Hall keeps doing that sad, looking-up-expectantly thing every time someone arrives at the party, and then it’s never Edward. Tristan is trying to get Quiet David to admit the donkey ate mistletoe, which takes a very, very long time. I could not handle the “what made the donkey sick” plotline when Tristan stood there next to the donkey and the mistletoe and said “I will buy all this mistletoe” and then later is like, well, what’s wrong with the donkey? My notes literally say “Mistletoe is poisonous don’t put the DONKEY by it!” And if your answer is that he knew but he wanted tiny David to tell him, then he prolonged that donkey’s suffering, and I am mad at him for that instead.Īs I mentioned, everyone gets split up here. A sick donkey who was clearly eating mistletoe, Tristan, you were literally standing right next to it while it was doing it. Hall has misplaced optimism that her terrible son who doesn’t deserve her will come to the party. Tristan’s exam results arrive but remain unopened, and Mrs. Helen and Hugh are getting married the next day, and there’s a pregnant border collie who you just know is going to have some sort of crisis later. The core characters work best when they’re all playing off each other, and instead “The Night Before Christmas” isolates everyone and puts James in a dark house with Indecisive Helen.īut before that! It’s Christmas Eve and the veterinary practice is hosting a party. It’s just not quite as good as all the others.
It’s still very charming and it’s not bad.
But that’s like saying it’s my least favorite puppy.
Maybe that helps explain why, for a show that specializes in quaintness and charm, it feels strangely off the mark here this was my least favorite episode of the season. last December, a couple months after episode six aired on Channel 5. This “final” episode of the season is actually a Christmas special, originally aired in the U.K. I mean, I know both of those things are real, but. Do you remember when all these news outlets were reporting that people who were inordinately invested in Avatar were depressed because Pandora wasn’t real? I finally related to that, only instead of being sad about the absence of glowing flowers and majestic bird dragon things (I don’t really remember Avatar), it’s cows and cobblestones. The excitement with which people take photos on the Friends couch is how I would feel if allowed to visit the parlor, the kitchen, or even the hallway of the All Creatures set. I gasped during the set-tour video and then realized how invested I’d become in this peaceful little show in only seven episodes. As I realized this season was coming to an end, I dove down a rabbit hole of All Creatures Great and Small behind-the-scenes vids on YouTube.
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