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.

Did Edith phone the editor and tell him to come and say her fancy man was dead so she could take over the magazine and be able to support Marigold?

She had already signed some papers before he left

so he might not be dead after all

"Gillingham is going to turn out to be rather bonkers I reckon."

I don't think that he'd do his butler in on Lady M's say so though.

And would Greene have said "what are you doing here(?)"? to Gillingham?

No. But he would say it to Baxter.

I really don't think it's even vaguely plausible that the police would be investigating the death of a valet who fell under a bus with all the tenacity of the Warren Commission into the shooting of JFK. And there's only circumstantial evidence to pin it on Bates- they'd never get it to court.

I think he might Diddl, didn't take her rejection well did he? Mary would never have given him an inch if it meant Green coming anywhere near Anna. If he'd sacked Green he could still have talked.

A quick shove in the back. And he mightn't have actually done it himself, so much as paid someone else to do it.

The dogs upduffed I reckon.

I like that theory, LineRunner- she could have given him a shove in a blind rage? Bit of a coincidence she ends up at Downton afterwards. Handy though

Surely Mr Bates would take the blame before he let Anna swing?

I'm still pinning my hopes on Mrs Hughes getting it on with Carson - for all he's an old stick in the mud, he's the product of his time and upbringing, and has a soft side that I find rather sweet

For all DA is utter shite, we all seem to spend an awful lot of time watching it, or dissecting it

Yes BOF, but lots of people know about Anna by now.

Line what's your theory?

I agree the police interest is odd given the evidence they've got etc, but remember this is a JF production. The facts aren't relevant so much as the point the police are still investigating which means someone's going to swing. My money's on a mice Christmas Special guilty verdict.

It was a MOUSE?

nice

Not a jury made up of rodents

Shame. I was imagining hordes of them getting under his feet while singing "We will fix it, we will mend it..."
It would have made more sense than at lest half of Fellowes' scripts

I was thinking that one killed the valet. Country Mouse witnessed Anna's distress, and left with a wee knapsack for London, where her had some adventures and rounded up a tough gang of Town Mice.

I tell you, there's a spin-off right there.

Wouldn't work BOF you can't get cheesier than a JF script, there'd be none left for the mice.

BOF

Veer embarrassingly I cried when Edith got her DD back. Can't work out if it was Edith or the Farmer's wife I was crying about . I blame pregnancy hormones.

My theory is that there has to be a point to Baxter, an otherwise pointless character.

Do you think that the mice are somehow involved with the dog 'illness' too? Makes sense to me..

Ooh I like the idea that it was Baxter as he was the one she was stealing for.

Is the dog going to have to die just because it's called Isis?

Can't they just discover it's male & rename it/

(That wouldn't be the daftest thing to happen, would it??!!)

There are so many places to go with the mice though, cheese notwithstanding. One gets into the cottage and nibbles Lady Mary's diaphragm in a scandalous episode called Country Mouse And The Button Box...

They wouldn't need to rename the dog. They could just not refer to her by name. Just whistle for her and say 'Good dog,' or 'Good girl' or something.

Any ideas for the next dog name if Isis snuffs it?

I'd place a bet on Saddam or Osama.

But surely the dog scenes etc were filmed before ISIS were on telly. They can't kill her off retrospectively even in JF land.

Was Baxter nicking for Green? I missed that bit. Was it in her confesh sesh with Cora? I will go back and re-watch.

The mice could have brought Weils desease BOF

Anyway ISIS the ones in Syria should be changing THEIR name. Isis the dog has been Isis for what 5 years now. You can't just come along like Johnny come latelys and expect Great British drama to capitulate to name changing much loved dogs with fine arses.

The Baxter Conjecture is just speculation.