Three lady doctors!!!
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Shockingly, my wish was fulfilled, with two more women in this season’s credits, one of them being Sister Julie, who was around in the last season. Not just that, we had a woman consultant AND a woman juniorest of doctors, which meant we had a scene with three doctors and a nurse, and they were all female! Admittedly, we also had a scene where Scissors compared all women to prostitutes, and Liz (the juniorest of doctors) was patronising to Caroline and using a bloke who fancied her to help her get away with her uselessness. But let’s take it! The consultant seemed like she was more of the Docherty and Yates school than the Turner, with a daughter and husband to juggle. Unlike the other two chaps, Turner appeared in the episode. It’s not yet clear whether he’s soft on Liz because she is (or seems) posh or because she’s a young woman.
It seemed to be taking place quite soon after series 2, with Andrew and Caroline continuing with their carrying on, also Claire and DeVries, who seemed to be talking about a ‘Charlotte’ at home. He also seemed to be stepping into a hospital management role for a few seconds, so we may avoid a third Evil Hospital Manager. Raj had plans to become a GP now, apparently, to which the appropriate response is !?!? as DeVries quite rightly called him out for not growing up. Also, Raj handed a ciggie over to a nicotine addict/desperate smoker who was stupid enough to light it up while ON OXYGEN…
The decision to close Casualty down after the explosion was fine, the rationale for Scissors turning up worked – his hair was just a little too long for my taste, in a sign of his heartbreak because Claire had broken up with him and was having loud sex with Devries in the room next door. On the rebound, he was showing an interest in Sister Julie (not knowing that she had a thing with Dr Extra at the end of the previous series, and a son who was probably DeVries’s.) She was the token staff member there, and Scissors having a fall when he was trying to look cool on his rollerblades was amusing. But the fact that they ended up dealing with three patients after the ward had been closed? The ‘regular client’ I don’t recall seeing before who kept ‘accidentally’ having household implements in unexpected places turning out to be a nurse himself was pushing it, someone stumbling in the door all bloodied at the same time, AND one of the builders getting injured in the basement as if it were Casualty was TOO MUCH.
Although I daresay something like that happened to Mercurio or a colleague.
More successful was Andrew being good with a patient and her husband, and trying to get Liz to grasp that they were treating human beings. Even more successful was Claire’s relationship with a kidney patient who was a weary expert in his condition. I believed that they had a history (strictly medical) in their casual rudeness to each other. So, when another patient of hers – young, healthy, married – looked like he was going to be brain dead and had all these potential organs, and his equally young missus disclosed that, er, actually, he thought organ donations were ‘unnatural’ she had a bit of a struggle. But her line about her advocating for the living and the patient’s wife having to decide for the dead felt spot on (and something Jed Mercurio might have had to struggle with himself, but had successfully dramatized here.) I mean, she’s less good at life, having dumped Scissors because he was too nice and having sex with Devries as if she’d learned nothing from Betancourt in the first series. She seemed to be having qualms about that having seen how devoted the young wife was to her husband.
The episode was specifically dated, not so much by the Lady Consultant’s hairstyle, as by hearing Oasis’s ‘Roll With It’ playing in a pub scene.
Shockingly, my wish was fulfilled, with two more women in this season’s credits, one of them being Sister Julie, who was around in the last season. Not just that, we had a woman consultant AND a woman juniorest of doctors, which meant we had a scene with three doctors and a nurse, and they were all female! Admittedly, we also had a scene where Scissors compared all women to prostitutes, and Liz (the juniorest of doctors) was patronising to Caroline and using a bloke who fancied her to help her get away with her uselessness. But let’s take it! The consultant seemed like she was more of the Docherty and Yates school than the Turner, with a daughter and husband to juggle. Unlike the other two chaps, Turner appeared in the episode. It’s not yet clear whether he’s soft on Liz because she is (or seems) posh or because she’s a young woman.
It seemed to be taking place quite soon after series 2, with Andrew and Caroline continuing with their carrying on, also Claire and DeVries, who seemed to be talking about a ‘Charlotte’ at home. He also seemed to be stepping into a hospital management role for a few seconds, so we may avoid a third Evil Hospital Manager. Raj had plans to become a GP now, apparently, to which the appropriate response is !?!? as DeVries quite rightly called him out for not growing up. Also, Raj handed a ciggie over to a nicotine addict/desperate smoker who was stupid enough to light it up while ON OXYGEN…
The decision to close Casualty down after the explosion was fine, the rationale for Scissors turning up worked – his hair was just a little too long for my taste, in a sign of his heartbreak because Claire had broken up with him and was having loud sex with Devries in the room next door. On the rebound, he was showing an interest in Sister Julie (not knowing that she had a thing with Dr Extra at the end of the previous series, and a son who was probably DeVries’s.) She was the token staff member there, and Scissors having a fall when he was trying to look cool on his rollerblades was amusing. But the fact that they ended up dealing with three patients after the ward had been closed? The ‘regular client’ I don’t recall seeing before who kept ‘accidentally’ having household implements in unexpected places turning out to be a nurse himself was pushing it, someone stumbling in the door all bloodied at the same time, AND one of the builders getting injured in the basement as if it were Casualty was TOO MUCH.
Although I daresay something like that happened to Mercurio or a colleague.
More successful was Andrew being good with a patient and her husband, and trying to get Liz to grasp that they were treating human beings. Even more successful was Claire’s relationship with a kidney patient who was a weary expert in his condition. I believed that they had a history (strictly medical) in their casual rudeness to each other. So, when another patient of hers – young, healthy, married – looked like he was going to be brain dead and had all these potential organs, and his equally young missus disclosed that, er, actually, he thought organ donations were ‘unnatural’ she had a bit of a struggle. But her line about her advocating for the living and the patient’s wife having to decide for the dead felt spot on (and something Jed Mercurio might have had to struggle with himself, but had successfully dramatized here.) I mean, she’s less good at life, having dumped Scissors because he was too nice and having sex with Devries as if she’d learned nothing from Betancourt in the first series. She seemed to be having qualms about that having seen how devoted the young wife was to her husband.
The episode was specifically dated, not so much by the Lady Consultant’s hairstyle, as by hearing Oasis’s ‘Roll With It’ playing in a pub scene.
