Downton Abbey

[harrietthespook]

Ladies....as we were?

haven't read whole thread yet.
in a rush.
But will Matthew's nob be miraculously Mended before the end of series 2? Will Mary resurrect it with her love?
thank god he's dumped lumpen lavinia she's a bore.
boring dying footman storyline, dull.
Too many plotlines.
Cartoon villainy is ridiculous, too implausible.
When's Lord Grantham going to go off his dull piste and do something other than get Fatter?
My mother thought he was twinkling at that new maid (who's clearly a liar)

I was hoping Branson Pickle would go off to London to start a career as a radical journalist or MP then Lady S could elope with him. Rather dull to elope down to the chauffeurs cottage tbh.

Psychic and Le BOOOF you are ON FORM.

anon I think Pamuk was supposed to be a love/lust story too but I thought it was fairly dodgily presented. Would hate to see Lady S painted into a corner!

I hope Branston actually does something which makes him worth her, then, rather than just being snide until she capitulates.

I can see how Pamuk worked as alust story. Initially there was a lot of flirting/lingering looks going on.
The creepy thing with Pickle is the bullying- he keeps telling her what to feel/think while at the same time being dismissive of her ambitions. You just know that if they ever eloped Sybil would have to turn into the little wife.

Also half the time she seems quite scared of him.

Anyway I think I'm reading too much into this. I need to step away from this tread.... Slowly...

Love your plot summary Le Booof, pretty close to the unlikely "truth" I reckon.

I love DA, but I do wish they'd just slow it all down a bit and let the characters and the story lines develop a bit. It's like a revolving door farce sometimes. Evil ladies maid writes evil letter to evil ex wife of wonderful valet who loves wonderful house maid. Handsome soldier goes to trenches, comes back from trenches wounded, is nursed by beautiful aristocratic girl who still loves him. Evil chauffeur tries it on with beautiful aristocratic girl 2. Evil Captain gets silly housemaid up the duff, saintly housekeeper tries to save her. Oh and that was all in one episode. Soon it will be 1960 and we'll be watching M&M's grandchildren trying to prop up the crumbling Abbey.

I think all those ad breaks are just there so that the plot can move on a few months - a sort of time warp effect.

I haven't lost faith yet, but I think that in series 3 they just need to let us all take a breather and have a lovely wallow in nostalgia rather than be sped headlong through the years.

I kept shouting: 'I told you he'd live,' at Daisy right up until William fell into his final slumber. Blame it on Emo Phillips. How much was a private's widow's pension in 1918 anyway?

How has the Impostor become horribly burned? The Titanic sank in 1,000 feet of freezing cold water. Was he clinging to one of the boilers?

Ethel's is the biggest baby I've seen since that Battleship Potemkin homage in the Untouchables.

Cora will die of flu. Then Elizabeth McGovern will be free to get Botox again.

@ limitedperiod

And yes, the dole for a Private of five minutes standing wouldn't have been much, I don't think.

And Ethel got knocked up, had a pregnancy and grew the bairn to practically school-age, all in the space of a few months in 1918.

Episode 5 summary in pictures

I LOVE THAT!

Preview Ep 6

That was really funny

And yes, the dole for a Private of five minutes standing wouldn't have been much, I don't think.

The working classes used to be nobly modest. Thank heavens the current Cabinet is trying to restore Britain to her traditional values.

Northern I thought of you when I saw those blasted trees in the opening scene.

I was very pleased limited - obviously they'd been back and reshot after our comments last week

oo-er.....

The dawn of a new era is one thing but how beastly if poor Lady Mary is forced to assemble flat pack furniture after a hellish Sunday afternoon with Sir Richard at Ikea.

Does the end of the war mean Earl G will get to wear a different outfit?

Yes, do they all go back to as they were?

What about Thomas?

He´s no longer staff ar DA is he?

I reckon the new maid is the Imposter's spy on the inside, feeding him info so he can keep up the pretence of being The Heir. Boffing Lord G is her fall-back position (ie, fall back onto a big aristocratic bed).

I've been lurking on this thread for weeks now and love it almost more than DA.

I have to confess to a moment of utter confusion in the last episode when I was thinking it was getting all very Lady Chatterlyish and wondering when the virile young gamekeeper was going to make an appearance, and what a pity it was that Sean Bean is too old and fat for the job now, when up pops Sharpe's deadly enemy, Sir Henry Simmerson, disguised as the vicar, but still just as nasty. (yes, I know he is nice Oliver in The Archers but you can't see him in that). Thank heaven he got his comeuppance.

Now, will JF and the DA casting director please stop getting an elderly lady completely bemused...

That reminds me- did anyone else see William's father and thought EGG'S DAD!!!!

I knew I recognised him! Just couldn't place him!

Wasn´t he also in THe Lakes as John Simms father?

The chap playing Mosely was also in that, wasn´t he?

Y Y anon I too shouted 'eggs dad' loved that programme. I think creepy mosely was in the lakes too