I’ve been away…and am happy to be jumping back into one of my all time favorite episodes. I thought this was well written and well played from the first scene to the last. Loved the beginning with “prince ” Martin coming to the rescue.
My feelings are that this episode was Doc Martin at its best with the classic gruff bedside manner. He is an equal offender to the blind, the elderly,the overweight… Nobody is safe. The banter between the doc and Ms Lane was laugh out loud funny several times, as was his treatment of Mr Cleary…walking him into a wall, then shouting at him as if he was also hearing impaired. Even the guide dog got laughs with his perfectly timed growls. Later he tells Burt that he’s past his prime, and insults Aunt Joan be referring to Mr Cleary as her “victim”. His interaction with Louisa is also a classic with his confusion to her objections to his personal medical questions. They seem to always be on a different page of the same book.
Additionally we see the introduction of Britains own Barney Fife, joe Penhale.
I found this episode a perfect set up for a series of a more vulnerable Martin where Louisa was concerned.

In my opinion this one was as good as it gets. Bravo!

I heartily agree with the previous comments.

This is one of my favorite episodes and a great start to S3, one of my favorite series.

It has a little bit of everything…the grumpy Doc with his multiple verbal duels with Allison Lane, the romantic Martin as he and Louisa finally start to realize they are making a connection, the bewildered Martin who does not understand what he has said to upset Louisa, the extraordinary Doc who comes to the rescue to save Delph’s life, the surprisingly understanding and practical Doc who encourages Pauline to obtain some medical training as a phlebotomist to give her additional responsibility and relieve him of a task made difficult by his hemophobia, plus some good physical comedy and many great one-liners.

I found the introduction to be quite clever with the analogy of Martin and Louisa’s situation to a fairy tale romance. It applies not only to this episode, but carries throughout the series until the bubble bursts in S3E8. The scenes were well-chosen to match the fairy tale that Louisa was reading to the children. The passers-by on the streets of Port Wenn could easily be construed as a dragon, a wizard and a goblin. Naturally, there is Gremlin, “the faithful hound”. And the children encircling Louisa represent the princess imprisoned in the castle. The prince (Martin) leaps over a bench to “scale the castle wall” to come to her aid.

There were so many great lines during the confrontations between Martin and Allison Lane:
A: “You haven’t told me what’s wrong with her yet.”
M: “She’s very annoying.”

M: “Good-bye Mrs. Lane.”
A: “It’s not Mrs. I’m divorced.”
M: “I’m not surprised.”

M: “Why is MS Lane reorganizing my diary? Patients do not come into this surgery without my invitation.”
A: “And yet here I am!”

M: “….No, you have come here to ask me to sedate your child so you can pretend she is a good little girl.”
A: “She IS a good little girl.”
M: “There’s nothing LITTLE about her.”

And the conversation between Bert and the Doc:
B: “Why do you think I’m unhappy all the time? I know that’s a hard one.”
M: “No it isn’t. You’re lonely, bored, unloved and past your prime, if you ever had a prime.”

This series, for a reason I never understood, has two titles for each episode…one for UK viewers and a different one for U.S. viewers. I try to understand the significance of the titles, but I may not be creative enough to pick them out. The UK title of “Tick Tock”, I presume could reference not only the Doc’s hobby, which he may be ready to give up as it “may be time for something new”, but possibly Louisa’s biological clock that’s ticking. She tells Bert that she would like to have lots of children when “I find the right man.” Does the U.S. title of “The Apple Doesn’t Fall” relate to the major story line of this episode with Allison Lane and her daughter Delph, both of whom are fat?

I especially enjoyed two scenes with Martin and Louisa…the one in the surgery where he examines her and suspects she is anemic and the one at the end where she tells him she is worried about what she is doing with her life. There is such promise that perhaps M&L will eventually manage to get together.

All in all, it is a well-crafted episode and sets the stage well for the rest of this series.

This episode had another medical storyline which was fresh and relevant. The over prescribing of Ritalin for children and abuse of diet drugs was addressed very well. Other current medical issues have been Louisa’s anti-vaccination comments, infertility, the recurrence of tuberculosis, a disease once thought cured. It is interesting to see these issues pop up rather than OCD, diabetes, and similar standard illnesses.

Felt so hopeless looking for answers to my qun.niotss..uetil now.

That’s 2 clever by half and 2×2 clever 4 me. Thkasn!

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