To be crying and crying over Downton. *warning* spoiler alert

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I know it's j just telly but .. Huhhuh... Choke... It's so devastating....

I had pre-eclampsia with both pregnancies. It was missed the first time and I had swollen ankles, and fingers, headaches etc. I ended up with an emergency c-section. It was spotted second time around and monitored up to another c-section. Never again :(

Duchess I had it so badly I couldn't even think about trying for a second baby, it was truly horrendous.

Really the OP should come back and apologise for her clumsy thread title.

I thought last night's episode was really, really sad but I also think the Sybil/Branson storyline wasn't really working. There didn't seem to be much chemistry between the actors, they always came across as having a more brother/sister type relationship to me. Also, a hotheaded Irish rebel would not be hanging around in an English mansion, dining with aristocrats and wearing dinner jackets. I just don't think they could have continued with Sybil's character unless they had her leaving Branson and coming back to live in Downton and regaining her old, rebellious personality. She was originally the independent minding suffragette, not Edith.

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Add I think the OP should be whipped tbh at the very least!

The whole chauffeur/Lady Sybil story line is bollocks anyway - no way would that happen, they would've locked her up before letting her run off with him!

Is anyone watching Servants on BBC2 on Friday's? Now that is really interesting.

This is why tv related threads should be kept to the, erm, tv addicts topic [mutter]

And fwiw, you are being unreasonable and ridiculous. It's a tv programme, you know. They are characters, it isn't real.

You know you're right, they should have a storyline of a 'hysterical' female being detained for being a rash, flibbertigibbet. They were mad for locking women up.

The Branson 'welcomed into the fold' thing was silly, they may as well pass a joint around the dinnertable, it would be just as believable.

Well quite squoosh it was all utter nonsense!

If you watch Gosford Park, the Maggie Smith character can hardly bear it when everyone claps when Ivor Novelli plays, as she doesn't want him 'encouraged.' The daughter of the house running off with the chauffeur? Ridiculous!

I cried too. Lots and lots and I felt smug that I guessed what was going to happen when she mentioned ankles and headaches

Oh pinot it was pretty obvious LOL

I AM WISE AND CLEVER YOU BASTARDS

Yes dear, of course you are, there there

Did people really not notice the Grim Reaper standing behind Sybil since the beginning of the series? She's had about three lines, one about tea with Granny, one about a frock . . . . . . . .

JF had clearly moved onto pastures new (once the actress had handed in her notice to go off to Hollywood to become a big star)

When the sisters were saying goodbye to Sybil (I'd stopped blabbing by then) and one said ' Do you think we shall get one better now' the other ones says 'Oh I doubt it' - I actually laughed - JF/script writers ought to be ashamed of themselves ffs!

I love that about Mary and Edith though :o S'real innit.

Cora sitting with her baby girl made me actually gasp with crying.

Maybe Edith will get a storyline now that doesn't involve her wearing a brown frock and looking pissed off.

Although I blame Lord G and know-it-all London Doctor for killing Sybil, I think Dr Clarkson needs to shoulder a lot of the blame - if he wasn't such a notorious misdiagnoser (Matthew's bruised bottom = total paralysis. Lavinia's Deadly Spanish Flu = a bit off colour) he'd have been listened to before it was All Too Late.

I hope Tom sets fire to his house, that'll teach him.

Lord G needs to watch his back. Cora is not going to forgive and forget, he is in the shit.

Oh I hope you're right about Edith, KurriKurri I'm sick of those drab dresses and all the wining.

Indeed - and she doesn't even know about him snogging and nearly shagging slutty dignified widow housemaid last season

I hate that it's going to be a cautionary tale..."don't run off with those Below Your Station or you will die birthing their inferior Irish spawn."

Poor ol' Syb. :(

What? Sybil DIED? I missed it for the first time ever last night, what the hell happened???