No ?
What was it ?...and who's bubbled her to the ss ?
I assume the lady who filmed her? You know the one whos mother.step mother was pretending to be in a wheelchair but it turns out she was a psychopathic husband beater and she basically caused the death of the womans father but the woman in blaming it on Connie.
Well...Not much in the way of patient storyline and not particularly interesting in terms of the staff ones. Connie spends a shift being rude and judgemental, nothing new there, and it's hard to care about her personal problems. I was hoping Charlie would really lit rip at her, but while he showed how awesome he is once again, the moment never really came. Plus the resurrection of the long past its sell-by date "Tess is a cow" storyline, which has been going on ever since Fletch "left", long before Zoe "left". (Incidentally, has Ash gone completely? I notice he's been taken off the opening titles. Another weird exit if so.)
What else happened? Oh yes, apparently everyone found out Noel is Honey's father in between episodes. Louise really should have made them exchange those presents simultaneously, rather than letting Noel get self-conscious. Honey wasn't too bad here, but cartoony character traits like her calling Zoe "Hannah" really need to go.
Apart from the nurse (Lofty?) making a video on one of the busiest nights of the year , especially at the beginning we were told there was a shortage of staff
It was a better than usual Casualty episode
Well, very much a story of two halves really and sorry, I don't intentionally try to make epic posts –
Resolved or progressed most of the themes of the year. I quite liked the use of the phone/video as a way of communicating both the festivities and tying the team (minus one) together. The Dixie piece at the end was particularly poignant, the Tess stuff is about finding some balance after a really hard-year (although I am a tired of it being blamed on Connie, Tess was already out of kilter before that with Fletch and what’s actually wrong with demanding higher standards in an Emergency Department?) and of course Charlie’s contribution was key in that it was both very true to the character and deliberately designed to tie-in with the A-plot for the episode.
A little Honey goes a long way. Her stuff with Molly (and hopefully Molly does get, at the very least a decent send-off) could have been given to any other Nurse – perhaps a good way to deploy Rita, what’s going on in her head throughout? Her relationship with Noel is quite poignant – the snow-globe was both naff and sweet – it also gives Tony Marshall something to do for a change and utilises his comic double-act with Azuka Oforka’s Louise well, whilst neatly avoiding the fact that they don't really need two main-cast receptionists.
Dylan’s definitely a strong addition – authoritative without being too rude or cruel, dry but honest and technically able and I like his thing with Lofty.
The Poppy stuff is classic Casualty and a smart way of including Robyn having been absent for much of the story. Not eating and then over-eating is grim – and is the same condition suffered by liberated prisoners in Belsen. British medics gave them soup and bread but their systems couldn’t cope. In the end, Horlicks malt drinks and Quetta famine mix with added Paprika fixed it. Let's pass-over Connie's middle-class assumptions here (mostly no doubt generated by a Peckham childhood), oudles could and will no doubt be said about that and they were in the end retracted. Poppy's assumption that Social Services are automatically the Enemy is typical and disheartening – they are exactly the right people to raise holy hell about her mouldy housing and insufficient funds – complete with a good medical report. They are a tool and yet, it is difficult to disentangle the politics here (or the creative arts world’s Labour bias and assumption that throwing money at a problem will fix it i.e. the anti-cuts agenda). Reality, no matter how we might feel about it, is that those who pay taxes, vote, save etc and therefore pay for and contribute to the system (Connie) will always call the shots over those who do not (Poppy), sometimes as in this case, through no fault of their own, and those who do power the system, put a low-value, sometimes without even realising they are doing it, on those who don’t – in essence, the money goes to the economically productive (pay taxes) and not to those who do not. In the end, it doesn’t matter how fair the system is, there are always going to be winners and losers and sometimes even the winners get clobbered, walking blindly towards disaster….
Where it gets messy is Connie. Given the spoilers this obviously ties-in with Hayley Blake. She’s such a self-contained person that seeing her so obviously twitchy is unpleasant. Both she and Zoe was unhelpful in completely different ways – Zoe doesn’t know the details and although not the best way to go about things, assuming it was Zoe dobbing her in is, given her state of mind and that she knows that she involved Audrey again, logical given their past, Connie’s not thinking straight and it has probably destroyed the new, evolving equilibrium between them. It certainly helps to know Holby City here – it is obvious the two Beauchamps are struggling and there is nobody (just Audrey who clearly loathes her and Sam who is almost totally absent from their lives – he chose to leave England and there is presumably a very good reason Connie didn’t say move them to NYC to be closer) – it says more about how isolated she is than anything else, they must know she’s doing it on her own. They will bend over backwards for each other, but not the one person who most needs it. Simply, by not socialising and being tough with them, she’s shot herself in the foot because in the end, she’s not part of their team, just as a boss they tolerate and for somebody who had such a strong relationship with Elliot Hope upstairs, that's really depressing.
