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    #1412
    njs030
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭njs030


    Curlysue76 wrote: »
    Very disappointing ending. Goes to show if you be a b!tch you shall be rewarded. So wanted it to be other way around.

    Agree with this, very disappointed the little madam didn't get her comeuppance.


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    #1413
    bridgettedon
    Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭bridgettedon


    I hope the Christmas episode is all about Edith. I hope Bertie and her will get married. Edith deserves a happy ending. I thought it was a great episode. I'd hate to have Mary as a sister.


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    #1414
    Snoopy1
    Registered Users Posts: 4,185 ✭✭✭Snoopy1


    I so wanted Edith to be happy, and Mary to get her comeuppance
    Nearly fell off the sofa laughing though when Spratt turned up as the agony aunt


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    #1415
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    I missed the first few minutes of last night episode and when I saw the headline "British Marquis dies in Tangiers", I admit I thought it was the Dowager Duchess they were referring too. I felt sure her sudden trip to the Mediterranean would result in her sudden death.

    Surprised Barrow made a recovery. I felt sure he was a goner. Who else thinks Pratt will retire as Butler to write full time and the Dowager will take Barrow over as her Butler? He'd love that. She could be his gal-pal.

    Edith needs to find happiness in the Christmas Special but I predict tragedy befalling someone. Possibly his Lordship or the Dowager.

    No happy ending for Branson it seems.


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    #1416
    Snoopy1
    Registered Users Posts: 4,185 ✭✭✭Snoopy1


    This is what needs to happen Christmas episode
    Anna to have a girl who will eventually marry master George
    Moseley becomes a teacher and marries Baxter
    Daisy becomes a teacher, and possibly marries the other footman
    Mr mason marries Mrs pattmore
    Edith marries someone
    Tom finds someone
    The dowager and cousin Violet live together in harmony
    Aunt Rosamund adopts a baby
    And finally
    The dog theo finds love


    Not too much is it?


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    #1417
    Aimeee
    Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭Aimeee


    Where are you all watching downton? I'm An episode behind. Have been sky plussing tv3.


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    #1418
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,140 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Aimeee wrote: »
    Where are you all watching downton? I'm An episode behind. Have been sky plussing tv3.

    If you've a Freeview/Saorview setup, you can get more versions of ITV than you can shake a stick at.


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    #1419
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    spurious wrote: »
    If you've a Freeview/Saorview setup, you can get more versions of ITV than you can shake a stick at.

    As above and UPC supply very good broadband connections.


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    #1420
    Aimeee
    Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭Aimeee


    Ok I think I tried to watch it on utv/itv but it was clashing with something so I ended up with tv3 showing. All is explained. Thank you.


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    #1421
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    No, sorry, I cant be having that.

    I am a major defender of Lady Mary but she went too far this time. The Countess Dowager should have stormed through the door and given her the dressing down of a lifetime before being ex-communicated from the family for a period. Not married by the end of the week with the whole family gloriously wishing her well. Even Mr Talbot may have reconsidered after hearing of what she had done.

    I cant believe that the writers may have thought we would be all teary eyed watching Lady Mary swan off into the distance in a fairytale romance. I felt nothing as she left.



    I better get my fairytale finale at Christmas. Otherwise I will be harbouring a grudge against the makers of the programme for the rest of my like. Just like the Sopranos.


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    #1422
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    I think I can see a Spin-Off in the making with Lady Edith and the magazine.


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    #1423
    syklops
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    Snoopy1 wrote: »
    This is what needs to happen Christmas episode
    Anna to have a girl who will eventually marry master George
    Moseley becomes a teacher and marries Baxter
    Daisy becomes a teacher, and possibly marries the other footman
    Mr mason marries Mrs pattmore
    Edith marries someone
    Tom finds someone
    The dowager and cousin Violet live together in harmony
    Aunt Rosamund adopts a baby
    And finally
    The dog theo finds love


    Not too much is it?

    For 90 minutes on Stephens' Day? Just a tad...
    No, sorry, I cant be having that.

    Speaking of Richard Hillman, I forgot the episode was a 90 minuter and when Barrow was looking forlorn at 21:55 I was half expecting he was going to load up a couple of shotguns and go kill some people.
    Hamlet/Reservoir Dogs/The Departed
    style.

    I'm not ruling that out yet either.


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    #1424
    Asarlai
    Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    I'll miss Lady Mary, but I'll MISS Mr Barrow


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    #1425
    SillyBeans
    Registered Users Posts: 440 ✭✭SillyBeans


    Asarlai wrote:
    I'll miss Lady Mary, but I'll MISS Mr Barrow


    Stop it.


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    #1426
    alchemist33
    Registered Users Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Asarlai wrote: »
    I'll miss Lady Mary, but I'll MISS Mr Barrow
    SillyBeans wrote: »
    Stop it.

