BBC CASUALTY: He's gone and we just move on (no notice needed)

[AnImaginaryCat]

New thread. New era. New series.

@hoarahloux I wrote doctor and then doubted myself and changed it to nurse🙄 Has it been said shes her sister as I've missed that bit?

Also wondering this @longtompot . So the disabled woman who Nicole is having a baby for is Nicole's sister is that right? I thought they were just good friends?

I don't actually think they've said how they know each other

According to this article, Rosie is Nicole's friend, not het sister. I've not read past the first sentence though in case of spoilers!

www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1901469/BBC-Casualty-Nicole-Piper-surrogacy-diagnosis-decision

I must have just assumed they were sisters! Whoops

The impression I got from Saturday’s episode was that the friend had pressured Nicole to act as her surrogate through guilt because of something Nicole had done (or failed to do) in their past, probably which had resulted in Rosie needing to use a wheelchair - but that actually it wasn’t (wholly) Nicole’s fault.

Did anyone else feel that?

Yes thats what I thought. I think when we find out what it was that happened it would be something they did as teens/young adults that Nicole feels.guilty about and Rosie unfairly blames her for.

I felt that Nicole was doing it at least partly because she felt responsibility for the accident yes. Although I didn't feel like Rosie pressured her.
Whether she was or not is another matter. Although it seems like Rosie blame her a bit as well...

Don't watch tonight's while eating your dinner

Was a bit messy there, wasn't it Ranger, lol.
Ramping it up a bit for the finale, but strangely feels a little anticlimactic... I do love Dylan. Nice to see him a bit more Dylany this week

So is Patrick incompetent or setting everyone up with him swooping in to save the day?

Oops , it has gone very messy.

Incompetent I think which is why he keeps getting others to do his procedures for him whilst pretending he is letting them do it for their development.

I agree.

Although there may be a developing reason why he’s making mistakes but hasn’t always, so grief or a progressive medial condition perhaps.

It sounds as if he wasn’t performing well in his last post, though, if that’s what Dylan’s brief phone call was about.

Love Ngozi

And yes good to see Dylan back being Dylan!

I'm glad they look as if they're moving to closing the Patrick storyline, I was getting worried he was going to succeed in edging Dylan out. At least this time around there were plenty of witnesses so I hope they're not going to let him wriggle out of it. I suspect the surgeons weren't too impressed about having to deal with a nicked artery caused by a consultant.

It's interesting that we appear not to care in the slightest that Jacob is resigning (again)!

I'm glad that others are starting to see it.

I knew she would end up with the baby some way or another. I predict a custody battle.

My love for Dylan remains.

Do not care in the slightest and It doesn't ring true that he thought he could put a young baby that had spent time with Mum, then been abandoned by Dad outside a hospital then persumably in foster care, then with Mum in prison then finally with Grandad in childcare while he worked long ambulance shifts and the baby not have attachment issues.

I'm more surprised about more evidence of Holby's disregard for employment law. He should have been given parental/adoption leave from the moment he got the baby. Nevermind Jacob's flaky attitude to work.

I thought this too! How did he get straight back into work and drop the baby into the creche?!

The creche lady wasn't my favourite portrayal of an early years worker either. At the very least a conversation like that should have taken place somewhere private, not in a hallway however comfy. And "isn't progressing as quickly as we'd like" about a baby with the amount of disruption Carter has experienced? I mean, if she was trying to hint that the kid needs a bit more stability... I think that's a conversation better had out of public view.

Meanwhile I continue to shout ‘where is Elle?’ at the screen. Never mentioned once.

I'd be absolutely delighted, I find his seriously annoying.

Also don't care about Jacob's resignation. He's just so annoying.

You'd almost believe the character was convinced looking after a baby was easy as pit. It was just all women, before him, had just made a fuss about nothing regarding looking after small babies.

don't care about Jacob's resignation. He's just so annoying.

Except I doubt it's the last we hear of him.