To boycott Downton Shabbey

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More people in it than the Next sale queue, ridiculous plots that end as abruptly and randomly as they started and a dog's bottom on the opening credits. What am I missing people?!!!!

I can't listen to the dialogue on Downton. It's so modern. Loved Upstairs Downstairs and must have watched it five times through :)

Oh the dialogue!

Did they really use the words "hater/haters"? Lord wotsit sounded like a 14yr old!

I love love love Upstairs Downstairs. I watched the original when I was a child and then it was repeated on UK GOld about 10 years ago. I even enjoyed the new Upstairs Downstairs the BBC did a few years ago but then they axed it.

I've been watching Boardwalk empire from the first series and it's so much better than any Downton crap, the period detail and costume is brilliant and so are the females actresses and their plot stories .

Sunday night did rather feel like Downton had the same script writers as Acorn Antiques.

But it's a cosy autumn Sunday night in. Not long til Christmas.

Mrs Overall in DA, would be great.

Imagine the scandal if you let her lose with Violet and a ladle of soup.

SpeedofSound0 I watched the original Upstairs Downstairs and sometimes catch it on Watch or something or other.

Check out I Claudius for fantastic 70s British drama on a budget too. There is a point where a lead actress has to play about 30 years older than her true age and her fake jowls are melting off under the lights.

Never mind. It's great.

Well...I'm going upstairs to take off my hat.

Perhaps she should have kept the hat on, then she wouldn't be so cold.

SisterNancySinatra I love Boardwalk Empire too, though I hated the Gyp Rosetti character and I don't think Narcisse worked, either. I got fed up with the fact that every season is Nucky vs Someone Else.

But I like the other characters. Especially Richard Harrow.

But the period detail is fantastic. I heard that one of the reasons it's been cancelled is that it's so expensive. I'm going to stick with it, and I am enjoying it, but I feel a bit cheated that they've jumped six very eventful years.

The gal who plays the teacher. Is she a dwarf?

Upstairs Downstairs was based on a book can't be bothered to look up which hence the good story.

"I'm going upstairs to take off my hat"
"Save the dog!"
"If my father were here he'd punch you on the nose."

It is fabulous Sunday night bollocks.

Our zoo is my replacement for downton I have decided. I love the mil characters in both but agree with others that d.a has lost it sadly

I think one of the actors in Upstairs Downstairs wrote the drama about a real relative of hers.

I can't imagine anyone writing about Great Aunt Mary going upstairs to take off her hat.

Watch or don't watch - who cares? Why would anyone be interested if you 'boycott' it? I like it, so I watch.

The hat line was my favourite too. I can't decide whether things like that are clangers or deliberate jokes.

It's on at the same time as live NFL. No contest.

It has got more shit with every passing series. But I still watch for the lolz! The tipping point for me was Lady Sybil's death scene with Tom and Cora on their knees at the bedside wailing and grabbing at the bedsheets. It was so OTT I laughed my head off. I wonder how pissed Fellowes is when he's writing his scripts?

I watched the first episode last night (dozed off a few times as it was slow downloading) but how many story threads were started/restarted in one episode.

Lady Edith's relationship with Marigold
Lady Edith's rlnsp with Farmer
Lady Edith's rlnsp with Farmer's wife
Lady Mary's possible shagfest
Lady Mary making changes to farming
Lady Mary's very close relationship with her father (which spells a row in the future)
Tom's relationship with teacher
Rose daring to invite teacher to dinner
The maid's past history of stealing
Lady ?? shagging the under valet
Daisy wanting to improve herself but probably suffering from poor eyesight or dyslexia or something
Cora looking 15 years older this time - undiagnosed ilness?
.....and that is just a start.

I think the perm was discovered at this time so that might explain the less flattering hair styles.

Bates alluded to the fact he'd like more sex.

Which is pretty damn racy for a below stairs character

Oh I love it. Just the thing for autumnal/early winter Sunday evenings before you face the rigours of Monday morning and another week at work.

I agree some of the plots are daft and some of the characters don't stand up to close scrutiny. But I don't care, I will continue to draw the curtains, pour a glass of wine and lose myself in a bit of drama for the next 7 Sundays.

Saw a snippet of it for the very first time this Sunday and am amazed that this programme is lauded as much as it is.

I thought it was rubbish. The dialogue was ridiculous. I could never imagine my gm who entered service at 13 talking to upstairs folk in such an over familiar nor would any other servant.

And the fire bit was just hilarious.

Total crap.

But crap in a good way as the nights are drawing in.

My other fav bit this week was when Lord G was dashing around yelling "fire fire!!!" He bursts into the naughty scene of footman all a pasho with duckface and he pauses dramatically with a face of OMG, only to say in a disapproving low tone,, "there's a fire..."

I also snigger at the way many of the scenes are completely static. I'm guessing because of lack of room to move people and cameras in the location. Scenes begin with characters standing stock still talking to another character also standing or sitting stock still, no one moves a muscle!