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Call the midwife- brand new series starts tonight!!

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Soubriquet · 22/01/2017 10:23

At 8pm

Who's ready for it?!

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Saucery · 13/02/2017 18:47

I used to work with someone who was her doppelgänger and extremely bossy, so I put it down to that Grin

TizzyDongue · 13/02/2017 18:47

Do you think that we're building up to a female doctor? Or at least a woman wanting to be a doctor: the patronising surgeon made me wonder

TheCraicDealer · 13/02/2017 22:58

I thought that with Delia's bit with the student doctors Tizzy. It would make sense wouldn't it.

They completed copped out of the adoption storyline, and I agree I felt more sympathy for Dot than Marnie. Maybe it's because she had that hope and then it was taken away from her, there were parallels with Gloria in some ways. I kind of hoped that character would have a show down with the dickhead doctor for taking so long to do the necessary. Poor woman, and women like her.

I'm liking the Turners, even though some of their lines and scenes are clunky AF. Might rewatch the series where Sister Bernadette trades in Big JC for Dr T.

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 14/02/2017 09:07

it's interesting seeing the change in hairstyles and clothing. The music too actually.

I noticed the other night that they were playing theme music over the credits - I thought it used to be a song?

ppeatfruit · 14/02/2017 10:35

Thecraic I wondered whether the woman with the problem with her cervix would have the operation later and then be able to carry a baby to full term.

Yes Polkadots They are spot on with the hair styles. On some other programmes they don't bother!

Crunchyside · 14/02/2017 10:42

I didn't know who to feel more sorry for - the biological mother or Dot Sad I felt terrible for the biological mother until her adorable children came in to comfort her, and put a smile on her face, I thought that was good closure for the storyline as it put a positive tone to it... but then when she turned round and wanted the baby back, it just introduced even more heartbreak! Sad

I couldn't feel sorry for the wimpy vicar though - not sure who's worse with their simpering tone, him or Dr Turner! The only good male character is Fred Grin

ppeatfruit · 14/02/2017 10:48

What I thought was odd is that though the 2 women in the adoption plot were sisters. Neither of them said to the other "come round and be with the baby whenever you want to". They could've shared him Grin. or her?

Crunchyside · 14/02/2017 11:03

Didn't realise they were sisters! They didn't seem close.

DesolateWaist · 14/02/2017 11:05

I thought they were cousins. They talked about having the same grandmother.

ppeatfruit · 14/02/2017 11:09

Maybe Desolate They were related though and quite close . Maybe not THAT close, though they were helping Minnie out financially , giving her the new pram etc.?

Clawdy · 14/02/2017 11:40

I think they were sisters.

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Soubriquet · 14/02/2017 11:47

No they were cousins

I watch with subtitles

Definitely said cousins

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Hellohellohowareyou · 14/02/2017 12:44

New to the thread but this has been bugging me. Vicar said he was adopted at 2 months old but his adoptive parents gave him a brilliant childhood etc.

Then at the end he said to Barbara that he had no photos of him as a child which didn't used to bother him but does now.

Surely that's not because of his adoption though if he was adopted at 2 months?

PatsyMount · 14/02/2017 12:47

Yes definitely cousins.

Being sisters doesn't always mean you are close, personal-experience so it could have been an accurate depiction even if they were cast as sisters

PatsyMount · 14/02/2017 12:49

Hello yes i thought that too. I was sad to think that they may be portraying adoptive parents showing less love due to lack of DNA. That is just not the case as we all know.

DesolateWaist · 14/02/2017 12:50

There are no photos of me as a baby. Cameras and film were expensive in the 70s, even more so when he was a child.

ppeatfruit · 14/02/2017 13:39

Blimey Desolate We were not rich (there was another family who my father had to support Hmm ) but there are photos of us from my tiny babyhood in 1951.

I was surprised at what the vicar said too, maybe his family had other priorities?

umberellaonesie · 14/02/2017 13:55

Did he say he was 'put up for adoption' or 'given up at 2 months'
So not actually adopted until older?

Akire · 14/02/2017 14:14

I have handful of photos say 10 from
0-10y I was born 1975 it was much more expensive and we weren't well off. Probable one camera film would have lasted years. So seems very true.

ppeatfruit · 14/02/2017 15:53

If he is in his early 20s in 1962 then he would've been born in 1942 so getting hold of a camera in the 2nd WW was probably almost impossible.

BrieAndChilli · 14/02/2017 16:01

I was put in to care age 5 and don't have any photos of before then. It bothers me more as I get older so that part with the vocal struck a chord with me.

mcdog · 15/02/2017 07:03

I have read a few threads on different forums about this episode. Most of them are predominantly glad there was a "happy ending" with the adoption story line. This makes me really sad, if the baby was adopted it would still have been a "happy ending".

ISaySteadyOn · 15/02/2017 07:27

I agree. But also I like the Turners, they're a nice family. And I am v relieved for Shelagh.

S1lentAllTheseYears · 15/02/2017 17:04

I felt so sorry for Dot :( When Marnie told her to keep the handkerchief to remember him by (or whatever) I said to DH that I would have told her to take her handkerchief and shove it up her arse!

diddl · 15/02/2017 21:33

That was just heartbreaking.

When do they usually put a cervical stitch in?

Just that the woman seemed to have been in hospital for ages!

I also don't like the idea that adoption is second best.

Perhaps that was a bit balanced out by the chap saying how daft he'd been to not consider adoption at all.

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