’t recall.

I think the top surgery discussion would have been more believable if the actress hadn't already had the top surgery so was totally flat-chested.

I'm wondering if Charlie's exit will be part of the violence in A&E story line.

Yes thats true - i was just trying to give the writers a small bit of credit that they'd be realistic.

However, generally people hand in their notice during sick leave of the sick leave relates to work (such as work stress). Or because they are actually not truely ill and are in a disapline case.

I don't think we know why Sah is leaving - do we? If i haven't missed it, it's like they are leaving because of the surgery. Which is weird!

They.

I'm sad to see them go, I like Sah a lot. It must be a pretty gruelling recovery after top surgery so maybe they had no choice, but that was never explained so it does seem strange that we just accept "oh I guess they have to leave".

Characters dropping like flies again if both Sah and Ryan are gone for good. Max and Charlie leaving soon too.

*actor

No one has mentioned it yet ...
But I am confused about something...

Why was it Stevie's fault that Jan said her paramedics were put in danger ?

They were in danger due to the volatile situation at the asylum place .

The red card situation didn't come about till they were in the ambulance with the man ..

Why was it all Stevie's fault ?

I thought this. Surely the ambulance could have at least moved out of danger without knowing whether they were going to Holby or St James, which seemed to be the options available to them.

It was Stevie's fault because due to new requirements she needed to confirm the patient wasn't a previously "red card" patient, which means banned from the department for abusive behaviour. Later it was confirmed that Habid wasn't the same as the patient with the same name who had been abusive, without a DOB Stevie couldn't confirm that. But with an unconscious patient (as Habid had just been) surely there was no way to confirm?

Seems entirely ridiculous but Holby seems to operate on its own rules.

I had to go to A&E yesterday and it was nothing like Casualty, apart from the waiting times, extremely frail elderly people tucked up in a corner in blankets waiting for 3 hours with their family all around, blood pressures being taken in the lobby, screaming children being carried in by their frantic parents, and receptionists having comedy moments trying to work out why a phone charger doesn't work! Honestly the 90 minutes flew by! I'd recommend it if I wasn't 90% certain to get covid from it!!

(I hope the elderly man and the little boy with a broken arm are okay :( )

And people in NHS wheelchairs being sick into cardboard containers, parked right in the middle of reception by nurses! Apologetic husbands at their side!

Are we correcting people’s posts now? 🤔

Are we marching dully with gritted teeth towards an unwise Ian/Natalia fling? I think we are.