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.

Just a thought...

Lady Mary
Had a canary
Up the leg of her drawers...

I should not be reading this thread because I am in the States and we don't get this season/series until January so I have all sorts of spoilers now. I will watch, but increasingly they are all getting on my nerves except for Mrs. Hughes. I like Dr. Clarkson, too.

When did Barbara from the Royle family land in downton land??

Exactly Nugget! And talking about Maggie Smith's smalls. openly

I love her.

I actually don't know which one is Blake and which one is Gillingham.

With regard to all the mice references, there is a super book called mouston abbey that was in a sale in tesco the other week. Cheese jokes galore. If you have dc aged about 5 to 10 maybe you should keep an eye out for it.

If we run a book on the largest Downton posterior, can I put my wad on Carson's bum? Sorry to provoke further mind's eye gouging

Branson has a sizeable arse. I noticed it last season when he was leaning over to fix Citizen Bunting's car.

How likely was it that a school teacher in the 1920s could afford a car, btw? Anyway, she'd have been against car ownership in principle and marched everywhere in stout clogs humming The Red Flag.

She was a Headteacher (Headmistress in those days), limited, the one in South Riding also owned a car.

Did anyone note this line about Caprilli:
"rumours of his turbulent sentimental life with women of the high aristocracy"
JF missed a plot line there!

Way back someone asked about Bates' train ticket. I seem to remember it was half a ticket. Doesn't that just mean there was no-one at the barrier to take it off him when he got back from London?

All the fat bums seem to be male. Refreshing.

Gosford Park is really superior in a lot of ways to DA.

In Maggie Smith's character in particular.

It's just a bit more harsh, a bit more real, a bit less Sunday night drama.

It annoys me because Uncle Julian is clearly capable of nuance and sometimes it seems wholly absent from DA.

Except, as I've said numerous times on MN, Gosford Park is a film of two halves. Once Stephen Fry's comedy copper arrives it becomes absurd. I do live a lot if GF but it is spoiled by JF getting silly. Remember Maggie Smith's GF dowager's country blouses? Not white!

But Gosford Park is really more Robert Altman than Julian Fellowes. I think the two halves thing was more Altman. It's great film, though, one of my favorites.

Agree about Altman/Fellowes and the Stephen Fry character - just awful, what were they thinking of?

I don't think annoying schoolteacher was a headmistress, cheapskatemum. I certainly think she owed a lot to Sarah Burton, though! Not nearly as good a character, though. South Riding is one of my all-time favourite books and the early 70s TV adaptation is absolutely perfect if you ever get the chance to see it. Dorothy Tutin played Sarah and looked and sounded exactly right. Actually all the casting was spot on.

I theory I should love Gosford Park. But I don't. In fact I find parts of it unwatchable.

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Mabel thingy was saying at the point-to-point that she was 'staying with the Lawson's at Brough'... I am related to them on me dad's side but we are the poor relations!

My money's on Mrs Crawley & Lord M! Or Maggie & the Russian?!

New thread started HERE for when this one fills up

IS the Russian royalty? So the dowager countess would maintain her social rank above her friend Lady Merton .

We need that poster with a copy of Debrettes

He's a Prince isn't he? Is it like Narnia - once a Prince of Russia, always a Prince of Russia??

I was away last weekend and have just watched last week's in preparation for this weeks! Two things:

• Would LM have been able to compete side-saddle? I mean wouldn't all the astride riders have had such an advantage that no matter how good she was she'd have finished dead last? (I have no idea about horses)

-At the end I thought Baxter and Thomas were going to have a moment and he'd be "cured" after all

I don't know why Baxter was so nice to him when he's been nothing but an evil bastard to her