Downton Abbey anyone

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Or am I just an old gimmer with a period drama fetish

BOF your Post at 21:52 didn't get the attention it deserved

RESPECT

Thomas is hilarious. That brief moment of "WTF" as Cora thanked him for dobbing Nanny West in was brilliant. He stabs everybody in the back, he's bound to be right about someone sooner or later.

Actually steam was very quick - incredibly not much slower than trains now! The fastest steam train did about 125mph some time in the 1930s. I think the average was about 85mph so York to London would only be about 2.5 to 3 hours, maybe a bit more.

Yes Freya like the geography in the Bridget Jones films. The run from her flat to Royal Exchange in her knickers gives me The Rage.

But a good point was made. Matthew got Lavinias dads dosh as well. Will the letter be a treasure hunt?

I wasn't sure at the start. I have always loved Mary but her indifference towards her son made me angry. Glad she's coming round.

I want Carson and Mrs Hughes to get together.

Maybe Mosley could be the nanny

PMSL.

He is blatantly going to top himself though.

I want to be adopted by Violet. I think.

Yes re trains. Cambridge to London took 2 hours, now it takes 1 hour 20.

ARF at "a treasure hunt"

They have paid death duties on this estate twice in ten years. Nightmare. Why don't they change the entail so Lady Mary can inherit in her own right, I have no idea. It would be cheaper given that the menfolk appear to have a self destruct button.

How exciting Pindora.

I reckon the Will gets found in Isis bed.

At least we don't have the whole "We're Going on an Heir Hunt" this time.

We've re-hashed storylines with maids looking for sex three times, heirs dying twice, a couple of bouts of stealing, Thomas is gay! at least once a series...

Baby George is the perfect age to get killed in the Second World War so that'll be a third whack. Then the place will get sold to the national trust in series 12.

Dh's only comment on tonight's episode was when Lady Sybil arrived at St Pancras - apparently it was a Southern Railways train, and there's no way she could have arrived from Thirsk on that.

He does this all the time - I am used to it whenever a modern train appears on TV - it'll be the wrong sort of train for that line, or the inside of the train will be from a totally different train to the outside that we see - I just let it all flow over me, tbh. But if he is going to start doing it with vintage trains too ..... Words fail me.

Arf at O'Brien Mk2 being Evil Edna!

Lady Sybil's dead so I hope she wasn't on a train.

Buggerlumps - I meant Lady Edith, didn't I?

Chub you've forgotten that Edith will be there CLUNK as part of Operation Divorce Lunatic, and will mount a rescue after George is lost behind enemy lines.

It's a bit rich for the Dowager Duchess to start lecturing Lady Mary on the duties of good mothering, when I distinctly remember her saying to Isobel Crawley seasons ago that she'd seen her own children for an hour a day. On Isobel protesting that that didn't seem a lot, the DD said testily 'But it was every day!'

This was pretty clunky. I've been watching since the start of last season, and still can't tell the gaggle of kitchen maids and manservants apart, and Edith is OBVIOUSLY going to end up basically being a wetter Unity Mitford in Nazi Germany, and have the scriptwriters forgotten Mrs Hughes is supposed to be waiting for the results of cancer tests and holding down a demanding job, rather than being a fulltime busybody?

It seems more than a bit predictable to give one scheming ladies' maid the heave ho, and immediately replace her with another evil minx? And having battered Lord G into a bit of humanity, he's gone all High Handed Patriarch again, and Lady G has gone back to being a bit dim... It's as if no one retread last season's scripts, and plucked the idea of Helping One Another out of the air at random!

I wanted Rose to do something outrageous.

Mind you, she might next week, although it looked rather like when Sybil went to the womens' rights rally, and was saved by Branson. Perhaps Alfred could save her, and provide even more things for Carson to harumph at.

Do we actually have a chauffeur at the moment? Or after Branson did they think they wouldn't bother?

Is theman from the workhouse Carsons old lover??

Not sure if already said but isn't it strange that Matthew of a all people would not have written a Will.

I thought he was a solicitor!