Well, we're back this week to going far afield of anything James Herriot wrote. It's interesting (but not surprising) that when James is treating the animals, most of the time, it's not just the (rather depressingly generic) farmer who's there in the barn, but his wife as well. This is unlike the situations James generally encountered where, in reality, the wife stayed up in the farmhouse which was her domain. I imagine the producers do it because they feel a need to balance the scales. They have male vets, and overwhelmingly male farmers, so they've got to shoehorn females in whenever possible. I get that. But this view unfortunately also explains the character I like to call "Superwoman," a/k/a Mrs. Hall, who really, really, REALLY is nothing like the real thing and who gets more annoyingly super every week. And who they've now got going along on calls(!) and snatching up and holding the lantern that no one else thought to do (gosh, it's nighttime, they're operating with great precision and delicacy on an animal around his carotid artery AND jugular vein, why would it occur to any of THEM to hold up the lantern?!) Unfortunately, this is not the gentle humor of James Herriot, this is the cartoonish actions of a Sponge Bob.