She would have seen to it for anybody who specifically asked for leave or counselling after Jeff, but she expects you to pretty much just get on with it, demanding toughness, resilience and professional detachment from them all – it takes a hell of a lot for her to break her own rules. She must have known ordering Ash on leave would have been counter-productive, manoeuvring him to decide to go himself is more consistent and then, once staffing stabilises, she can take a break herself – thus not inconveniencing the department. Duty is important and she may well blame herself for the crash, bottling it up and it’s only beginning to blow now.
The GMC however is epic. Given we know that in ‘Losing Grip’, Grace was a contributing factor with Connie trying to pull her away from the Wilson’s Syndrome guy, thus the mobile footage is out of context, suggesting one thing – the Blake lawyer knows he’s got a dud case (finally!) and the only way to win is to destroy her personally. Crude, but effective. It’s a loss of licence scenario and let’s face it, Connie is nothing if she is not a Doctor. Some might say, you should be a parent first, but in the end, she is a driven, Type-A, high achiever who would simply have no purpose or direction in her life, outside a hospital for any length of time – they might as well kill her. Quite why everybody involved thought this constituted entertainment for cross-over Holby City fans and why they have made her possibly irredeemably unlikeable to Casualty-only fans remains mysterious. Is this dramatic karma? Who knows?
Given Mealing's mysterious November Tweet - this has got to be her exit storyline. They’ve trashed her too much to be fixable now. Hayley Blake’s evil stepmother will intervene and after Hayley settles, manoeuvres to bump-off Hayley thus Connie is wrongfully arrested and loose Grace to Audrey making relations worse and the dried-out husk of what was once Queen B will have to give up her profession to get her back, reaffirming again that women on TV dramas can’t be successful working mothers.
Oh why couldn't they have just left her in the champagne bar at St. Pancras in December 2010? It was a good exit.
Love Molly and Zoe together, Tracie Bennett is perfect as Molly.. Hope Molly gets a good send off, so deserves it..
Will be surprised if Amanda Mealing leaves Casualty especially as she moved her family down to Cardiff from Lincolnshire. This was the main reason why she left Holby as the travelling was getting her down, so when the offer was made to bring Connie to Casualty, the family went with her.. This was in a magazine interview some time last year, radio times I think.
Can't really see her up-rooting her family for 12 months and leaving.. Maybe she is taking a break from the show just like Sunetra Sarker (Zoe) did.
Love Molly and Zoe together, Tracie Bennett is perfect as Molly.. Hope Molly gets a good send off, so deserves it..
Will be surprised if Amanda Mealing leaves Casualty especially as she moved her family down to Cardiff from Lincolnshire. This was the main reason why she left Holby as the travelling was getting her down, so when the offer was made to bring Connie to Casualty, the family went with her.. This was in a magazine interview some time last year, radio times I think.
Can't really see her up-rooting her family for 12 months and leaving.. Maybe she is taking a break from the show just like Sunetra Sarker (Zoe) did.
I thought this too, but she's been in Cardiff a year now - maybe they haven't settled as a family there?
Comments
Max and Zoe - sooo not awkward!
I keep missing this, what was said?
Love Zoe's top looks too glam for A&E!
Just that he looks awful and feels it
He looks alright to me ;-)
http://www.listal.com/viewimage/2093788
He's not been in the episode much tonight, did look rough at the end.
Just realised majority of the characters are single, it's about time Charlie went on a date When was the last time he had someone?
No ?
What was it ?...and who's bubbled her to the ss ?
Could it be Grace trying to get revenge on her mother?
I assume the lady who filmed her? You know the one whos mother.step mother was pretending to be in a wheelchair but it turns out she was a psychopathic husband beater and she basically caused the death of the womans father but the woman in blaming it on Connie.
What else happened? Oh yes, apparently everyone found out Noel is Honey's father in between episodes. Louise really should have made them exchange those presents simultaneously, rather than letting Noel get self-conscious. Honey wasn't too bad here, but cartoony character traits like her calling Zoe "Hannah" really need to go.
Indeed!
The letter said her meeting would be on 31 Jan 2014
It was a better than usual Casualty episode
Resolved or progressed most of the themes of the year. I quite liked the use of the phone/video as a way of communicating both the festivities and tying the team (minus one) together. The Dixie piece at the end was particularly poignant, the Tess stuff is about finding some balance after a really hard-year (although I am a tired of it being blamed on Connie, Tess was already out of kilter before that with Fletch and what’s actually wrong with demanding higher standards in an Emergency Department?) and of course Charlie’s contribution was key in that it was both very true to the character and deliberately designed to tie-in with the A-plot for the episode.
A little Honey goes a long way. Her stuff with Molly (and hopefully Molly does get, at the very least a decent send-off) could have been given to any other Nurse – perhaps a good way to deploy Rita, what’s going on in her head throughout? Her relationship with Noel is quite poignant – the snow-globe was both naff and sweet – it also gives Tony Marshall something to do for a change and utilises his comic double-act with Azuka Oforka’s Louise well, whilst neatly avoiding the fact that they don't really need two main-cast receptionists.
