"I Protest Against Any Absolute Conclusion" is the sixth episode of Season 2 of CBC's Anne with an E (2017–2019) and the 13th episode of the series overall. It was written by Naledi Jackson and directed by Ken Girotti. It premiered on Netflix on July 6, 2018.
Summary[]
Anne faces the world with a shocking new look while the town preps for its annual Christmas pantomime. Gilbert and Bash join the Cuthberts for dinner.
Plot[]
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Cast[]
- Amybeth McNulty as Anne Shirley-Cuthbert
- Geraldine James as Marilla Cuthbert
- R.H. Thomson as Matthew Cuthbert
- Corrine Koslo as Rachel Lynde
- Lucas Jade Zumann as Gilbert Blythe
- Dalmar Abuzeid as Sebastian
- Dalila Bela as Diana Barry
- Cory Grüter-Andrew as Cole Mackenzie
- Aymeric Jett Montaz as Jerry Baynard
- Christian Martyn as Billy Andrews
- Philip Williams as Thomas Lynde
- Brian Tree as Minister
- Stephen Tracey as Mr. Phillips
- Charlie Benger as Michael Cuthbert
- David Fox as Infirm Old Man
- Miranda McKeon as Josie Pye
- Janet Porter as Mrs. Andrews
- Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Minnie May Barry
- Glen McDonald as Man #1
- Shawn Devlin as Man #2
- Ella Jonas Farlinger as Prissy Andrews
- Glenna Walters as Tillie Boulter
- Kyla Matthews as Ruby Gillis
- Jacob Ursomarzo as Moody Spurgeon
- Lia Pappas-Kemps as Jane Andrews
- Jacob Horsley as Charlie Sloane
- Kyle Meagher as Billy's Pal #1
- Daimen Landori-Hoffman as Billy's Pal #2
- Jonathan Holmes as Mr. William Barry
- Helen Johns as Mrs. Eliza Barry
- Gabriel Grennan as Young Matthew
- Harper Gunn as Child #1
- Ella Parent as Child #2
- Ivano DiCaro as Child #3
- Maxim Lutterotti as Child #4
- Zoe Brown as Child #5
- Chorus Members: Alec Dahmer, Madi Langdon, Alexandra Chaves, Karen P. Brown, Michael Crawford, Malakai Fox, Christina Pitts, Steve Ross, Deborah Tennant
- Brenda Bazinet as Jeannie (guest star)
Crew[]
- Associate Producer: Patricia Curmi
- Co-producer: Amanda Fahey
- Creator: Moira Walley-Beckett
- Director: Ken Girotti
- Executive Producers: Miranda de Pencier, Debra Hayward, Ken Girotti, Alison Owen, Moira Walley-Beckett
- Producer: John Calvert
- Supervising Producers: Shernold Edwards, Jane Maggs
- Writer: Naledi Jackson
Quotes[]
Anne Shirley: When you were younger, what part did you play in the Christmas Panto?
Matthew Cuthbert: Oh, no, I didn't play a part.
Anne: Did you sing carols?
Matthew: Oh, no. Now in you get.
Anne: Matthew? Did you have a happy childhood?
Anne: I wish I could stay up here forever and never show my face again.
Matthew: I used to wish that, too. But it's not in your nature... like it is in mine. You're too brave to hide away.
Anne: You think I'm brave?
Matthew: I admire you for it. You just... you jump right in, both feet.
Rachel Lynde: Let's see menacing devil lobster! What on earth is that? Thomas Lynde, you look as though you're about to tickle someone.
Thomas Lynde: You said menacing.
Rachel: Exactly. So go on, then. Menace.
Anne: You're Sebastian. Oh, how thrilling. I've read so much about the ancient kingdoms of Africa and the Moors of Spain, but I've never actually met a colored person before. Or not one of your complexion. Your skin is absolutely extraordinary. It-it's a rare pleasure to meet you.
Anne: I need a shovel. Please? It's a matter most urgent. Josie Pye just fell gravely ill.
Marilla Cuthbert: What do you intend to do with it, bury her?
Rachel/Queen Victoria: Today, in the wake of my very own Diamond Jubilee, I hereby bless all of Avonlea! God bless you all. And God save me!
Behind the scenes[]
Casting
- The Infirm Old Man who's shovel Matthew steals and then takes to the Christmas pantomime is played by David Fox. Coincidentally, Fox had played John Blythe in Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987). This leads to a likely Easter egg for viewers when the Old Man compliments Marilla.
Continuity
- Anne dyed her hair green and had it cut in "The Determining Acts of Her Life".
- Anne and Diana promised to be bosom friends in "Your Will Shall Decide Your Destiny".
- Gilbert and Bash decided to go to Avonlea in "The Painful Eagerness of Unfed Hope". They arrived in "The Determining Acts of Her Life".
- Anne wrote Gilbert about the gold in Avonlea in "Signs Are Small Measurable Things, But Interpretations Are Illimitable" and had her letter sent in "The True Seeing Is Within". Later in that episode it was revealed that there was no gold in Avonlea and the whole thing was a fraud.
- Gilbert's father died in "Remorse Is the Poison of Life".
- Matthew's childhood was previously shown in flashbacks in "Tightly Knotted to a Similar String".
- Michael Cuthbert makes his first and only appearance through flashbacks. His death was previously referenced in "Remorse Is the Poison of Life" and "The Painful Eagerness of Unfed Hope".
- Anne was forced to be accompanied by Jerry on a trip to Carmody and had to listen to his singing in "Wherever You Are Is My Home".
- Anne compared Jeannie to a calla lily in "The Painful Eagerness of Unfed Hope", when she wrote her several letters in Matthew's name.
- Anne gets back her puffed-sleeved dress. She got it from Matthew in "Tightly Knotted to a Similar String" and decided to return it in "Wherever You Are Is My Home" in order to get money to pay off the loan.
- Jerry started learning to write in "Youth Is the Season of Hope".
- Rachel and Thomas Lynde once again show affection to one another. ("Tightly Knotted to a Similar String", "Signs Are Small Measurable Things,.." and "The Determining Acts of Her Life")
Cultural references
- Children sing "The Twelve Days of Christmas", an English Christmas carol published in 1780.
- On the way to Carmody, Jerry sings "V'là l'bon vent", a French Acadian folk song.
- Jeannie leaves for Paris and mentions the newest fashion – women wearing trousers in France.
- While preparing the Christmas dinner, Anne sings "The Holly and the Ivy", a traditional English carol from the early 19th century. The instrumental version of the song plays in other scenes as well.
- Bash gives Marilla a curry powder, a blend of spices originating from the Indian subcontinent.
- Upon meeting Bash, Anne recalls the Moors, primarily Muslim inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean and Northern Africa.
- Marilla and Bash talk about sea legs, the ability to walk steadily on the deck of a boat.
- Bash has visited the United States (Boston, Maine, New York), Jamaica and Canary Islands.
- Rachel plays Queen Victoria, the Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 until her death in 1901. She blesses the audience "in the wake of her Diamond Jubilee", a real life celebration of Victoria's 60th anniversary of her ascension to the British throne. When Rachel appears on stage, the musicians play "God Save the Queen", the national anthem of the United Kingdom and a song played in the presence of a monarch.
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