Brother Cadfael is a twelfth-century Anglo-Welsh monk created by the late Edith Pargeter writing under the pen name of Ellis Peters. A retired crusader disappointed in love, now a herbalist in charge of the gardens of Shrewsbury Abbey, Cadfael is often called on to solve murders and other crimes in and around Shrewsbury, Shropshire, in the border country where England meets Wales.
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Season 2, Episode 3: A Morbid Taste for Bones
Cadfael and a deputation of monks from Shrewsbury are dispatched to Wales to recover the remains of martyred St. Winifred over the objections of the local lord and residents.
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Paxiaynox 3 weeks ago
Agreed - that is not like a seizure. It is more a pseudo-seizure (Asymmetric arm flailing, pelvic thrusting). Also in real seizure, eyes usually roll back in head and there is post-ictal state.
carrigallen98 5 months ago
@jharker45 I suppose we could have the episode go on for eight hours to accommodate. ;)
kamwrites 7 months ago
@jharker45 I would point out that, while they might get that wrong, Cadfael is regardless one of the most amazing mystery shows of the last 20 years. Certainly Jacobi makes this worth watching almost single handedly - the product values otherwise simply add to it.
Foyle's War is comparable, I think. Why can't American TV be so good?
rampantandroid 7 months ago 2
I hate when a TV show depicting an epileptic never gets the aftermath of the seizure right, if it is shown at all. The victim usually wakes only minutes after the fit, perfectly lucid, when in reality he or she would be in the blackout stage; eyes open but still unconscious. After the blackout stage, the person needs to sleep because a seizure is exhausting. But shows have to consider their time limit so to hell with accuracy and let's go straight to lucidity. Oh, well, Only my pet peeve.
jharker45 8 months ago
Epileptic seizures can cause hallucinations that are surprisingly lucid. I know because I had them before seizures and before I was on medication. Epileptics are prone to flailing, which is why anyone witnessing the seizure can get hurt if they try to stop the flailing. I knocked my sister into an aquarium one time when she tried to stop my arms flailing. Of course I didn't know until after I was conscious again.
jharker45 8 months ago
@ElizabethIrish I think they are portrayed very kindly. The leaders of the clergy in Mideval times weren't just pompous. They were cruel, greedy and dangerous. Anyone heard of the inquisition. It was this thng the Dominicans did for a few hundred years. Were they killed a lot of people by burning them because someone said they were heretics. Or witches. Or midwives.
lollipopfop 9 months ago
That doesn't look like any epileptic fit Ive ever heard about. He isn't jerking around, but flailing. And the fucked up vision thingy seemed pretty lucid.
lollipopfop 9 months ago
@jharker45 Nah. Opium is helpful to epileptic fits or any other fits. And absolutely no one hallucinates with Opiates. Cadfael did not have Laudanum. Just Opium, and a weak version of it at that. Taken orally it would do very little but calm you a tad. To get a high you need to smoke it, snort it or inject it. Absolutely no opiate or opioid has hallucinogenic properties. In fact the common thing to prescribe for seizures are mood stabilizers. Like Carbamazepine. Seriously people.
lollipopfop 9 months ago
@Nikita4ever9000 Jerome is probably more like a good Catholic then Cadfael. Cadfael has lied and misled people on many occaisions, including the law, as when he tries to save traitors to King Stephen from Hugh Barringer. Jerome is only too unbendable. He believes that the rules are the most important thing. Which is exactly what a good Catholic should think. It is Jeromes duty to make sure that other brothers do nothing to shame themselves.
lollipopfop 9 months ago