…or they’ll do the Great Depression, etc.
Just because they answered all of the current questions doesn’t mean new ones can’t be raised. 
Carson probably has something like ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). He said earlier that his grandfather and father had “the palsy” and grew progressively worse, and that he had been hoping it had passed him by.
I’m woefully uninformed here…how did the Great Depression affect the nobility in England? All I know is the stock market crash and the Dust Bowl and the great migration to California.
ETA: I thought Carson had Parkinson’s.
True, it could be Downton Abbey: The Next Generation. And as a special treat in the opener, they’d have the Dowager be found suspended in a transporter stream.
First of all, Britain was still recovering economically from WWI (not that you’d get an inkling of that from the show), which had driven every combatant power except the US into crushing debt. Once the Depression hit, global trade fell and prices dropped steeply, devastating the areas of the UK that exported their goods, including industrial Yorkshire. The Crawleys aren’t just nobles — they’re landowners. They would have been confronted with falling prices for the food their tenants produced, drastically reducing their revenue and severely constraining their lavish lifestyle. Their tenants couldn’t have afforded their rents, forcing the family to either renegotiate with them or evict them. I don’t know what happened to Highclere or how the Canarvons managed to keep it, but I expect that, if the Crawleys managed to hold on to Downton, they would either rent out or otherwise commercialize most of the space, or else shutter most of it and live in it with a skeleton staff.
I think Parkinson’s, too. He said his father and grandfather also had to retire, didn’t he? Not that they died horrific deaths.
Oooo…Edith could have followed in Sybil’s footsteps and married one of the help!
Too far; if they do a sequel series it should be set during WWII. Sybil, George, & Marigold would all be in the services, and the rest of the family would be crammed together in either the Dower House or Crawley House after Downton get’s requisitioned. Much to Mary’s indignation this time around the Crown takes it over on it’s own terms.
My grandmother had Parkinson’s, it’s far from a pleasant way to go. Carson can look forward to spending his final days depended on Elsie his most basic functions, yet have his mind remain intact so he’s completely aware of everything.
Where Bates’ son opens up a motel…
Regards,
Shodan
I don’t care for your implication there about Anna, Mr. Shodan. 
Yep, Parkinsons. ALS would be devastating, and at a younger age.
Yeah, Parkinson’s is probably it.
You can have tremors in the hand without Parkinson’s. My aunt and mother both have shaky hands and neither has Parkinson’s. My aunt’s palsy is quite bad actually. I would imagine that’s the type of palsy the writer would give one of his favorite characters.
Parkinson’s Disease was known, by that name, decades before 1926. If it ran in Carson’s family, he would probably know it.
I read somewhere that Carson has “essential tremor”, not Parkinson’s, and that Julian Fellowes has it too.
And it’s Dickie and Isobel, not Larry. Larry is Dickie’s (Lord Merton’s) horrible son who ruined two dinner parties at Downton, was very insulting to both Isobel and Tom, and married the scheming Amelia.
That was about how I took it, too.
Very good - thank you.
Also quite interesting - thanks.
I would’ve liked that, but I’m OK with how things finally ended up.
If Barrow were subjected to Denker’s snippiness and backstabbing for any length of time, I have a feeling the local police sergeant would once more be looking into a murder, with Barrow the prime suspect.
Likewise!
Yes, that was a highlight for me, too.
Just as happened historically: Earl of Grantham - Wikipedia
Heh. I don’t think even Fellowes would resort to that.
Unless the reviews were awful, I’d be first in line to see a DA movie. Showing how the Crawleys dealt with the Great Depression and WWII would be interesting.
Could be. My dad has it. The biographer Ron Chernow speculated that George Washington suffered from it late in life. Chernow consulted several medical experts, but didn’t come to any firm conclusions.
Well, I thought the series wrapped up pretty satisfactorily, if noticeably at the gallop.
Glad that Isobel finally came to her senses and married the sweet and always-admiring Lord Merton (and now she has a title, too). Mary still edges Edith with two successful onscreen weddings to one (but Edith gets an even grander title - marchioness: Marquess - Wikipedia). An organ version of Handel’s “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” played at her and Bertie’s wedding: G.F. Händel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - YouTube. Here’s the more traditional orchestration: George Frideric Handel - The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - YouTube
Having Thomas become the butler seemed a foregone conclusion, although I still haven’t fully forgiven him for his earlier evilness. Nice to see little George and his stepfather Henry playing together in the estate office and apparently enjoying each other’s company. All the hoohah about Rose and Atticus celebrating Christmas seemed a little odd, as he’s Jewish. Daisy’s new emergency hairdo was an odd subplot but she looked quite good as a result.
I was glad that not everyone was married off by the end - but there’s definitely the possibility of romance for Tom and Edith’s editor, Mrs. Patmore and the old farmer, and Daisy and Andy.
One thing I never was able to figure out: Exactly what job did Mrs. Hughes have at DA?
She is the housekeeper , which lords it (or is it ladys it?) over the entire female staff.