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Downton Abbey Part THREE: Shoehorns and Spanish Fly

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NorfolkNChance · 27/10/2011 20:27

Soooooooooooooo I still reckon Cora to kick the bucket, shuffle of this mortal coil, sing with the choir eternal etc etc

I bet Jane is handy with a shorehorn for Lord 6, he's been out of action for a while so may need some help.

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diddl · 31/10/2011 16:24

If Cora dies, would there have to be a period of mourning?

Or if Lavinia-Matthew could hardly just ask Mary to marry him could he?

FriskyMare · 31/10/2011 16:50

If Mary was engaged to Titanic victim in 1912,and it is now 1919 is she not a bit of an old maid? Doesn't seem to have aged a bit though in the intervening 7 years.

diddl · 31/10/2011 17:11

When was Sybil´s coming out?

It was before the war, wasn´t it?

So at least 1913?-so she would have been 18 then?

So 24 now??!!

(But I thought Mary said last night that Sybil was 21)

JamieComeHome · 31/10/2011 17:35

DH and I laughed our heads of at the clunky dialogue and ridiculous plot yesterday.

The best bit was Sybil leaving a note telling them where she was going, and them then scouring the whole of Northern England/Scotland in 2 seconds flat and happening upon the right inn and right room.

JamieComeHome · 31/10/2011 17:40

Mary keeps doing glottal stops, which she just wouldn't do

Hugh Bonneville has turned into a pompous twat

Cora is a twittery irritant.

Will still watch it though ......

Animation · 31/10/2011 17:42

"If Mary was engaged to Titanic victim in 1912,and it is now 1919 is she not a bit of an old maid? Doesn't seem to have aged a bit though in the intervening 7 years"

What's strange to me - is why Mary (who was engaged to him) didn't take any interest in the Patrick guy that turned up all burnt and traumatised, to assess for herself if he was genuine article. She just dismissed him without even looking.

Edith cared though - and she believed in him. That's LOVE!!

jumpingjackhash · 31/10/2011 18:01

Ah! The soap... I remember now. Thanks!

jumpingjackhash · 31/10/2011 18:02

Glad others are pondering the curious time fluctuations in DA too - seems to be in some kind of botox-beating bubble, where you just don't age!

limitedperiodonly · 31/10/2011 18:18

Yes but Ethel's giant baby is now looking about the right age.

JamieComeHome · 31/10/2011 18:21

Animation - it's because Ethel needed a love interest for half an episode, and Mary didn't

JamieComeHome · 31/10/2011 18:21

sorry - Edith

LeBOOOf · 31/10/2011 18:23

I'm wondering why Downton is suddenly afflicted by Spanish Flu in 1919- everything I've read about it suggests it had petered out by then, and was at its peak in October of 1918.

Daveschooks · 31/10/2011 18:38

And I thought the Spanish fly was for Matthew's 'affliction.'

GeorginaWorsley · 31/10/2011 19:11

1919 a bad year for flu as made worse by returning soldiers.
A relative of mine died in spring 1919 of flu.

LeBOOOf · 31/10/2011 19:36

That makes sense, Georgina, thanks.

Animation · 31/10/2011 19:52

"Yes but Ethel's giant baby is now looking about the right age."

It IS a giant baby - and a beauty! Smile

PamBeesly · 31/10/2011 19:56

Daveschooks [hgrin] when I say Spanish Fly in the title I thought I'd missed an episode....

PamBeesly · 31/10/2011 19:56

saw

Animation · 31/10/2011 20:11
ThePsychicSatsuma · 31/10/2011 20:12

I think they used to come out into society anytime from age 15/16
remember Lydia from P & Prej was only 15 wasn't she?

sybil is 21 now, 7 yrs ago she'd be 14 that does seem crazy-young...

ThePsychicSatsuma · 31/10/2011 20:13

what are Mary's glottal stops?
the way she speaks?

Bossybritches22 · 31/10/2011 20:17

Daveschooks PamBeesly

Spanish Fly......ask BirthdayGirlOliviaMumsnet about that title!! Grin

OliviaTwist · 31/10/2011 20:18

When you don't pronounce your T's, just make a funny sound in your throat - estuary english.

eg Cat becomes ca'

ThePsychicSatsuma · 31/10/2011 20:19

crazy plot line now... ...

Sybil returns home, and discovers to her horror that she is pregnant.
She enlists Dr Useless to help her to hide it.

Bates goes insane - he did poison Vera, haunted by guilt. He writes a letter to Anna admitting and disappears. Poof!

Thomas decides to take silver from Downton to sell Mrs Patmore catches him with a swag bag and takes him down. Mrs Hughes wanders in with a candle and calls the police. Thomas ends up in jail, cooling his heels.

Daisy falls in love with Bert, the new chimney sweep, and they marry and head off into the big wide world as a scullery cleaning team.

Mary is comsumed by bitterness she marries Sir R and makes his life miserable

Lavvie dies of flu, Matthew devastated, sees MAry married and proposes to Edith, who gleefully accepts

Sybil leaves to set up first psychology hospital with isobel

Cora gets flu, hears the truth from Obrien & Lord 6, recovers at the last minute and sacks OBrien, slaps her hard face and then sacks Jane, slaps her smiling face.

Lord 6 declared 'with gout' by Dr Useless. Drinks himself into oblivion.

Cora and Matthew enjoy a wild affair whilst Edith searches for the library

FearfulYank · 31/10/2011 20:59