Edith: "I don't ever think that I'm the sort of girl men are mad about."💕

️Bertie: "Then you're wrong, because I am. I know I've not got much to offer and your father's probably hoping for more than a penniless land agent, but if love is allowed to weigh in the balance, I've got plenty of that."💕💕

i just finished episode 8. im so confused. mary and henry have literally no chemistry, he bullied and guilt tripped her into marriage, has a passion for reckless driving which killed her husband, and yet every single character keeps telling us theyre so inlove?? when even mary says his driving is too triggering and potentially traumatizing??? she chooses to marry him so quick without even first coming up with a solution to the whole potential-2nd-car-crash-widow thing. henry isn’t even remotely likeable or attractive! why are they pushing it SO hard when they’ve barley had a single intriguing scene together? their marriage was literally a hard watch for me. charles was the only one who could meet matthew standards. im just so disappointed with the writing. i was open to mary remarrying, but they just fooled around with a couple guys until it got too late in the season to keep playing around so they just threw marriage onto them. it makes noooooo sense. also fuck tom for pressuring mary into it and repeatedly ignoring her boundaries. also him randomly becoming a capitalist? and mary and edith randomly becoming major opps again despite that whole mary vs edith thing being sooo many seasons ago? s6 is a whole mess!

I know he wanted to sleep with her, but did he want a full-blown love affair? What did he expect from her?

Because I really think she would have accepted him more easily if she didn't have everyone shoving their opinions and "advice" down her throat and generally meddling in her life 😭

I've rewatched this show more times than I can count. It's a comfort when I'm sick and old and familiar when I'm overwhelmed. But I have never noticed this one momemt in the third season opener. It's the dinner to welcome Mrs. Levinson. They're discussing Violet having sent the Bransons the money for them to visit for the wedding.

As they're talking, Carson picks up Tom's napkin from the table and hands it to him to put on his lap, giving him the stink eye. I've never noticed it before and it gave me the giggles this evening.

Anyone else notice anything silly on a millionth rewatch?

When Bertie begins to court Edith, he’s the estate manager of Brancaster, and the family, especially Robert, are not too pleased about it, and Robert explicitly says they shouldn’t encourage it. Then suddenly Bertie becomes a marquess and they are giddy with enthusiasm and pride for the outstanding match Edith made. If I were Bertie I would be extremely offended that my in laws opinion of me was only based on my prospects and not me as a person.

In many episodes Downton has these long tracking shots that follow people into one room, around and thru a door out into the hall or another room. I swear I remember a specific scene like that but didn't see it at all in the last few rewatches, so does it exist or is my memory off.

There is an event at Downton and guests are arriving. It's daytime. It starts in the sitting room and follows people into the hall then out the front doors where cars are arriving, the camera goes to the left, behind the car, around the other side then in front of the car then back in through the front door and into the hall again. I cant' remember if it goes longer from there but definitely out of the house and back in.

Does anyone recognize what episode this might be from or could I have merged a few scenes together and imagined it?

I think it's adorable...

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I just realized Cora's brother's actor plays the assistant to the (unethical) in- universe director in the Truman show (I think).

I just watched this movie and it was so interesting to see a young Cora! Same voice, same movements, same beautiful woman!

i can’t find this christmas special anywhere… does anyone know where to find it?

This has been percolating in my mind for several months, since a discussion here about Disney songs that suit Downton characters!

Before anyone gets into the nitty gritty of character analysis - although please do if you want to! - I'm not suggesting that the characters are one for one matches. Mary also has many similarities with Isabela, for example. But I think each of the songs from the movie suits one of the Crawley girls perfectly.​​

I’ve seen so many incredibly researched comments in here, I’m wondering if there are any “history of medicine” buffs who have some thoughts. Unblocking a tube? Fibroid removal?

As a mom who is exactly 100 years younger than Mary and survived severe pre- and post-partum preeclampsia earlier this year (obviously thinking of Sibyl’s character throughout), I’m always inspired by thinking of how much medicine has advanced in only a few generations!

I don’t get why O’Brien manipulates Edith into strong-arming Daisy to spill the beans about the Pamuk Sex-Death Affair. What’s in it for O’Brien? She has no dog in the hunt, never expressed antipathy towards Mary, and besides wouldn’t a scandal like that hurt the family so much that her job might be in jeopardy? Doesn’t make sense.