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Call the Midwife continued...

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AnneEyhtMeyer · 04/03/2016 17:28

Just saw we were dangerously close to filling the last thread so have taken the liberty as starting this one.

Ah yes, Christopher Plummer as the Captain does things to me too.

Ida - Those pictures are amazing! He looks better out of his dog collar!

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lavendersun · 06/03/2016 21:28

I am still "disappointed of last week" here, no tears!

Screen still not measuring up to the book. Find the Turners increasingly annoying on screen.

Nice to see Trixie not look as shallow as usual this week.

I do rate Pam Ferris though, someone at work said she had been ill in real life. Not sure if that is right.

Girliefriendlikesflowers · 06/03/2016 21:50

Can't believe Sister Evangeline has died Sad going to really miss her, she was such a big character.

I am gutted the series is over, its the only programme I sit down to watch every week Sad was hoping Tom would have proposed to Barbara by now!

Also disappointed that Chummy didn't turn up at the funeral, surely Miranda could have spared 5 mins for the show.

Pipbin · 06/03/2016 21:56

Even if Miranda couldn't or wouldn't be in it one of the characters could have mentioned that she was waiting at the church or that she had sent a card.

MrsJayy · 06/03/2016 22:05

Tbf the last 2 series have not been from the books

MrsJayy · 06/03/2016 22:06

I really expected chummy even 2 minutes at the funeral would have done

GinIsIn · 06/03/2016 22:08

I think it was right that Chummy not appear at the funeral she has been in it at all for several series, and if she's suddenly popped up it would have been all about "ooooh, chummy' back" and not about sister Evangelina. But they need to find a way to bring Ben Caplan back full time because he's fab!

Alisvolatpropiis · 06/03/2016 22:25

I don't think Patsy is controlling. It was a "standing up for my partner" moment. Delia has been quite forceful in encouraging Patsy in to exploring the underground lesbian scene so they can be open together if only for short periods. They're eachotjers strongest support.

MrsJamin · 06/03/2016 22:28

Oh man I was convinced at the beginning when Barbara got bitten that it was some awful disease that she contracted and that she was suddenly going to die before having done it with Tom! But yes. Blubbing. TBH I have had an emotional weekend so it wasn't likely I could hold the tears back anyway. Sad that that's the end of the series, this one was a humdinger! What's people's predictions for the Christmas episode? I think a wedding for Tom and Barbara!

BertieBotts · 06/03/2016 22:45

I'm wondering if there will be more Thalidomide births to come or if that would be too cruel to show. The thing is they would have kept seeing them for the next 9 months, perhaps longer if people hadn't got the message and had kept them lying around, it must have been sickening.

TeaOnEverest · 06/03/2016 22:49

Crying my eyes out here. Binge watched the last few weeks on catch up, then sister evangelina. Waaah

foxessocks · 06/03/2016 22:54

Loved this series it was great. Is that true they won't be on netflix much longer? I want to rewatch from the start to fill the Sunday night void!

Fontella · 07/03/2016 00:26

That was just so, so good. It really is such an excellent series, so beautifully put together. I must admit I welled up a few times in this episode.

I love it when they do the musical sequences - just images and some musical track from the day. There bit where it was just music and a close up of the grief etched on the faces of Sister Julienne and Sister Monica Joan - played so superbly by Jenny Agutter and Judy Parfitt - was just a fantastic moment tonight.

Then the expressions on the faces of the Doctor and his wife - fear, horror, disbelief - all rolled into one as the enormity of what was unfolding before them hit home.

Hard to believe that's it for this series. A big void for me on a Sunday night. It's also one of the few things I make a point of watching every week and I shall miss it.

MrsWigster1991 · 07/03/2016 00:28

I cried like a baby at the last episode. Blush

Redglitter · 07/03/2016 01:11

I've watched every episode of this and always thought the nuns and midwives stayed at The Martyrs House it's only tonight reading this I've realised I've been mishearing it EVERY SINGLE EPISODE Blush

IdaJones · 07/03/2016 02:05

I was born in 71 and it's strange to think that some of the doctors i remember from my childhood may well have prescribed thalidomide ten years before I was born. I hadn't thought of that before.

IdaJones · 07/03/2016 02:07

Nonnatus does sound a bit like The Martyrs

NoahVale · 07/03/2016 06:57

There was an episode about shoes in the past, with Sister Evanglina, someone got her new shoes

MrsJamin · 07/03/2016 07:06

I think they brilliantly highlighted how hard it was to find the thalidomide link, especially the fact that people may not have been prescribed themselves or had pills from a while back, or taken it before they knew they were pregnant. How awful as a doctor to know that you gave someone something that did that to their baby. Sad

NeedACleverNN · 07/03/2016 09:31

There was an episode about shoes in the past, with Sister Evanglina, someone got her new shoes

Wasn't new shoes. It was her old shoes mended because they were falling apart.
It was her jubilee.

I wonder if sister Monica Joan ever felt guilty she ate the rest of that cake and that sister evangelina got none....again

ppeatfruit · 07/03/2016 09:35

Yes I so agree Fontella It was quite excellent last night. I'm still a bit wrung out after the emotion. Sad I think Pam Ferris is one of the best actresses we have at the moment.

MrsJamin Someone upthread mentioned that it is still prescribed. Can you believe it? Shock

Alisvolatpropiis · 07/03/2016 09:40

ppeatfruit

Thalidomide doesn't haven't any effect when not pregnant and after a certain point in the pregnancy is similarly safe to take.

ppeatfruit · 07/03/2016 09:51

I know but if you're a female and at childbearing age , it's still difficult to know how far gone you are or even if you're in the early stages of pregnancy.

It shouldn't be prescribed for women of childbearing age unless they're sterilised.

Lj8893 · 07/03/2016 09:53

And what's to stop women sharing it around like they did then too? Obviously it is now well known that it causes birth defects, but not everyone will be aware of that!

katienana · 07/03/2016 09:53

Just watched it, I think the thalidomide story was handled really well. My mum told me she knew of a baby affected by it and it was a case of the mother being passed the medication by someone else - so they weren't entitled to any compensation. The emotions around that must have been just awful.
Sr E I suppose we should have seen it coming. How lovely that she got to.hold a baby one last time.

ppeatfruit · 07/03/2016 09:59

Exactly Lj8893 . DH remembers a tiny girl with false 'dolly's arms' at church in 1965, he says everyone talked about it. Poor little girl. I thought the little Susan was gorgeous.