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I remember when the finale aired in the UK, some people thought that he looked odd in the group shots at the end like he had been added in later. I don't know if you remember the show "Spartacus", but they killed off a character in the season 1 finale and then changed their minds. In the original, she was lying dead in a pool of blood but they reshot the scene so she was still lying in a pool of blood, but you could see her hand twitching. FWIW, I think the reason why they've had Matthew become so involved with the community is that the plan is for him to move to the area so that Trixie can keep on working. I know everyone thinks that it was "convenient" that he was at a local coffeeshop near where the accident was just so it would make sense for him to be there helping. However, he's attended council meetings and although the scene was cut on PBS, there was a scene where Trixie ran into him at the council offices and obviously, he's been overseeing the renovations to the properties he or his family owns. But if the plan originally was for his storyline to end in the finale, what was the whole point of his relationship with Trixie? Was that meant to be a red herring? From what I gather from the younger fans, they really really don't like Matthew who they see as rude, snobbish and self-important. A lot of them were hoping that either she stayed single or that she would come out as a lesbian.

Mrs. Wallace was seen washing/polishing a dish in a scene that was cut out of the "Elusive Butterfly" montage. She had a bandage over her injured eye. Regarding Cyril, there was nothing to indicate what happened to his hand in the original broadcast. Maybe he injured it in real life and they decided to incorporate it as part of the story. Or maybe there was a scene that showed how he was injured but it was cut before broadcast in the UK. Something I just noticed: I posted that in that montage Reggie was cutting out the article about him being a hero while the Buckles drank tea and watched. Anyway, according to the article, Reggie is 22. However, he was at least 21 when he was introduced back in Series 6. It was one of the reasons he couldn't be put into a home; he was too old. Lucille is another one who hasn't aged. She was 25 when she came to Nonnatus House and she's still 25.

I never noticed this until fairly recently, but back in season 9 episode 7, there's a scene where she and Dr. McNulty are going back to Nonnatus House and he wants to stop and get fish and chips from a street vendor. She says she's not allowed to eat in the street. Then in the first episode of Season 10, Shelagh brings shortbread cookies for the midwives and we see Sr. Frances in the street, eating hers. What a rebel!!!

Speaking of Matthew, back when the current series wrapped up filming, Olly Rix posted something on his Instagram that indicated that his storyline was over. Basically it was a picture of him in the dark jacket he wore in the final two episodes with a caption that said something along the lines that it was a quick two years, everyone was great and it was a privilege. The post was up until around the middle of January when it was taken down. I thought maybe he removed it because it was a bit of a spoiler and that it would be back when the finale aired, but it's still not back. The thing is, there's nothing to indicate any kind of ending for his storyline. So what's going on? I do know he's in the Christmas episode.

Aww, thanks. I watch using a VPN but ITA there are ways to see it without one. Does anyone wonder why Sr. Hilda was not in the picture?

