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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I stopped watching about 15 minutes in.  I think the show should have stopped running a season or two ago.

First of all, I just couldn't get into, "OMG, Lady Grantham will have no one to dress her, the horror!!!"  But whatever, perhaps that was a crisis in 1920's upper class England.

But beyond that, there simply would not have been the interaction or personal relationships between the help and the nobility in that time period in England.

And for PPs who will say "but those people worked in their homes for X years, of course, they got to know them," you don't know anything about British upper class culture then or now.

So, as a period piece, it fails on so many levels.

There's very little character development.  I mean, most of the characters are pretty much the same with the same problems as they were first season.  Even the estate has the same problem:  Who will run it?  It's like there's no real story arc, just kind of an eternal return to the same themes.

I don't know if I'll continue with it.  I think it should have been just a 1 or 2 season show.

Flame away![/quote]

I agree with you that the plot lines fell flat and that they are re-hashing dreary story lines like who will run Downton, but I do disagree with your characterization of relationships between servants and masters, e.g., here's the autobiography of the lady's maid to Lady Astor:
http://www.amazon.com/Rose-Life-Service-Lady-Astor/dp/0143120867

Most probably weren't chummy-chummy relationships, but at the same time, the writers of DA need to be more consistent.  Last season, Lord Grantham is going out of his way to protect Thomas last season when it comes out that he's gay--which would probably NOT have happened at the time.  Then this season, Lady Grantham is ready to believe that a woman who helped her move a dead body in season 1 to protect the honor of her daughter would have purposely ruined some clothing out of jealousy of her new maid.  REALLY?[/quote]

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