Downton Abbey Discussion continued...

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Brendan Coyle? thought he had very dark brown eyes.

You may be right jenna the lighting in his scenes in DA is not good still got nice eyes though

I'm sure I remember a London house from series 1. If anyone needs a season in town its Edith!

It's the warm twinkle and steady gaze in Bate's eye that is alluring to my sensibilities - and to imagine that such a gaze to be fixed on my countenence ...I'm sure my eyes would lock in unspeakable astonishment.

It's true they need a dashing young blade - there seems to be no chemistry anywhere- so far.

I think the only house in London that we've seen is Lady Rosamund's.

Oh dear, Animation, you seem to be getting a bit hot and flustered. Your corset may be a little too tight today.

There is a London house as they were there for a seaon & Sybil "came out" didn´t she?

Mary wasn´t invited to much iirc because of the Pamuk scandal.

Don´t think that we saw the house, though.

Ppeatfruit, google Cillian Murphy, OMG does that boy have nice eyes.

Thanks molly not bad but doesn't beat Paul Hollywood's of the Great British Bake Off!! "Cor!!!

mollydoggerson I met Cillian Murphy. Those eyes are mesmerising in real life.

oh yeh, he's handsome alrght. [understatement]

l liked lady rosamund. they should bring her back!

@ ppeatfruit, if you like brendan coyle, have you seen north and south. another goodie!! loved that, and i'm pretty sure he's in it too.

I agree that the London house belonged to Miss Moneypenny Lady Rosamund.

Of course she is another example of an earl's daughter keeping her title despite marriage.

More London! Presumably it's harder to film.

I read recently that the "upstairs" is filmed mainly on location and the "downstairs" mainly on a studio set, and the two groups of actors don't actually meet that often, which helps to keep the interplay distant. Fascinating stuff!

limited I could see that Cillian's eyes are probably amazing in RL

jenna I saw North and South the Gaskell one? who was Brendan in it? yes I liked Lady Rosamund too!

horatia did you see the link to the Children In Need clip (sorry can't do links) where you see the servants pretending to go downstairs disappearing behind a wall and turning up on a different set! Very funny.

ppeatfruit, he was a kind of socialist factory worker type. He had a job and enough to live on but he got the lines that challenged the status quo. And, i thnk his daughter got sick and Daniela DB's daughter visited her with a basket of fruit. He wasn't sufficiently grateful for the basket of fruit when his daughter was dying of a disease brought on from working in poor conditions at the mill......... but she got into 'class war' type dscussions with him. Does that ring a bell?

yes Dreading thanks I remember it well now! he was CUTE in that! I thought Daniela W. was not a talented enough actress for the part (pretty enough just not intelligent enough IYSWIM).

Bates is far less creepy in Starlings. I'm not going to go as far as saying he's more attractive.

I like Bates, though I think the prison story has run its course. He looks so grimy but after that bed scene with Anna am convinced he's the type of man who looks better clothed. She can scrub his back and make his eyes twinkle.

When he is released won't there be ructions about his being Lord 6's valet again? Trouble with Thomas - though again, I think Thomas v Bates has been done to death as well. Maybe he becomes Matthew's valet, with Anna as Mary's ladymaid. Poor Molesley, he'll have to return to the scary embrace of the sharp Mrs Bird.

Talking of whom - was it obvious to the village that Ethel had become a prostitute? Thought it v unfair of Carson (in the trailer for next week) to keep booming out "A PROSTITUTE". Hasn't Ethel suffered enough without it being boomed out? Know he'd disapprove but I thought it'd be more "a Woman Like That". Prostitution, like Thomas's gayness and Matthew's Tingle, wouldn't be spoken of so bluntly.

How much work would there be for Ethel?

Would she have to commute to the fleshpot of York or would she corner the market as The Only Prostitute In The Village?

Of course villages had prostitutes. Many have them now. :)

I love the word 'fleshpot'. Sound so clammy and jiggly.

Saint Isobel would make work for her.

About Ethel, I meant that as she was living in York, would it have been public knowledge in Downton without Carson's Booming?

Cousin violet is the only one with a heart. so i guess lady edith is going to help her???

M&M- It shocked me a bit when Mary's papa asked Matthew how the honeymoon went and Matthew replied that his eyes had been opened or something! And agree that Mary has become a very cold wife, all "have you done this darling" and shrugging off the affection and hints about babies. But surely they can't have more angst in their relationship. Matthew would die of honour and priggishness before he could shag Edith. FGS let them have a brood of boys.