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)

[Clawdy]

Edith looks prettier this series.
Why did Bates almost deliberately rub his cellmate up the wrong way?
Matthew is a pompous twit. But I did like his kindness to Pickle.
Wonder who will play the missing heir when he turns up....

[squoosh]

Oh milktraylady lucky you. He's the only good looking guy in the whole show! Have you ever seen him naked? Just a polite enquiry

[Northernlurkerisbackatwork]

I think Lord G should sell the London House - it NEVER gets used and if they keep it, it'll only get bombed in a few years. Speaking of which we should tell Mary and Matthew not to have babies for a few years or the son and heir will be right in the middle of another world war.

I expect the near ruin will be averted by the mysterious resurrection at the last minute of the Canadian Train Co. Probably also accompanied by the mysterious resurrection of Mr Pillbox.

[toysoldiers]

Completely forgotten what went on with Edith and Sir Anthony after Mary told him Edith thought he was boring.

Should have watched series 2 again.

[tribpot]

God I really thought Lord 6 (are we still calling him that?) was gonna drop dead of a heart attack before the wedding took place.

Sybil's hair! Brings new meaning to the term fright-wig.

I see Dame Shirley is going to treat us to a Downton version of her turn in Postcards on the Edge when she steals the scene from Meryl Streep with a tub-thumping rendition of I'm Still Here.

[Bossybritches22]

Well he got her to the altar.....just wondering if someone from the Turkish Embassy is going to jump in at the "just cause or impediment" bit??!

[HoldMeCloserTonyDanza]

Sybil and Branson had better not go back to Dublin.

[Northernlurkerisbackatwork]

Mary told an untruth, Sir A disappeared with hurt puppy look, came back from the war (despite being older than Lord G ) refusinhg to shoot and turned out to have a wounded wing. Lady E made it clear she still considered him to be the only man likely to marry her and here we are.

[HoldMeCloserTonyDanza]

Actually they are both full cast members this year so I bet they won't!

[squoosh]

I liked when Mary was an acid faced bitch.

[GeorginaWorsley]

I remember reading about a speech in parliament in the 1930's saying a boy born at the end of the Great War would be just old enough to fight in the second.

[DowagersHump]

What I want to know is how they all know when to all be standing outside the house to greet someone. If Shirley was coming from Liverpool by car, you'd have to give a margin of at least 1/2 an hour each way wouldn't you? And what if they'd had a flat or some other calamity?

Is there someone at the gatehouse keeping watch who calls ahead and they all quickly muster on the front steps?

[dementedma]

Wedding dress looked like a duvet cover.Edith is being a tad desperate Cora is already pissing me off with her baby doll breathless voice. Matthew is a wet blanket. Love it!

[Angelico]

It is imperative that Branson stays in England because he is the only bit of scrumptious crumpet in the whole series. Or maybe potato bread. He's scrumptious potato bread, not crumpet :o

[squoosh]

Thomas is the good looking one! He just needs to work on his people skills.

[tribpot]

Branson was looking like a fine figure of a man, as if he's somehow feeding on all of Sybil's attractiveness and sucking it out of her (not literally).

[EnjoyGOLDResponsibly]

Dowager they've got a gatehouse, plus the station master would've rung ahead.

[DowagersHump]

But she came in the car from Liverpool - she said! So no stationmaster involved. What on earth did they do before phones were invented (some time during series 1 I seem to remember)?

God I'm a pedant

[squoosh]

They weren't as pretty in this series. Is it the HD?

[Northernlurkerisbackatwork]

The lodge is at least 2 miles away from the house. The lodgekeeper would ring through and they'd all hightail it out the door.

I'm worried about the car hire - think she might ask Lord G to pay for it......

[milktraylady]

Ha ha no Squoosh only met Thomas fully clothed! But he did get mobbed- out in Manchester when he was still in Corrie. Pitied his girlfriend as he was mobbed.
She's lovely too, now wife actually.

And yes Branson is very Irish looking handsomeness, yum

[milktraylady]

I thought OBrien looked better, and Lady Sybil looked awful. Maybe the makeup dept was overcompensating for HD filming?
Or they were being realistic for Sybil feeling like shite while Preg?

[Dozer]

Branson is horrible, controlling!

They all look wrinklier.

[Angelico]

Nay Dozer, how can you say that? He's a passionate man!!!

[Angelico]

And I expect it's the impending poverty and move to a different sort of estate that's making them wrinkly :o