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Vintagejazz · 17/09/2014 14:12

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.

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LeBearPolar · 20/10/2014 15:14

Does the Anna/Bates/Green the valet/Mrs Hughes/Lady Mary story line make anyone else think of ? Just me? I'll get my coat.

mymummademelistentoshitmusic · 20/10/2014 15:45

Not seen this weeks yet, but Barrow, I'm sure, is trying a 'cure' for being gay.

diddl · 20/10/2014 15:58

I'm not even watching it & I would have thought that it is obvious that Barrow is trying to no longer be gay!

SirChenjin · 20/10/2014 16:19

George Clooney in Downton?? Can this be true?!

diddl · 20/10/2014 16:26

Wasn't GC at Highclere recently, looking at it for a "wedding venue"?

i wonder if it was filmed then?

Nessalina · 20/10/2014 18:57

OMG it would be so exciting if GC was in it! Phwoar!

Lol @ LeBearPolar - it is sooo like that! Grin

millimat · 20/10/2014 21:01

LeBearPolar, LOVE that clip! You are so right!

citruslemon · 20/10/2014 22:02

Tom and Rose would work well.

MirrorMirror · 21/10/2014 10:14

I would like to see Tom and Rose together too! I thought I read somewhere about George Clooney being in the Christmas special but not sure if that is true so don't quote me!

Clawdy · 21/10/2014 20:55

Can anyone explain why Barrow is apparently back to disliking Bates,after they seemed to resolve their enmity when Bates got Barrow out of O' Brien's clutches? Remember the "Just say 'Lady Cora's soap' ".......?

cheapskatemum · 21/10/2014 21:00

Jealous that he has the love of a good woman, maybe? I've just watched the video clip of why Barrow's going to such lengths to "cure" his homosexuality. It just states the obvious really, but JF says it's quackery & it makes him very ill.

tribpot · 21/10/2014 22:35

I think it's because in JF's mind it's series 2 (or maybe 3) again and so we're recycling all the same stuff as happened then. Murder charge - check. Barrow hates Bates - check.

KristinaM · 22/10/2014 07:44

Point of information -there was no legal frame work for adoption in England until 1926. Children were just brought up by another family by private arrangement

So I think marigold was just given to the farmer along with some money to pay for her keep ( I assume )

OnlyLovers · 22/10/2014 09:02

I think Cora should run off with Richard E Grant. Lord 6 is unbearably pompous, and mean to her ('why would he want your opinion about the painting?' Tosser).

Rose's new beau is wet-looking.

Tom is a sweetheart and deserves a nice girlfriend.

I'm bored by Lady Mary and her many suitors. Also by Greene, Edith's baby and the farmers. But I think Edith ought to jack in the lot of them, go to London, become a high-flying editor and journalist and live a fast life of cocktail parties and scandal. Maybe that's what she was arranging for on the phone?

MorrisZapp · 22/10/2014 09:42

Couldn't agree more about Edith. Christ that girl needs a gin sling.

MindReader · 22/10/2014 10:42

No, Edith needs to tell farmer's wife to get knotted and take Marigold back! She brought her back from the far more organised sounding 'adoption' in Germany so I am sure she can deal with farmer and wife.

She should pitch up with her at Downton and tell them that Marigold is hers and is coming to live with her there. After all, her sister is shagging around, 'trying before she buys' sexually, the other sister had it off with the chauffeur before marriage, Dad was with the Maid, Mum and the picture valuer (I know not Cora's fault but Lord Stuffy doesn't believe it). Even Granny had a Russian affaire....

Go Edith!

Clawdy · 22/10/2014 10:48

Yes I agree Mindreader. I really dislike that farmer's wife,and now the farmer's getting a bit nasty. As you say "Go Edith!" Smile

AimlesslyPurposeful · 22/10/2014 11:14

But the Farmer's wife loves Marigold. She happily took in a child because her DH said she was the DD of a friend that had died and treated her like one of her own.

Edith has already taken Marigold away from one family. She told her Aunt that the German DM was upset but has another baby now. Now she wants to take her from another.

Yes, it's her DD and they should be together but she can't just rock up to the farm, tell the Farmer's DW to go fuck herself and take Marigold.

Would be better if she appealed to the F'sDW maternal side and told her the truth and then 'compensated' the couple. I think the F'sDW would then see that Marigold would have a better life than they could offer her and her other children would be better off too.

MindReader · 22/10/2014 11:18

I don't think that a tenant farmers wife would get to be so shirty with a Daughter of the Big House and get away with it.

I'm assuming she is supposed to think that Marigold is Edith and farmers child so that is why she is so nippy with Edith but, really....

I live in an area where there are lots of tenant farmers of Big Local Estates, and none of them would dare to be so rude to the Factor, yet alone one of The Family, and this is 2014...

I think this is the laziest writing to date from JF, by a country mile.
Where are the new plot turns???
Where are the sparkling one liners from Dame Maggie Smith?

Very disappointing Sad

MindReader · 22/10/2014 11:21

aimlessly

Yes, I agree that Edith should explain to FW that child is nowt to do with them (ie not Farmers!). She can then pay her for her childcare to date and take her daughter home. FW has no legal right to her at all.
FW gets reassurance re Farmer's involvement, money to help with her other children and sees that Edith will not get 'tired of her plaything' but is reclaiming her daughter!

Nessalina · 22/10/2014 11:29

Maybe Edith could get Bates to bump off the farmers wife for her?

I do feel like they've written themselves into a corner a bit with the Marigold situation... She can't very well steal her up to the big house without a wild mob of peasants with pitch forks showing up at the door Blush And it's a bit late to level with DFW now. Even if she nicks the bairn and flees to London, the police will surely get involved?? I don't think Edith thought it through very well... Being brought up by a farmer apparently means forever greasy hair and a snotty nose.

Definitely agree with the gin sling plan. Sod the child and go and have fun Edith!!

MindReader · 22/10/2014 11:42

Edith can do what she likes re the Farmers - they are only Tenants and Lord Snooty could have them Oot on their Ears faster than they could round up their other own kids if he wanted. The Family could build new houses all over the farm if they wished. They own the land and can kick anyone they choose off it, toot suite.

They have been paid to look after the child - that's all.
Pity the Farmer wasn't more honest with his wife.

LineRunner · 22/10/2014 12:50

If Gillingham turns nasty about the Mary Rejection, he may well remember that it was Mary who persuaded him to bin off Greene. Who then died. So Gillingham may well make trouble for Mary and everyone will think that Anna was at it with Greene and Bates will find the ghastly prophylactic and Anna can't let Mrs Hughes and Mary tell the truth be cause Bates will hang this time for sure.

MindReader · 22/10/2014 12:57

LineRunner - I think you have it there! Would at least be exciting, which the series could do with atm???

HoldMeCloserTonyDanza · 22/10/2014 16:36

They ought to have been honest with Mrs Farmer from the beginning. She's nice, there's no reason to think she couldn't be trusted.

I find the whole emotions/family thing of these sort of fosterings really fascinating. My grandmother was fostered (to childless family members, she wasn't the secret scion of an earl or anything) and she is almost the exact same age as Marigold.

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