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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes that brings up, what's Edith to do? I mean, if she 
'fesses up and takes her child back now, the kid would feel ripped away from her parents.  It's sort of too late…if her lover comes back and they successfully deal with the legalities, I'm sure Edith would demand that Marigold come back.

Interesting that DHs watch with some of you.  My DH hates this show for a few reasons.  One is that it's so slow moving ("it's like watching a rock garden, then everyone gets excited when a rock moves an inch."

But more interesting to me is that he is so annoyed by the fakery of it all.  He is very much a history buff, (so besides the crazy timeline problems) he doesn't like the "enlightened" way the characters act.  For instance, the Tom storyline.  He says IRL Tom would not be so well-spoken and gentlemanly, and there is no way he'd be welcomed into the Downton Upstairs fold.  It just didn't happen.  He cited someone (Prince Ferdinand or Franz Joseph? I'll have to check) who married someone named Sofia/Sophia who was from an upper crust family but not upper crust enough, and how she was excluded at events etc.[/quote]

Just tell him to lighten up. It's a trashy soap like Dynasty or Falcon Crest. Just with better costumes. No one thinks it's "art."[/quote]

[b]Wait...what?  Dynasty and Falcon Crest weren't art?[/b][/quote]

No, they were HIGH art!
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/DynastyCast-Season6-1985-1986.jpg[/img][/quote]

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