Christmas Eve Casualties

Now, I've not watched Casualty for ages, believing it to be in the doldrums and never likely to recapture the whole Patrick/Lara era that pretty much died when Dr Spiller keeled over into soup a good few years back. But last time Casualty was good, it had just had a reboot and fancy new opening credits featuring the cast in a variety of mean and moody poses. And guess what, Casualty now has fancy new opening credits featuring the cast in a variety of mean and moody poses, albeit only a few of medics have made it onto the new intro and the music has been composed by satan.

Never-the-less, tonight we discovered why Ellen hadn't made it onto the opening when, while chasing a Munchausen-by-Proxy-suffering Holly Aird out of the hospital, she ran into a motorbike (curiously from three different angles) and her skull caved in. Naturally the ED staff were a tad traumatised, especially as they had just saved Josh from injuries sustained during a knife attack by the aforementioned mad Ms Aird. Josh, however, was always going to be safe as he does appear on the opening titles (despite soon to leave in happier circumstances).

But yes, Casualty appears to finding it's feet again, despite an influx of pixie-faced paramedics, familiar looking northern doctors and apparently inbred, tinsil-haired nurses. The whole episode was filled with a sense of dread, not least because I wanted rumours of Ellen's demise to be greatly exaggerated. Poor Ellen - you were an evil immigrant involved with the mafia/triad/some other eastern European cartel, who forced people to marry you, stole from them and then had cancer. But then you went on Strictly Come Dancing and had a nice new haircut and all was forgiven. Why were you sacrificed thus?

A couple of final thoughts - is Holby so big that the area where Josh was stabbed was snowy, but the location of Ellen's running down could be so sunny? Why do all patients in Holby A&E appear to be from Bristol, but all those in the wards upstairs are cockney? And who'd have thought Josh would have had such a lovely hairy chest?