Another round of "What they cut out:" Right before the scene with Violet and the reporter, she and Reggie are separating napkins (I think, I couldn't really tell) which Reggie finds boring. Violet agrees, but says it is normal life. In the scene where Violet is talking to the reporter, he asked her about the accident and whether or not she knows what caused it and whether or not it was driver errort. She got very angry and said not to put words in her mouth and that anyone scandalmongering would be shown the door. He tells her he's from the East End too, and that's when she tells him that he ought to know there are ordinary people doing what they can to help and that there are heroes everywhere. After that scene, Srs. Monica Joan, Hilda and Frances, Nurse Crane and Nancy are sitting around the table talking. Nurse Crane says she's never heard of the condition Carole had and Sr. Monica Joan says that her career has been about revelations and discoveries and that a woman's flesh is as full of secrets as a pomegranate is with seeds. Sr. Frances says that what shocked her was how quickly the conversation turned from complications of Carole's pregnancy to ways to contol her fertilty and that she is being pressured to get a coil fitted. Sr. Hilda remarks that Carole's life needs fixing, not her body. Nurse Crane observes that all the coil will do is stop her getting pregnant, it won't stop her from looking for love and not in the right places. Then Nancy blurts out "Honest to God! Sex, who needs it!" Then as she stands up to leave, she says that girls think they want sex when what they really want is to be wanted and that simple kindness would do the job just as well. There's a cute scene of the Turner children visiting Dr. Turner in the hospital. Angela says she is going to draw a sunflower on his hand. Timothy says that May is going to draw a bird on it (only one child at a time is allowed, per hospital rules) and he doesn't know what Teddy is going to draw. When Tim leaves to take Angela back and to get May, Shelagh says she's going to make a rule about putting caps back on felt tip pens which she describes as "very new-fangled." They cut a bunch out of that musical montage of "Elusive Butterfly." Right before we see Nancy on her bike and Carole buying flowers, we see Lucille and Cyril in their apartment; Lucille is polishing their crucifix and Cyril is washing windows. Mrs. Wallace who is wearing a bandage over her injured eye is polishing what looks like some kind of dish, Fred puts out a new poster board outside about the accident. Reggie is on the front page and the headline reads: "Crash, Local Heroes" Reggie cuts out his picture from the paper as the Buckles watch, drinking tea. Shelagh takes what looks like a couple of pies out of the oven, while Timothy packs a medical bag. Patrick is in the living room and the children all dressed up as doctors and nurses are examining him. The montage ends with Fred at the Corbett apartment putting up the wallpaper in the nursery. Bobbie holds a bucket for Fred, Sr. Hilda is ironing and Mrs. Corbett is holding Baby Benedict.

Also the fact that both of them found themselves in circumstances they never imagined: Matthew Crawley as the heir to an Earldom, Matthew Aylward as a widowed single father.

An interview with Olly Rix

She played a 13-year-old on an episode of "Casualty" a few weeks ago.

Baby Dean's real mom posted this on Twitter. Ellie-May Sheridan, who played Carole, was 16 when she filmed her episodes.

The coffeeshop he and Violet were in was the same one he was in when he had scabies. He obviously likes it there. In a way, he's had two different story arcs going: His relationship with Trixie, but also his relationship with Poplar/Nonnatus House. I think that's because the ultimate plan is for Trixie and him to stay in the area. Will we ever see him doing his actual job? Matthew is a barrister meaning he gets to wear a wig in court.

They're part English and part Indian. They cut another scene which was a montage set to music ("You're Too Much a Part of Me" by Patti Austin) of the Corbetts looking over Bobbie's baby things, Nancy in bed and waking up several times to check her alarm, Timothy ransacking the living room trying to find his book only it turns out Shelagh has it and she points upstairs as if to tell him to go to bed, Sr. Frances and Carole's foster mom watching her make homemade baby food for Dean and feeding him. The last scene is Nancy doing morning orders very successfully.

Some cut scenes: After the scene where Nancy learns she's going to be doing morning orders, there's a short scene of the Turners talking about the many excuses children have for not going to sleep even when they're already half asleep. They also discuss Timothy and that Patrick needs to talk to him about getting enough rest. There's a scene at the Corbetts right before Sr. Frances talks about getting Carole fitted with an IUD with Dr. Turner. Edina says she likes the specialty girdle and she tells Sr Hilda that she and Lionel wanted more children but they were separated for a long time because he came to England first to find a job and then brought her and Bobbie over. The Corbetts are Anglo-Indians and they were raised as British children in India; they spoke English, went to English schools and attended church. They had problems when they first came to England, but now things are fine.

In the first episode of this season, Nancy told Colette she wanted to work and save so that she could afford a home for the two of them to live. I think the reason Sr. Frances worked with Carole is because she had been the midwife when Dean was born.

Sister Monica Joan told Mrs. Greenhalgh that they both believe in voices of wisdom, but they don't necessarily agree where they come from.

Ken Weatherwax who played Pugsley was a member of the family that owned and trained the dogs who played Lassie.

The hippies weren't homeless or poor. They were there because they wanted to live without society's rules and to be free, as Clover/Susie put it as well as to practice their art.

She mentioned going to a Spiritualist church in the Season 9 Christmas special, the one where the circus came to town.

