Downton Abbey continued

[AndHarry]

Following on from the first thread...

It took me ages to get to sleep last night. I'm not particularly maudlin in general but that was shocking.

Predictions: Isabel and Mosley die.

Don't think granny will die.
Julian Fellowes promised no more major deaths this series!

Looks a cheerful episode all around...

Oh nooooooes
Evil rapist valet is back
Dowager dame is going to pop her clogs
And good on ya Rose

In French polka

Perhaps Edith will conceal pregnancy and deliver at Christmas,like mary last year.

Yes Thomas will suss situation re Anna out next week.

Oh of course, I'd forgotten that was a fashion.

Yes Chub- polks as in preoccupe (accent over the e)

Going by the mention of The Sheik at the pictures, it's meant to be 1921, I think.

Maybe gregson will be banged up with hitler. Didn't she mention Munich?

Can't be, didn't Sybil die in 1920? And baby Sybbie is over a year older than her cousin, who himself is now more than six months old... must be at least 1922-23.

baffles self with maths

The series started in 1922. I think it's a few months after the start of the series now. Coming up to 1923.

I predict gregson reappears in a black shirt v shortly.

I think she meant preoccupe as in the French version of preoccupied. sorry can't do accents.

Really irritated by that scene with The Dowager looking smug and the doctor crowing "Game,set and match to Lady Violet!" just because she'd reinstated a poor lad she should never have sacked! And if Isobel hadn't sorted it,he would have been out of a job with no prospect of any future employment!

If he becomes German then he will be on The Wrong Side in a few years & Edith will be torn even more......if he's still around?

Any more ideas on what she signed?

As long as it's before 1924, I don't care, because my point about Fellowes' crappy scriptwriting stands

The letter for anyone wishing to examine it. Is it really believable Edith would have visited a doctor in her own name and given her real address for correspondence?!

Could the incomparable Dame Maggie have got fed up of playing an arch aristo with the best lines after 4.5 series?

Ugh and the dreadful valet. Time for Anna to put her hard-won corpse-concealment skills to the test and do him in.

Perhaps Edith will be sent to the states?

I don't think Edith's disgust is wrong in a dramatic sense, as opposed to a real life one.

I just don't understand her view, seeing as everybody else is so relaxed about it - apart from Carson, who's at least being consistent in raging at every assault on LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.

Thanks for that link to the letter btw. It flashed on and off far too quickly for slowcoach me to read it.

Maybe Maggie Smith doesn't want to be in it any more, or that much, anyway. I imagine it's very tiring.

Maybe she and Julian Fellowes have even had a conversation about what happens if she dies in harness.

Some older people can be extremely practical about their mortality.

I get her being taken aback, they all were. But she seemed pretty disgusted which was strange.

I don't like her so I'm always happy to have an excuse for a bit of a hate fest.

For me the disgust didn't seem to come from anywhere and didn't go anywhere either. Granted, that is consistent for DA plotlines.

Also I find it odd that we've started to like Edith - well, obviously you're still holding out - and now we're supposed to despise her again.

I think Edith might see out her pregnancy with Sam Bond in London.

Edith is Unity Mitford from now on.

I still like Edith.

She's only ever wanted some attention & to be loved.

I blame the parents myself