Anonymous
Post 02/10/2014 23:21     Subject: Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

Is the storyline with Rose and the singer totally unrealistic? Would an interracial relationship have even been possible at that time?
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2014 21:56     Subject: Re:Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

Anonymous wrote:These are interesting theories, but what I can't figure out is why he told Matthew about his wife on that hunting trip. If he was just scamming Edith, why tell Matthew, who was sure to advise Edith to dump him?


Gregson told Matthew to reinforce his back story with Edith. I can't imagine how Gregson disappeared in Munich and no one-- including his office--has heard from him. Maybe his office is just telling Edith they haven't heard from him. Hmmh.

I thought it was very enlightened of Matthew not to shun Mary after she told him about Mr. Pamuk. I think she got a real sexual education during her brief time with Matthew. Although I still remember laughing when she had some sort of medical procedure done and Matthew clearly wanted to have sex. She said she was "untidy." I now say that to DH!
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2014 16:28     Subject: Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

Does anyone else think that Gregson was a German agent who went "home" and that the wife never existed?


This is a really, really interesting idea.


This crossed my mind too, but, I've gotta believe Edith isn't going to end up getting dumped yet again. Please tell me that Gregson will turn up and marry her.

Loved Robert kissing Isis before he set off for America.

Mary had some great lines this week -- she's at her best when she's allowed to deploy a dry wit;
example:

Robert: Why would Thomas want to accompany me on my voyage to America?

Mary: He'll have the handsome stewards to ogle.

Robert: How do you know of such things?

Mary: I've been married; I know everything.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2014 16:24     Subject: Re:Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

These are interesting theories, but what I can't figure out is why he told Matthew about his wife on that hunting trip. If he was just scamming Edith, why tell Matthew, who was sure to advise Edith to dump him?
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2014 16:19     Subject: Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

Anonymous wrote:

Does anyone else think that Gregson was a German agent who went "home" and that the wife never existed?


This is a really, really interesting idea.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2014 15:48     Subject: Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Not sure what Gregson is but I never thought a wife existed. He played Edith to get her to sign the mystery document



but what would the mystery document be?


Taking on a huge amount of debt maybe? He proved during the gambling episode that he knows how to cheat people.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2014 15:23     Subject: Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

Cora looks like a Jack-O-Lantern when she smiles.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2014 14:54     Subject: Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

Anonymous wrote:Not sure what Gregson is but I never thought a wife existed. He played Edith to get her to sign the mystery document



but what would the mystery document be?
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2014 09:26     Subject: Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

Not sure what Gregson is but I never thought a wife existed. He played Edith to get her to sign the mystery document
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2014 07:08     Subject: Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

It's already up on the PBS.org app. Watched it when I was up with a stuffy head.

To answer pp's question, I strongly suspect Tom will end up with that woman, as this season has been the season of anvils. (I am completely unspoilered, so,I have no actual knowledge)

Does anyone else think that Gregson was a German agent who went "home" and that the wife never existed?
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2014 22:40     Subject: Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

Please give me more. I missed tonight's episode and can't watch online until tomorrow. Thanks
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2014 22:05     Subject: Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

This episode was better.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2014 22:03     Subject: Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

Poor Edith. I'm happy she decided to keep the baby.

Cora is growing more and more annoying by the week. So much drama in everything she says.

Bates is going to head back to jail.

Mary and the pigs - I think it for her personality perfectly.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2014 21:55     Subject: Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

Ok, OP here. Relieved all around. But in agony over having to wait to find out what Bates does with that rapist in the house.

Ivy needs to just go away.

Blake is looking better this week! Hero of the pigs.

Is Tom going to wind up with that woman he sat next to at the political speech?

I wish something good would happen to Edith already.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2014 21:28     Subject: Downton Abbey -- Feb 9 episode SPOILER ALERT!!!

Please tell me that Isobel is not going to fall asleep while taking care of Violet, and as a result Violet dies!!

Edith abortion? Poor Edith.