Downton Abbey - update required

[StagnantRabbit]

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)

If Mary was 21 in 1912 then she would only be 29 now.

JF is so pleased with himself and his cleverness and his signposting. The reason every story revolves around the distinctly unlikeable Mary is because JF fancies the pants off the character.

Victoria Wood was absolutely bang on with the

Edith could drive buses in the General Strike.
Still a few years away though...

part 2

Those spoofs are brilliant....saw them the first time around but had forgotten some of the funny lines.

Evidently I'm stupid - I don't understand the shark analogy.

Someone please explain!

Oooh and Mary was born in 1892

Sorry to be a frightful bore but i was only half listening to the Anna/Mrs Bartlett conversation. Could someone enlighten me please? What is the story, i am gleaning from the thread that the last time Bartlett saw Vera she was baking a pie, scrubbing her fingers then standing in the rain with a halo

DH has gone and deleted it from the Sony box now so i cant go back to that scene

Jumping the shark is a reference to an episode of Happy Days when the Fonz water skied over a shark. It means that events in a TV programme have become so improbable as to break the internal framework of the story. See also when buffy started boffing spike.

Thanks for the spoof Northern Brilliant!! Hi' BTW! I reckon that the bright kitchen maid would 've been promoted by now though don't you? she's still wearing the same horrible old rags for effssakes.

I find some of the dialogue a bit odd. Didn't notice the 'hit the spot' thing but did notice Anna saying she was going to take the vase of flowers and 'lose the dead ones'. Er, I don't think so. She would say take them out or maybe get rid of them. I think JF is trying to get eh 'American' vote, what with the American mother & Mary declaring that she's half American. I'm sceptical.

Thanks Chubfuddler!

northernlurker that is hilarious!

I remember thomas saying in the last series when he was ripped off with all the dodgy flour etc, that 'he lost everything.. and then some'
Isn't that a newish Americanism? Like 'I'm loving it'?

(caught up with whole thread now and I see the green vapours had already been mentioned)

Ooooh, I'm SO evil!

There are lots of modern language slip-ups and Americanisms, they annoy me no end. Things like Matthew to Mary "We both have more baggage than the porters at King's Cross" (meaning emotionally, not literally).

and endless to be honest s wtf?? they never said that then!

it is such sloppy script-writing.

I only watch it because I fancy Mr ChubbyPants (or whatever you're calling him. Always have, since Notting Hill days )

OMG Springy - was Lord G in Notting Hill? I think I've just realised who he is now - nooooo! Completely ruined the illusion got me now!

For, not got!

Where does Anna get the time and money to be doing all this detective work? I don't like Bates but can't see him as a murderer.

Lord G was the one who didn't recognise Julia Roberts at the dinner party in NH.

Some of you must be really old to know what was an wasn't said in the 20s

I don't mind the modern-sounding phrases. I am dubious about them, but saw a Downton abbey thingy at chelt lit fest last year and snobby git jf (who didn't even bother looking up when doing book signing, let alone do friendly small-talk, unlike yummy San Stevens and the others who were there), assured the audience that the phrases were researched...

However, I am a but bored of the overuse of 'there you are' at the beginning of possibly every single scene. I'm going to count them this series and make a pie chart or something.

Or even *Dan Stevens

but pleeeeaase can someone answer my post from ^^ reproduced here:

'Sorry to be a frightful bore but i was only half listening to the Anna/Mrs Bartlett conversation. Could someone enlighten me please? What is the story, i am gleaning from the thread that the last time Bartlett saw Vera she was baking a pie, scrubbing her fingers then standing in the rain with a halo'

Thank you as i need to keep up with the theories!