call the midwife part 2

[NimbleHiker]

I am setting up the next thread before i forget.

Has the current season ended?

I think it was just paused for a week because of the BAFTAs @vjg13

No. I think there are two more episodes.

Thanks 🙂

I'm still not completely convinced that SMJ won't pull off one of her miraculous recoveries but it would make sense to bring it to a close now, I don't see they can drag it out, really. DH will be gutted, he loves her. Mind you, he has no issue with the Turners and that is pushing things.

Well, I still love it. Gutted there was no episode last night.

I have just caught up with the last episode. I also predict SMJ will die in the last episode. Nonnatus will take their business elswhere. Dr Turner will finally get a colleague when he sets up a private practice. Probably Timothy. Hopefully it will become a district nurse type thing.

It is a shame IMO that the Rosalind pregancy storyline didn’t have her at least considering abortion, as a feminist, rather than immediately dismissing it. I can only remember horror abortion storylines in Call the Midwife.

I am still unclear what Trixie is even doing in the UK.

I think they have to kill off SMJ as she wouldn’t be well enough to travel to India, which to me is clearly where the remaining nuns are heading at the end of the series.

I think they’ll let SMJ see the Feast of St RN and die quietly at the end of that day. Then they will all leave Nonnatus for the last time etc etc.

Trixie did vaguely mention Matthew coming back to the UK at one point at the beginning of the series, but we all know that isn’t going to happen. She is surely bound for Matronhood or Director of Nursing in the NHS - I can’t see this thing with the Lady Emily coming off, unless it becomes an NHS maternity home and she takes over, completing the fully incestuous seeding of everything around them by the spawn of Nonnatus House.

DH can’t wait for it to be over. He has endured the odd episode but otherwise given over Sundays in the new year (and Christmas evenings!) to me and what he has prosaically dubbed ‘Sad vagina stories’.

I love sister Monica Joan too. I honestly don't know how she recovered from dementia.

I thought the dementia turned out to be delirium caused by an infection. My Dad had that.

Doctor Turner said that sister Monica Joan had dementia in series 1 episode 6. She went out and she was only wearing her night dress. Then she developed pneumonia. Doctor Turner said that she had dementia as she had been wondering around in her night dress. In later series it was implied that she only got confused when she had an infection.

I think it went downhill once they ran out of actual memoir and started making it all up , with a preachy, patronising ‘message’ in every storyline.

Agree, it was a quick switch from dementia to infection related confusion.

When my Dad went into hospital they all thought he had dementia because that's what it was like. My sister and I struggled to convince them he hadn't and then one young doctor sad 'oh it's delerium then'. Hooray! At last.

Similar for my DAunt - she was mad as a box of frogs in hospital, by her own admission, and a different woman once her infection was treated.

I wondered if that was because they realised the character was popular/ well received and they wanted to keep her in.

Similar for my dad.

Checking in.

Yes, and doctors, including the sainted-in-the-TV-version Dr Turner, were very minor characters in the memoirs. Sister Bernadette was also a relatively minor figure in the memoirs.

And from what I remember in the books was that Jenny didn’t particularly like Trixie.

If I have to be honest, I find Helen George's portrayal of Trixie very mannered. It always has been but no amount of life experience she's had seems to get beyond a brittle 1950s debutante persona and it is IMO getting worse, especially in as we're now in 1970. The world had changed and she was young enough to change with it, even a bit. I think she may be there as " posh interest" but it does grate somewhat.

I mean, SMJ is a genuinely aristocratic Victorian and she's more natural in all respects.

Trixie is completely unbelievable as a character.

My favourite is series 5.

Unforgotten is good too. I did miss Nicola Walker when she left though.

If there is a voiceover in the prequal they need someone else to do it.