Downton Thread 3 - 11 October

[katemiddletonsothermum]

Am starting another thread because the last one had 12 pages.

Wowzers, 17 minutes to go. What will happen? Will Mr and Mrs Carson be able to look each other in the eye? Will Daisy finally stop being annoying? Will Edith finally become the Pope?

ohhhhhhhhhhhh........

So true.

Similar I thought to Baxter being called as a trial witness. Lots of hand wringing over two episodes and then suddenly 'actually Baxter you don't need to appear. let's go home and have some tea'.

If It was on Channel 4 though there'd be a lot of gritty sex scenes up against pig pens. Probably between Daisy and her FIL. And Thomas would defintely get his man from time to time.

at the thought of Daisy shagging her FIL. Though he wasn't above shagging younger women in This Life and engaging in water sports on Shameless.

How many episodes are left?

I can't help but think it's going to just limp on creating storylines and solving them immediately until the last credits!

I know I'm late to the party but I feel cheated of the awkward but tender Carson wedding night scene. CHEATED.

In other news. Great to see Edith get a bit of action! But Mary flirting with a boy racer when her beloved Matthew died in a car accident is simply ridiculous.

Other romantic speculations... Mr Mason and Mrs Patmore? Is Andy's hostility to Barrow down to repressed homosexuality? Maybe they'll bond during the secret reading lessons.

Oh and couldn't really care less about Robert. #sorrynotsorry

What did Mary hear between her mother and GM to make her realise about Marigold?

I hope they got s servant to wipe the blood and sputum off those tiaras before they went to the hospital

I can't remember exactly but it was a brief comment from Violet, something like 'don't worry I won't tell them about Marigold'.

Thank you, Squoosh!

squoosh Imagine having the presence of mind to say 'oh darling if I die just now I've loved you veh veh much' rather than 'what the fuck! someone fucking save me!'

You're all heart

The comment about Marigold came after a reference to keeping secrets I think.

Chamberlain had a cracking moustache. Though yuck at the mess of eating a soft boiled egg.

Branson popping about with his cheery positive comments to every one was a hoot.

Wonderful tosh levels I thought.

I reckon, with the way this series is going, Mary will just say "oh well, it's 19xx these things happen" and it will all be forgotten.

I nearly turned it off last night, after the court appearance that never was, but it seems wrong not to stick it out to the end, just in case I miss something. Although that seems increasingly unlikely.

Everyone was remarkably stoic and calm after Lord G's incident! Lady G and her mother in law having calm little chit chats about local matters as they put their coats on.

No need to stress yourselves out dears, your husband/son only exploded his guts all over the fish course in a tsunami of blood!

And ulcer matter

Late to this, sorry.

The Ulcer Scene! 0:

Can Ulcers 'explode' like that???? I need to know.

squoosh I too thought it was vair silly for Lady G and Mother to be having silly chit chats re local matters whilst Lord G is stretchered out, having left much of his insides on the tablecloth.

Also silly re Mary realising about Marigold and asking Anna on night her Father nearly dies...

But it is silly and that's one of the reasons I love it.

Hope they filmed the volcanic ulcer eruption in one take. Imagine if someone had sneezed or burst out laughing just as the blood was in full splurt.

Anyone else remember "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down"? Branson has become a Weeble

It scared me watching the ulcer scene- blimey!
Gross!
Agree it was odd that Cora and violet would still be discussing the hospital business in the immediate aftermath very clunky way of outing Marigold but glad that's finally out now.
I really want a good ending for Edith with her new beau and dd in London. I would like happiness for Thomas but I think he's on his way out now.

Fiderer - the 'silly' bits I like are the waltzing around Café de Paris and the shooting lunches and the dogs/pigs/servants (in that order, seemingly!)

but I find it annoying when the plot is so badly put together and the characters are made to do / say / react in unlikely ways.

I realise that, given the whole stiff upper lip thing, that Lady G and The Dowager Countess would not have been rending their clothing and ululating but it seems odd that they would have carried on as normal, considering the spectacular vomiting of insides across dinner table with top Politico at helm?

Politico could have mopped up all the insides with that moustache

The whole pace is v much cramming in everything to get it all done so itsallatagallop.

: 'I do apologise Lord G, I seem to have got your entrails entangled in my moustache, what, what...'

Yes, to itsallatagallop.

Twas MUCH better in series 1 and 2

Ah well, we'll always have Paris the DVDs.

I'll miss these threads though, half the fun of watching was coming here to read what others thought of Matthew's Tingle, Lord 6/FattyBumBum, Mary's Eyebrows, Evil Thomas, Giant Baby Sybil and many others.

'I do apologise Lord G, I seem to have got your entrails entangled in my moustache, what, what...'

I kept trying to place the actor who was playing Chamberlain. So familiar. Probably a staple from Poirot/Foyle's War.

Anyone else remember "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down"? Branson has become a Weeble

I've never heard of Weebles before but there's certainly a strong family resemblance! Last night I was calling him Tweedle Dum(b).

You are right about Chamberlain squoosh!

Rupert Frazer

Isn't the Andy not reading storyline exactly the same as Daisy not being able to read? Why did Barrow not just say, Whatisface can teach you, just like he taught Daisy last year?

Because maybe they're gearing up for Thomas to finally get some action?! (May just be wishing thinking of course!)