Call The Midwife - **Spoiler Alert** Title edited by MNHQ

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Last thread is full. So a last thread to finish the series ...

Just adding my appreciation for the vic in a vest

Although the vic in the vest was phwoar, it was also completely WRONG. He wouldn't have been going to the gym, I doubt he would have been doing any physical work, so he would have been a typical puny pale-skinned vicar with stick arms and a flabby stomach.

When I went to my student health centre to get the pill in the 1980s, the doctor warned me one of the possible side effects was 'DEATH' in very stern tones. But it seemed a bit unconvincing that it happened so quickly in the first month. Dramatic license I suppose.

I liked the menopause and pinging cap stories too.

To be fair PaeNow - the wedding scenes have been on all the trailers on TV and at the end of the previous show, and as for the dishevelled vicar - its not actually a major plot line really, though does stand out for good reason.

Sorry, not PageNow. Meant Bluesky

Spoiler alert is mad. It's been and gone!

I'd be very surprised if Ms Hart got another chance even if she wanted it. She caused major hassle last year and it's been so long since she was in it. Shame Peter is a casualty though, he was ok.

Hadn't realised the title had already been changed!
Seriously - it was hardly a spoiler - that wedding was advertised on TV for more than the past week!!! Madness, surely!

And yes, not sure who mentioned it above, but the vicar (Jack Ashton) is dating Trixie (Helen George) in real life.

Oh for gods sake!!! People are such delicate flowers we have to change the title even though the show has aired

Great episode but it did feel a bit rushed towards the end.

Make it go away.

I'm not sure why this has made me laugh this evening, but it really has!!

I think the fact there was a wedding isnt so much a spoiler as stating the blindingly obvious?

Why was Trixie so sad about Wilma's death? I don't mean that it wasn't sad or anything, but why especially was she upset?

The wedding was on the front of Radio Times and another TV guide magazine

I was roaring with laughter at the pinging contraceptive cap scenes. That happened to my sister, it pinged out of her fingers and ended up on top of the bathroom cabinet, covered in fluff. She wouldn't use it after that.

That scene where the little girls were stroking their mum's cheek. I was in bits. I thought the dad seemed decent, despite his desire for a boy.

Agree with the tweeness of the duet through the door, but pleased the baby got here safely. Would have liked to have seen more of Barbara's relationship with her father. That bit did seem rushed.

Tizzy obviously I don't know for sure but Trixie - indeed all the midwives - are repeatedly shown as very empathic and I think anyone who had witnessed the death of a previously-healthy mother of three, witnessed the children saying their goodbyes and Wilma's husband's bewilderment and grief would find it hard to choke back the tears. The contrast between her main job which is about bringing life into the world - especially at a time when the natal mortality rate for mothers and babies was falling so successful births were by far the norm - and her secondment where she was watching a life leave the world might make it even more emotional for her.

I've seen lots of posts on here over the years from experienced HCPs who cry when they lose a patient so I think that was a very accurate and moving scene.

Also I think Trixie had been so happy about the availability of contraception for women on the NHS - she said to Tom it had seemed like a miracle - that seeing what it had done to Wilma really shocked her. I think she was grieving the loss of her dream that women could make a safe choice as much as she was grieving her patient IYKWIM...

Linda Bassett-when she was so upset as not being chosen as Sheila's midwife-just so well done.

I thought that Barbara was going to ask her to give her away!

I find the Trixie character really false & irritating.

Why was Trixie a theatre nurse in a hospital for Wilma's tracheotomy? Shouldn't she be have been midwifing?

How do they all have chance to sit down to breakfast together so much? In the books and early series, they were coming and going at all hours depending on babies being delivered during the night.

Nurses homes still exist, attached to the hospitals. Or they did until the 1990s at least (I visited one).

I got the impression whip-round was for wedding and dress costs as they hadn't had chance to finish saving as wedding was hastily arranged.

Why did Reggie call Vi "mum" instead of auntie vi, like he did before? That detail spoilt his arrival for me.

I think the midwives have to do a rota at the hospital every so often, as part of their work. We've seen others at the hospital in the past too.

My uncle lived in a nurse's home during his training and just after - that would have been in the 90s.

I live on the site of an old hospital. The nurse's homes are now apartments - same building exterior though. Coincidently two of my aunties lived here for a while.

When Reggie called Vi "Mum", I took this to mean that he had made his peace with his mothers death and was accepting Vi as a mother figure.

I always get the impression that there are two writers on the show; one is quiet and thoughtful, and the other is shallow and overdramatic. They have massive rows about the script - the first one writes genuinely touching scenes, and nuanced plotlines, the second goes off in a huff if she isn't allowed to include vomit-inducing cheesy songs from the Turners, and suchlike.
I have no idea what the reality is!

Although the vic in the vest was phwoar, it was also completely WRONG. He wouldn't have been going to the gym, I doubt he would have been doing any physical work, so he would have been a typical puny pale-skinned vicar with stick arms and a flabby stomach.

Why would he have a flabby stomach if he was eating sensibly and walking everywhere all the time? I don't! (No DC yet!) As for arm muscles, doesn't take much to be toned at his age, just hefting round boxes/putting up shelves, whatever vaguely manual stuff people would have been doing then. I'm sure he'd have chipped in and helped parishioners with stuff.

Reggie called Vi mum a few episodes ago.

One writer per episode and I think there are currently about four writers in rotation, all under the guidance of Heidi Thomas.

LOVED this episode. Rest of the series has been a bit meh but this was lovely. I agree they packed a little too much in - Barbara's story line should have had an episode to itself to give it justice.

I didn't think it was believable that she would go to her own clinic for contraception though.

I thought the thing with the money wasn't that Barbara was skint but her Dad - he was paying for the whole wedding so wanted cut costs everywhere he could. Her friends paying for her dress is more socially acceptable than her paying herself.

I don't think Sister Julienne was 'for' contraception - I think she didn't have a choice. They are c of e but definitely would have felt contraception might encourage premarital sex and shouldn't be advertised. Aside from any thing else, many members of the church, leaders in society would have no concept of managing a sexual relationship and may not have understood why men and women couldn't just stop having sex if they didn't want babies

So so glad Patsy and Delia got a proper kiss. The writing can be twee but I will love the writer forever for bringing us happy and realistic lesbians.