Look, I’m not prepared to die in a ditch on this one. I might be wrong. But in my gazillionth re-watch, I had the sense that she didn’t just want to release Matthew. She wanted to excuse herself.
Am I crazy?
Above all the other totally wrong ideas and choices Robert wet has made concerning business. The unmitigated gaul of him to question the validity of Matthews will, is a bit much. After all Matthew is a lawyer. Wouldn't he know what he was doing? To insist Murray look over the document is insulting. Although I completely understand why he fought what it meant, that was a terribly high hill to die on when he had no real legal understanding. And die, he did.
We never really got an idea how rich the Levinsons are in the show.
They must be much richer than the Crawleys because merely Cora's dowry (which couldn't have been TOO substantial a part of the Levinson fortune, since it's unlikely that Cora's father would give away half or most of his fortune just to marry off his daughter) IS a substantial part of the Crawley Estate.
And then Mary and Violet have hope that Mrs. Levinson has so much money that she can quite easily bail out Downton again.
But then Harold seems to lose most of the fortune quite quickly in the stock market crash of 29 and a few bad investments, even though it's apparently all tied down in a trust as Mrs. Levinson claims to Violet?
But then Gus Sambrook must be fabulously weathly if he's managed to steal the Levinson fortune, which makes it strange that he's still trying to run his con.
What was the point in talbot…. Put a whole series into them getting together for.. a 3 second appearance in one film… seems like a whole wasted season imo
There’s usually some mentions of past characters left or dead… apart from o Brian…ngl would of been cool for her to pop up in a movie maybe black mail him over his relationship with the actor
But there’s not one mention of her specifically
Jus a minor point unwise lady Merton had got with the Dr they had much more chemistry
Finished the whole series and all movies and my as a man I’m not afraid to say the end killed me off 😭
Watching her death as a pregnant woman is something else, let me tell you.
What would she have gotten out of it if they continued?
A raise? Some gifts? Simple flattery? What was her endgame?
If they had gotten caught, she would have been fired for sure, but would anything else have happened to her?
Have decided to spoiler tag this just to not ruin the surprise of which characters are villains.
but would come and help out?
Like maids and such, or did everyone who worked there live there?
I consider myself pretty in tune with history, but I’ve always been super confused by the entire main plot point of the show
Patrick dies on the titanic so a new heir needs to be found-
Sure but what’s the massive rush? Lord Grantham wasn’t terminally ill or super old- he was middle aged.
Also- why did Mathew and Isabel move there? I just don’t understand it- what would have happened if lord Grantham lived for another 30 years? Matthew would have spent most of his life just hanging around Downton abbey waiting to inherit it.
And it gets even more confusing when Matthew lists Mary as his sole heiress even though he has a son whom would have been of age when lord Grantham died-
Someone please explain this set up
Is this a psychological issue not previously known to science?
1st time watcher off the back of my first run of the series
Overall was a pleasant movie but didn’t feel like a movie but a bumper special
A anchor A plot where the separate B plots are the main body is different and creates variety
One criticism is there’s one to many “remember this character” moments for my liking
Don’t get me wrong in general I enjoyed the movie
If I were Edith, especially after my mother would tell my sister that I have fewer advantages than her, I would come into the room, confront them both.
Then would make my bag and move in with aunt Rosamund (asking her permission first of course).
I know that I am not her, and she is a fictional character, and all that, but if we just pretend she was a real person - why wouldn't she do just that?
Does anyone ever see the extras playing the ‘other’ downstairs servants besides the main cast in the downstairs scenes and wonder how many servants there actually are at Downton?