All Creatures Great & Small (S03)

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Clearly, I remembered to toss a post up for series/season 3.

(This year I'm just adding episode remarks in the comments on this one post, especially with the season nearly being over. Contextual note: For the first two seasons on PF, I tried to have a separate post for each episode as my family watched the show each week. In this archival process, I might follow suit with season 3 and have a bunch of comments on just one post per season.)

Originally posted on Pillowfort on 15 February 2023.

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S03E04: What a Ballsup!

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Recap.

What an episode title. The guy at MAG yells a lot, and James has messed up one too many forms. To be fair, that sequence for when to use which form had like six or seven of them. (Don't worry, Helen takes over on filling in most of the non-signature stuff, which will lead to this guy showing up later in the episode to congratulate James on the success of their testing.)

James gets his first positive TB test. It's not great, but also, there's this whole trying to chase down the cattle truck when the farmer reveals that the wrong cow was taken bit. It's obviously high stakes, but it's also a little funny because this is not a super fast chase. (The cow's saved, and they take away the cow with TB in the end.)

Mrs Hall goes on a Not-Date with Gerald, but he brought flowers and did think this was going to be a date. I did feel a bit sorry for Gerald at this level of miscommunication, but I personally don't mind that Mrs Hall wants to not move their friendship into a romantic direction. And it's not like Gerald runs for the hills. Sorry for the pun, the Yorkshire Dales are full of hills. It feels relieving that there isn't a mad dash to a supposedly more serious relationship.

[Some people may be looking at the "Mrs" in Mrs Hall and wondering if she's married. My family thought she lost her husband in the Great War, and we're pretty sure that's what she's told someone else before, but based on a later episode this season, Mr Hall actually might be alive - just an estranged alcoholic ever since he came back.]

In contrast, Tristan goes on a date with Florence. The setting was really nice. The picnic probably wasn't half bad. At the initial time of watching, I was worried that we were being led through a "Tristan settles down into a relationship as a sign of maturity" arc. [See also: My post about Tristan giving off aro vibes.] Florence's comment about Tris needing to find himself out from under Siegfried's shadow does give off 'he might join the armed services' vibes, though.

Originally commented on Pillowfort on 15 February 2023.