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All Creatures Great & Small (S01 Xmas Special / S01E07)
The Christmas special added onto the end of season one. At least, I finally know when this episode is happening.
All Creatures Great & Small, Series 1 Episode 7: "The Night Before Christmas".
I'm going to link to Mullany's recap here, and give my unsolicited additions:
- Saint Nicholas (or Father Christmas) wears green and white. And gives out oranges to the children. Huh.
- Really bad fog rolls in and traps James and Helen at a farm overnight. It doesn't snow until the end of the episode. (I'm fine with no picturesque snow on Christmas type of scene. I'm more side-eyeing how the scenery still seems so vague and non-seasonal.)
- Maggie makes up to Tristan by the end of the episode. I can't blame anyone for not liking how he's treated her over the last couple of episodes, but I think this is trying to smooth things out.
- Siegfried finally works up to showing interest in Dorothy. It's hella awkward (that explaining how mistletoe is a parasite instead of kissing bit), but they eventually kiss. Eh.
- There's an introduction of a Black British woman talking about her love for her husband essentially being worth the repercussions of an interracial marriage, but it seems more like a way to giving Helen a Love Conquers All moment. (She's the wife of the farmer whose dog, Susie, is having trouble giving birth. The case that James and Helen go off to where the fog rolls in.)
- Helen and Hugh are getting married tomorrow, on Christmas. Except she calls it off at the altar. We're following James' point of view when he's driving off to visit his parents back in Scotland, but he changes his mind and comes back, so we only see everyone leaving the church.
- To be honest, I found Helen's plotline with whether her son Edward would come to the Christmas Eve party more interesting than some of the romantic relationship stuff. It seems like we haven't really gotten as much about her (yet).
- Siegfried and Mrs Hall pretend that Tristan's exam results didn't come in the post on Christmas Eve, so he won't worry and feel like his Christmas has been ruined. On Christmas, they finally get the letter, and Siegfried opens it. I'm not sure if Tristan had a two part exam or two separate exams, but we were shown the results - passed the top one, failed the bottom - while Siegfried lied that he passed both.
- The ending part where we get the dinner, the King's Christmas Message, and that final image wasn't that bad. Tristan and James play checkers. That definitely feels like an ending image to drive home the Found Family feel of that dinner speech.
All Creatures Great & Small, Series 1 Episode 7: "The Night Before Christmas".
I'm going to link to Mullany's recap here, and give my unsolicited additions:
- Saint Nicholas (or Father Christmas) wears green and white. And gives out oranges to the children. Huh.
- Really bad fog rolls in and traps James and Helen at a farm overnight. It doesn't snow until the end of the episode. (I'm fine with no picturesque snow on Christmas type of scene. I'm more side-eyeing how the scenery still seems so vague and non-seasonal.)
- Maggie makes up to Tristan by the end of the episode. I can't blame anyone for not liking how he's treated her over the last couple of episodes, but I think this is trying to smooth things out.
- Siegfried finally works up to showing interest in Dorothy. It's hella awkward (that explaining how mistletoe is a parasite instead of kissing bit), but they eventually kiss. Eh.
- There's an introduction of a Black British woman talking about her love for her husband essentially being worth the repercussions of an interracial marriage, but it seems more like a way to giving Helen a Love Conquers All moment. (She's the wife of the farmer whose dog, Susie, is having trouble giving birth. The case that James and Helen go off to where the fog rolls in.)
- Helen and Hugh are getting married tomorrow, on Christmas. Except she calls it off at the altar. We're following James' point of view when he's driving off to visit his parents back in Scotland, but he changes his mind and comes back, so we only see everyone leaving the church.
- To be honest, I found Helen's plotline with whether her son Edward would come to the Christmas Eve party more interesting than some of the romantic relationship stuff. It seems like we haven't really gotten as much about her (yet).
- Siegfried and Mrs Hall pretend that Tristan's exam results didn't come in the post on Christmas Eve, so he won't worry and feel like his Christmas has been ruined. On Christmas, they finally get the letter, and Siegfried opens it. I'm not sure if Tristan had a two part exam or two separate exams, but we were shown the results - passed the top one, failed the bottom - while Siegfried lied that he passed both.
- The ending part where we get the dinner, the King's Christmas Message, and that final image wasn't that bad. Tristan and James play checkers. That definitely feels like an ending image to drive home the Found Family feel of that dinner speech.