I am starting a new post on this topic because I am the most recent person to post on the thread that I started and titled "Convent". I do not want to have two posts in a row on the same thread. In any event, I would like to thank the English person who posted right after me and pointed out that I had the sequence of events a little off. In terms of the set of events that I mentioned, I thought that all of them took place before the nun episode. I was sure of all of them except one. I have since done the research and found where I went wrong. The one thing that took place "after" the convent episode was the revelation of Sophia's first marriage. This episode itself was at "least" as hard to swallow as the nun episode! One thing that is made perfectly clear is that Sophia and her family are Roman Catholic. Look at how hard it is to convince the church to annull a marraige "now" much less "than"! We are supposed to buy the notion that a Siscylian peasant girl in the early part of the twentyith century to had the dynamics to contact Rome and have the Pope annull an arrainged marriage! Please! Next we are supposed to swallow the notion that she was able to go sixty plus years without ever letting it slip out to any of her three children. While in her early sixties, her eldest daughter, "finely" manages to yank it out of her! On top of this, let us look at the age that a man would have to be to be the first husband of a woman in her eighties. We now are supposed to believe that he happens to be one of a "tiny" little minority of men born long enough ago to have married Sophia who is "still" living! This way, it is possible for Sophia to make her way back to Siscely, find the man and apologize for any hard fealings that might still be around. I think it might be even "harder" for us to buy this reality knowing that it took place "after" Sophia ubtained and then renounced convent life!

The Covent episode is my favorite episode

I am "very" curious about what the last posters liked about the convent episode! Like I have mentioned before, it seemed "very" far fetched to me for a woman as old as Sophie was supposed to be and who had had as many life experiences as it was implied that she had to all of a sudden decide to be a nun! I also mentioned how I am well aware that there are some orders that do take widows. However, I would find in "very" hard to believe that there would be a convent that would take on a woman in her eighties who is first deciding to join! The secondary plot of this episode was Blanch having borrowed Rose's care and dented a car driven by a man. I believe that the character of the male driver was the man who played Paul from "Cheers". In any event, that part of the story seemed like pure slapstick!