Casualty - Season 22

So, Casualty is going filmic for its new season which starts next Saturday on BBC1.

It follows Holby City in adopting the filming style - what do you think about it? It has been heavily slated on forums but - and excuse my ignorance - what is so bad about it?

Preview clip on this site of the effect

I'm a little bit lost, is this effect achieved by removing frames or something? Some people complain of choppy motion and one even mentioned it triggering an epileptic fit on Holby City Personally I don't understand what the fuss is all about.

Views, education, etc? Thank you!

The ad for this new series is abit of a copy of Living TV's Grays Antomy one.

You know, they did this about 10 years or so ago - a filmic style to Casualty. It lasted all of about 3 episodes and then went back to the normal style.

Probably due to complaints. The same will happen this time!

Wonder if they will update the titles? they may change the theme but it sounds ok so they probs wont.

I think they're updating the theme again as well.

Can we have a comparison of with the film effect and without please?

I think the problem last time was the effect they used was very crude indeed and resulted in an awful juddery picture. Watching it actually made me feel genuinely queasy - very odd.

I suspect it'll look better this time. Although whether it'll suit the prorgamme is a different matter.

For example, if you watch Doctors or All Saints on BBC1 this afternoon they have the 'filmic' effect on their programmes. And then if you watch eg. BBC News this isn't fimic.
You'll be able to notice the difference.

I find it hillarious that on the website it says "Will Harry and Selena have a future together?" Of course they won't - she's brown bread!

Well let's see. Firstly, viewers rebelled when a filmic look was first tried in 1994. So how arrogant they are giving it another go.

Secondly, what will it actually bring to the show other than a so-called "trendy" look? I happen to think that far from making a show look modern, the filmic look is actually a hugely retrograde step. Think pre-colour when everything had a (real) filmic look, and well in to the colour era when exteriors were mostly shot on film. Once programmes were shot on 100% VT, they seemed more alive and made you feel you were there among the action. Untreated VT is the closest TV gets to what the naked eye sees.

Thirdly, the filmic treatment and the accompanying oppressive lighting gives Casualty a grandure disproportionate to the actual product. It's a weekly medical drama FFS, not a feature film.

I predicted this would happen a few months ago and it seems I have been proved right. Why all the fuss? Simple, the viewers gave their verdict 13 years ago but in the end their opinions have counted for nothing.

Haven't you just hit the nail on the head though? The reason for its introduction will be purely artistic, and to make people think that they ARE watching something more than just a weekly medical drama.

I happen to think it's an improvement. You don't. I'm sure opinion will be divided, but hey, they can't please everyone.

more bonkers arguments from tvarksouthwest.

closest to human vision is progressive tv pictures. The brain DOES NOT scan a picture into little lines, then understand the odd and even lines...