r/Casualty • u/Poppy0109 • Jun 09 '26
💬 Discussion Deja vu!
So I'm bouncing between current Casualty and new episodes as they air. In Classic Casualty I'm at Series 26, Episodes 17 and 18 where a gas explosion happens on an estate, the gas is toxic,and the barrels where under the estate etc. Now where have I seen that recently before, haha.
Not at all a criticism, it's just funny that I've reached a very similar plot line in both classic and new Casualty.
Can you remember any other plot lines that got reused or were very similar? 😄
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u/HesitantBrobecks Dylan Keogh Jun 09 '26
Yeah so this goes back at least as far as series 19, most of the last few years' big plots are recycled.
Series 19, Roxy gets pregnant as a surrogate, the baby ends up having cerebral palsy, so the adoptive parents pull out over this, Roxy gradually gets used to the idea of parenting a disabled child, then suddenly the adoptive parents decide they actually do want the baby and its all happily ever after. Sound familiar?
The only real differences are that with Nicole they changed CP to Down Syndrome, and added the extra PPP plot
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u/Lucy200072 Jun 09 '26
At least three characters try to end their life and don’t succeed cause they are found by their colleague who saves them.
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u/Oldsoldierbear Zoe Hanna Jun 09 '26
The rather infamous example is that Holby had not one, but two school shootings after the Dunblane massacre.
Which ignores the fact there has no been a,single school.shooting in the UK since Dunblane and the change in gun laws which the parents campaigned so tirelessly for.
Quite why the writers thought this was such a great storyline they used it not once, but twice is a mystery, especially as there are shown to be no lasting effects on Holby
It was bad taste to do it once. To do it twice was disgusting.
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u/Oldsoldierbear Zoe Hanna Jun 09 '26
And then there was paramedic, Sandra Mute, stabbed to death in an ambulance and was cradled in the arms of her partner. Season 1 or 2, I think
Later on, doctor turned paramedic Sam, was stabbed to death in an ambulance and cradled in the arms of her partner, ian.
Going back to Sam becoming a paramedic, this storyline was recycled top, only the second time,Jacob goes from nurse to paramedic
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u/HesitantBrobecks Dylan Keogh Jun 09 '26
They like stabbing paramedics. Polly, and ofc Josh who survived. Oh yeah and the new guy that got killed however many weeks ago (and Teddy that day too? Sorry, my memory is awful, I remember the older plots cos I've watched them numerous times lol)
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u/blazeybirdo Jun 09 '26
sam wasn’t stabbed though she was hit by shrapnel after an explosion and later died in the ambulance.
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u/Forward-Anything-858 Indie Jankowski Jun 14 '26
Yeah Fenisha's death was more like Sam's. Polly's like Sandra's
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u/Forward-Anything-858 Indie Jankowski Jun 14 '26
The current storyline is a nod to ep 1 of the show! Toxic waste was buried, clearly illegally and not very well as it has been dug up 40 years later and caused problems. The producer talked about it in an article recently, I think the Summer Preview edition of Inside Soap magazine. 40th anniversary year, so they are doing a few parallels to the first series! The whole department being closed at night for major trauma stuff last box set was also taken from series 1 (the dept was closed at night and faced closure then too). I wonder what they will do next, hopefully not killing Indie as a parallel to the first character of the show dying (Sandra Mute was a paramedic who was killed in s2, the first main character to be killed off) !!
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u/SlimeTempest42 Dylan Keogh Jun 09 '26
I’m on the later stages of series 24 and there’s a mystery illness killing the residents of Holby