    This is a bit like watching Downton Abbey. I suspect you're both quite terribly fond of each other

    :p


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    #1427
    Snoopy1
    Registered Users Posts: 4,185 ✭✭✭Snoopy1


    Asarlai wrote: »
    I'll miss Lady Mary, but I'll MISS Mr Barrow

    Seriously do yourself a favour and stop it


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    #1428
    syklops
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    Asarlai wrote: »
    I'll miss Lady Mary, but I'll MISS Mr Barrow

    I'll miss Anna, but I definitely won't miss you.


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    #1429
    jos28
    Registered Users Posts: 7,189 ✭✭✭jos28


    Just caught up online and the stream finished abruptly. Not sure if I missed something. Was the final scene Edith watching the children running around the graveyard


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    #1430
    brian_t
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    jos28 wrote: »
    Just caught up online and the stream finished abruptly. Not sure if I missed something. Was the final scene Edith watching the children running around the graveyard

    Yes it was.


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    #1431
    jos28
    Registered Users Posts: 7,189 ✭✭✭jos28


    brian_t wrote: »
    Yes it was.

    Fairly sh1t ending so :( I hope they have something nice lined up for Edith in the Christmas special. Mary didn't deserve the happy ending :mad:


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    #1432
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    jos28 wrote: »
    I hope they have something nice lined up for Edith in the Christmas special.

    Me too.

    This would be nice :

    - Mary introduces her to a lovely fellow named Edward. Good looking, rich, great fun, a prince, eldest son of George, a king.
    - Fall madly in love. Nuptials about to be agreed.
    - Big Christmas get together, and meet-the-future-royal-inlaws planned to take place in Downton. Cue lots of downstairs preparations and excitement.
    - Branson hears that a friend he met in America, Wallis, from Pennsylvania, is now in London following a divorce, and invites her along to the party to help her make some new friends in England.


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    #1433
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    jos28 wrote: »
    Just caught up online and the stream finished abruptly. Not sure if I missed something. Was the final scene Edith watching the children running around the graveyard

    I was the same. I have checked on another stream and it did end that moment.


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    #1434
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,929 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    I kind of hated that ending. I really didn't want Mary to marry that guy. She seriously went too far with Edith too. I used to find her hatred of Edith quite funny but this series it's been quite nasty and blurting that out at breakfast was just too mean. I'm glad Tom tore strips off her for it, although all the scenes with Tom proved she has way more chemistry with him than with any of her suitors. Oh well, maybe the new hubby will be dead by Christmas and they'll finally let Mary and Tom be happy together :D

    I did like when Mary brought Master George up to see Thomas. She's not all bad. I laughed when she let Lord Grantham know it was his fault too.

    I can't tell if they're going to being Bertie back for Edith or just have her take Marigold to London and make a super cool life for themselves there while she drinks and smokes with her gal pals.


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    #1435
    thisistough
    Registered Users Posts: 394 ✭✭thisistough


    So sad for poor Edith :( was really hoping Bertie would arrive back at the end :( they'll hardly do it 2 years later will they?

    I was glad Mary got married though, agree that she was horrible but still!

    I'm hoping they don't kill off Carson at Christmas, I'm still trying to recover from Matthews death, that really ruined my Christmas that year


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    #1436
    jezzer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭jezzer


    Well, Mary proved to be an auld c*nt anyway, poor Edith, had she left marygold with that pig farming family she would be sitting pretty at the marquess of where-ever and would have trumped all of the granthams!!

    What would any of them do without Tom

    Sad for Barrow but we seen that coming a long time, but i was delighted for Mosley

    It was good of the family to give mrs miggins from the kitchen a dig out when needed, not an entirely bad bunch

    Yer man who married mary must want his head examined, lunatic


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    #1437
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,631 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    I wonder would they go the route of resolving what happened to Edith's last guy instead - Marigold's father. They left it open-ended, and it would be a different way to resolve her storyline. The Bertie guy seemed very put out by the lying, which is probably not in keeping with the time period. I think the illegitimate child would have bothered a marquis more.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    #1438
    njs030
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭njs030


    pinkypinky wrote: »
    I wonder would they go the route of resolving what happened to Edith's last guy instead - Marigold's father. They left it open-ended, and it would be a different way to resolve her storyline.

    It was resolved, he died during the war and Edith inherited the paper, flat etc.


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    #1439
    syklops
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    pinkypinky wrote: »
    I wonder would they go the route of resolving what happened to Edith's last guy instead - Marigold's father. They left it open-ended, and it would be a different way to resolve her storyline.

    Yeah wouldn't it be fun if he turned out to be head of the Luftwaffe?


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    #1440
    paulbok
    Registered Users Posts: 4,913 ✭✭✭paulbok


    Branson and Ediths editor to hook up anyone?


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    #1441
    jezzer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭jezzer


    paulbok wrote: »
    Branson and Ediths editor to hook up anyone?

    they never developed that plus she lives in london he is yorks, however i thought tom and mary would have made a fine couple


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