Downton Abbey

[harrietthespook]

Ladies....as we were?

EGG'S DAD!

I DID!!

He's always Egg's Dad in our house

The vicar reminded me of the one from "Curse of the Were-Rabbit"

I always think that actor (Egg's Dad ) must get bored of being typecast as the salt-of-the-earth, earnest, slightly down on his luck bloke. I bet he's still thrilled that he got one job where he got to take Es and shag a 25-year-old.

hehe yep - i was just going to say that i remembered he went clubbing with Anna then shagged her (that is Anna of This Life and not Anna on DA - now that would be a storyline!!)

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Mary and Pamuk's love child that never was visits Highclere.

Doesn't object to the white feather either - kids today, hey?

Seriously - can we please run a sweepstakes on how Matty's willy is going to recover? How will they pull this off?

During a bed bath, is my best guess.

Christmas episode for Willy recovery, deffo.

He will roll his wheelchair into the lake, meaning to drown himself, and the shock of the cold water will revive his extremeties*. He will swim back to land (recovering Bates' leg brace en route, in case it comes in handy), and make a beeline for Mary. Leg brace probably a leetle on the large side for a willy brace, though.

• always worked for Rupert Brooke, apparently.

I expect Bates will try and be supportive - war wounded too as he is. Of course Matthew will then lash out at him as both his legs and willy work - albeit limpingly.

William- 'Inside The Minds Of Angry And Controlling Men', by Lundy Bancroft.

To be honest, I don't think will be any difficulties with Matthew's willy and pulling it off.

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Diagnostic medicine being what it was, they have no way of knowing what spinal damage there has been and whether it is permanent or not. No, people don't recover from broken spinal cords very often, especially if they've been transported as they would have been in WW1, but spinal injuries are not always permanent ones.

"The wedding didn´t really get me either because Daisy didn´t love him"

Maybe not, but he loved her and died married to the girl he loved. I really liked that Daisy said she would stay with him in case he needed her, a change from when she couldn't wait to get away from him.

soupdragon i was just about to at 'pulling off matthews willy'

fnarr fnarr

Bates wouldn't be much use as support. He'd fall over.

Who was the horrid vicar? He's been loads of things.

So the burned one is Canadian - Patrick wasn't Canadian was he?

Note to Julian Fellowes - stop ripping off plots from Nancy Mitford/Evelyn Waugh and get some of your own. Richard Carlisle is clearly modelled on the bloke whose name escapes me that Julia Flyte married, and now we have a Canadian heir like in Love in a Cold Climate. Naughty naughty JF thinking we Sunday evening lower orders won't have read this stuff.

Horrid vicar is from the BBC/ITV shared Character Actors Department - like Bates he has Been In Everything but no one knows his name.

still laughing at 'snow white in reverse...the princess kisses the prince and then he dies'

that's made my day that has.

yes I too thought of this thread when all the trees were gone.

good show ladies.

So who the feck is the canadian - and why is it weird for him to speak posh, and why doesnt edith know who he is???

It's not just the BBC/ITV that has a Shared Character Actors Department.

Years ago I read about people who make really decent livings in Hollywood without ever headlining a film.

Ed Harris was one of them. That article is the only reason I recognise him now. I can't remember who the others were or what they're up to. Probably counting their money away from the paparazzi.

yes. they do not have to court publicity to make a buck.

Many of the Titanic dead were buried in Newfoundland / Nova Scotia, weren't they? That's Canada I think. So some context.

Bates was the rabid trade unionist in North & South. Another for the Darcy-alike in that!

How do we know the burned officer is Canadian? Have I missed something?

"The war finally ends but Mary is under pressure to save her family from scandal and a Canadian visitor claims to have links with the Granthams."

That´s the blurb from the website for next weeks episode.

Thank you diddl. I must pay more attention in future!!!!!

limitedperiodonly, the evil vicar was the arch-villian in the 1990s 'Sharpe' series. A series which had half the nation's ladies getting progressively more excited as the hero's (Sean Bean) uniform trousers got progressively tighter with each episode..Said hero had already caused a flutter or three doing interesting things with Lady Chatterly (husband paralysed from waist down in WW1, thus the connection with DA); the entry of evil vicar was disconcerting...

Not trying to hi-jack this lovely thread - please continue with the plot speculation which is highly entertaining