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Downton Abbey continued

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AndHarry · 07/10/2013 17:55

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.

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Sunnymeg · 10/11/2013 22:37

Was Bates in prison in York? I remember him saying that prison taught him one or two tricks. Perhaps he used the old lags network to get someone to murder Greene.

Chubfuddler · 10/11/2013 22:37

He looks so much like him. And I've just google imaged him and in RL he is gorgeous.

TSSDNCOP · 10/11/2013 22:37

Nah I can live without Mathew.

So Christmas:

Isobel get married to the lovely Peer with Violet as BM. Will make Isobel richer and socially superior to Violet.

Edith and Rosamund go to Sweaterland, but cannot give up the baby and her missing fiancé turns up in the nick of time all newly divorced.

Anna is tried and found guilty of murdering Green.

Mary marries Blake. Or Gillingham. Or Blake.

The pigs eat Lord Fatty.

Chubfuddler · 10/11/2013 22:39

After Cora nearly died of flu he realised whst a twat he had been

GeorginaWorsley · 10/11/2013 22:40

Agree re Cora.
Have enjoyed it though.
Less'outside' history ie war,t
titanic,flu,etc and more internal stories.
Am afraid Sunday night won't be same for me now.
Hate celeb shite Grin

AndHarry · 10/11/2013 22:47

I don't know what to make of the series really. I wasn't particularly gripped by any of the storylines. I'm mildly interested in the whereabouts of Edith's fancy man.

As for Greene, I don't think Bates had anything to do with it. Just convenient timing.

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Chubfuddler · 10/11/2013 22:52

There can't be yet another non murder murder plot. No I reckon bates did it but Anna will take the rap and swing for him.

BlueChampagne · 10/11/2013 23:05

Problem shared is problem halved was tonight's theme!
Is Green really dead? Hope so ... Bet Anna wasn't his only victim.
Bates will come in with a cast iron alibi at the last minute eg seeing Dr to find out why Anna isn't pg yet.
Molesley's improved!

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LittleBearPad · 10/11/2013 23:12

Nooo we can't have Anna's prison visiting hat again. It was terrible.

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AndHarry · 10/11/2013 23:23

As long as we don't have to listen to any moe of the Bates theme music...

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BranchingOut · 10/11/2013 23:37

I was horrified by Daisy's farm visiting hat.

triplets · 11/11/2013 00:06

Sundays won`t be the same :(

Davros · 11/11/2013 00:25

Uk series are the perfect length. Get you involved and leave you wanting more. I can't bear those American series that go on for 24 episodes, close ups of every door knob being twisted etc

minibmw2010 · 11/11/2013 07:15

Way too many stories opened and not finished, all left open for the Christmas special I suppose? A bit frustrating though.

GeorginaWorsley · 11/11/2013 08:32

Perhaps Gregson will reappear at Xmas special whilst Edith in Switzerland and violet will hastily despatch him over there to prevent adoption

Badgerwife · 11/11/2013 10:58

Am I the only person who thought that season 4 was a bit of a non-event?

Nothing has really gripped me emotionally. All the interesting stuff seems to happen elsewhere and we just get told, not shown, which is the cardinal sin of bad writing. The most exciting thing that happened might have been Lady Mary falling off in the mud whilst tending the pigs.
We didn't get to see Rose getting engaged or Green being killed off or Bates doing his dodgy deal in York.

Also, I'm really annoyed that there is no closure whatsoever about Edith's lover, he's conveniently just 'disappeared' and that's the end of it.

I also find Bates really quite sinister. I totally understand his motives, but having the bastard killed is NOT the only option available to him. If this were real life, I don't think I would want anything to do with the man, plotting murder is not OK.

ChaffinchOfDoom · 11/11/2013 13:04

Im not sure why Lord Fatty had to shoot off to USA, surely Cora would've accompanied him to see her family.

Thomas will have some new modern high-falutin' ideas now;

so we need to know
Thomas's hold over the lady maid
who killed green
The missing german
will mary get engaged
isobel & peer
edith's child
pickle and the teacher

plus we know Jo Froggatt is leaving, so Anna will be going somewhere..

limitedperiodonly · 11/11/2013 13:04

How come the teacher can not only drive but has a car? Even if she didn't recognise Lady Grantham by sight, how come she didn't realise who she was as soon as she opened her mouth? How many simpering Americans live round there?

Why has Branson apparently forgotten that he used to dislike the Crawleys and the class system too?

Wouldn't Edith be showing by now? She asked Lady Rosamund if she minded spending the next four months in Switzerland.

I thought Bates hadn't killed Green because surely he set off too late to get to London and back in a day. But then I thought it's Downton Abbey so anything could happen, including just happening to bump into the man who raped your wife in the street. And how convenient that Green gave his exact address at the servants' lunch table. I'm always saying: 'I live in this place, it's between this road and that road.'

Wouldn't at least one person in the tea room where Rose met Ross stare at them?

Why did that lord send Isobel's flowers to Violet? He knows where Isobel lives. Maybe he forgot, just like he forgot that Isobel was Mary's MIL, or did he spend the entire lunch chatting to her well enough to fancy her but not well enough to say: 'So, how do you know Violet and Edith then?' That's assuming that Violet is the only person in the world who invites people to lunch and doesn't introduce them to each other.

And I was disappointed there was only one clunking reference to the time period in it: when Lord 6 referred to Prohibition for no particular reason at all.

It was a wonder he didn't say 'I bumped into that Nucky Thompson while I was in America' - that's reached 1924 too.

limitedperiodonly · 11/11/2013 13:08

Also, this is bothering me but it might not be a mistake: how likely would it be that Thomas had a passport? Or could you travel between Britain and the US without one in 1924?

ChaffinchOfDoom · 11/11/2013 13:15

was most unconvinced by the whole Rose story, TBH
she was very flirty/convincing, then in one sentence where she says she wants to show her mother, we completely believe all of the months of flirting/meetings/kisses are all just tosh., I like the way his scene played with Lady Mary though, he was a fine man.

More could've been made of it though, maybe some gossipy talk by people who saw at the café at the church bazaar, talk that Cora overheard and wiped off the simper for a minute. where and Who IS Rose's mother, anyway?

think aunt rosamund has redeemed herself marvellously this series, love her pale blue eyes

ChaffinchOfDoom · 11/11/2013 13:17

was ridiculous for the peer to send isobel's flowers to Violet...but it did allow Violet to read Isobel's card, and gleefully tell her, and for her to show her annoyance at getting the less impressive bouquet Grin

bravo those actors, brilliant scenes.

diddl · 11/11/2013 13:30

Rose's mother is Lady Susan something-married to Shrimpie-they had the estate in Scotland where last years Chrsitmas Ep(?) was set.

They are in India now coz Shrimpie lorst the estate due to not having ideas like wot Matthew had that saved Downton.