Maria Von Trapp wrote that when she left the convent to go teach the Von Trapp children, she wore a dress that had belonged to the most recent deceased nun who was quite elderly. "

No, Mrs. Beesley was Buffy's doll. In today's parlance she was her "emotional support doll."

The parts of the episode dealing with the hippies reminded me of an old "Family Affair" episode. For those of you who are too young to have watched it, "Family Affair" was a sitcom about a wealthy bachelor living in New York with his English manservant who becomes the guardian for his orphaned teenaged niece and her 6-year-old twin brother and sister. Late in the show's run, they did an episode where Cissy, now a young adult, is dating a guy who is a "weekend hippy" and her invites her to spend the weekend with him and a couple of his hippy friends. Uncle Bill decides that as she's an adult, she cn make her own decisions although it's clear he's not happy that she's decided to go. Cissy's boyfriend, complete with hippy wig and love beads comes by to pick up Cissy and he's brought his friends, a couple of hippy chicks who are all "Peace and Love!" They see the twins and immediately start playing jacks with them, saying how much they love "little people." Later, Cissy is in her and Buffy's bedroom getting ready to leave. Buffy observes that the two hippy chicks were grown up like Cissy but they played games like little kids. Then she says, "You know, we were a lot of trouble when we first came here to live. Uncle Bill had to change everything for us. Those kids wouldn't have bothered."

Stuff that was cut from Episode 6: Right after Shelagh talks about Teddy to Lucille, Nancy observes that they grow up so quickly, don't they. Sr. Frances says that she clung to her mother's knees at the school gate so tightly, she has to be prised off like a limpet. Shelagh asks if they've heard from Trixie. Sr. Frances says they got an aerogramme saying her godmother was still in hospital so Trixie's running back and forth with toiletries and nightwear. In between the scenes of Patrick at his meeting, there's a scene of Nancy visiting an elderly bed-bound woman named Mildred. She asks Nancy to fix them both a cuppa before she leaves. Nancy says she can't because she's on a tight schedule. Mildred looks sad and disappointed. Right after the scene where the South Asian woman has her baby, there's a scene of Srs. Monica Joan, Hilda and Frances talking about the bird. Sr. Hilda wondered where it came from; and Sr. Frances says it probably fell down the chimney looking for a place to nest; Sr. Hilda says "In October", and wonders if it might have been confused. Sr. Frances says, "Or very stupid." Sr. Monica Joan says the bird was conveying a message. Sr. Frances observes that it was a raven, not a carrier pigeon. Sr. Monica Joan then says she has found someone who will be able to tell them what the message is. After the scene of Clover, Kat and JoJo talking, we see Sr. Monica Joan leaving Nonnatus House. The scene then changes to Shelagh and Patrick talking about how cases of measles are rising across the District and how they're going to show the Committee that a vaccination program can be both practical and effective. Shelagh says they shouldn't have to but they will. The scene then changes to Matthew standing outside the Buckles' shop. The sign says it's closed, but Matthew opens the door and tells Violet that the sign is backwards. She tells him that it's half day closing and that if he wants a pattern for a crocheted minidress, he's out of luck. He assures her that he doesn't want anything so exotic and then proceeds to ask her if the Council has a policy about squatters. She says that because of the housing shortage, many families are living wherever they can and that she feels sorry for them even though they are breaking the law. Matthew tells her the people he's talking about are beatniks, dropouts, hippies, he's not sure what to call them but they all have hair "down to here" who have taken up residence in one of his empty warehouses. She tells him he can talk to the police or he can talk to them himself. She then indicates that she wants to leave and he thanks her although he seems rather befuddled.

My take is that their relationship has gotten to the point where Trixie keeps an overnight bag at Matthew's place and that sometimes she stays over just to be with him. I think she just needed someone to talk to about what happened with the Packers. Also, don't forget that Trixie and Christopher had a sexual relationship although it was only implied: Christopher said he wanted to be alone in a room with her where they could shut the door, and later we see Trixie putting a sexy negligee into a suitcase for her trip with him.

Nancy started rooming with Trixie when the ceiling collapsed in her room.

She also cried when Barbara died.