amelieamelie
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Trixie this episode
50sGirl
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Tbh in this series they seem to have been using modern ideas which wouldn’t have been correct in the 1960s.
For example the Shah family won the photo competition to advertise ice cream. Imho I’m certain, had there been such a competition in the 60s, then a white family would definitely have been chosen.
Also, the Irish girl with Catholic parents who insisted she keep the baby would more likely have disowned her back then.
Last series we had Dr Turner with his liberal acceptance of homosexuality which again was unlikely to have happened back then.
It’s a period drama so they shouldn’t be altering it to fit today’s values.
flopsymopsy
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I watched the ten year special, interesting that Dr T describes the Turner family as the “centre” of the drama.
It isn’t! The bloody midwives and nuns are the centre
It isn’t! The bloody midwives and nuns are the centre
and nothing happens
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Really cannot go the extreme social distancing on the show any more. Cyril was told he was going to be a dad and they just held hands across the table! Sick of them smiling across the kitchen at each other.
smellyfootballboots
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Only just caught up on the finale, but I'd checked twitter out on Sunday evening - I'm not sure I'm watching the same TV show as those claiming to be bawling their eyes out? CTM today, doesn't raise emotion in me at all.
I just don't care about:
Any of the Nuns bar Sister Julienne. All the rest in the cast today, are just annoying and utterly pointless.
May - I actually think it would have made for better writing and a good (more realistic) story, if the child had of been returned to her mother or sent to another family. The Turner kids add nothing to the show whatsoever and yet are featured frequently.
Mrs. Higgins' mixed race, adopted child - Seriously? An actual Miss Higgins would never have reacted too pleased to see a child she put up for adoption turning up on her doorstep. This entire storyline was completely out of whack for the period (and probably today).
Joyce - Unlikable and just arrived new character, now a main character being given a lot of leeway over the qualifications and job she obtained by deception and with a false identity. This absolutely would not have happened. London was horribly racist and nursing very strict back in those days and she would in no way still have a job and/or be able to remain living with nuns! Absurd.
Trixie - Used to love Trixie, but again her storyline (that has always been a little bit of a stretch) is just ridiculous. So, she's now on sleeping tablets and taking them through the day (absurd), she's made up with whatshisface and is heading to NYC. So, either she is absent from the first few episodes of S14 only to return after leaving twit and Jonty behand for good or leaving - probably the former.
Trixie's look - is awful in this series - she has had some work done to her face and it looks very odd and he hair is either are really bad wig or she needs to get a good conditioner. She's looking rough either way.
Nancy - Thankfully she wasn't in this episode too much but her entire craic just would never have happened at all - the entire Nancy arc is completely unrealistic and would never have happened back in the late 1960's.
Cyril & the posh one - It is obvious that the writers are hinting at a little liaison between these two. If they choose to go ahead then it needs to be very realistic, her family would, without a doubt disown her and they would be a frowned upon coupling. It would be better if they used the Trixie/Tom romance template for this but I doubt that is the route they will take given the past few years of ghastly twee writing.
What I do care about is:
The stories of actual women who used the midwife services of the time - but no, we have terribly written tosh full of 2020's identity politics and the re-writing of the real lives and experiences of the women of that time.
TV show's are repeatedly doing this right now, however re-writing the past does a massive disservice to the people who lived and suffered during those times.
I just don't care about:
Any of the Nuns bar Sister Julienne. All the rest in the cast today, are just annoying and utterly pointless.
May - I actually think it would have made for better writing and a good (more realistic) story, if the child had of been returned to her mother or sent to another family. The Turner kids add nothing to the show whatsoever and yet are featured frequently.
Mrs. Higgins' mixed race, adopted child - Seriously? An actual Miss Higgins would never have reacted too pleased to see a child she put up for adoption turning up on her doorstep. This entire storyline was completely out of whack for the period (and probably today).
Joyce - Unlikable and just arrived new character, now a main character being given a lot of leeway over the qualifications and job she obtained by deception and with a false identity. This absolutely would not have happened. London was horribly racist and nursing very strict back in those days and she would in no way still have a job and/or be able to remain living with nuns! Absurd.
Trixie - Used to love Trixie, but again her storyline (that has always been a little bit of a stretch) is just ridiculous. So, she's now on sleeping tablets and taking them through the day (absurd), she's made up with whatshisface and is heading to NYC. So, either she is absent from the first few episodes of S14 only to return after leaving twit and Jonty behand for good or leaving - probably the former.
Trixie's look - is awful in this series - she has had some work done to her face and it looks very odd and he hair is either are really bad wig or she needs to get a good conditioner. She's looking rough either way.
Nancy - Thankfully she wasn't in this episode too much but her entire craic just would never have happened at all - the entire Nancy arc is completely unrealistic and would never have happened back in the late 1960's.
Cyril & the posh one - It is obvious that the writers are hinting at a little liaison between these two. If they choose to go ahead then it needs to be very realistic, her family would, without a doubt disown her and they would be a frowned upon coupling. It would be better if they used the Trixie/Tom romance template for this but I doubt that is the route they will take given the past few years of ghastly twee writing.
What I do care about is:
The stories of actual women who used the midwife services of the time - but no, we have terribly written tosh full of 2020's identity politics and the re-writing of the real lives and experiences of the women of that time.
TV show's are repeatedly doing this right now, however re-writing the past does a massive disservice to the people who lived and suffered during those times.
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Miss Begotten
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To be honest, as long as Phyllis is in it I’m not overly bothered about anyone else. I’d quite happily watch an entire series of her marching around Poplar being fabulous.
MyRightTit
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I honestly haven’t really noticed the social distancing but then I’m blind as a bat without my glasses.
My least favourite character is Sheila, I much preferred her when she was a nun. She’s just so twee & “capable”. She can turn her hand to anything. I bet she knits her own yoghurts.
My least favourite character is Sheila, I much preferred her when she was a nun. She’s just so twee & “capable”. She can turn her hand to anything. I bet she knits her own yoghurts.