Anonymous
Post 03/08/2016 09:44     Subject: Downton Abbey - No spoilers!!
Anonymous wrote:I don't like the tidiness of how everything wrapped up, but I can't say it was surprising.

You're dying, sorry. Yes, we're sure. Oh wait- you're NOT dying!

Here's a girlfriend for you and a boyfriend for YOU and YOU! (Not so fast, Thomas). And a husband for you! And a wife for you! Did we forget anyone?

Everybody stuck in a soul sucking job or losing their job? Here's your dream job! And you sliced your wrist over this- tsk. No faith in the writers.

Anyone have a job others disapprove of? Three of you? Now you couldn't make them prouder!

Everyone who hates someone else- you're besties now! Kiss up!

Anyone want a baby? Here you go! One for you and you.

Shameful secret? Everyone knows now and guess what. Despite the times they love you more for it! Soak up the compliments!


This is great! I still liked the finale, though.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2016 09:42     Subject: Downton Abbey - No spoilers!!
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:I think poor Edith has just gotten so used to things not going her way that she immediately accepted it. She doesn't have the self-esteem to fight for herself.


I feel no pity for Edith. She all ready has left her child with two different families and removed her without a second thought once she was bonded. And she deliberately destroyed Mary's life without a second thought in the first season.


Yeah, Sybil was the only truly likable sister.


What did Edith do to destroy Mary's life in the first season? I don't remember it.


Didn't edith send an anonymous letter to a paper or an embassy about Mary and the Pamuk guy who died in her bed?


She sent a letter to the Turkish Embassy. I don't know if it was anonymous.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2016 09:41     Subject: Downton Abbey - No spoilers!!
Anonymous wrote:PP with the "one for you and you" --you are hilarious and yes you are totally correct.

However; I still loved it. All of it. So happy for Mrs. Patmore.

However; I can't believe that the fine Dr. did not end up with Isobel! I guess I was delusional; I thought she was going to come around to him, not Lord Merton.


I think Isobel and Dr Clarkson are much more alike but would have a very dry marriage of peers. Lord Merton is a pushover but lovely and madly in love with Isobel. I think they will have more of a yin/yang marriage.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2016 09:39     Subject: Downton Abbey - No spoilers!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think poor Edith has just gotten so used to things not going her way that she immediately accepted it. She doesn't have the self-esteem to fight for herself.


I feel no pity for Edith. She all ready has left her child with two different families and removed her without a second thought once she was bonded. And she deliberately destroyed Mary's life without a second thought in the first season.


Yeah, Sybil was the only truly likable sister.


What did Edith do to destroy Mary's life in the first season? I don't remember it.


Didn't edith send an anonymous letter to a paper or an embassy about Mary and the Pamuk guy who died in her bed?
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2016 09:34     Subject: Downton Abbey - No spoilers!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think poor Edith has just gotten so used to things not going her way that she immediately accepted it. She doesn't have the self-esteem to fight for herself.


I feel no pity for Edith. She all ready has left her child with two different families and removed her without a second thought once she was bonded. And she deliberately destroyed Mary's life without a second thought in the first season.


Yeah, Sybil was the only truly likable sister.


What did Edith do to destroy Mary's life in the first season? I don't remember it.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2016 09:24     Subject: Downton Abbey - No spoilers!!
Anonymous wrote:PP with the "one for you and you" --you are hilarious and yes you are totally correct.

However; I still loved it. All of it. So happy for Mrs. Patmore.

However; I can't believe that the fine Dr. did not end up with Isobel! I guess I was delusional; I thought she was going to come around to him, not Lord Merton.


Same here. I thought that Isobel and the dr would end up together. I didn't think she liked Lord Merton. I did like how she and ? Busted him out of that house .
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2016 23:05     Subject: Downton Abbey - No spoilers!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The endings were predictable but I still loved it.

I thought Lord Merton was being poisoned by the DIL, though!


I did too.


Me too!

I also was totally convinced Gregson (now a Nazi or something equally nefarious) was going to reappear in Edith's London flat when she had a guy over (either Berdie or Henry), and that Mary was going to help her kill him and dump his body on the new pig farm or something ridiculous. Clearly I was looking for a more dramatic ending!! Gregson's "death" was far too vague...
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2016 22:35     Subject: Downton Abbey - No spoilers!!
PP with the "one for you and you" --you are hilarious and yes you are totally correct.

However; I still loved it. All of it. So happy for Mrs. Patmore.

However; I can't believe that the fine Dr. did not end up with Isobel! I guess I was delusional; I thought she was going to come around to him, not Lord Merton.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2016 22:31     Subject: Downton Abbey - No spoilers!!
Loved the ending. I hope there is a reunion show in the works!
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2016 22:26     Subject: Downton Abbey - NO spoilers!!
Anonymous wrote:Ps--I have to say I'm glad Branson left Boston. I was feeling badly for him being in the car sales business with the depression about to hit. His cousin is going to lose his shirt, unless he's bootlegging on the side.

I've always thought it was funny how Branson the radical turned into Branson the country gentleman, though. I think he wasn't well cast as a radical. Or maybe he's like one of those people that take all the socialist classes in college but then get a middle managent job and a house in the suburbs....(which is sort of me, I admit).


This was what, three generations after the potato famine when the English landholders starved the Irish to death. The fact that he gave up being a radical is disappointing and not what a true, self respecting Irishman would have done.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2016 21:38     Subject: Downton Abbey - No spoilers!!
Anonymous wrote:It was a cute ending. I've heard rumors they may do a tv movie down the road, would be nice!


I'd love to see a future miniseries set around WWII, focusing on the younger generation.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2016 21:16     Subject: Downton Abbey - No spoilers!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't like the tidiness of how everything wrapped up, but I can't say it was surprising.

You're dying, sorry. Yes, we're sure. Oh wait- you're NOT dying!

Here's a girlfriend for you and a boyfriend for YOU and YOU! (Not so fast, Thomas). And a husband for you! And a wife for you! Did we forget anyone?

Everybody stuck in a soul sucking job or losing their job? Here's your dream job! And you sliced your wrist over this- tsk. No faith in the writers.

Anyone have a job others disapprove of? Three of you? Now you couldn't make them prouder!

Everyone who hates someone else- you're besties now! Kiss up!

Anyone want a baby? Here you go! One for you and you.

Shameful secret? Everyone knows now and guess what. Despite the times they love you more for it! Soak up the compliments!




But I'm happy with the confectionary ending, and SO happy Edith gets a happy ending. I teared up at the scene with Isobel and Lord M when he said, "I would have like to have married you."

Is Tom in love with Henry or what??!


Yes on both counts! I thought Lord M's original proposal was really sweet too.

And Tom+Henry = Bromance. More chemistry than Mary and Henry, lol.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2016 16:01     Subject: Downton Abbey - No spoilers!!
It was a cute ending. I've heard rumors they may do a tv movie down the road, would be nice!
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2016 15:33     Subject: Re:Downton Abbey - No spoilers!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I kind of liked the symmetry of Barrow being to young George what Carson was to Mary as a child.


Nice point!


Yes, well done! I hadn't thought of that!
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2016 15:17     Subject: Re:Downton Abbey - No spoilers!!
Anonymous wrote:I kind of liked the symmetry of Barrow being to young George what Carson was to Mary as a child.


Nice point!