Downton Abbey

[Vintagejazz]

I believe it's back on Sunday. Hurray!

I really hope though that they focus more on Edith and less on Mary and her boring, all look the samey, suitors.

Mr B doesn't
lady Mary does.

Edith will snatch Marigold.

Cork always seems sympathetic, Edith should have confided in her.

Agree Bates will find the contraceptive equipment!

Cork??
Cora obv

Thanks phantom.

Yes Mary knows.

I think Cora is going to come through for Edith and help her keep Marigold nearby.

I don't think Mary would ever marry Tom, it would be completely against her characterisation so far. Also I've said this before in previous years, but Uncle Julian does NOT like Tom. Tom and Sybil were always supposed to end in disaster, it just ended in death because JB-F wanted to move on. He would never pair his adored Lady Mary up with Tom. Never never never!

Also I really like him as a devoted brother to all three girls. It's a position Matthew never really held and it's nice and opens up more stuff than another romance would. If Edith spills the beans next week, he will know everybody's terrible secrets - Mary's dirty weekend, Edith's baby, and Rose's romance with the jazz singer! And he was lovely about all of it.

Edith's bloke is going to turn up alive and they'll all live happily ever after with Marigold.

I think Edith is contacting the private detective who she hired to look for her missing bf. He will arrange something for marigold in London . Poor Edith is cracking up I fear, perhaps she has post natal depression too .

Oh also how hilarious was Lord 6's fight. My toddler could throw a better punch! Rabbit you are the worst.

Really hope the journo bloke does turn up - poor Edith has been put through the wringer since the series began. It's about time something nice happened to her.

I'm still not sure about the Tom/Mary thing. It seems preposterous, but the whole of Downton is preposterous so it wouldn't surprise me.

How long has it been? At least two years surely?

Not even Downton would have him sitting in an asylum with amnesia right? Right??

Maybe he became a Nazi.

Maybe he's Hitler.

Farmer's wife is as thick as the pig shit her husband shovels if she hasn't worked out that Edith is Marigold's mother.

What is the thinking around Journo Boyfriend's whereabouts? I've kind of lost track a bit. I seem to recall the Brown Shirts were involved somewhere along the line

After much confusion, Edith recently learned that on his first or second night in Munich he got into a fight with some proto-Nazis. That was the last anyone saw or heard of him.

Some of the Brownshirts he was fighting with are now on trial, and there is a suggestion they might admit what they did with him.

But they haven't yet. Maybe in the final episode.

Maybe Edith's going to do a Nancy Mitford.

Or was it Diana? The one who went to Germany.

Ah, yes - I remember that. The Brownshirts were the "toughies" poor Edith was sobbing about, weren't they?

Yes, they go about in brown shirts and have terrible opinions!

How can they bear to wear brown??

Thank god Miss Bunting has gone. I was practically screaming at Tom not to stop her. Since when were they supposedly in love? I've seen more sexual frisson in a cup of cold custard.

The best storyline is Edith and the child, although the farmer really doesn't trust his wife to keep a secret.

I am so far past caring about who killed Mr Greene that it might as well have been Isis the dog from behind the grassy knoll.

I'm not even sure I can remember what happened to Mr Greene either . I swear my memory is getting dreadful.

I want Edith to take Marigold back!!
I don't think Mary would marry Tom as he was with her sister after all.

There is just no way that Tom and Mary would get together. She is very determined that it would have to be one of her kind that she marries. I am relieved to see the back of Miss Bunting. There was no warmth in her or any hint that she cared about Tom. I do like how Tom gets on well with the Crawley sisters and Rose.

Poor Cora being ignored yet again by Lord G.

I wonder why Thomas is suddenly turning to Baxter for help after the way he treated her.

It was Unity Mitford who was the Hitler admirer although Diana was also a fascist.
Glad Bunting has gone. A slightly less preposterous episode than usual but it had its moments!

I hope Edith goes to London and takes Baby Marigold.

Would she have had any money of her own to do so, though?

If not, blasted journo better get back quick.

The Mr Greene story is totally boring now.

Glad Lord G thumped the cheeky art dealer but wish Cora would tell him to stop being a miserable bully for ignoring her at the Cocktail Party .... he needs to pay his wife some attention!

Poor Edith

I don't understand why Thomas's storylines are always so full of angst. Why not just have him shag around a bit?

Potential Thomas lovers :
Richard E Grant
Anti-semitic Russian count
Intelligent policeman
Stupid policeman
Mr Pig Farmer
Maggie Smith's resentful butler

Imagine how much more interesting the above plotlines would be if Thomas was having it off with even half these men.