Chiara - 28 yo - Venice, Italy - CTM, DA, TGA and other period drama lover - I’m now into All Creature Great and Small 🐄 - a little obsessed with an eccentric vet and his housekeeper ❤️💙 @chiaraaries_ on twitter
[ID: Sketch in dark reddish brown of Siegfried Farnon and Audrey Hall from All Creatures Great and Small (2020). Both are sitting on a sofa, and Audrey has pulled Siegfried in, hugging him with one arm behind his back and the other around his neck, her head tilted town against him. His face is partially hidden behind her arm, and he is turned towards her, one hand, which is bandaged in gauze, resting on her waist. End ID]
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First attempt at drawing Audrey and Siegfried. One I'll hopefully revisit when art is working better than atm and try to tidy up/correct/generally improve
It's safe to say that the relationship of Audrey and Siegfried is the corner stone of the show. No matter if you see them as potential lovers, as professional team, or just as good friends. Every scene between these two is touching, witty, and a joy to watch.
They are the parents of the household and look after the young ones as if they were their own children.
Together they tackle life and important decisions for Skeldale and their roommates. They can be fiercely honest with each other and deeply sympathetic a second later. They laugh, they bicker, they flirt, and everything in between.
I'm sorry I can't be worried about Dorothy. You can't make me.
When we find Siegfried at the beginning of season six he has literally nearly WRECKED HIS LIFE because Audrey left. House in shambles, personal relationships on thin ice, finances in the dumpster and it is canon that the REASON he is failing to successfully EXIST is because she wasn't there. That man has been working overtime on a PhD in yearnalism.
He runs after her. Tells her he wants her to LIVE HER LIFE WITH HIM.
CRASHES OUT when he thinks she might go back to Sunderland. '
Makes amends with people and genuinely tries to be less selfish FOR HER.
Hugs her so tight in the kitchen that she probably collapsed a lung!!
Tells her she's the answer to EVERY QUESTION. Tells her he'll ALWAYS need her.
NOW.
It is Christmas! The first one he'll get to spend with Audrey in a few years! I know that man is going to be damn near giddy about her being back and getting to share the holiday with her again. His family is HOME FOR CHRISTMAS!!!! I think Dorothy is going to be a mostly unwelcome distraction!
I actually don't think he is going to be particularly pleased with Dorothy's arrival. There is nothing in that trailer that suggests he is?? In the first shot he looks HORRIFIED (probably bc if you recall that man LITERALLY ghosted her. She wrote. He did NOT return those letters). Then she's all over him showing him how to aim a dart and like ok we've SEEN Siegfried flirt before and he has definitely NOT activated the Siegfried Charm Initiative in that scene. At least not the bit we were shown. He looks neutral to me. Then she's accompanying him on a call and she's reminiscing, meanwhile he's away laughing on a fast camel.
That doesn't seem like someone who is preoccupied with the woman in question. I think he will be polite. He might even flirt a bit bc thats just his way, but it's not going to be serious.
If it was anybody other than specifically Dorothy, I might be more concerned. I think if we were to look like 3 seconds past what a Siegfried/Dorothy relationship would mean for the Christmas Special and like actually think about what the show would look like if they went down this road, it would be all the more apparent why it isn't viable. What? Siegfried pursues a relationship with her? Marries her? And then what? Audrey works for them? L O L. ITS ABSURD. It's not happening.
I think this realization is exactly what is going to have Siegfried politely give Dorothy the northwest shove. He's going to realize that a romantic entanglement with her FRIEND would only lead to Audrey leaving. And he's not having THAT. Not after just getting her back. Not after spending so much time making sure she'll stay.
We might briefly need to endure Siegfried being a bit, well, Siegfried, about this, but he's going to get a clue, I promise. They would NOT spend all season focussing on their relationship just to topple the whole thing on Christmas Eve.
I think having an attractive, affable, available, CLEARLY willing woman come through and having Siegfried reject her outright (and please trust he WILL reject her) bc it's going to put him in an awkward spot with Audrey actually speaks volumes about how he feels about her and how unwilling he is to lose her. In the same way Audrey didn't go with Gerald because her Skeldale family was more important to her!!!!!
If we don't end Christmas Eve happy I will eat my hat. I will eat all of YOUR hats. I will knit a new hat and eat THAT. I will lay out a table of hats in the town square on Christmas day and eat them publicly.
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