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Is there a Call the Midwife thread?

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Oodbrain · 18/01/2015 20:39

The poor little boySad

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musicinspring1 · 01/03/2015 20:58

Shame cos I like the Sherlock landlady actress. The rest of the episode was abit plodding .....

iklboo · 01/03/2015 21:00

Una Stubbs is great. She'll always be Aunt Sally to me Smile.

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iklboo · 01/03/2015 21:08

Oh so he did!

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 01/03/2015 21:15

Yes, I was sad to see that too. He played the Grandad in Outnumbered too.

BeyondDoesBootcamp · 01/03/2015 21:16

Well that was a bally predictable episode!

Next weeks looks good though

dancestomyowntune · 01/03/2015 21:17

Very predictable tonight. As soon as they put the two babies next to each other I said they were going to muddle them up.

The cancer storyline was a bit close to the knuckle for me. A family member has recently hidden it like that while she was caring for her husband. He's now died and she is finally letting people help her.

NotaDinosaur · 01/03/2015 21:18

*David Ryall

girliefriend · 01/03/2015 21:50

The babies being muddled up was a bit Hmm although saying that it has actually happened so maybe not that unbelievable.

I still find it shocking that smoking was so widely accepted - it the babies unit of the hospital Shock

hackmum · 02/03/2015 08:34

The Radio Times preview said that this was going to be one of the most heartbreaking episodes ever and implied it would leave you a sobbing, shrivelled wreck of your former self. So DD and I were quite disappointed to remain dry-eyed throughout.

I also found it pretty unlikely that the nasty posh blonde woman would want to keep the sick baby - actually I found all of it implausible really. They could have raised the stakes by having the sick baby die but maybe that would have been too much all for one episode.

Clawdy · 02/03/2015 09:11

For the first time I thought "Rubbish" and felt like switching off. It doesn't bode well for a new series.

iklboo · 02/03/2015 09:33

Is the season finale Sister Monica Joan water skiing down the Thames & then jumping over a shark?

I wasn't impressed with last night's episode at all. Way too clunky in parts.

MarthasHarbour · 02/03/2015 09:53

girliefriend it was the fact that Dr Turner was sitting in the heart and lung unit of the hospital chugging away at a ciggie. Made me so Angry

And may i make another comment about Sister Mary Cynthia's wistfulness, how has she suddenly turned into Mother Superior giving out her wisdom and worldly wise-ness? She sounded like she had aged 20 years in life experience when she was talking to the other nurse (whose name escapes me).

HoraceCope · 02/03/2015 09:58

it was very soppy, I was watching with dh which is unusual and that might have stemmed my tears,
and una stubbs came back from hospital what seemed like immediately

iklboo · 02/03/2015 10:07

Nurse Jolly Hockeysticks? I keep expecting her to launch into 'lashings of ginger beer'. Smile

dajmibuzi · 02/03/2015 10:37

Can't believe the RT said that?! I cry at everything and not even I cried. Oh wait actually I cried about the lady getting cancer. Such a cute couple.

HoraceCope · 02/03/2015 10:48

did they dedicate programme to him? i turned it off before the end credits

SoupDragon · 02/03/2015 11:03

Yes, they did dedicate it to him. Until this thread I didn't realise though S, whilst I recognised him, I didn't know his name.

Una Stubbs was bothering ,e because I knew it was her voice but I just didn't think it looked like her!

misdee · 02/03/2015 14:53

Didn't like that episode. No flow to it at all.

Only good bit was Fred and Violet. They made me smile

ShelaghTurner · 02/03/2015 15:17

I wasnt keen on that ep at all. This series has been phenomenal and has exceeded my seriously high expectations but it really didn't move me at all. And I loved David Ryall but even he didn't do it. But this year has been so much better than last year so I'll let one worse ep slide. Next week should be better except she's back Hmm

iklboo · 02/03/2015 15:22

The clip seemed to suggest she was buggering off somewhere else though, didn't it? Or did I mishear?

ShelaghTurner · 02/03/2015 15:37

Something about two weeks at the London which unfortunately is a lot nearer than Sierra Leone where I wish she'd stayed! Wink

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JeanneDeMontbaston · 02/03/2015 16:46

I didn't actually mind this episode as much as the one before - which I found really clunky.

I thought the mix-up was a bit odd, and I didn't really get why Sister Evangelina was having such a break down over it - it didn't seem quite in character.

The thing that really struck me as out of place, though, was the Patsy's girlfriend saying she wanted to be married to her. I could be wrong, but I can't see someone saying that in 1960. The same emotion, yes, obviously, but not with reference to a legal change that must've seemed unimaginable then. Did love the 'we don't like cake' bit though. Grin

It does make me think how fast things have changed.

girliefriend · 02/03/2015 16:56

Yes i thought that as well Jeanne it was an obvious reference to the very recent legal change but in 1960 would they have even thought it? Not sure.

Also surely if they liked each other that much could they not look to rent a small flat together as 'housemates' wouldn't have been that unusual? Maybe I am being naive.