Downton Abbey pt.2

[Nessalina]

For continued waffling...

[diddl]

Perhaps Tom will leave in the Christmas ep.

There wouldn't really be a point to him leaving Sibby would there as she's not really an integral character.

Edith is surely going to give herself away as Marigold's mother.

Mary is so bloody self centred, trying to guilt Tom into staying.

and when Carson said that Gillingham wasn't good enough-a hint that someone "more titled" will be in the Christmas ep or next series?

it would be great for Edith to meet someone.

or better still for gregson to not really be dead!

[Davros]

Presumably Bates's mother was some Irish peasant. How did she have a house in London to leave to him?!

[AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves]

He's not Irish, is he? English petty bourgeois would be my guess.

[hildasmuriel]

He has an Irish accent, seem to remember his wife was Irish too.

[AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves]

How interesting, I'd forgotten the actor has an Irish name and I don't hear an Irish accent at all. Brendan Coyle grew up in Corby and had one Irish and one Scottish parent.

[JoanHickson]

The first Mrs Bates was also Katherine of Aragon.

Who is Mr Clooney going to be playing? A relative of Cora?

[ZingOfSeven]

evening all

is there another episode or was it the last one before Christmas one?

[BOFster]

It was the last one, Zing.

[Clawdy]

Last one.

[ZingOfSeven]

Thanks.

sorry not reading threads seeing as I'm a touch late arriving!

but I have to say I think Edith might decide to take Marigold to Boston when Tom goes.
and I hate Mary. she is such a bitch.

[boogiewoogie]

Tom and Mary are not going to get together and it makes no sense for them to suddenly fall in love. Even JF said so back in series 4. Matthew Goode is meant to join the cast to play a suitor for Mary at some stage. To be honest, I don't really care who Mary ends up with. George Clooney won't be in it either but is doing something Downton related for fundraising event according to the Radio Times.

[MirrorMirror]

I would prefer Tom to go to Boston and never be seen again to seeing him get together with Mary. He deserves much better.

[diddl]

I think that Matthew Goode is in the Christmas Ep-but yet another suitor for Mary?
Would be great for someone to see her for the bitch she is & tell her so.
Or prefer Edith!

It would make sense for Edith to go to America with Tom, but then there'd be no one much left!

Perhaps Tom will leave in the Christmas ep but be back sometime in the new series!

[LineRunner]

I was just looking up the surname Denker, as the character seems so pointless. Germanic/Dutch, Jewish. Just wondering if her story is actually heading somewhere.

[seasalt]

Brendan Coyle learned to act in Ireland so maybe he picked up a bit of an accent!

The thing with the photos - wouldn't a camera in those days have had a very loud flash bulb. I know Atticus was drunk but surely he would have noticed someone taking his picture?

[diddl]

"Just wondering if her story is actually heading somewhere."

Oooh! maybe she pushed Greene under the bus!!

[fancyanotherfez]

seasalt me and my DH were crying with laughter at that- he said they would have had to go in with one of those big box cameras and flash bulbs on a stick, so I had to google it during the programme. Apparently from about 1922, cameras were relatively small, with integral flash bulbs. The photographer just photographed her going in and coming out with her top adjusted.

Surely if Edith leaves, there will only be one Crawley child left at Downton, and the most unpleasant one at that! Wouldn't it have been better in that case to end the series if all the younger actors want to bugger off to Hollywood or whatever they are doing? Only Lily James seems to be making loads of films, the rest may as well have stayed!

[SheHasAWildHeart]

I really don't get the Greene murder plot line.
Green was seen arguing with someone before he was pushed under the bus. The police came to question Mr Bates. At no point was it mentioned this was a little blonde woman. So you would have thought they were talking to Bates based on info that it was a tall, well built man. Now they get another witness saying it's a small woman. What?!

[tribpot]

Plus apparently now other women he attacked have come forward. So surely the suspect pool has just increased dramatically?

[ZingOfSeven]

maybe Revenge writers helped with some of the plot lines?

[diddl]

Isn't all just a ruse to get Bates to confess?

[Hakluyt]

Why has Thomas stopped being evil incarnate?

I can't look at Lady Sinderby without thinking about the glorious Cordelia Flyte and it make me sad.

[ZingOfSeven]

I think Thomas is just happy to be alive and not in pain/fear.

[seasalt]

Hakluyt I was wondering where I knew her from! She has aged really well.

I thought it was lovely to see Thomas smiling, he is gorgeous!

[SheHasAWildHeart]

Thomas is gorgeous and I think that if he was to find love he'd become a better person.