Dylan’s definitely a strong addition – authoritative without being too rude or cruel, dry but honest and technically able and I like his thing with Lofty.
The Poppy stuff is classic Casualty and a smart way of including Robyn having been absent for much of the story. Not eating and then over-eating is grim – and is the same condition suffered by liberated prisoners in Belsen. British medics gave them soup and bread but their systems couldn’t cope. In the end, Horlicks malt drinks and Quetta famine mix with added Paprika fixed it. Let's pass-over Connie's middle-class assumptions here (mostly no doubt generated by a Peckham childhood), oudles could and will no doubt be said about that and they were in the end retracted. Poppy's assumption that Social Services are automatically the Enemy is typical and disheartening – they are exactly the right people to raise holy hell about her mouldy housing and insufficient funds – complete with a good medical report. They are a tool and yet, it is difficult to disentangle the politics here (or the creative arts world’s Labour bias and assumption that throwing money at a problem will fix it i.e. the anti-cuts agenda). Reality, no matter how we might feel about it, is that those who pay taxes, vote, save etc and therefore pay for and contribute to the system (Connie) will always call the shots over those who do not (Poppy), sometimes as in this case, through no fault of their own, and those who do power the system, put a low-value, sometimes without even realising they are doing it, on those who don’t – in essence, the money goes to the economically productive (pay taxes) and not to those who do not. In the end, it doesn’t matter how fair the system is, there are always going to be winners and losers and sometimes even the winners get clobbered, walking blindly towards disaster….
Where it gets messy is Connie. Given the spoilers this obviously ties-in with Hayley Blake. She’s such a self-contained person that seeing her so obviously twitchy is unpleasant. Both she and Zoe was unhelpful in completely different ways – Zoe doesn’t know the details and although not the best way to go about things, assuming it was Zoe dobbing her in is, given her state of mind and that she knows that she involved Audrey again, logical given their past, Connie’s not thinking straight and it has probably destroyed the new, evolving equilibrium between them. It certainly helps to know Holby City here – it is obvious the two Beauchamps are struggling and there is nobody (just Audrey who clearly loathes her and Sam who is almost totally absent from their lives – he chose to leave England and there is presumably a very good reason Connie didn’t say move them to NYC to be closer) – it says more about how isolated she is than anything else, they must know she’s doing it on her own. They will bend over backwards for each other, but not the one person who most needs it. Simply, by not socialising and being tough with them, she’s shot herself in the foot because in the end, she’s not part of their team, just as a boss they tolerate and for somebody who had such a strong relationship with Elliot Hope upstairs, that's really depressing.
She would have seen to it for anybody who specifically asked for leave or counselling after Jeff, but she expects you to pretty much just get on with it, demanding toughness, resilience and professional detachment from them all – it takes a hell of a lot for her to break her own rules. She must have known ordering Ash on leave would have been counter-productive, manoeuvring him to decide to go himself is more consistent and then, once staffing stabilises, she can take a break herself – thus not inconveniencing the department. Duty is important and she may well blame herself for the crash, bottling it up and it’s only beginning to blow now.
The GMC however is epic. Given we know that in ‘Losing Grip’, Grace was a contributing factor with Connie trying to pull her away from the Wilson’s Syndrome guy, thus the mobile footage is out of context, suggesting one thing – the Blake lawyer knows he’s got a dud case (finally!) and the only way to win is to destroy her personally. Crude, but effective. It’s a loss of licence scenario and let’s face it, Connie is nothing if she is not a Doctor. Some might say, you should be a parent first, but in the end, she is a driven, Type-A, high achiever who would simply have no purpose or direction in her life, outside a hospital for any length of time – they might as well kill her. Quite why everybody involved thought this constituted entertainment for cross-over Holby City fans and why they have made her possibly irredeemably unlikeable to Casualty-only fans remains mysterious. Is this dramatic karma? Who knows?
Oh why couldn't they have just left her in the champagne bar at St. Pancras in December 2010? It was a good exit.
Will be surprised if Amanda Mealing leaves Casualty especially as she moved her family down to Cardiff from Lincolnshire. This was the main reason why she left Holby as the travelling was getting her down, so when the offer was made to bring Connie to Casualty, the family went with her.. This was in a magazine interview some time last year, radio times I think.
Can't really see her up-rooting her family for 12 months and leaving.. Maybe she is taking a break from the show just like Sunetra Sarker (Zoe) did.
I thought this too, but she's been in Cardiff a year now - maybe they haven't settled as a family there?
Yeah the virus mention at the start was a bit weird but then i just thought maybe he is lovestruck with taylor?
Looking forward to having ethan back next week for some brother interaction.