Downton Abbey

[cactuswatcher]

It's so well done and so well acted. I pretty much predicted what would happen last week to ponygirl2000, and still liked it. But I don't know if I could take another series of that story. Train-wreck Mary, envious Edith, Sybil the suffragette and her sidekick Branson the Irish socialist, Smilin' Sarah, Thomas the bounder, John Bates, who'd fade away to nothing if all his secrets were told, plus World War One and the Irish Easter Rebellion don't add up to a happy ending, do they?.

Comments

[ponygirl2000.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm thinking that we need the war to really shake things up for the show. The characters were, as you say, getting too predictable. I'm hoping for a true disruption next season rather than a lot of plucky war efforts. Regardless it's soapy fun!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

A Buffy fan is reluctant to watch something without a possible happy ending? At least they don't have vampires at Downton Abbey (yet...)

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

At least Buffy always saved the world. We know in late 1914, the world is in for a very bad time and that's before Mary and Edith start on each other again. ;o)

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Hard to say which is scarier, indeed--Mary and Elizabeth, or the King and the Kaiser. Somebody saved and/or lost the world by 1918, or maybe didn't make any difference, except to a lot of poor soldiers...