Siegfried figures out that River is in a near-constant state of panic, and starts treating him accordingly. Side note: I want the chemical salesman’s briefcase.
Probably because most of the other moments involved dead cows, war flashbacks, and traumatized animals. I don’t know why this was the funniest moment of the episode, but it was. Hall, who’s being pretty feisty this episode, implies Siegfried won’t be happy about Tristan handling the purchase, and when Tristan says she has a sense of humor, we hear her shout, off camera, “I blooming well need one to work here.” It was unexpected and I lol’d. Hall’s petunias (not a euphemism), and sells Tristan two entire boxes of a new sedative called Soothe-Away. In the midst of this, a chemical salesman named Mr. They decide so quickly! Are you monsters! What if he just needs to get acclimated? What if he just needs a stern yet gentle soul who can feel a spiritual kinship with him and teach him to trust again? #RiversJourneyĪfter being shouted at, Tristan organizes the dispensary (please note once more the excellent star tiles on the dispensary floor). The major, who sucks, gives Siegfried one shot at giving the horse therapy, and if it doesn’t work well then he and his crony are ready to have River killed. After Siegfried examines River, he determines nothing is wrong with him physically, and he just needs to be treated psychologically. He also only cares about this incredibly beautiful horse in order to race him. Maybe he just hates the English, amirite? We, in turn, immediately hate the major, because he describes himself as being a little gouty, which he attributes to “the price of living well.” Oh boooooooo. River was brought to the major’s estate from Ireland and he won’t allow anyone to ride him.
#All creatures full
Siegfried goes full horse girl when he meets River, the horse that can’t be broken.
#All creatures skin
He declares this cow was definitely not struck by lightning, and when Cranford the Farmer grumbles about payment, Jeff says to James that that man would skin a flea for its hide. (He has “Jeff” vibes, I’ll give him that.) Jeff greets James while wearing a bloody apron and eating a sandwich, then cuts into the cow heart while seeming to make direct eye contact with James. James gets a cow postmortem done and I can’t tell if I enjoy or am terrified by the man doing the postmortem, whose name is Jeff. Good luck to Cranford in getting I-Cannot-Tell-a-Lie James to sign off on a false cause of death.
Insurance won’t pay out on a regular dead cow, so it has to have died due to a weather cataclysm. James is seeing Cranford the Farmer about said dead cow, which Cranford is really positive was struck by lightning, despite there having been no storms. Just a full-on dead cow, lying in a field. “Shall we not put the deadly poison on the breakfast table?”Īs to James’s work, I literally asked last week for no more dead cows, and what do we have here? Dead cow. Hats off to this exchange between Tristan, Siegfried, and Mrs. The antiseptic is next to the hydrogen cyanide, and to Siegfried’s point, they do look alarmingly similar. The shouting is directed at various individuals, one of whom is Tristan, who has left the dispensary all messy.
His flashbacks alternate with his actions in the present, which are either him shouting at people at 2297 Darrowby, or trying to save a psychologically wounded horse at his former major’s estate. Siegfried is dealing with his trauma from the war, most definitely exacerbated by the beginning of World War II. Again, this is not your typical escapist episode. Siegfried’s flashbacks begin as a result of news that one of his fellow soldiers has died by suicide. Hundreds of thousands of horses were brought to Europe for the war, and they needed vets to take care of them. He’s a captain and is in charge of the horses, most likely as a part of the Veterinary Corps.
#All creatures series
Siegfried has a series of flashbacks, all of which are in Ypres during World War I. I guess it’s asking too much to want this basically a biopic program to skip the coming war and the previous war, despite their scarring of multiple continents and millions of people. I hope you were prepared for a whole bunch of war flashbacks and horse murder this week, because that’s what our normally calm and gentle show has to offer us.
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