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.

Is there going to be a Christmas special?

They all seem a bit lost without a war to fight, don't they? At least Isabel's flying the flag with her socially edgy moral crusades. They could have done a shedload about women's suffrage this season if they'd wanted :-/

The lurve pentagon below stairs is nearly as excruciatingly tedious as the Bates prison saga. I also don't get why Thomas was so willing to believe O'Brien, too contrived for plot purposes.

fuck all has happened? They fit a whole season's plot into one episode. It just feels like nothing's happened.

Bound to be a Christmas special. Apart from anything else, what would be the point of introducing a new character otherwise?

I do think it´s right for Ethel to leave-but why go behind Isobel´s back?

So-who could work for Isobel?

And Edith resigns next week???

Was that it for her being interesting??

And Thomas-I suppose he wanted to believe it-so he did!

And new people being introduced in the last ep?

Can Thomas cook?.............................

Yeah it's weird to bring in new characters in the last episode Diddl .

and the 'going behind Isobel's and Edith's back ' is nasty; Lady Violet has a definite nasty streak doesn't she? Poor Edith passed around like a parcel

I like Mary but she's always been a bit meh [hhmm] IMO she's the dowager in waiting and plays the part to the hilt.

I think that Violet has been quite nasty this series tbh.

Maybe Edith resigning is something to do with the new character´s behaviour & it isn´t accepted?

I like how Matthew seems to be getting on with her.

But this whole "spare Papa´s feelings" from Mary-he´s a fucking adult!!

Obviously now that he has the money again, he is happy just as long as he can hand the estate over intact.

Never mind in what state!

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

Been more of a socio-economic-psychological drama this time - shining a torch on the prejudice, patriarchy and not so nice traits of the upper classes...and the O'Brien types.

Yes Animation I'm a supporter of slow and intelligent T.V. and films (not that D.A. is THAT intelligent but it leaves the soaps way behind IMHO) I'm going to miss it I hope there's a Christmas special.

I´m not so sure it does leave the soaps that far behind.

There have been some absolute howlers.

of course they will have a Christmas special.

How about Cora dies, Lord G marries again & produces a son??

The end!

I will miss it - and hope a Christmas Special will be a bit lighter and airy, and right some wrongs.

Yes, this series seems fixed on highlighting their complete superior complex!! Think they've covered nearly every prejudice that you could discriminate against...disability,age, catholicism, race/Irish/Americans, working women, single mothers, homosexuals, prostitution, medical profession, journalism....

What TERRIBLE people they were!!

I'd like to see Lord G lose an arm - and see what that feels like!

oh, and then Cora dies but no woman will want Lord G because he's too old AND he only has one arm...

Oh yes there will be a CS-to announce that M&M are going to have a baby-awwwwww!

There´s probably a series 4&5 lined up.

Mary might have to have it off with the 'rough diamond' (Branson's bother) to get pregnant. She said she liked a bit of rough diamond.

Mary and Matthew are not easy to care about right now though - and it's like if she gets pregnant who cares .. they could just help out a bit with little Sybil.

Correction: Mary said she was fond of diamonds, not rough diamonds like the Drunk Brother :)

Yes the Sybil thing-nanny in the background & GPs just ignore

guess it was a sign of the times.

Can you imagine M&M-can´t agree how to run the estate/how to bring up a baby.

That´s why I wish he´d married MC Lavinia & fucked them all right off!

I think Matthew will shag Edith, she will get PG and they will bring it up as their own. While she flits off to become the Jiz Loans of her time.

I thought it odd that nanny in grounds and they ignored her!
Didn't even go and peep at baby.
Thought there would have been more of Cora cooing over baby Sybil tbh.
Sppose aristos in 1920's didn't 'do' children much!

The return of Bates is so tedious. I wish they'd hung him now. Would have been much less painful.

Edith give up a child to the ghastly Ms???

YY to Tedious Bates. I wish he had perished inside. Even Anna and her suspiciously bright hair is pissing me off now.
Maybe I am Too Grumpy for Downton.