All Creatures Great and Small
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The delightful and nothing-truly-bad-can-happen-here theme music remains, with its cheerily animated pastoral setting.
I love this goddamn show.
Just give me some jaunty piano music and people in period hats walking dogs in the countryside.
Surely this cannot backfire!
Are there James and Helen stans for this version ofAll Creatures?
I looked them up on Tumblr, and it appears so, but I am BAFFLED.
Speaking of stans and ships, I know Mrs.
It makes sense that they would still not be as common in the farming communities.
I, too, am nervous!
This is but a simple request.
James has a choice to make in this episode.
James returns to the Yorkshire Dales and is picked up by Tristan.
Tristan … is fine.
would be devastating??
This is a horribly stressful plotline.
Ill come back to it shortly.
He is clenching his pipe between his teeth!
With his little bag!
And his bucket hat or whatever it is!
My cats would be very confused but would grow to accept Herbert as he trotted around the apartment.
(Also, James and Helen and their romance, I guess.)
The untrained dog belongs to Helens sister Jenny.
This sounds like a joke (maybe?
), but it is a very panicky situation and emergency calcium shots are required!
Side note: do I need a calcium injection?
Do we all need them?
Do humans get a calcium deficiency when faced with sudden stress, or is it just a sheep thing?
All those sheep would be dead or mildly annoyed.
And so Scruff is saved!
Herbert is instead adopted by a sheep whose baby died, so he is all set.
Tristan kills a blind womans bird.
He goes to visit Mrs. Tompkin, who just needs her budgerigars (read: parakeet) beak clipped.
Its such a simple task!
She says Tristan can never find out the truth, which what??
What were the rules around practicing as a veterinarian in the 1930s??
Not to be a nerd, but I looked it up.
This all just seems very potentially harmful to Tristan unless there is a giant loophole I am missing.
Tell Tristan he isnt a vet!
Tell Mrs. Tompkin her bird died because birds are sometimes very fragile and also Tristan isnt a real vet!
Whatever, I love this show.
James stands outside the pub with Tristan, drinking and looking around at all the farm animals.
He decides to stay with his chosen family, who all welcome James back.
WELCOME BACK TO US ALL.
Items for Pondering
Will Tristan be arrested in ten years for being an illegal vet?
Did anyone else think Helen looked like Leia on Hoth with her hair and outfit?
Can we Brigadoon the town?
If we try really hard?
