37 Responses for "Lark Rise To Candleford Episode 11- Series 2"

1. lynda March 5th, 2009 at 6:34 am 1

   i can’t wait for this episode!!!!

2. Mimmi March 5th, 2009 at 3:01 pm 2

   Yes, I after last weeks more light hearted episode this one looks potentially more dramatic – ‘forever change the lives of a number of LR and Candleford residents’.

3. MyOneWeakness March 5th, 2009 at 9:58 pm 3

   this ep seems very exciting! cannot wait

   but i still hope dorcas and JD can get together its soo annoying! what does everyone else think?

4. Miss_Rose March 5th, 2009 at 10:10 pm 4

   I’m not sure JD and DL will be able to get together now, especially after what we’ve all seen on the trailer…A son?

   Such scandal! He, he, he!

5. Mimmi March 5th, 2009 at 11:22 pm 5

   If I’m honest – I dont expect to see JD and Dorcas get together..in fact, I suspect that it’s likely that JD will leave…how can he stay in a small town with his illegitimate son?

   Shame – I was still holding out for some passion, but the writers knocked that on the head…damn!!

6. Nadine March 6th, 2009 at 9:20 am 6

   I really hope they don’t write JD out of the series! I hope he will remain in Candleford (with his Son). That would be quite an interesting story line for the 3rd series (if there is one… ). Oh, I’d be shattered if the bbc decides to cease the production. I don’t think two episiodes are enough to finish the show in a satisfying way.

7. Mimmi March 6th, 2009 at 10:00 am 7

   Series 3 confirmed !!!!!

   Yay !!!

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pre…/06/lark.shtml

8. Lexy March 6th, 2009 at 1:11 pm 8

   Mimmi – that’s the sentence that’s praying on my mind most from the episode description too… ‘forever change the lives of a number of LR and Candleford residents’. Argh will it be for the best? Or worst?

   I don’t think JD will leave. Maybe it’s just my wishful thinking, but the press release for series 3 (wahoo!) sounds like they’re keeping him as he’s turned out to be a success.

   Very much looking forward to the episode (and for the first time in week’s I’ll actually be able to watch it on Sunday!). It seems to be jam packed with intruiging revelations that will make for a very interesting (I hope in a good way) episode.

9. Mimmi March 6th, 2009 at 2:18 pm 9

   Lexy, the press release still has Olivia Grant – Lady A , so it doesn’t hold much sway for me.

   I’d like to think that they keep all the main characters and JD is certainly one of them – he has a popular following I am sure…and I can see plenty of scope for developing his character – successful business man bringing changes to Candleford…besides LR is where his ‘family’ is.

10. MyOneWeakness March 6th, 2009 at 5:25 pm 10

    it says on the BBC website that “The second series will conclude on 15 March with a Spring wedding.” but whose i wonder????

    any thoughts?

11. Mimmi March 6th, 2009 at 7:36 pm 11

    Well I can only think of Margaret and Thomas. Last episode was Harvest Festival – when is that? – September?…I thought Thomas & Margaret had set the date for October mind, maybe they dilly/dally. Maybe Nan & Alf wed……………but I dont think it can be anyone else.

12. Miss_Rose March 7th, 2009 at 4:00 pm 12

    Am sooo confused about that “Spring wedding”? Cos it can’t be Thomas, they set the date for October…I thought??? My head hurts!

13. JMac March 8th, 2009 at 9:31 pm 13

    I can’t believe next week is the last episode! What will we do then? I can’t see any way that Dorcas and James will get together but maybe this is the catastrophe we need for Dorcas to realise how much she likes James? I think the wedding will be Thomas and Margaret – the dress looked too fancy for Nan and there is no one else. Bring on season 3 – yay!

14. ruthalice March 8th, 2009 at 9:52 pm 14

    I’m so pleased there’s going to be a third season! And I really enjoyed this week’s episode – I think JD’s going to stay – I mean the Candleford residents didn’t seem to mind about his illegimate son so he doesn’t have to leave for that reason and from the trailer it looks like he can’t go anywhere anyway! I can’t wait for next weeks episode but at the same time I don’t want it end – what wll I do with my Sunday evening?

15. Mimmi March 8th, 2009 at 10:26 pm 15

    After the hunour of last week, this one was darker, but very good all the same.

    The trailer would have you believe that the horse accident has left James not quite right – will he die?

    Looks like Thomas and Margaret will be the happy ending for series 2

16. lynda March 9th, 2009 at 5:37 am 16

    Lark Rise to Candleford was as always fab! i can’t wait for next week but it will be very sad, my Sunday evenings will be empty.

