Pobol y Cwm

The Wolverine wrote: »

What was Sion Whites story? What was his job and what did he go to prison for?

He looks like a lad that would play a vicar

Don't think he was actually a Vicar, but he was essentially the face of the church and led most of their services - he also does translation work for his main job though. He never went to prison, but he was found guilty of embezzling money from the church to buy the pub (and then there was a whole thing where Megan found out and he panicked to get the money back so she'd keep quiet about it, which is how Garry got involved and now owns the pub). He was married to Britt (Garry's sister) and their marriage essentially fell apart on account of the whole situation. He got found out by the police when Chester (Britt's son) found out about everything and ratted Sion out. Then I can't really remember why but Chester was pissed at Sion and Garry so burned down the chapel while all 3 of them were inside in a weird revenge, which is why they had the festival to raise money for the church. Anyway, Sion went to trial and was given a suspended sentence with something like 7 months house arrest, which is when he went a bit doolally feeling that wasn't punishment enough gave away everything in his gaff for free.

Hope that clears things up slightly (missed a bit of the middle of that story myself, so bit hazy on some of the details)

The Wolverine wrote: »

What is the point of that Dol or at least the actress, she speaks more English than Welsh

Dol was brought into it last year and her general story is that she learned Welsh in school so understands fairly well, but doesn't have a lot of confidence speaking it - she asked everyone in the village when she first arrived to only speak Welsh to her as it'd help her learn faster and gradually she has spoken more and more Welsh since she arrived (she hasn't been in it that long - less than a year I think). It's common enough that a lot of Welsh people are like that and the producers wanted to represent it in the series - pretty much the same for a lot of people with Gaeilge actually, people understand more than they can speak.

I think the actress who plays Dol isn't a fluent Welsh speaker anyway, so she's similar to the character - actually spotted her in Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children when I watched the other day, she had a very small cameo in it.

The Wolverine wrote: »

How is Sion Chester's grandfather? Does he have another son who was with Brit?

Sion was Chester's Stepfather - Sion and Britt were married. Sion is Granddad to Arwen (Ffion's daughter). He has 2 other sons (Macs & Huw) other than Iolo who have both left the show - I think Macs is Ffion's dad, he seems to get a mention every so often. There's been at least 2 actors who have played Macs, but originally he was played by Iwan Rheon (best known as Simon from Misfits & Ramsay Bolton from Game of Thrones).

The Wolverine wrote: »

Wow some good acting talent has come from there so, Ioan Gruffudd too

Yeah, as far as I know, Ioan Gruffudd and Iwan Rheon are the two biggest names to have been in it, but that's not bad going.

Believe it or not there was actually a crossover week of Pobol Y Cwm and Ros na Rún at one point there (12 years ago) to celebrate the Celtic Languages. I think the general plot was that several of the Cwmderi gang travelled to Spiddal for some reason or other, but Iwan Rheon was one of them (of the current Pobol cast I believe Sion and Dai were there). Róise (as you can probably guess from the picture) and Peadar were definitely involved from the Ros na Rún side, but not sure who else - I'd assume Tadhg, Séamus and Máire would've been a part of it anyway.

On a side note, I've started doing Welsh lessons on the Duolingo app there last week and I'm pleasantly surprised with the amount I had already kinda picked up from Pobol y Cwm and Rownd a Rownd subconciously.

Ok, need some help, if anyone can oblige.

I haven't watched Pobol y Cwm in nearly a year, but trying to get back in to it and currently catching up with the last few weeks on the S4C player, but so far I've got one big question (I may have one or two more over the next few weeks)... How did the story with Sioned and Ed end? and is Ed still in the show? Thanks in advance.

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

Sorry haven't looked in here in ages as there was no action.

Sioned kept physically and emotionally abusing Ed to the point where the village believed her except Anita's niece Kelly, who had walked in on her beating Ed.

The village bought her story as Sioned was thrown down the flat stairs and Ed found her. However it was in fact Gwen the one that was engaged to Sion White that did it as she overheard Sioned and Ed talking about how it was he that attacked Gwen in the alley if you remember and knocked her out in a random fit of rage

Anyway Ed went to the local cliffs and left his personal effects on the edge in a suicide, however a body was never recovered so I assume there's scope that he faked his death but nothing so far.

Eventually the village found out it was Sioned that was abusing Ed and she was outcast, can't remember how think Kelly voice recorded her.

If you have anymore questions feel free to PM me as I might not look in here

Excellent, thank you.

That was really the only thing that I was wondering about, as I managed to piece pretty much everything else together from the stuff I caught up on, on the player...