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)

oo i dont know - i detected a limp when he was walking round the courtyard

Maybe there's nothing wrong with his leg. Maybe he only limps because he has a massive third leg that becomes inflamed with longing at the sight of Anna's scrubbed wholesome face.

Not sure why he had an erection whilst walking around the prison yard though.

Dirty big lump.

He was limping, he just didn't seem to be struggling without the stick.

The prison scenes are grim. I prefer the frocks. Mary's blue dress for the wedding-that-wasn't was lovely. As was Lady Violet's crotchey-ey outfit.

I think Edith's wedding dress was streets ahead of Mary's.

Cold comfort for poor old Edith I'm sure.

Mary looks like she's dressing up using Mummy's tablecloth.

Edith's was so much better.

Mary's Blue - must admit I didn't notice Sybil's dress, was too busy wondering where her bump was. Very pretty dress too though. But style or not, she doesn't look 6 (?) months pregnant.

LadyHarrietdeSpook Wed 03-Oct-12 11:05:24
STRALLEN: hey, maybe he's had a LETTER too???
Do you reckon? Something arriving in the post that am. He did look unnaturally pale...

Er, no. A letter would be ridiculous. But a letter from beyond the grave, possibly from one of the Swires? Yup, can see that working!

(oops, that came across rather shouty, didn't it? I'm crap at quoting on here...)

they could bring the ouja board back out HAZEL?

I make tea pour wine when Bates comes on.

They need to get some sexual frissons going with some characters.

Matthew and Mary are all 'my dear' this and 'my dear' that. Sybil and Pickles are awaiting child. Where is the sexual tension? We all need sexual tension on a Sunday night.

Edith, ITV needs you. Maybe a foreign Count or something.

yes sex and dresses. Could we have a couple more hunks in there to add interest? Actually I think Sybil is looking a bit frumpy this time round, I suppose she is not rich anymore so she isn't supposed to be elegant, hair is chopped a bit lopsided, clothes don't hang very well, thick stumpy looking velvet hat. And ... horrors. .... she was wearing an evening dress from the old series. We need more clothes, definitely more clothes. It is the main thing after all.
Who wants the murky prison scenes?

definitely a letter from the Swires, they are very good at getting their letters off on their death beds.

Was 'getting their letters off' supposed to sound so rude, ZZenAgain?

oh I wish I had had the wit to see it, alas no! Death bed sex I don't really want to see

Yep, poor old Sybs is living in frumpsville these days. She offends my senses when she waftes on screen in her lumpy looking clothes.

Her voice is gorgeous though isn't it, all posh and husky.

Shouldn't they have more smouldering scenes with Matt and Mary? They are newlyweds after all, surely he should be carting her off to bed early rather than fussing about his tailcoats?

it is time they had some affairs. Any suggestions for pair ups?

They need to introduce some young, wild, male aristos to shake things up.

Edith is ripe for the taking. Maybe they could find some slightly wild cousins.

I really don't care if Daisy the kitchen maid fancies the tall, ginger foot man. Zzzzzzz

No, me either really, ZZZen .

I don't want to see Matthew and Mary smouldering, TBH. They're both quite unsexy.

Re affairs. Mrs Hughes and Carson, obvieusement. Cora and your man the 'evil' one who used to be in cahoots with O'Brien (yes I know he's gay, but she would turn him). Anna and Matthew. Edith and the ex-chauffeur (didn't she do something with cars in the war? They'd bond over that).

using voices as my main criterion, I would say Sybil and Matthew. THe voices make a nice match

There was a brief silly thing between Lord 6 and a maid who quickly disappeared but we need the full blown thing. Mary and a royal possibly.

squoosh, I read that as 'male artists'. Now that WOULD be interesting. A few bohemians to shake up the scene a bit, combined with some more of 'those new cocktails', and Edith would be knocked up have a smile on her face again in no time.

Edith and Tom? Hadn't thought of that one. Remember she was smooching in the barn with a farmer during the farm too. She is definitely ripe.

In the interests of ambition, Thomas is quite capable of switching over IMO, he would give Cora a bit of a boost.

The new man downstairs is incredibly like the one before. What was his name now? I am wondering if they killed the first one off by mistake.

Yes! They need some bohemians. Maybe Edith could knock around with the Bloomsbury Group (were they still on the go in 1920?) she could indulge in some Sapphic love and then flounce off to Majorca (twas still classy then) to be an artist's muse.

And they need a few wild 1920's house parties with all the young people running wild doing coke and shagging each other every which way.

Matthew would be aghast. Mary would be jealous.

duh during the farm

during the war I meant