You forgot what happens to Tom. Don’t forget the children either. 
And Baxter and Molesley!
Tom brings a better energy to show because he’s the outsider insider.
He can say and do things that the “proper” family cannot.
Like telling Mary and Ozymandias that they don’t need to make up excuses to see each other.
She’s both “country” and “horsey” so some tan would be expected.
Tom - founded a successful chain of muffler shops, and retired to enjoy his hobbies of gardening and bee-keeping. He was popular with local children due to his collection of Celebrity Jell-O Wrestling memorabilia. He died during the late 60s. Unfortunately, a closed casket was necessary at his funeral due to the fact that his cat, who he had named Lady Mary, had partially eaten him. He never remarried.
Baxter - after Downton Abbey closed, she opened the “No Questions Asked Pawn Shop and Jewelry Store”. It was revealed after her tragic death in a croquet accident that she had been leading a double life as a man, posing as an itinerant shoe salesman and part-time soccer hooligan named Duane.
Molesley - continued his career as a teacher and administrator, rising in time to be Assistant Principal in Charge of Birching at the St Switham’s School for the Incurably Snobbish. He never married, but at his death was mourned by his many friends, several pets, and the occasional sailor.
Sybil - she struggled for many years with bulimia and nearly uncontrollable flatulence, but finally overcame these issues with the help of her newly-found commitment to the religious movement founded by the Rev. Peabody, who taught an inner spiritual cleansing thru the frequent use of coffee enemas and topical asparagus. She currently lives quietly in Kent, and is much interested in charitable works, especially a home for unwed cats.
Lord George - well-known sportsman, gambler, and general asswipe. Keenly interested in sport, he hosted the annual vole hunt until his death, awarding the celebrated Athletic Cup each year to whoever captured the most field mice using only his teeth. He often competed himself in the Overbite division, and never failed to finish high. The circumstances of his death are obscure, as he spent his declining years under the care of doctors after an unfortunate incident in the House of Lords where he ate a portrait of Margaret Thatcher as a protest against the tax on tea cozies.
Regards,
Shodan
Anna has another miscarriage, her and Bates are arrested and put in prison for life for an illegal abortion.
Yes, good point.
(She’d better exercise caution, though: that folder marked “Boys” bodes ill for her future happiness.)
Oh dear, next week is the ‘one time only’ opportunity for the curious looky-loos to pay admission to come in and see Downton Abbey! I’m looking forward to that one. Almost as much as I’m waiting for Mary to demand in her imperious voice of her sister, what is the truth about Marigold?
I was responding to the reference to Matthew Goode’s previous role of Ozymandias, in Watchmen.
He did. He offered Chamberlain a drink to help him escape the Dowager, and later they talked briefly in the front hall just before Chamberlain left. Or did you mean, about Irish policy?
Daisy is the worst.
The kids actually had some speaking lines and were on screen for more than ten seconds. I laughed at them still calling Robert “Donk.”
I’m not sure the Baxter issue is over. She said she didn’t have to testify because the guy changed his plea when he saw the list of witnesses. So he likely saw her name on the list and knew he was screwed. Maybe he’ll escape, or he’ll get one of his partners-in-crime to go after Baxter.
They do seem to be pairing everybody up but Tom, unless they twist Mary back around to him.
I still think Mary and Tom will wind up together. That blather from her about how she doesn’t want to “marry down” was just thrown in so she will be made to eat her words.
Which, I suspect, is what will push Edith, with Marigold, to live in London full time and fully come into her own. Edith will marry someone (maybe current dude who’s into her but who’s name I don’t know), have another kid, but still run the magazine.
Plot twist: His partner-in-crime is Spratt’s nephew.
How is New Dude going to feel about the out-of-wedlock child? Maybe the fact that the father had good decorating taste will ameliorate the sitch.
Liking that! Very Dickensian.
There was more unsaid than spoken aloud last night. Things that needed saying:
Daisy! Shut up and butt out of the old folks’ romance!
Carson, if you wanted Mrs. Patmore’s cooking, you should have married HER!
Barrow, for God’s sake, tell Carson that you’re teaching Andy to read!
Anna, get a clue! After X miscarriages, you don’t want to bother going to the doctor? (When Mary clearly wants to go to London anyway.)
Mary! Marigold is your niece, but you’re so cold and unsympathetic that no one wants you to know! So shut up about it!
Crawleys all: Letting Granny Violet find out about the hospital appointment from the letter, because nobody had the balls to tell her-- BAD IDEA.
I loved the ‘open house’ scenes, where the family got to display their utter ignorance about things in their home they’ve seen every day for decades. Except for Violet, of course, who knows everything.
The scene with Robert and the little boy was cute, though I expect Robert would have been a bit more stern about it if he wasn’t in poor health.
Daisy is still the worst.
The ignorance displayed by Mary, Edith and Cora was funny but I wonder how realistic that was. Surely many of the paintings are of their ancestors? And was Cora’s surprise at the idea that it’s called Downton Abbey because it was a medieval abbey for real or was she being polite for the tourists? And it’s interesting that even in 1925 their lifestyle is a little exotic.
That’s a damn fine summary. The bit with Carson is too overdone for my tastes, and I really want Mrs. Carson to lay into him. Nice to see Edith standing up to Mary and not being such a pitiful soul.