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StagnantRabbit · 12/09/2012 21:16

Any big Downton fans out there who can tell me what happened in the very last episode of series 2 and also the Xmas special? Tryin to get ready for the new series on Sunday but is there anything else I missed? (apart from Lady Mary and Matthew getting together that is)

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dapplegrey · 30/09/2012 22:04

Excellent episode. Love Thomas and Miss O'Brien's spats.

GeorginaWorsley · 30/09/2012 22:06

Am not sure Mrs Hughes out of woods yet...
Poor Edith.So that was the veil we saw floating down the stairs...

MorrisZapp · 30/09/2012 22:06

I'd love to downsize from my gaff to Downton Place. I think I could cope with the cramped accommodation :)

Chubfuddler · 30/09/2012 22:07

What on earth has Ethel got to say? She knows something significant, what on earth can it be?

Strallen would not have done that. No way would a gentleman of his standing and personality in 1920 jilt a woman, an earls daughter no less, at the altar.

Felicitywascold · 30/09/2012 22:08

Hilarious ep. I'm loving being able to predict it as well!

Northernlurker · 30/09/2012 22:09

The cad! The bounder! The total idiot!

I am livid!

And now next week it looks like Pickle will get in a pickle and put Sybil in peril. How gripping!

Mama1980 · 30/09/2012 22:09

I cried for Edith Blush

diddl · 30/09/2012 22:09

Well that was just stupid.

I agree that Strallan wouldn´t have done that.

I thought it would have been odd to get both Mary & Edith married off so quickly, though.

Well, let´s hope Edith finds someone young & rich.

Not a drippy twat like Matthew.

blisterpack · 30/09/2012 22:11

Oh God, St. Lavinia's father is just like her as well. What a ridiculously implausible plot device. How likely is it that a wealthy man is going to leave his entire estate to the man who broke his daughter's heart? Hmm Even some affectionate back-slapping with the "My Boy" thrown in for good measure.

Edith being jilted was the saddest part of all the episodes upto now I thought.

outtolunchagain · 30/09/2012 22:12

In real life I think the family would have been much more pro Strallen , after all young men were thin on the ground after WW1 and at least she would have been settled and financially secure ,she will end a spinster now . Hopefully they will send her to America to stay with batty Grandma and find a rich American.

Poor Edith , I almost cried,glad about Mrs Hughes' though, as long as they are right.

diddl · 30/09/2012 22:13

Yes, because you´d leave it all to the man who was going to inherit a title & an estate as he´d obviously need itHmm
And you´d certainly want the snooty callous bitch he threw your daughter over for to benefit as well.

blisterpack · 30/09/2012 22:14

Yes the about-turn at the altar isn't realistic. I think during that time no member of the aristocracy would do that at that point whatever misgivings they had. Come to think of it would it happen even now?

Northernlurker · 30/09/2012 22:17

Sir Anthony is supposed to be a Victorian - and a former soldier. I agree he wouldn't have done it in RL. I'm bloody annoyed that he did it in DA life too. Poor Edith. Maybe the horribly injured bounder will come back with a good claim to Downton this time - thus bagging the Swire money too Grin He's probably done well out of Canadian railways as well.........

dapplegrey · 30/09/2012 22:17

Chub fuddled - I hadn't thought of that but you are right: Strallan seemed too nice a person and to much of a gent to behave like that. Did he do it because he realised he didn't love her or because he felt weighed down by Lord G's disapproval?

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smugmumofboys · 30/09/2012 22:18

Totally implausible but Maggie had some corking lines tonight. Grin

joshop · 30/09/2012 22:19

Not sure if Mrs Bates is ok..

Agree that Edith's family's reaction to the 'old crock' was a bit over the top. Weren't a lot of girls married off to much older men? and WW1 wiped out many younger men. I didn't get how she would be an 'old man's drudge' - that's what servants were for.

The Lavinia inheritance thing is a bit silly but the Bates & the Ethel stories are intriguing.

wintera · 30/09/2012 22:20

That was absolute tosh and bollocks. I stopped watching the second series because it went ridiculous. Thought this series was better but its going daft again. No way would he have jilted her, and that miraculous letter was laughable. Honestly its like a period drama version of Dallas!

Chubfuddler · 30/09/2012 22:22

Oh yes perhaps that is it with Ethel - maybe she wants major Bryants parents to have him after all.

LadyHarrietdeSpook · 30/09/2012 22:26

Gutted for edith.

Thought we'd see sir a top himself... Wondering if he knows he's sick. Looked unbelievably pale- maybe not just fright?!

Sigh.

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Mollydoggerson · 30/09/2012 22:29

Surely Strallan would have thought a few mini Strallans would've kept Edith happy and balanced out the age problem. Totally ridiculous, so sad, but God knows we all love a jilting at the Alter.

Mrs Huges is a gonner.

Could Ethel know anything about Bates???

MagdaMagyarMadam · 30/09/2012 22:30

He might have an STD and did the honourably thing albeit at the last minute? But what was Dame Maggie referring to in the comments about his previous wife?

Llareggub · 30/09/2012 22:30

I think he knows he can't have children and this is why he feels he cannot go through with it.

Mr Bates is definitely guilty. I've never liked him.

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