17. hami March 9th, 2009 at 9:34 am 17

    Another great episode! I’d like to commend Claudie Blakley as Emma Timmins … the best actor in the series, I think!

18. Lexy March 9th, 2009 at 12:48 pm 18

    Blooming Heck!! What an episode!
    Did anyone else’s WHOLE family take a huge intake of breath as JD fell off his horse????? Mimmi – I had the same thought as you after seeing the preview for next week… perhaps he will die (I shall be distraught) and Dorcas will be in charge of the littleun?
    Did we ever find out what the present was the Nan had bought for Alf with a kiss?
    Next week looks very exciting and promises to have us all on the edge of our seats, as a good series finale should!

19. Lexy March 9th, 2009 at 12:51 pm 19

    Oh and i’ve just remembered – our whole family was also very excited to hear our home town mentioned as the source of the letter for James – Halifax!!

20. sandijay March 9th, 2009 at 1:55 pm 20

    The present, Lexy, was the piglet for the Arliss kids to fatten up.
    Going by the trailers for next week, the future is not looking good for JD, Following in the grand tradition of Series 1, get a man for Dorcas then get rid of him, and kill of a main character in the series finale, he fits the bill on both counts, so i it’s au revoir Mr Dowland………hope I’m wrong tho.

21. artemis March 9th, 2009 at 6:26 pm 21

    Don’t think they’ll kill him. I think the son will love staying with Miss Lane and not want to go with JD.
    Then I think they’ll fight about it and JD may possibly leave with his son to get him away from Dorcus – hence the final comment I think she makes about not giving up or whatever it is etc.

    I’d hope that they decide they both love him (sydney or whatever he’s called) and then re-find the fact they love each other – and get married to share him – but I reckon that’s a little too optimistic!
    I think they’ll be a show down about who keeps him.

    Really don’t want JD to leave though as love him.

22. Mimmi March 9th, 2009 at 6:59 pm 22

    The final words from next weeks trailer are Miss Margarets – ‘I will not be defeated’ , it’s her voice, well to my ears.

    It would be a cruel stroke by the writers to have poor Sidney to loose his father, even if he prefers the PO, his father is his father.

    I think I like the friction between Dorcas and JD ( a bit of tension adds to the drama very P&P) – this when he just told her where to get off, but now i’d like some mellow moments between them, a real heart to heart, the words in the note he sent her with the flowers she wouldn’t read or let him say at the hotel when she came to help him.

    However, I feel the chances of that happening are extremely slim. It’s going to be a toughie, the best interests of Sidney and Dorcas has no real place to be encouraging the young lad not to make an effort with his father.

    OK – shall we have sweep stake? Is JD going to 1) die at the end, 2) ride off leaving Sidney behind (keeps door open for series 3) propose again to Dorcas and marry her in a surprise spring wedding.

    I think my preference is for No2,

23. Trevor March 9th, 2009 at 7:51 pm 23

    lexy good to hear about halifax i’m from bradford

24. sandijay March 9th, 2009 at 7:57 pm 24

    Agree with you mimmi, ‘i will not be defeated’ is definitely miss margaret’s voice.
    I think the ’spring wedding’ is also margaret’s and it’s just because the episode is being shown in spring maybe.

25. artemis March 9th, 2009 at 11:27 pm 25

    Glad you think it’s Miss Margaret – I did at first but then couldn’t figure out what she had in life to -not be defeated’ about. Guess we’ll find out.

26. sandijay March 10th, 2009 at 9:38 am 26

    If you’re having a sweepstake Mimmi, i’m definitely going for option 1, purely because Laura says ‘A time to mourn’ and… if we expect the worst anything else will be a bonus

27. Mimmi March 10th, 2009 at 2:11 pm 27

    I know sandijay – all is pointing that way, he even re-wrote his will in the last episode…however, I think James will just ride off on his horse and seek to exercise his restlessness elsewhere. All the new characters like Nan and Minnie I can see staying..but I just have that strong gut feeling that James will be leaving…but the door is ajar if they dont kill him off and leave Sidney at the PO..and there is always Queenie to visit.

28. Carole March 10th, 2009 at 8:40 pm 28

    Never ever even read an internet forum before never mind replied to one, but have been following your discussions with as much interest as the episodes themselves, so here goes.
    I have been fascinated by Lark Rise to Candleford, didn’t see the first series. Have dropped less than subtle hints to my children that ideal mother’s day would be first series on DVD, breakfast in bed and leave mum alone to watch series 1- heaven.
    I am hoping that James survives but needs to ride off to Oxford to seek help from specialist doctors with his fainting. Thus needing to rely on Dorcas to help him with Sydney. Sydney & Dorcas will get on very well, and thus James & Dorcas will be thrown together and in series 3 their love will blossom again & bingo – wedding end of series 3! Or I am a hopeless romantic ???

