Call the Midwife...or the Turners?

[Maireas]

I noticed that the last thread was full, so I hope no-one minds that I've started a new one!

@CaptainMyCaptain

I didn't know Sister Julienne could be such a cow.

Seemed quite out of character to me.

Don't believe the nuns would have let the baby go to a children's home. Quite jarring against last weeks taking the baby off so soon for adoption.

Thought that was one of the better episodes of this series. Although, does anyone think the editing seems really off? Jarring from scene to scene with an unfinished feeling, sometimes it even feels like they're mid conversation when it moves to something else? Bit odd!

Stephen McGann is the most awful actor. He always looks and sounds as if he is acting. There is no variation in his delivery (haha pun intended) or his gestures, expressions etc.

His wife is the producer so we can't expect any changes there.

You're right, Sunbird - Dr Turner is always the modern, forward thinker.

@viques

Centimetres! In the sixties, I don’t think we dealt in forrin measurements then thank you very much. Clutches cardigan to bosom and raises eyebrows in surprise.

Yes we noticed that too. DH picked up on it.

No we did not use centimetres in the 60's you were so many fingers dilated!

Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t sister Julienne finish an incomplete abortion in an early series? The mother had 6 kids and sold the curtains to pay for it. The midwife with her was shocked and appalled and Sister J basically said you are in the real world now princess. The family couldn’t get a new house with enough room, then they did. She was totally practical about the whole thing.

CM in the 60s really jarred.

DH and I had a row half way through and then he decided to make up just before the end. Bastard.

Dd thought Nancy’s adopted baby was going to be Angela. I like her thinking, that would have been a good story line.

Super shocked at Sister Julienne having her judgey pants on this episode with Trixie and Nancy! She’s not usually so bad.

Whats the bloody point of Mr Aylewood at stage? He’s not made any more moves on Trixie.

By the way has anyone seen sister Francis is in a phone network advert

Wasn’t Angela that lovely Irish girls baby? Or am I wrong there

Lnix I felt the editing was really bad tonight too.
It jumped from the kitchen scene to the flat (Trixie) so quickly it didn't feel right at all.

Whats the bloody point of Mr Aylewood at stage? He’s not made any more moves on Trixie. hmm

His scene today felt like- ‘we’ve paid him an appearance fee for every episode this series, so appear he will’.

The money whilst a lot is hardly going to buy the building for the nuns and Sr Frances has sorted out the Asian mothers well enough without any of his cash.

Would of been more interesting if Sr Julienne had kicked Trixie out and she’d found herself in need of a sofa 😂

Bit disappointing that Mother Mildred was so up in arms but nobody actually reprimanded Trixie.

I’m so tired of having everything explained in mini lectures. Give the viewers some credit to work things out for themselves or at least make it more part of the natural conversation.
I don’t think it was too out of character for sister J - I think the whole programme has drifted so far from the original books and keeps putting in 21st century views in that on the odd occasion when they revert back to actual 1960’s opinions it completely jars.

Mr Aylwood isn’t after a new Nanny, he’s after a new mother for “Jonty” (is he still officially Jonathan as his dearly departed mother named him, or..?)
It seemed to be a thing back then that new marriages happened quickly after a death.

Just seen this on Twitter re the centimetres.

Yeah, but even if it was in textbooks - I'm pretty much bilingual in metric and imperial, because whatever we were taught at school (metric), my parents and other adults around (except maths and science teachers) all thought in inches, and this was at least 20 years after current CTM. So while the midwives might have been learning centimetres, most of the mothers would all have been going, "what's that in proper measurements?" ... or possibly just ignoring such details anyway.

I was telling DS about old money the other day, about having to add things together like 13 shillings and thruppence ha'penny and 8 bob and ninepence ha'penny and he was and amazed that this this was ever a workable system.

@scrappydappydoo

I’m so tired of having everything explained in mini lectures. Give the viewers some credit to work things out for themselves or at least make it more part of the natural conversation. I don’t think it was too out of character for sister J - I think the whole programme has drifted so far from the original books and keeps putting in 21st century views in that on the odd occasion when they revert back to actual 1960’s opinions it completely jars.

This ^^

If it was in textbooks it would have only been in brand new ones surely? Also, I can imagine that cm dilated might have been introduced in teaching hospitals at the sharp end of innovation and progress but connected to a one-man GP practice and midwives working in one of the poorest parts of London? Seems unlikely?

The widower seems to be 'wide circling' Trixie doesn't he? £100 even in those days was probably a 'summat and nowt' sum of money. Also that he is a barrister by profession has now been flagged up again, so do we think the midwives/nuns are going to need one in the near future?

Is next week's the final episode in the series? I cannot see that this season is building to anything 'big'.

@NewModelArmyMayhem18

If it was in textbooks it would have only been in brand new ones surely? Also, I can imagine that cm dilated might have been introduced in teaching hospitals at the sharp end of innovation and progress but connected to a one-man GP practice and midwives working in one of the poorest parts of London? Seems unlikely?

The widower seems to be 'wide circling' Trixie doesn't he? £100 even in those days was probably a 'summat and nowt' sum of money. Also that he is a barrister by profession has now been flagged up again, so do we think the midwives/nuns are going to need one in the near future?

Is next week's the final episode in the series? I cannot see that this season is building to anything 'big'.

Dp googled £100 in 1966 is about £1100 these days. So it's not millions but can help in a small way

And then it was £1540 by 1967, @3CCC - that's some serious inflation!

I do remember in the early 1970s a few older relatives living off 10% interest in their savings.

@NewModelArmyMayhem18

If it was in textbooks it would have only been in brand new ones surely? Also, I can imagine that cm dilated might have been introduced in teaching hospitals at the sharp end of innovation and progress but connected to a one-man GP practice and midwives working in one of the poorest parts of London? Seems unlikely?

The widower seems to be 'wide circling' Trixie doesn't he? £100 even in those days was probably a 'summat and nowt' sum of money. Also that he is a barrister by profession has now been flagged up again, so do we think the midwives/nuns are going to need one in the near future?

Is next week's the final episode in the series? I cannot see that this season is building to anything 'big'.

Trixie has to get herself into some legal bother, then Sr Julienne suggests Mr A the Barrister - hey presto, they'll fall in love whilst solving her problem

@Youlookyoung

Wasn’t Angela that lovely Irish girls baby? Or am I wrong there

No. I thought she was going to be but Nancy's daughter is still in a home, she hasn't been adopted. They showed her at the end when Nancy visited her.

Isn't this a bit odd though? Why wouldn't she have been adopted (probably forcibly)?

Would have been nice if Miss Higgins could have uncovered the partition-related trauma of Mrs Gupta, using her language skills and not the bloody Turners again.