The Village anyone?

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Just starting, I'm looking forward to this.

Bert does seem to be coming across as the death of somebody constantly.

Not liking the idea of Joe being shot. It's all very harrowing.

That is a good point diddl. but didn't many factories start by making one thing, then started making things for the war effort, then go back to making the original thing after the war was over.

Did I miss an episode?

Does seem to skip chunks of info and leave use to fill in with presumption, cow shooting dad I'd now buried I take it and they worked out he injured the other cow

I also am slightly weirded out by Caro's 'therapy' appearing to have worked.

And the lady of the manor turning all bitchy mac

Also disturbed that Caro has seemed to have fallen for with the evil head doctor.

I love the way George says the name caro though.

I agree the time lapse jumping can be very confusing. Next week we jump from 1916 to 1920.

Anyone else betting Martha has a mini Joe next week?!

It would be handy if they had a title saying what year we are in.

It confuses me that the vicars daughter and Baristows wife?!? look similar

And that Caro and Baristow's wife's 'friend' both look sort of similar too

I thought the horrible doctor was the horrible school teacher at one point.

They need a cast list, with a who's who and who does what, a la Jilly Cooper.

shell shock was recognised by 1915 - 80,000 were treated for it in WW1, including Seigfried Sassoon

Oh a mini Joe ....will Grace assume it's Joe senior who is the father? If there is a mini Joe, that'll be two mini Joes out and about. Wonder if Grace will want to keep baby#2...

I wondered if Agnes and Bairstow had married.

I am also weirded out by the psychiatrist and Caro. But it is a classic, she is beautiful and vulnerable, he has 'cured' her so she loves him, he is chuffed to bits because can control her. I think over the years there will be a lot more to that story.

I have to say i wept last night, it was horrific. I also think that there will be a story whereby Grace and John want Joe to be honoured on a village plaque. Which of course he wont. Because he was a 'deserter'

Hope Margaret doesnt turn her back on Grace

I have to say i wept last night, it was horrific. I also think that there will be a story whereby Grace and John want Joe to be honoured on a village plaque.

i mean along with all the others - like on a mini cenotaph IYSWIM

So Bairstow is working for Lord Edmund & trying to get gossip/dirt-on anyone or just the factory boss?

So, if the wife only told Agnes about the impotence & now those at the big house know, won't Bairstows cover be blown?

Martha-that's not going to happen if he was shot as a deserter, is it?

Imagine how insulting that would be to the relatives of ones who died in action.

Sorry, didn't see your post above the one I quoted from.

thats ok diddl you know what i mean though? in their eyes he did his bit and went to the front and got shot for being too sick to return to the front. it would be 'right' in their eyes to have him on the list of those fallen, but the village and authorities wouldnt have it.

This makes my evenings spent in the old village hall for Girl Guides/Brownies all the more significant, i used to see all those dusty flags and medals and think 'meh'. God i wish i could go back and see it differently

Oh yes.

It was-well to me-a bit confusing.

So he came home on leave-legitimately-was on his way back-although wouldn't have made it.

Brought back by Bairstow-SS diagnosed by Dr.

Who then at the big house absentmindedly said-"I wonder if I should tell the authorities?"

So I think it was all up for him then-let alone being seen carrying Bert!

I guess it would add more interest to a story re a memorial if there is a deserter in the mix.

Plus they've managed to incorporate a deserter without him actually deserting!

Wonder if the CO school teacher will be back next week?

I know - i was yelling at the TV - 'get an army doctor in'

i actually love the fact that they are spanning the entire 20C. I would love to have known the past comings and goings in our village and who is who amongst my friends although-my mother does her best to fill me in on the gossip but that is only from the 60s onwards!

Another thing i thought of last night. I like the whole argument with John and 'Tim from Corrie' about the farm. It got me thinking of Heartbeat, where there is always a story about two neighbouring farmers hating eachother because of some feud over ownership at the turn of the century! I can see that one spilling over too.

Right thats it - i am hooked

He deserted by not returning at end of leave
they would have an address for him

Hence

The point i KEEP trying to make about shell shock is that although it was diagnosed in 1915 this would have been with specialists, NOT GPS in Derbyshire and there was also a lot of contradiction as to its nature - physical etc.
the idea that locals meekly say " oh yes its shell shock" is unrealistic.

I suppose I didn't feel that last night's story really worked-that it was a bit forced to enable some other plot device iyswim.

But thought that the acting by the guy playing Joe was really good.

And when his mother was holding his face & giving him a kiss on the top of his head & was shaking.

So-the roaring 20s next!

Wonder how roaring it gets in The Village??!!

Maybe confined to "The Big House"?

nehru i dont think anyone is missing your point no-need to be shouty

I think shell shock was only mentioned once last night, and even then it showed how people confused the symptoms. Remember the GP tried to explain it and said to the Middletons that it was probably toxins from a shell, and Grace said (after speaking to Joe) that there was no shell, so that couldnt be it. So the GP will have heard of it but didnt understand it himself, remember this is 1916 so he will have heard mutterings about it (it was published in the Lancet in 1915)

Even at the dinner table in t'big house they didnt mention SS, only that he didnt return because he was sick, and creepy doc said 'well he isnt a malingerer'

We all seem to be mentioning SS more on this thread, because of knowledge in hindsight.

Fair dos.
Tbh I'm still baffled by the cow thing.

I thunk everyone is baffled about the cow thing. perhaps it will be revealed next week