Love and Law

So, wow!  What an episode.  I have had to watch it again since there is so much going on and we sit there in reaction mode and miss a lot.  So, here is where I will start....

This episode, I love Robert.  Robert has revealed himself a true gentleman again.  I am glad he and Cora are made up.  Stark contrast to the other two older couples in the show.  I do like how prejudice was an equal opportunity offender in this show.  Some of the retorts of Atticus's mother were hilarious. As well as Cora.  I am impressed with the ability of the well-bred ladies to act well bred.  So three cheers for Robert, Cora and Mrs. Sinderby.

Adorable as always was Rose and now Atticus.  I want to make special mention of how absolutely beautiful, actually, flawless everything was. The house, the flowers the wardrobe were all just perfect.  Mary looked especially good.  Two things I didn't like were the bow tie for a wedding (silly!) and Edith's dress which wasn't terribly flattering...but that is just me.

Anyway, it was nice to see Edith back to herself and to see her enjoy her child.  I was glad that Robert put two and two together and she doesn't need to tell him.

The other big news!  ANNA!  What is the deal with the guy (the inspector) that he should take our Anna???  IS this some type of ploy?  Where are these witnesses coming from...I mean...I am not buying this whole thing and that they should be setting Anna up really upsets me.  Anna in a line-up!!  Anna in jail!!  Mary needs to help her.  I was glad for how they all reacted...but why didn't anyone go with her??  I mean!  ANNA!!


For the record, Anna might be the only real innocent person in the bloody place.  This whole thing is just wrong.

Next!  Tom???   He needs to stop talking about moving to America.  Figure it out Tom and stay put!  Let Sibby stay!  The idea of there not being "the brother" in the brood is too upsetting.  He needs to be there for them as evidenced at the luncheon prior to the wedding.  His level head is what was needed. Speaking of that incident, what kind of monster is her mother anyway, the miserable cuss!!  Poor Atticus.

But Daisy, who was cheering for that girl this weekend?  I am so proud of her and I hope that she is able to balance everything she wants.  I love how the world is now her oyster!  I also love the tender relationship between her and Mrs. Pattmore.  She has a surrogate mother and father.  She is a good girl and hilarious with her new angsty personality! "I feel so discontented and resentful..." love her.  The Molesly, Baxter, Daisy relationship is perfect.  But what will come of Alex?? Is he to be for Daisy.  He is better looking already.  Do I see even more downstairs weddings???

Granny and Isobel are like teenagers with these boys hanging around.  It has been fun to see them.

Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes....

Mr. Barrow is back to looking mighty fine. And what is this "Uncle Thomas" stuff.  He cracks me up!

I am not ready for a finale.  It makes me sad.

Forgive My Absence

Blame anything and everything but not me.  Please not me.  Oh, that sounds like Edith!

Well so here we are and I have 2 episodes to cover, is that right?

Okay, I am going to start with how annoyed I am with Mary reverting back to her nasty Maryiness.  Don't get me wrong, I love Mary but she has such a single-minded way at times that I find it inexcusable!  For example with Granny.  Granny has a moment of sentimentality, a moment of honest heart and Mary shames her for it??  Or Edith, for heaven sakes the women "lover" died!! Can she not show an ounce of compassion?  Or for Lord G's feelings!  Or for his former fiance's feelings? Even Anna, who has the patience of Job with her couldn't keep herself quiet during one of these moments.  This is not the Mary I like, nor is it the Mary I root for!  I think Charles Blake needs to break her of this and I think he can!  GO CHARLES!

Next annoying person; Mr. Bates.  I can not stand him and his sanctimonious stance. Do not be fooled by some one who looks for every opportunity to play the "misunderstood" or the victim.  To not believe our Anna....OUR ANNA...the lying snake that he is and I mean it, I think he is.  But to take her to task because YOU are untrustworthy and therefore everyone else must be really takes kahoonas!!  Anyway, he made Anna cry and now she is worried that they can't have kids and now she is going to want Marigold because nothing can be easy in Edith's world. (Wow! Guess I have been holding that in!)

And Edith.....OY!  But the troubles you make.  Go steal a child and run away.  But hide in an open place....(I would like to add here that my hero this season is Cora) so that everyone will find you. Ugh. I feel for her, I do, but UGH!  How much energy it must take to not come clean.

Cora.....she is acting the true Matriarch.  I am so impressed with her calm in the storm and perpetual class that I take back whatever I said before.  She is a true Mama bear ("Would you like to discuss this now in front of your new staff?? ba bam!)  Always compassionate and motherly, ("Lay her down beside me and then she will be surrounded by love") and always kind.

Someone had to die, I guess it will be Isis....was anyone else in tears, we were.  Robert broke my heart.

Tom cannot leave.  He cannot and I won't even discuss it. But I love that he said, "No, she had to go" about Miss Bunting...so he did get my letter after all!

