The Honourable Thread of Downton Abbey - The Third

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Who filled up the last thread? Hmm?

All I wanted to say was Jonathan Rhys Meyers?

No!! I don't like him and he's a pants actor.

Oh Martha I know exactly what you mean!

Thomas is a nasty bit of work, but he does make my heart skip a beat when he's done up in his livery. Funny because I thought he was creepy and horrible in Corrie.

Very hard being gay in those days though, he couldn't just ask Jimmy to go to the cinema with him (for example). Remember when he tried it on with Pamuk, that was a lot more plausible to be honest. Even if Jimmy was up for it it seems unlikely that he would have appreciated being pounced on while sleeping, that really was a bit too risky.

Yeah IKWYM as well martha about Rob Collier [hgrin] He's HOT!

I actually don't think Thomas would have done that. Sure, he fancied jimmy but there didn't seem to be any real chemistry between them. I'm sorry but an early 20th century gay person would have awesome gaydar, it would be risking everything to make a mistake like Thomas did.

OOh just had a vision of sleeping James he's also HOT!! I hope the holy water is cool martha [hgrin]

Yes Erik I think you're right and believing that cxx O'Brien who he knows has been winding him up.

Thinking about it, the Thomas/O'Brien feud goes: hide the shirts - Thomas gets told of, say she's leaving - O'Brien gets told off, out Thomas - he gets sacked and jailed!? That's quite an escalation, no wonder Thomas didn't see it coming.

do you think he will go to prison? i forsee DA Series 4 mainly consisting of Thomas walking in circles round the same prison as Bates, ad infinitum.....

martha Ria do you remember O'brien saying very threateningly to Thomas something like ' You'll regret that ' I can't remember what it was about though.

As far as I can remember, the O'Brien thing dates back to when Thomas was promoted over her nephew.

OOH thanks tapirs.

I don't know about imagining his stiffy you lot are so coarse but I did get rather hot and bothered when it seemed he might take his singlet off

Googling implies it's because Thomas was/is bullying her nephew.

And she also hates Thomas because he bullied the shell shocked footman who reminded O'Brien of her dead brother. That was the only time we saw her softer side.

Please stop mentioning Thomas' hard cock, 'tis most distracting!

Well I today met a real life star of downton.

Walking along a street in wadebridge, ds2 came a cropper on uneven pavement and fell head first with a sickening bump as head met slab.

Was just comforting him when lovely woman appeared with a dog, who she introduced to ds in attempt to cheer him up (the mere fact that a stranger was talking to him meant he clammed up anyway, as he's 3 and ornery).

I admired the dog, a yellow lab. Who also happens to be the intro sequence downton fat dog! The woman said to watch her gait as she walked away, and swore she was telling the truth and blimey that dog waddled! Was a really weird but lovely encounter.

Unlike poor Thomas. Horrible. Horrible thingy the ladies maid and miscarriage inducer. She's eeeevvviiiilll.

I don't think Mary is pregnant, I think Mathew will have tests and it won't be him and Mary will have caught something nasty from "the Turk"... They will of curse bring up Sybil as their own, ifwhen Pickles gets carted back to Ireland to face Justice.

I think Matthew and Mary will split up because she will not support him in the way he wishes to run Downton and will side with her father.

I can't help wondering if Edith and Matthew might get together and she will then have a male heir.....

How can Mary have caught something from Mr Turk fella though? I thought they didn't have proper sex? Didn't she tell her mother that she was still intact or something along those lines? I had assumed they got up to other business but not full sex.

I think they'll be miraculously upduffed after much angsting, next season. Or maybe Christmas. I don't see how she could have caught much from Dead Turk, he had barely hopped on.

Why is Mary REALLY getting on my wick this series - and always going on about her bloody precious father!!

Will the Dowager go to the night club next week to drag home the wayward grandchild?

"Why is Mary REALLY getting on my wick this series"

Because now she´s done what was wanted-married the heir-she has turned back to the boring snob she always was.

I did quite enjoy Matthew twisting the knife about Cora´s fortune used to prop up the place & Mr Swire´s legacy wouldn´t go the same way.

I hope Branson moves away & takes baby Sybil.

Lord G has his mother´s nasty streak-about not being at the Christening & mass being like gymnastics.

FFS-that´s your GD & possible next heir you ignorant twat!

ah that´s better!

OMG martha, no, not more prison scenes. I bet they're cheap ones since they do them in the dark but I can't face anymore of those.

Thomas is HOT, sizzle, sizzle. I was another silently shrieking, "don't listen to her, don't do it!" He can't leave, there is no one else there for me!

Can´t believe it´s the last one next week.

And apart from Sybil dying-fuck all has happened really.