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The Village anyone?

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PenelopePisstop · 31/03/2013 21:01

Just starting, I'm looking forward to this.

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AllOverIt · 22/04/2013 07:28

That link proves it then. Maybe the fade to black and silence was to feel the gravity of all those village men dying on the battlefield...

GypsyFloss · 22/04/2013 07:36

So ....did the scarred man shoot the cows on the order of Caro's mother so that George had no excuse of being a farmer and then did he kill himself cos he knew the horror that he was sending his youngest son to?

I don't Joe is dead, I think Grace's face showed tearful relief. However I think Joe's walk home reflects the mud of the trenches.

diddl · 22/04/2013 07:39

Wasn't there a time that even farmers were called up?

Especially one as young as George-who doesn't actually do any farming?

Anyway he could go if he wanted to, couldn't he?

The stuff with Caro & the Dr was hideous.

Can't believe they let themselves be pushed around by him so much!

At the beginning when old Bert said that he decided that Joe would be OK if he won the Rondo, he then looked downcast, so I assumed that Joe wasn't OK.

So at the end, thought that he had gone AWOL tbh, & that the paper that was put up might have said "missing in action"

The Lord from the "Big house"-guess it was him who injured the first cow?

So did his memories of the war send him mad, or was he always so-hence Caro?

louisianablue2000 · 22/04/2013 10:15

I'm now thinking Joe has gone AWOL as well, which is why he is in his boodstained uniform with no luggage.

diddl · 22/04/2013 10:26

Unless he is home on leave & is shell shocked & just jumped on the next available transport iyswim?

Or home for R&R after going "over the top"?

difficultpickle · 22/04/2013 10:27

If he has gone AWOL he'll be shot as a deserter Sad

BeaWheesht · 22/04/2013 10:41

If you go to the link I posted from BBC and look at next week it gives some clues...

diddl · 22/04/2013 11:27

I don't like the sound of that!

Can't help thinking that something will happen to Joe whilst home on leave!Sad

NuhichNuhaymuh · 22/04/2013 14:40

That's what I thought, Joe had gone AWOL. certainly not leave so soon after last (though don't know time scale), doubtful he'd be let home for R&R either.

I think old Bert look downcast because Joe lived through the Somme, deserted and was shot OR if he is on leave again he's totally broken by what he saw, and was lost to his family anyway.

diddl · 22/04/2013 14:50

I think something bad happens to Joe.

I'm thinking he dies-and not a hero.

Paul(?), his friend, died in trenches, young teacher an CO, older one finally allowed to join, brothers from the "big house" exempt due to occupations, their father finally kills himself because the war has reminded him of the horrors he saw, so that's just about all possibilities summed up!

So Joe to be the deserter?

The young teacher-has he spent the time in prison-as he was led away by MPs?

LadyMountbatten · 22/04/2013 14:52

JO is certainly not attractive
I dont get the fan stuff

AllOverIt · 22/04/2013 16:04

The link suggests he has shellshock so I think there'll be the repercussions of that. The Joe that they knew has died, in a way Hmm

LadyMountbatten · 22/04/2013 16:06

yadda yadda

I Want to know about snood man and why he shot them horses

and where the POsh mother got this idea about the therapist from and why isnt HE at war?

Still18atheart · 22/04/2013 16:10

I'm also think Joe has gone AWOL. And is shell shocked.

Why isn't that inspector/ detective guy who was dtd with the Caro look alike not at war??

AllOverIt · 22/04/2013 16:20

If he's over 41 then they didn't go...

Bessie123 · 22/04/2013 16:21

He doesn't look over 41. But what's that saying about knowing you're getting older because policemen are looking younger..? Grin

diddl · 22/04/2013 17:03

I think the police was a "protected profession"?

Wasn't it Agnes he was with?

AllOverIt · 22/04/2013 17:45

It was the fiance of the son that died in the trenches

LadyMountbatten · 22/04/2013 18:08

no the THERAPIST

LadyMountbatten · 22/04/2013 18:09

Hasnt the copper got a fake leg? From Boer war mebbe?
actually scratch that, he is too young

PenelopePortrait · 22/04/2013 18:44

Well I fell asleep. Riveting this is not.

AllOverIt · 22/04/2013 18:47

The therapist was definitely too old. The cut off was 40

Still18atheart · 22/04/2013 23:33

I thought that the inspector was more of a private detective type and that he wasn't actually employed by the police.

wannabedomesticgoddess · 23/04/2013 03:21

I think the teacher was warned with the firing squad and then sent to war.

The scarred man shot the cows and then himself so that George would go to war. Still puzzled by the fact that the older brother isnt away. Why is he exempt?

No idea who mutilated the cow. Probably Tim from Corrie.

Joe wasnt on the list but his mum was torn between being happy that hes still alive, and not being able to show it because so many other men from the village were on the list.

Joe will have shell shock, turn to drink and essentially become his father.

It is really depressing. And I have to watch it alone with no distractions. If you miss even 30secs the whole thing gets confusing.

The mother in the big house has realised whats going on with Caro so hopefully next week will see a stop to that. Were people really so trusting and blind to things back then?

GypsyFloss · 23/04/2013 06:44

I presume the eldest brother was called up as he seems to be the local MP or similar? This week he as talking about what 'his people' wanted and he also sat on the panel that judged the teacher.

I agree that you can't miss even 10 seconds of it and certainly there's loads left to interpretation.

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