Downton Abbey Discussion continued...

[ErikNorseman]

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I thought that too Mordion - Matthew seems less boring around Edith, and he was delighted with her writing to the newspaper.

Didn't she initially fancy Matthew too?

Not sure about the shagging part, most convienent would be for Mary to cork it and the Edith to marry her brother in law (not sure what Mary would die from though - being overly stuffy? Moving into Downton House and being unable to cope with the lack of space?

Yes, not sure showing someone a medieval tabernacle is the way to a man's pants.

Oh yes. There was a big clue to Matthew's fate when Dan Stevens was interviewed by Lynn Barber recently.

He wouldn't say anything but you could practically hear the music swelling as you turned the page.

Maybe some falling masonry could land on his head. That would be a suitably dull way for him to go.

Punk i enjoyed a lot of U.D. but some of the script\plots and acting left a lot to be desired! Especially the recent ones!! It was very stagey.

I'm not suggesting D.A. is perfect BTW but the sets are amazingly realistic in comparison.

Hands off Dan squoosh Mary is a bit too lugubrious to flourish IMO!!

I would agree it was theatrical but that's what I liked about it...every episode was like a little play. They have more money to spend in Downton and yes, the sets don't feel as if they could fall over. I would probably fall over Matthew though....quite happily. There was very little in the way of crumpet in Upstairs, Downstairs...

The young John Alderton wasn't bad and the son of the house (i can't remember his name) was very YUM!!

OK must stop taking forever to write - keep ending up with lots of cross posts!

I hadn't thought about the guy that was supposed to have died that said he didn't but no one but Edith belived.

i'd like that, he married Editih, she has a clatter of boys, and at the end of it will say "in your face Mary!". sybil will of course die in childbirth, where she'll have given birth to a boy Facthna, who will survive and then begin a bitter battle between Fatty Bum Bum and Pickles about his religion (though Facthna will become a Buddist in the 1940s and move to Tiibet

Ethel's inlaws would have had the babby in a flash, straight after it was born. NOne of this 21st C tip-toeing around the mother. Hate to tell you but the toffs do similar these day in all.

(what happened to myself there? I seem to have written rubbish)

I´d always hoped that Matthew would go for Edith-but he´s such a bore now!

I also rather liked that Napier chap.

Love all the speculation. I'm rather hoping we haven't seen the last of Edith's jilt. Could he turn out to be an antisuffragist or something?

And yy re Sybil. DH and I believe she is only pg to set up a death in childbirth.

Won't be long before it is revealed that Edith is NOT the natural child of Lord Fatty Bum Bum...

Don't know what it means for the plot but a sackable offence for the casting director??

Surely Sybil is going to die in childbirth? I've been thinking this for weeks. Then eventually barren M&M will raise the child as their heir?

Not understanding the Mary/ Matthew relationship. Thought they were supposed to be in love. She's adopted this detached attachment style and authorative manner all the time with him. I wish he'd bring her down a peg or too.

And what's with fatty bum bum - GO TO BED!! at Pickle??

I think Bates is getting slimmer round the face - and looking very fanciable again.

Yes, I thought Matthew was less boring and more natural and spontaneous around Edith - with her article in the paper.

I'd die in childbirth if it meant getting out of that wig.

yes, bates a lttle less chubby than last season but still not 'fanciable' come on!

Well if Bates looked at me the way he looks at Anna's letters I think I would be undone.

Now I would say that Bates look marginally less unattractive, but still a long way from fanciable.

All the chemistry that M and M had last season has evaporated.

I still suspect Carson of being Mary's father.

Nooooo! when bates smiled at Anna's letters, I was a goner. I think he,s lovely

No way is Carson Mary's father he's WAY much of a stickler for the rights and wrongs of being in service

Oh the actor who plays Bates has lovely blue eyes (I'm a sucker for light eyed, dark haired men; think a slimmer Paul Hollywood) SEXY

They need some dashing young blade with bulging pants to rip some corsets and liven things up a bit. Matthew is duller than Dullsville and what does Lord FBB do all day, in fact what do any of then do all day except get dressed and undressed for dinner.

It's a shame they can't all go up to London for a season, surely they must have a smart London address in addition to Downton. Sexy shenanigans galore would await.