Home Fires

Ana I think you must have nodded of the closing scene was of the plane embedded in the front of a house
I had visions of it landing on the hall where the wedding was. Apart from the Pat, Bob, Marek triangle. I want to see how the factory owner will cope with downsizing and will she keep Noah.

I had forgotten about the fabric supply bit being so complicated - was it a Policaman the accountant lady was talking to about there being no charges? I could do with seeing those bits - how the factory started getting the substandard stuff - again.
The baby was born in the doctor's house - was that the one with the front porch? It seemed to end so suddenly.

Moments earlier the butcher was looking from the window of the doctor's house at the descending plane so I'm assuming he died just as his baby was born.

Great to see Pat stand up to her evil, bullying husband but where will she go now?

I'm also keen to follow Noah's future. Reminds me of Lark Rise to Candleford when the postmistress (can't remember her name) adopted the lovely Sidney.

Have you noticed a pattern emerging on these TV threads?

We can't remember a bloody thing

It can get even more confusing Merlot when there are a few similar type series on - sometimes I choose not to watch a series as I fear I will become even more confused - and that is without the same actors being in more than one series at the same time.!!

I was very disappointed with the ending and couldn't quite get it. It was as though there was half an hour missing from the end. I appreciate that there will be another series but leaving so many pieces of the jigsaw out, made for very poor viewing.

I'm inclined to agree with you there gillybob. There were far too many unfinished storylines - it's usual to leave a bit of mystery to be resolved in a future series, but this was just a little over the top.
-There's the baby - did its father die in the crash as mcem has suggested? Were any of the others in the house injured? Was it, in fact, the doctor's house the plane crashed into - if not, whose house and who was in it at the time?
-Who was the pilot? Did he die? Could it possibly have been the young mentally scarred pilot that Sarah had been hiding?
-What happens to Pat now? Will Marek think she has abandoned him because she (apparently) didn't reply to his letters? Will Marek return, or will he be reported missing in action? Actually, if the latter, Pat would probably never find out, not being a relative. Will she throttle Bob? . Now that I'd like to see!!!
When a series ends, I really think it should end IYSWIM. This series seemed to finish in mid-sentence!

Oh, and of course, what will become of Frances Barden? Will she have to sell her house, now that she'll have no income? And then what about Alison? How will she be able to stay in the village and live with the guilt of what she has (unwittingly and unwillingly) done?
There is a heck of a lot of material for a third series, so they'd better get their fingers out and commission one!

Oh I didn't put 2 and 2 together about the plane crash and the young pilot Sarah was hiding. You could be right Indiana although "tidying this up" next year would be rather pointless wouldn't it?

It could well be too soon for the young pilot to have been back on active service as it were.
They may have left so many story lines unfinished because they are not sure who will sign up for the next series!!!!

I doubt if it could be the pilot who absconded - they would have him locked up waiting for a disciplinary hearing. Are they likely to have patted him on the head and said "never mind, we need pilots. Here's a plane, go back and do your bit"? But this is fiction and if it serves the storyline...... I think France's will suddenly become totally besotted with small children and turn her house into an orphanage! !

Apparently it was the doctor's house. Looks like the butcher may be dead.

Oh how sad . I liked him, such a gentle, unassuming man.

Yes. We will all need a reminder before the next series with so many loose ends.

He wouldn't have been at that end of the house if they hadn't told him to go away from the door because he was shouting out 'advice' on how to give birth

I did wonder if there was a point to all that.

Yes, these scenes aren't usually inserted for no reason are they?

Maybe a red herring and it's not the doctors house after all! Clutching straws here probably, but you never know!! I can't believe that's the last episode in this series! Surely they'll be one or two more, after all we're only in 1940! five more years to go and so many loose ends! As for Marek and Pat, how she'll find out where he's gone goodness knows! Perhaps Bob got blown up by the Spitfire, somehow?!!!!

I asked as to why the pilot didn't ditch in the fields he flew over before the village. There by sacrificing himself for the sake of everyone.
H said he was probably all ready dead

I was confused after watching it, now I am more confused I thought it was Pat's house, I did recorded it so shall take a peep at the end

Maybe it was Pats house and Bob had nipped home to grab a stick to beat her with and been killed?!!!!! Almost certainly the pilot was dead else he would have tried to avoid hitting a built up area at all costs. The pilot of my father's plane did this when they crashed in Holland, and managed to ditch in a field away from property. I know this as the granddaughter of the farmer told me how her Grandad as a boy of 16 watched as the blazing aircraft was descending and that it was obvious that the crew were doing their utmost to avoid the farm and the village. This pilot had he been alive would have done the same.

We know Pat lives next door to the doctor , both houses have porches, Pat's porch had a side entrance , the house with a porch with a front entrance must be the doctors, as Pat approached the scene the porch with the front entrance was standing but on fire , the window of that house looked undamaged , but Pat's porch had a wall running along side and the bombed house didn't , so I have no idea really but think Pats house , the distance shot showed what could not have been more then two properties . One front window seems too small for s doctors house and surgery , so Pat's house and half the doctors house ?

Annie were you an estate agent in a previous life?!!!!! I am amazed at the detail you remember or have you had another sneaky look at a recording?

Take your pick Welshwife ,

I can't even remember most of the characters names , I had a sneaky look , I always record in case the telephone rings during the programme

I did check it on Google, episode synopsis, and they say it was the doctor's house and the butcher was in the front room.

He saw it coming so maybe he had time to dive for cover.

Hope so.