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Old 25-12-2016, 20:25
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Really enjoying this so far.
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Old 25-12-2016, 20:28
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So am I!
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Old 25-12-2016, 20:30
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Excellent attention to detail as usual
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Old 25-12-2016, 20:52
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Awww so sad
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Old 25-12-2016, 21:22
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This show never fails to make me cry .
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Old 25-12-2016, 21:25
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This show never fails to make me cry .
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Old 25-12-2016, 21:25
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I think it has been great. Moving it to South Africa has created another dynamic.
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Old 25-12-2016, 21:29
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I think it has been great. Moving it to South Africa has created another dynamic.
Agreed, although some on Twitter are complaining that the storyline showed white people saving black people.
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Old 25-12-2016, 21:36
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Didn't work for me at all. Get them back to Poplar pronto!


And virtually no Patsy & Delia! Bloody swizz.
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Old 25-12-2016, 21:40
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That episode was first class drama. It had everything. Even we had a tear in our eyes....

We know this was the time of apartheid and this episode showed just a small flavour of those awful days.

It was a beautiful scene, where Tom proposed to Barbara and using a blade of grass as a symbol of engagement.
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Old 25-12-2016, 21:44
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Old 25-12-2016, 21:45
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It wasn't a very interesting special. I missed Poplar and the other characters. I hope they never have a special in another country again. It doesn't work well and it left me disappointed.
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Old 25-12-2016, 21:53
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Sat down to watch it thinking I was going to hate it.

i well recall how South Africa was then - an uncle married a SA landowner, dreadful dreadful woman - I can remember as a child being speechless about the way she talked about her staff (and I use that word in preference to what she called them)

i also recall having the polio on a sugar cube - my dear Mum was astounded that it was an effective vaccine.

Well, at 9.30 I was bawling my eyes out - how fantastic were Trixie and all the girls - and what a fab episode. loved loved loved it.
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Old 25-12-2016, 22:17
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I love this show but I didn't like that it was set in another country. If it was a country I was interested in I might have, but I have zero interest in South Africa or its inhabitants. None of them seemed interested in doing anything but popping kids out despite not having enough facilities to look after the ones already there. Never mind Polio, they needed introducing to another medical treatment beginning with P - the Pill!
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Old 25-12-2016, 22:31
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Nonatus House has still got our crockery! (Royal Doulton, Reflection pattern)
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Old 25-12-2016, 22:53
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I love this show but I didn't like that it was set in another country. If it was a country I was interested in I might have, but I have zero interest in South Africa or its inhabitants. None of them seemed interested in doing anything but popping kids out despite not having enough facilities to look after the ones already there. Never mind Polio, they needed introducing to another medical treatment beginning with P - the Pill!
I see the Daily Mail correspondent's in.
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Old 25-12-2016, 23:45
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Agreed, although some on Twitter are complaining that the storyline showed white people saving black people.
That aspect made me feel a little uncomfortable too. While I very much enjoy CTM the tone can be quite patronising at the best of times so tonight's ep felt particularly jarring..
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Old 26-12-2016, 01:01
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That aspect made me feel a little uncomfortable too. While I very much enjoy CTM the tone can be quite patronising at the best of times so tonight's ep felt particularly jarring..
So they should have refused the nurses help because they were the wrong skin colour?
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Old 26-12-2016, 01:17
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I love this show but I didn't like that it was set in another country. If it was a country I was interested in I might have, but I have zero interest in South Africa or its inhabitants. None of them seemed interested in doing anything but popping kids out despite not having enough facilities to look after the ones already there. Never mind Polio, they needed introducing to another medical treatment beginning with P - the Pill!
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Old 26-12-2016, 01:23
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I love this show but I didn't like that it was set in another country. If it was a country I was interested in I might have, but I have zero interest in South Africa or its inhabitants. None of them seemed interested in doing anything but popping kids out despite not having enough facilities to look after the ones already there. Never mind Polio, they needed introducing to another medical treatment beginning with P - the Pill!
Oh dear
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Old 26-12-2016, 10:14
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Loved it.

I now understand why they have so many children
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Old 26-12-2016, 10:36
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Part of the charm of this programme is the inhabitants of the Poplar estate. Hate these "specials" and this one was no exception.
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Old 26-12-2016, 12:39
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I enjoyed it. Rather predictable but still enjoyed it
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Old 26-12-2016, 14:15
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Didn't enjoy it at all, in fact eventually switched it off. Nothing like the original series which works very, very well based in Poplar and specials never work well. Everyone trying too hard.
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Old 26-12-2016, 14:30
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Didn't enjoy it at all, in fact eventually switched it off. Nothing like the original series which works very, very well based in Poplar and specials never work well. Everyone trying too hard.
I thought it was ok but only just. I agree its one of those shows that doesn't travel well. It was a bold move, and it was highlighting a social issue elsewhere, but 90 minutes was overlong and it just seemed a little fantastic transporting quite a chunk of Poplar so neatly to so far away. Have to say it dragged a touch for me but didn't make me switch off.
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