Daisy needs a new dresser cause that peachy orange does not become her but I did like the little party that went to her former father in law.  Very sweet.  I hear wedding bells.

Speaking of wedding bells how about that proposal from Mr. Carson to Mrs. Hughes....he can't picture retirement without her.  Sweet.

Barrow seems on the mend and has found a touch of humility, that is always good.  I am glad that Baxter is a good person, she may make something of him yet.  Another teachable moment in our house, you cannot change what God intended you to be.  That whole thing made me very sad.  I think it tapped his self-loathing and his loneliness very well.

Oh, and Lord Merton and Isobell and I am ready to pummel those bums of sons of his.  I do like the feeling at the table that everyone was going to defend Isobell.

AND ROSE!  I love the name Atticus and he is so cute.  Marriage, marriage everywhere!!

 So much left out??

Crisis

Okay, whose crisis do we talk about first on this snowy day?  Cora and Robert, Edith, Tom, Mr. Barrow?

I'm going to go with Cora and Robert.  I am a little concerned with the explosive nature of Robert lately.  But, having said that I am glad he pummeled the interloper.  That man had nerve and Cora needed to be a little less accepting of his "arts"  haha!  Get it???  Okay.  Anyway, he was creepy and way more forward than he should have been but I think this is a good lesson for Robert. I think he is so angry with Cora because what Mr. Bricker said rang true and the truth hurts,  But what a stupid answer to give a grown woman "WE were playing a little game" to me that would just raise a red flag!  What kind of games do you two play!???!!

So, since I brought Edith into this I have to say that she is as  thick as a brick, that one! Let's see how many times she can do it her way and make things worse.  If she had just kept her head together at one moment along the way, she would have a very different life but she keeps making these dumb choices!  UGH!  I feel sorry for her but I also don't understand why she is forever stupid about things.  She is an intelligent girl and she needs to get some blasted confidence already!  GRRR!

Ok, enough on Edith.  Tom terrified me when I thought he was running after Miss Bunting.  I thought, NO NO NO NO NO!  But, I was so happy when he was just a gentleman who felt he had to end things right.  I hope this is the end but oh well, who knows with these writers.  Tom, though, had some of that honest gentleness that I really appreciated in the earlier episodes. And he bitterness is so opposite of what Sybil offered. "Don't you hate them too?" What kind of relationship is going to be built on that question.  So Sibby would always be a little rich girl in her eyes instead of the saving grace for the family that she is. Anyway, I was happy to see Tom back and I hope that he recognizes that he is loved and accepted by his family.  The moments with him and Robert and then him and Mary were so touching...we really have come a long way.

Onto Rose.  I love her. She is so darn sweet and so earnest!  I like how they have cleaned up her character a little.  What about that new man!  He is so cute.  I love the name Atticus.  I look forward to where this will lead.  We will see what Robert says when he finds out he is Jewish.  What a weird world to live in to have everyone just like you.  How utterly dull and limiting.

Ok.....very concerned about Barrow.  What is he playing at?  But again, so sad that he is going through this because the idea of being who he is is just too much anymore.  What a sad way to have to live.  I cannot help wonder what will happen but I hope he doesn't die in the process. What is the point of Downton without his smugness.  Who would torture Bates?

Speaking of Bates....that officer needs to lay off Anna!  And Bates is on my very last nerve.  So Barrow apparently tells the inspector that Baxter knows something so that she is put in the line of fire but all she did was see Mrs. Hughes with something in her hand.  I am finding this portion more than a little ridiculous.  Did Lord Gillingham say something?

Before I move to Lord Gillingham, how funny is Daisy?  She went from little field mouse to a roaring lion.  So glad she isn't going to get left behind!  Go Daisy!! (But do not try to fix up Tom and Miss Bunting!)

Okay, so I never got Lord G and Mary G last week.  I  would like to go on record as saying that Mary handed over power to him and he is not going to go away quietly.  He gave up his fiance for her.  (BTW, I like his former fiance! She is sassy and classy!!)  So, rest assured he will make some trouble as only an aristocratic gentleman who has been rebuffed can.  I would like to thank Downton Abbey for the talking point provided.  If you are going to give over power, you'd better know to whom! She didn't know Lord G and now she is going to find out.

On the other hand Charles Blake would not do that.  I think he is a man of the real world and that he would get over it sooner allowing for her to simply be a woman.  I like him.  He is more crass than Matthew but she is more herself with him.

The whole Carson. Hughes and Pattmore exchange was funny!  Just indulge him with compliments and he is appeased.  Such an ego that one.

One thing that I would like to point out is how the writers made a point of Mary and Violet noticing the rift between Cora and Robert. Impressive for Violet since she was so fixated on Isobel and Lord Merton.  (Those two are cute) and poor Dr.!

Ok, I am sure I forgot something!  Let me know by commenting.  YOU TOO ANONYMOUS!  :D