29. Mimmi March 11th, 2009 at 4:43 pm 29

    Welcome Carole

    Apparently there is a piece in this weeks ‘Total TV Guide’ – Laura, JD and Dorcas on the cover. Article and a photo of the wedding, interview with Olivia Hallinan. She says

    ‘…there will be a happy ending although I can’t say for whom. But viewers won’t be disappointed…’

    In the photo Minnie and Laura are in their bridesmaid dresses and Dorcas is at the front in a lilac outfit holding Sidney’s hand. JD nowhere to be seen . hey are all outside the church with the vicar standing in the doorway so it looks like it’s before the ceremony rather than after.

    Not sure that those of us who have a preferred ending should get too excited, Olivia may be talking about Thomas & Margaret.

    Well if there was a death, that would be sad, so here’s hoping they are spareing us that.

30. MissRose March 11th, 2009 at 4:57 pm 30

    Hello again everybody.

    Can’t wait for sundays eppie! Really, really hope JD does not die, cos that would be a dead depressing end to the series…get the joke? Nope? Oh, right…

    One tiny thing that really bugging me. The fainting. Every time someone faints in LRTC everyone suddenly jumps to the conculsion that they are going to die. Its really not the case, I’ve had TLOC since I was 13 and its been 16 years since then…you do the math!

    (In case anyone was wondering, TLOC is a rare condidtion where the brain switches it’s self of without any warning, my case isn’t life threatening but it can be painful if I go at the top of the stairs. But thats why I watch happy TV! Bring on the happy endings!)

31. Camilla March 11th, 2009 at 6:53 pm 31

    I really really really REALLY hope the spring wedding is for Dorcas and James!
    Reading a few theorys in this discussion, I argee with one that James’s son will want to stay with Mrs Lane, and then Dorcas will somehow find out that she indeed loves James and they marry! Opitmistic I know….

    And Lexy, me and my family(except my dad) all went ‘ahhh!’ when JD fell off his horse!!

32. Camilla March 11th, 2009 at 6:57 pm 32

    And hearing about the interview in a tv guide has made me very more opitmistic now! hehe

33. sandijay March 11th, 2009 at 7:09 pm 33

    Mimmi and MissRose you have cheered me up no end, the only depressing thing now is i’m working sunday night and won’t be able to find out until monday morning

34. Debx March 11th, 2009 at 7:34 pm 34

    i loved the ep! – though i love all of them!

    as soon as sydney said ‘i don’t want a father, i want miss lane’ i was like awww u can have both!!

    and as soon as i saw the wedding i immediatly thought dorcas + james and was like OMG finally!! but then i remembered Thomas and Margaret are getting married…. and was a bit less happy

    but i refuse to believe it is over between Dorcas and James!

    they are mean to be! as soon as he came i had coupled them off! especially when she was like ‘i wouldn’t want you to think i was getting married’ and James was like ‘neither would I’ – i was like awwwww!!

    DORCAS AND JAMES!! – or else!!! grrr :@

35. jackie March 11th, 2009 at 8:15 pm 35

    Love all the comments. I will be so dissapointed is dorcas & james dont get together, will make a fantastic ending to series 2.

36. MsGee March 11th, 2009 at 8:21 pm 36

    I hope Bill Gallagher reads these comments. So wrong to get rid of JD. Dorcas Lane is not the same without him. In fact her character is beginning to grate on me. Her impish side is disappearing. She needs the love of a good man – JD is very good for her and we need to see a more affectionate side to her personality. Their squabbles are very enjoyable and I think they bring out the best in each other. Hope they get married – I mean, who wants a dull peaceful marriage. Are you taking note Mr Gallagher? Come on, give us a brilliant 3rd series and ending…please!!

37. Mimmi March 11th, 2009 at 10:01 pm 37

    Good points Ms Gee, I’m with ya! Dorcas needs some further development, there is no reason to say she has to stay a spinster. I think there isn’t going to be much time in episode 12 to pull all the strands together for outcome some of us want. We’ll just have to wait and see how Bill Gallagher has left things. I’ll be fuming if they kill James off, the best I am hoping for now is that even if he does ride off the door is left open for him to come back in series 3.