Downton Abbey Discussion continued...

[ErikNorseman]

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I am responsible for Lord 6, last year my laptop was broken and I had no G key, so I cleverly inserted 6 instead. Some people found this amusing and kept it up. Waves hello to all.

I think her death was quite well sign posted in that JF didn't even bother giving the character any real lines. She had gone from being a major character to just a shadow.

Did anyone know she was going to die? Best kept secret ever

Women still die of pre-eclampsia in this country today. Thought this episode was quite good for awareness actually. Particularly it happening after the birth.

My Grandad had to run to America. Had to wait 15 years before the coast was clear and he could go home.

Jessica/Sybil literally said nothing during Jonathon Ross's interview of the 3 sisters. It's all so clear now, they were avoiding discussing her character completely.

Ok. Well sqoosh knew

And Molly

Ds ( with whom I hold my downton watching sacred ) knew either or both would die.

Convenient vehicle for Mary / matthew to obtain a ready made baby I think , and continue the the line etc

Bloody well acted, tragic etc. hope it raises eclamsia awareness women and babies still die every year after all.

It was 1920 last week so the War of Independance is still on.

I don't get Branson as a rebel. He watched a house burn and attended some meetings, he's hardly Michael Collins or Dev, why go on the run?

I also don't see how Lord G has any pull with the Home Secretary, he never goes up to London to sit in the House of Lords (he never does anything at all that I can see).

yes and sadly, with more women than ever overweight, having children later, and getting gestational diabetes - could be on the rise.

i can't watch it til wednesday but as it's so sad i think i'm glad i have a headsup. i'll have the tissues ready.

I was convinced that the actor who plays Thomas was in a Dr Who but it doesn't appear in his Wiki info.

Just checked the sky episode information and it doesn't even mention the birth, let alone death.

Am moving on to irritation now; something had better come out of her death (Edith becoming super-duper feminist campaigner, as I may have mentioned!) otherwise I shall be pissed. Sybil was the most interesting sister starting midway through series one, so to reduce her to the role of "womb" would be a disservice to her character.

My predictions of a fortnight or so ago came true :(

Very good acting, sobbed my way through & had to give both my babies a kiss before bed. :( :(

Mordion - I meant Branston himself getting that sort of job, not just someone Irish.

i thought the direction was towards Sybil dying too. Shame though liked he character.

We all predicted her death last week!

Poor Sybil.

There's no way a republican firebrand would have sought a doffing the cap job with an English aristo family.

Just me who didn't know then. Damn me for not checking with MN! Will not make that mistake again.

Maybe his political views grew over time, maybe he got the job and thereafter became more political.

IAmShe... here you go Looks like he was not in doctor who.

I said Eclampsia as soon as I saw Cybil! DP didnt have a clue what I was on about!

Maybe so.

I think he'll decide to become a teacher or something involved with 'making a difference'. He's a bit of a bore but the look on his little face when Sybil was dying made me bit

@squoosh My grandfather did. But he'd had enough by then. He was told to leave but he was happy to go as I understand it. And happy to not go back after what he had seen (this was during the civil war though not the war of independence).

I thought it was garbage that he had a change of heart about burning the English out of their castle, for someone willing to blather on about dinner jackets as accoutrements of oppression.