All Creatures Great and Small
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Okay, straight at the top, Ive gotta say it.
The dog dies but its gonna be okay!
Its going to be fine!
WELL GET THROUGH THIS.
There is a Christmas episode next week!
But if this one feels a little and thats the end of that chapter!
then that is why.
We start off in line at the movies.
What a great movie.
Helen is allowed into the Darrowby 2297 family.
I have decreed it.
Jamess parents know nothing of Helen.
Meanwhile, remember Mrs. Dalby and her sick cows?
The ones with husk?
And then I looked up a bunch of parasite images and deeply regretted it?
Well, they are back, but older now.
Mrs. Dalby calls them stirks, which means young bulls or cows, and they are sick once more.
But they are not sick with husk, which is great!
), and then more of Mrs. Dalbys cows would die and it would beso sad.
James is distracted because of his parents visit and because he is very into Helen.
He asks her on a romantic car ride to deliver the Dalbys stool samples.
They drive along the winding road, and the camera angle made me very nervous??
It was very we are about to get into a very serious accident.
But James and Helen are fine!
Except James says he laughed when Siegfried said he should marry Helen.
James and Helen get out and walk to an extremely picturesque spot by some sheep.
He tells her he wants to spend the rest of his life with her there in the Dales.
The sheep are uninterested.
So this is where I got worried about the stool samples.
Or as my notes say: They drive back to see her dad??
But the stool samples!!
Lets hit pause on Helen and James, though, and return to the practice.
She leads a peripatetic lifestyle and has a boat, which is fun.
She also has a terrier named Rex in whom she is very invested.
Rex is the dog.
The dog we were all talking about earlier.
Rex is hit by a car and he dies.
I would quote my notes again, but they are just me writing nooooooooo in all caps many times.
Who can emotionally afford it in this economy?
Mrs. Donovan is obviously crushed.
It is all terrible.
I cant believe my best and favorite show did this in itsfinale.
Good job, Tristan.
Youre really stepping up in this episode.
Back at Helens dads (Mr. Alderson), his horse Candy is going into labor but having trouble.
James says the uterus is twisted, which sounds absolutely awful?
I looked up many diagrams of uterine torsion and I still dont understand it.
Siegfried and Tristan come to help, and they manage to untwist the uterus and the foal is born.
And it just WALKS right away, like foals do, unlike helpless human babies.
If, for some reason, you want to learn more about that (introduced in 1865!
),here you go.
Oh, and yes, Tristan was indeed readingBiggles Goes to War, which came out in 1938.
The props people are really earning their paychecks this season.
He also says its no use asking him because Helen will marry who she wants.
Why is this show so good?
Do we deserve it?
Yes, we do.
We also deserve MORE of it.
Maybe season three could be released next month.
I believe in them.
They could do it.
The next morning, James gets a call from the lab saying nothing was found in the stool samples.
This means that poor, beset Mrs. Dalbys cows are going to be fine.
They just have a copper deficiency.
They are not in it very much!
He drops them at the inn and goes to see Helen.
James is at the farm with her and tells her she has something on the back of her dress.
When she turns away from him to look, he KNEELS, its so nice ahhh!
I wish I had seen this move before I proposed to my wife so I could have stolen it.
Helen gets emotional about her mothers ring, of course.
So Jamess parents still dont know who Helen isandhes now engaged to her.
Which, of course, just confuses the bejeezus out of Siegfried, who never knows whats going on.
He loves how every day is different (can youimagine, she said, two years into quarantine).
I love this place, he tells his mom.
YES, ME TOO, JAMES.
Good parenting job, guys.
Support em to their face, cry out your feelings later.
This may sound insincere, but it is not!
Those are not Jamess feelings to deal with!
But what about thedogplotline?
The dogs name is Roy!
Later, when theyre all at the Drovers, she tells him she knows what he did.
But now she has Roy and they can take care of each other!
Everyone is at the Drovers, including Mrs. Hall!
Just my complete delight at seeing Mrs. Hall in there.
Tristan says hes going back to college (yay!
), and when Siegfried goes to say something Siegfriedian, Mrs. Hall touches his shoulder (!)
Tristan teases Helen about going through with the wedding and she hits him.
Everyone is happy and together!
I LOVE THIS SHOW.
Bring on the Christmas episode!
Items for Pondering
No, but seriously, what are we supposed to do after this season?
I dont understand those children!
I didnt imagine an anachronistic fanfic where Siegfried and Mrs. Hall venture to beat Wordle first, YOU did.
Can we have anAll Creaturesmovie like theDowntonpeople got?
