jamiehugh

But the accident has only just happened. In real life you don't go rushing around to people catastrophizing. Cassie is not, remember, badly hurt. She's in overnight for observation. I agree, they COULD tell Sally, but equally in real life it is perfectly possible that they, for the moment, have got better things to do than be running around gossiping about Cassie being hit by a car. They have their own lives to be getting on with I had a friend recently I saw get hurt and taken to hospital in a similar way. I spoke about it to their family three days later when I ran across them in the shops and expressed my concern and asked after them, knowing (as Sam does), that their situation was not bad. Remember Sam knows nothing here about the baby or the HIV. She'd have just been told at the nurses' station that Cassie was knocked down by a car and is going to be okay. I think what happened re Cassie is much more like what happens in real life personally. More real than what has often happened on H&A when someone is hurt and every man and their dog seem to rush to the hospital to stand vigil. That's what I find the more unlikely scenario. That's just my take on it anyway.

The hospital is in Yabbie Creek. It is not in Summer Bay. It's like saying someone in a small village would have to know that a friend was hit by a car if they were hit in a fairly large town nearby and taken to the hospital there. The kids aren't going to tell Sally, Cassie has threatened them with loss if friendship if they do. Rachel doesn't even necessarily know Cassie is in there yet, as we have not seen her on shift, and as a doctor will have to do what Cassie tells her to. Sam has told Jack. But they're not necessarily going to rush around and go "Ooh guess what Sally, Cassie's been hit by a car." They'd just assume Sally knew. And it's not like Cassie is dying or anything. She's going to be fine. She's just s bit shaken and is in there for overnight observation. So actually, what is happening is very believable if you think about it in terms of what would happen in life as against the usual hysterical over-reaction you often see in soap opera.

In Australia there are three commercial breaks in each episode, so these sharp cuts are often the consequence of closing them up.