Downton Abbey - anyone excited?

[turnitup]

Im so ready for a good period drama,

can't wait

Anna helping with the body - also a very good question.

AND she's unaffected by it!! In contrast to Daisy going to pieces by what she thought she saw.

In answer to your first point: I think they would have defo thought: No smoke w/o fire.

Maggie Smith's comment: "Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden."

LOVED it.

Actually, I can´t quite remember-did he just let himself into the room?

He comes in. She seems genuinely surprised to see him. I guess she wouldn't have thought he woudl find his way to her and didn't suspect someone would have escorted him there!

Panook made Thomas take him to the room though, didn't he?

I feel sorry for Mary too.

Well, as I said I don´t like her, but for me the implication was that she wasn´t averse to his advances, to coin a phrase.

The reality is - forget about doing something totally stupid and in the heat of the moment if you're a woman in the Edwardian times. You will be well and truly skewered.

Yes Pamook made Thomas take him there. He asked him that because in return he was going to cover up the fact that Thomas made a pass at him (WTF was that about, as if a servant would dare try that without any knowledge that it might be reciprocated).

She didn't snog him, he tried it on her but she stopped him. I wonder if they lock their bedroom doors at all, the servants seem to wake them in the morning by breezing in and bringing their breaking trays and stuff. Can't imagine that the masters were expected to get out of bed and let them in .

Well yes, the whole thing is a bit "far fetched", isn´t it?

Of course they weren´t expcted to get out of bed to let servants in.

But also, you wouldn´t think that they would want servants coming in whilst they were still sleeping.

They ring the bell when they are awake for the servants to bring up breakfast.

I'm looking forward to tonight's finale.....but a bit of me is too.....

......it won't be easy watching.

Ooh, this is good, isn't it? I am dreading parts though...

Gah. Thomas and miss obrien are so evil!

Oh dear.

War!

Aaarghh. No resolution until NEXT YEAR!!! I can't bear the suspense.

It has all been set up beautifully though for a time when everything will turn on it's head.

Agree,Port.
Was at Mary and Matthew.Have this vision of her nursing him in some Flanders clearing station and them falling in love all over again.... hopeless romantic emoticon......

misunderstandings
Do people really part on such matters?
and the sisters! so horrid to each other.
Is it meant to be set in Yorkshire? I know real house is down South.
I felt the servants are becoming more real and the upper class more unreal. What do the upper classes actually do all day? Except dress up; we are never shown. I'm sure they did do something to earn their keep.

I feel like the dress style subtly changed in the series too as we headed towards the war. More business like, less floaty.

Can't believe that Mary did that to Edith. Not that I care for Edith either, but surely it will come back to haunt Mary, because Edith does have a better hand , as it were.

Georgina

Also hopless romantic emoticons from me....I see Matthew being killed/dying and Mary only then realising that she did love him and can never replace him with anyone else....[sob]. However, the thought of not having Matthew's blue eyes to gaze at on a Sunday night is enough to make me sob too, so desperately hoping they do not kill him off.

Agghhh, I fell asleep about 15 mins before the end. Can someone fill me in on how it ended?

I know that Mary knew it was Edith that told the Turkish Embassy about how that bloke died and she got revenge by telling Edith's bloke that she was laughing about him. I know the mother fell getting out the bath and had a miscarriage. Did Mary give Matthew an answer? Anything else I missed?

Loathe sanctimonious Edith. But Mary's move was an own goal. Marrying Antony Stroud was the best hope there was of Edith joining the human race. Now all she's going to do is continue to stir.

Another vote for please don't kill Matthew off! Very disappointed to see so little of M and M in this episode - I was gearing up for a confrontation over Pamouk, which would have been itneresting. Would love to seize control of that script!!!

Must get DH to take me to Highclere!

Think JF very cleverly left it all unresolved in the hope that there would be another series. Mary will go off and do all sorts of feisty feminist things in the war, but cross paths with Matthew in odd, bleak places. They'll sleep together, because in wartime the uptight morality of Edwardian society will seem completely unimportant and ultimately the big barrier to her accepting him (her ruined reputation) will be blown out of the water. Ditto with Sybil and the chauffeur really - unthinkable that they could be together in 1913, but another matter by 1918.

What's the betting Will will end up in the dubious hands of Thomas in some casualty clearing station somewhere. He might regret that punch...