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[2012] Downton Abbey

I was actually glad to see Shirley McLain go. I really looked forward to her confrontation with Maggie Smith, and there wasn't much to it--and I didn't think Shirley did a good job with what there was. I didn't know she'd had recent plastic surgery, but whatever the cause, she's lookin' rough.

Best Buy currently has this season on sale for $24.99 for the non-blue ray format ($29.99 for the blue ray). Yesterday we broke down and bought it, so we can watch when we want to. We're heading to Mexico and I suspect we'll watch all of it there. I promise not to come back and comment though.
 
I missed that part. How did they get rid of Shirley?
 
Patri said:
I missed that part. How did they get rid of Shirley?
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She just went back home to the U.S., I think. She was there just for a short visit and maybe for Mary's wedding. I can't remember if she was at the wedding, but I think she was.
 
If you've already seen this week's episode and understand Facebook, you'll get a big kick out of If Downton Abbey took place entirely on Facebook. But DON'T CLICK ON IT if you haven't seen this week's show yet - it's chockful of spoilers!
 
Sue, that FB post was hilarious! Thanks for posting.
 
I've just been told, I don't care how exciting the Super Bowl game may be tomorrow night....we are not missing Downton Abbey! Looks like I will be loosing control of the remote again!
 
With the power outage and delay of the Super Bowl, it was nearly a coin flip to see which would get watched and which would be recorded. In the end, the football game ended with about 15 minutes to spare before the beginning of Downton Abbey here in Mountain Time. We got to see both in real time.

It was good to see some of the sub-plots starting to be resolved for this season. We all knew that Bates would be exonerated and Lord and Lady Grantham would be back in good graces before seasons end but didn't know how. And somehow I speculate about the formerly disgraced young lady who finds herself in the Crowley household and the former chauffeur in need of a spouse and mother for his daughter.......

Plenty of grist for a season 4 mill.
 
Now that we finally got the new TV fixed, we love it. We've been streaming Downton Abbey and love it as well.
 
SueDonJ said:
If you've already seen this week's episode and understand Facebook, you'll get a big kick out of If Downton Abbey took place entirely on Facebook. But DON'T CLICK ON IT if you haven't seen this week's show yet - it's chockful of spoilers!
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This is great! I clicked underneath this episode and went back to an earlier one; no time yet to keep going back to read them all, but I look forward to it!

:whoopie::whoopie:
 
Passepartout said:
With the power outage and delay of the Super Bowl,....We got to see both in real time.

As I had been told earlier, I surrendered the remote for Downton Abbey but the 35 minute outage on the field was during 'Abbey' time so I got to see all but a half an hour of the game and a good episode of the series. It all worked out well for me!
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Passepartout said:
And somehow I speculate about the formerly disgraced young lady who finds herself in the Crowley household and the former chauffeur in need of a spouse and mother for his daughter.......
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Ahh, yes. And they will have to forgive her past. Such drama.
 
Final episode tomorrow- can't wait! Last episode was OK but I thought the way they handled the Thomas situation made no sense. They went from one extreme to the other- "We hate you" to "We love you and here's a promotion". Seemed not to ring true at all.

The finale will have to be good to improve on this.
tlwmkw
 
We finally get to see something before the Brits. Last week's 2 hour show was the finale in Great Britain and tomorrow's is going to be the 'Christmas' show in GB while it's our season finale.

I hope for some more believable story lines henceforth. The Bates saga dragged far too long, Thomas gets promoted apparently because His Lordship got kissed at prep school, and O'Brien slipped on her own bar of soap.

Months to wait and speculate.

Maggie Smith will be on 60 Minutes tomorrow.

Party like it's 1921!
 
tlwmkw said:
Final episode tomorrow- can't wait! Last episode was OK but I thought the way they handled the Thomas situation made no sense. They went from one extreme to the other- "We hate you" to "We love you and here's a promotion". Seemed not to ring true at all.

The finale will have to be good to improve on this.
tlwmkw
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I liked last week's episode, but I agree about the turnaround on Thomas. It was strange. I understand Jim's explanation, but still I'd have expected neutrality at best. The future Thomas-James interaction will be odd, if James stays on the show.

Thanks for the heads-up on Dame Maggie, Jim!
 
tlwmkw said:
Final episode tomorrow- can't wait!
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Bummer! Can't believe the season is already over. It doesn't seem like it lasted very long.
 
Passepartout said:
We finally get to see something before the Brits. Last week's 2 hour show was the finale in Great Britain and tomorrow's is going to be the 'Christmas' show in GB while it's our season finale....
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I don't think we will get the jump on the Brits. A second Downton Abbey "Christmas Special" (the actual title is mildly revealing) was released on Amazon.uk Dec. 26. I presume that this release date was after the show had been aired for Christmas.

The general sequence is each year's episodes are shown in Briton in the fall and then in the US starting in January. The DVD's for each season are released in Britain late November for Christmas sales (but the American release has to be delayed until the shows have been aired here). The last two years there have been Christmas specials. The Brits have to buy those DVD's separately. (If they were included with the November release, they would be available on DVD's before their actual Christmas showing.)
 
Not a Spoiler....

The 60 minutes was good. It was really interesting to see Maggie Smith in many of her earlier roles :)

But aaaaakkkkk, what an ending to the Downton season.

Last year (I think it was last year) someone was suggesting another series - kind of "If you like Downton Abby you'll like this one". I just read through the whole thread and can't find it. Anyone remember?

PJ
 
pjrose said:
Last year (I think it was last year) someone was suggesting another series - kind of "If you like Downton Abby you'll like this one". I just read through the whole thread and can't find it. Anyone remember?

PJ
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I think it might be "Call The Midwife" which starts up again in March, I think. It is excellent.

. . . And I'm just heartbroken over the finale of Downton Abbey.
 
What a DUMB ending. Lose a lady, then a man, in similar situations. It's as if the writers have a mental block. I'm trying to get DH interested in this series, but he won't care about such a contrived cliff-hanger.

I also wonder what people who truly lived the Downton Abbey lifestyle ever did during the day? These characters stand around and talk, and they eat. It's a wonder they aren't all obese. (And then some of the ones who actually work, the servants, are overweight!)
 
Unfortunately I knew what happened as one of the other message boards I frequent, a Brit added the spoiler, while the rest of us, including the folks on the continent hadn't seen S3. I believe it shows in the UK in September.

I've read a lot of novels, biographies from the Downton timeframe and those folks would be outside "doing something" if the weather was nice. Walking, playing tennis, hunting, etc. Probably goes back to nanny thinking fresh air was important.
 
SPOILER BELOW IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE 2/17 EPISODE.












I knew, too, because of the spoiler that I mentioned earlier in this thread. Roger had posted a link to an interesting article about another similar show from England that we might like. The article had links underneath it to others and I clicked on one from Vanity magazine that was supposedly about the period fashions. Then BAM! Three lines in, "Dan's character, Matthew Crawley, was killed in a car crash during the Season 3 finale which aired Christmas Day in Britain, despite his being named as Britain's best-dressed man." (Or something very close to that but equally stupid - in content and form.) WHAT?!?! Why did you have to include THAT in an article about fashion?!?! GRRRRRR!!!!!

Then I fumbled all over creation trying to warn about that spoiler. If any of you thought Roger posted it on purpose PLEASE don't blame him - it was about as innocent as could be. Whoever knew spoilers can come out of left field like that?!?!

So THEN, what, a week later? They killed off Sybil! At that point I figured we'd be lucky if any of the cast survived through the end of the season. :rolleyes: :rofl:
 
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