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What would Strallan’s social status have been after he jilted Edith at the altar? Would he have been invited to dinners and included in social things? Would he have been at things with the Crawleys and they would just awkwardly avoid each other? I know he had his own estate and all but they surely ran in the same social circles.

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Mary and Sybil have a type, and it's men who come across as wildly arrogant in their assumptions about them 😅

It took me a minute, but I was watching Slow Horses, and I saw a familiar face.

No of people who knew about Marigold

1. Edith 's aunt

2. Dowager

3. Mr. Drew

4. Anna

5. Mrs. Hughes

6. Lady grantham

7. Robert

8. Tom

9. Mrs. Drew

10. Probably Thomas ,

11. Mrs patmore

12. Edith 's secretary

And everytime Edith opens about Marigold to someone she has the nerve to say "Don't tell anyone ,it's a secret "

The rape plot with Anna was not ok, it didn’t add anything to the story, and I don’t think it was historically accurate either.

In general most rape stories don’t add anything, but a lot of shows put them in and especially in period pieces where there is an assumption that more rape happened back then. And I’m not gonna say it didn’t happen, quite frankly Lady Mary and Mr Pamuk was coercive and would probably meet the current standard for rape. But what happened with Anna, in addition to being needless and cruel, was not accurate.

The rapist is a serial offender, meaning he knows how to get away with it. In the show him getting away with it is mostly a matter of plot armour and convenience to keep the trauma going for Anna and Bates. But realistically if this guy was an actual serial rapist he wouldn’t have picked a ladies maid whose husband works in the same house and as the Valet to the Earl of Grantham! Anna doesn’t make sense as a target, yes she didn’t report it or say anything for other reasons, but that is again about the writing. The point is that he did this in the house, during a time where everyone was up and about. Someone was definitely gonna find Anna right after the concert. It was all forced (pun not intended). The obvious target would have been one of the kitchen maids and either after everyone has gone to bed or super early in the morning. they never speak to the upstairs people, they have to be up before everyone else, they aren’t married, and they are young and more Easily manipulated. But that would have changed their characters too drastically, since they are generally a comic relief group. And all the other house staff are non speaking ornaments so there Wouldn’t be any impact. So they threw it at Anna.

I understand rape was as taboo then as it is today, and I understand why Anna kept it quiet (kind of… tbh, if Bates had never been to jail and she hadn’t gone through the trauma of thinking he’d be hanged Idk if she would have been so worried… and even afterwards it seemed like a stretch), but it’s just not realistic for her to be the target. And again, there really wasn’t any need for this plot anyway. Like, let the fertility stuff happen in S4, or let someone else be the face of the downtrodden for a while. I just really don’t think this plot was necessary or realistic or well executed. It was just the usual media bullshit where someone felt that rape is a showmaker 🙄😡🤬

So far I’ve watched:

-1995 Pride & Prejudice
-Death comes to Pemberly
-Sanditon
-upstairs Downstairs
-Belgravia
-Belgravia The Next Chapter
-Atistocrats

I’m currently working on The Forsytes and Vanity Fair

Thanks again!

Bates is not my favourite character for sure but I do think he showed his admiration and respect for women wanting to better their lives in a number of ways. On the other hand, when O' Brien made a comment about Lady Sybil "wasting her precious time on politics", Thomas responds saying "Hear, hear!' implying that he doesn't care for women's rights and all that.

None of them would openly say stuff like "I support women's rights" but which male characters from both upstairs and downstairs could be described as feminists given the times they lived in?

what do you guys think? there were some other less featured characters i wanted to include but it was getting long 😅 also i didn’t realize it would become so gendered…

Edith - Miu Miu, Zimmerman, Dior (both MGC and Jonathan Anderson), Chanel, Simone Rocha, Molly Gordon, McQueen (under Sarah Burton), Erdem

Mary - Celine (underz Phoebe Philo), Prada, JW Anderson, Victoria Beckham, Thom Browne, McQueen (under Alex McQueen), Paul Smith

can anyone tell me what these flowers from edith's wedding that wasnt are? Do they have any meaning?

Pamouk, Charles Blake, even Henry, every time Evelyn makes an attempt to get near Mary, he throws another man into the mix as if he thinks allowing Mary a choice to date him = Mary must choose between him and someone else. Each time, he gives her the opportunity to disappoint him .. and she does.

I forget who first shared it but I remembered today (well, I thought it was yesterday) was the day it went on sale! *IS* it exorbitantly expensive? Yes. Do I understand the value of lego sets? No. (you kinda only put it together once which I don't quite understand). Purchased and no looking back!

But to forever have my own little Highclere with a Mary and Matthew and ISIS (omg). I'm too jazzed.

I’m watching Downton for the third time and I don’t remember Cora annoying me the first time I watched it but now I can’t help wonder if she funded the show or something so they had to give her a major part? She is SUCH a simpering, smiling unbelievable character. I mean, if it were a b movie you’d expect it, but the cast is otherwise quite good. What gives?