Well, what I was talking about was consideration for people who are reading at some point distant from now. A year hence, it is difficult to even figure out when the original broadcast date is. If we’d just title weekly threads Downton S3E2 or Downton 03.02 we could easily keep up and so could future Downton watchers.
With most TV threads it depends on volume. There was a single thread for the entire season of DWTS, but one for each episode of Amazing Race. Based on the posts in this thread, I would vote for one per episode.
Keep in mind that PBS usually doubles up & shows 2 episodes edited together in a single 2-hr timeslot so the episode numbers won’t match up with the real episode numbers.
No, they are being shown in seven specifically defined parts. Part 1 was a two-hour episode, parts 2-5 are one hour each, and parts 6 and 7 are two-hour episodes. I have no idea how it was broadcast in the UK, but in the US this will be consistent across all PBS stations.
But whatever, I was just trying to help.
I just want to verify what it seems like others in this thread saw: the show cut directly from Matthew and Mary standing at the altar to them returning from their honeymoon. I ask because the New York Times accompanied their Downton article (the show was second in the ratings with 7.9 million viewers, beating everything but CBS) with a lovely picture of Matthew raising Mary’s wedding veil. This was just a promotional still, right, because we didn’t get to see anything similar in the show?
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I’m rewatching, and just struck at how…pallorous everyone is. If that’s not a word, it is now. Matthew, in a couple of scenes, look like a walking corpse <and this is without physical injury to account for it>.
So, what sprung to mind for me, is a complete reworking of the entire Downton Abbey series, set in the golden age of Vampire: The Masquerade. Seriously, it’d be glorious! I’d love to see that. 
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That would be historically accurate. A tan was the mark of the working class. Violet repeatedly points out Martha’s apparent time in the sun.
What was once seen as an indication of lower class became the indication of a rising class when people acquired the time and money to go on vacation. A tan became the proof of this activity and thus evolved into a status symbol.
No, I didn’t see that scene either, if it was actually a scene. I got to see Episode 1 (just the first hour) in December as a promotion from my local PBS, and it also ended with Mary and Matthew at the altar.
In fact, I had no idea Episode 1 was really 2 hours … even though I’d seen it (or, thought I’d seen it!!), I recorded the January 6 show anyway. Wasn’t even sure I’d watch it. Then thought oh, what the heck, it’s been almost a month, might as well. :eek: … and to think I would’ve missed the next hour!!! HORRORS!!!
The 1920s was when this started to change due to the influence of CoCo Chanel, whom Shirley MacLaine played in a Lifetime Original Movie a few yrs ago. Mlle Chanel was also responsible for black becoming popular outside of mourning during the same time period. We know Mary follows Paris fashions (like most women of her age & class) so hopefully we’ll eventually start to see the flapper become popular. Just imagine the Dowager Countess’s to her granddaughters dressing like that. 
Right after Lavinia’s death, Matthew looked quite vampiric. He got better.
Yes, that stood out. I thought he looked like a vampire too. It looked very unnatural.
Maybe natural for someone who had just been on death’s doorstep?
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Sir Antony NEEDS TO DIE IN A FIRE!
And here I was thinking, “Oh man, they spared us Mary’s wedding, but we have to sit through this one?” I guess not!
Upon Matthew refusing to hear about refusing to read about refusing to accept the inheritance, I thought on Mary’s behalf, “You know, if I just poison you, I’ll get the money . . .”
What a cad! A jerk! A piece of swine! Edith’s dress was much prettier than Mary’s IMO.
For once I was sympathetic with Mary. Matthew’s angst is annoying as fuck. But so was the whining about having to move to a house that most people would find incredibly luxurious. Sometimes these characters are annoying as fuck with their lack of perspective.
A small thing I’ve noticed. Granny Grantham only wears purple, lilac, silver, grey and black. That makes sense as they are the Victorian colors of mourning.
I wanted to shout “I’LL take the money” at the TV.
The ‘little house’ where they’d only need eight servants was quite nice, I imagine to them it would be like moving into a shoebox. :rolleyes:
I’m glad the medical problem was resolved, I thought the conversation with the mistress was quite touching.
And I cannot believe Sir Anthony. Doing such a thing - cowardly, beastly, the man has no honor. WTF?
I didn’t understand what happened with Bates. He was asked to do something (kill his cellmate?) during exercise. Someone hid something in his bedding. The guards were tipped off but Bates managed to hide whatever it was. What was that all about?
Edith brought it on herself, when she said “I’ll make you my life’s work”. He didn’t want to be a project, he wanted to be a husband.
He should have bowed out earlier though.
Wondering why someone is trying to get Bates in trouble. And if there’s significance to Mrs. Bartlett telling Anna that Vera scrubbed her fingers until they were raw, when she made that pie crust. Looks like Vera put the arsenic in the pie, to poison Bates, but then why would she eat it herself?
I teared up when Cora told Mrs. What’s Her Name that she’d be taken care of. And when Mrs. What’s Her Name saw how happy Carson was.
Can’t wait to see what O’Brien has in store for Thomas! And she looks better this season, without the phony curls.
He was told to check his bedding. The other guy knew that something was planted in Bates’ bed. What was it? Looked like a giant doobie.
Yeah, I knew that conversation was going to be a mistake. “I love you because you’re an old cripple” is not actually a whole lot better than “I love you despite your being a cripple.”
Literally at the altar? Really? A letter from the dead fiancée’s father absolves the unfaithful suitor from any guilt and blesses him with a fortune just in the nick of time? I still enjoy it, but tonight I was made painfully aware that it’s just a soap opera with rightpondian accents.
And what was the point of letting Matthew become half-owner of something that will someday be his anyway?