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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2022 22:03:50 GMT
I think the real life order the show is based on left Poplar in 1974 so we have potentially 6 or 7 years left, although the show is renewed until 2024 at the minute and I suspect that may be the end.
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Post by NorthernAlien on Feb 14, 2022 22:51:51 GMT
I'm afraid I spent the last 10 minutes wondering why the train's dead man's handle hadn't activated. On a Sunday night I want television that is (mostly) nice and gentle. Yes, I wondered about the dead man's handle - {Spoiler - click to view}but I think it was all staged so that he kind of fell onto the handle, meaning that it, as a failsafe, wouldn't kick in? Because as far as it would be concerned, it would still be being pressed??? **************** And as for anyone leaving, as has been pointed out, they are *very* good at keeping Major Character Deaths quiet on this show - and my money would be on Jenny Agutter (sp?), if for no other reason than that Stephen McGann is married to the 'show runner', Heidi Thomas... |
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Post by NorthernAlien on Feb 14, 2022 22:55:56 GMT
I think the real life order the show is based on left Poplar in 1974 so we have potentially 6 or 7 years left, although the show is renewed until 2024 at the minute and I suspect that may be the end. Agreed - it feels like it's very slowly building to an end - time for Tim to qualify (or at least finish his degree), and Trixie to *finally* 'get her man', before the nuns wander off to Birmingham... |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 15, 2022 0:09:39 GMT
They have been building up Fenella Woolgar's nun character all season
So perhaps all this been foreshadowed for a while
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Post by lou on Feb 15, 2022 10:57:02 GMT
I think the real life order the show is based on left Poplar in 1974 so we have potentially 6 or 7 years left, although the show is renewed until 2024 at the minute and I suspect that may be the end. Today’s Radio Times has an interview with Heidi Thomas that says the nuns continued practising in Poplar into the 70s and then moved to Birmingham, so there is scope for it to carry on further still. No spoilers in the interview either, only had a quick glance so far, but apparently it might not get resolved in this week’s episode! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2022 11:05:18 GMT
I didn't realise that Stephen and Heidi were a long term item so the chances of him leaving would be very small. With Sister Monica Joan's age we have always wondered how long her tenure might be but Judy Parfitt gets some wonderful lines and as long as she is able to continue playing the role I'd hope they would let her continue.
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Post by peggs on Feb 20, 2022 13:42:26 GMT
Am caught up now. Well that impending train doom built up didn't it. It said me down a whole side line of thinking of when did a lady with a tea trolley stop being a thing on trains? I can remember it appearing now and again in my dim and distant past.
I'm obviously mean for while Dr Turner is unfailingly nice and encyclopaedic when it comes to diseases I felt Tim had a point. Maybe all those rose tinted stories of medical training hadn't actually done him any favours and of course it would be different enough 20 odd years later. I'm not an absolute heel though, poor Dr Turner's face when he got turned on.
Grant to see Sister Monica Joan stepping up to the plate in a crisis, always a stalwart. I think it's curtains for Sister Julien, her screen time does seem to have diminished somewhat.
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Post by isabel on Feb 20, 2022 13:49:57 GMT
Really looking forward to tonight.
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Post by Jane Parfitt on Feb 20, 2022 15:13:18 GMT
I'm not an absolute heel though, poor Dr Turner's face when he got turned on. I thought I'd missed something until I realised what you meant! 😂 |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2022 16:02:11 GMT
Am caught up now. Well that impending train doom built up didn't it. It said me down a whole side line of thinking of when did a lady with a tea trolley stop being a thing on trains? There is still a refreshments trolley on quite a few of the mainline services! I suspect if anyone dies it will be Sister Julienne, but I think the raven thing is too obvious and all the main characters will survive but Sister Julienne will be so badly injured she will be forced to retire/move back to the Mother House. That way there is a chance of her making guest appearances in future but Jenny Agutter doesn't have to commit to a whole series. I think the train driver and tea trolley lady will be the characters to die, and possibly someone who was on the ground rather than on the train - I'm a bit fearful we are also going to get a massive explosion from all the unused fireworks! |
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Post by isabel on Feb 20, 2022 19:06:04 GMT
I think we’ll get a nasty suprise & Phyllis for some reason will have been on the train, & will have died
I think just the train driver & tea lady passing away is too obvious
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 20, 2022 21:27:51 GMT
All a bit timid in the end.
They could have followed through with the build up from episode 7. But ended up playing it safe.
I guess that was on brand
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2022 21:36:02 GMT
I thought it was sufficiently tense until close enough to the end, but I'm glad I was right about the 3 main characters who were on the train. I wouldn't have missed Dr Turner much, but he is an integral part of the show.
I did think the episode suffered (as last week's did) from having too many strands - the teenage mother storyline was very moving but could have been in another episode and then we might have had time for Lucille to get more than 30 seconds of screen time, Nancy to see her daughter (surely she would have done that as soon as possible after the crash and given that was her whole storyline last week?) or have any follow-up on her wellbeing at all, or Sister Monica Joan to visit Sister Julienne (I found it odd how there was no interaction between those two at all). The midwives are the heart of the show but some of them felt very sidelined tonight.
Hopefully the Christmas episode will see some more storylines for those who didn't feature tonight (and presumably Trixie's return). This year we have the suspense of not knowing at all what it will be about, and a longer wait than last year!
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Post by isabel on Feb 20, 2022 21:42:41 GMT
Tonight was rather underwhelming .
I enjoyed it, but after the drama and tension last week, tonight just fell flat
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Post by peggs on Feb 20, 2022 21:45:22 GMT
Well that was more jolly than expected. Yes the push recently has been that the close relationship for Sister Julienne is with Mrs Turner rather than Sister Monica Joan (I still am offended on Sister Hilda's behalf that the thought of her organising that how ever many years of nonnatus it was, was so awful that she had to get Mrs Turner to take over and do her grand surprise, of what was it some random singing?).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2022 12:57:09 GMT
The storyline was a bit of a letdown last night but really pleased Jenny Agutter's character didn't get killed off. I did like the idea that her character might have to step back if Jenny did want to move on but she could still pop in for guest slots as required.
It will be interesting to see if the cast has many changes over the likely remaining 2 to 3 series if all current cast are still available. I personally don't see many major new characters coming into it given they have a good core ongoing cast.
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Post by david on Jan 24, 2023 20:48:29 GMT
A new year means another visit to Nonnatus House and having reached the halfway point of the new series, I have to say that even with changes in the casts over the years the writing and acting is as good as ever. Judy Parfitt was absolutely wonderful in last week's episode. Really hard-hitting stories nicely balanced out with some more light hearted moments. A real BBC gem of a show.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jan 24, 2023 21:33:39 GMT
They need to allow the Redgrave voiceovers to drift away now. She sounds so ill.
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