I wanna turn into one of those people with a tumblr full of tint-shifted anigifs from DOWNTON ABBEY

this show is counterrevolutionary, finally branson shows some radical backbone and it turns out to SPOILER be b/c hed been drugged. also gleefully depicts a failed strike

but yeah decent start to the season

FELLOWES! *shakes fist*

sybil is like supernaturally hot tho

can't wait for january!

fun episode! lord grantham crying as horrifying as his 'affair' last season. the show would never do it in a million years but i think it'd be much more interesting if bates were actually guilty. part of me wonders if he'll be cleared of his wife's murder but in the interim he kills his cell mate. in self defense obv but being bates he won't allow this to be entered into evidence for fear it might risk his dewy eyed martyr rep. maclaine great already.

whatshisface sure lucks into a lot of inheritance huh

lol maclaine was a bit much

"i like the past!" "i like the future!" "i'm english!" "i'm american!"

possibly he is like a genius sociopath serial killer/grifter

yeah i feel like the writers didnt really write the maclaine scenes? like they just wrote [SHIRLEY MACLAINE DOES HER THING FOR 40 SECONDS] and it didnt turn out well

lol ya

thomas vs sarah escalated pretty quickly! lol at the dowager countess "mistaking" lord grantham for a waiter. groan at nearly every instance of 'i'm an american! and it's 1920!'.

the waiter line was the best (only good?) dowager countess line so far this season

kind of bummed the crawleys aren't going to be ballin out in high roaring twenties style this season, especially mary & matthew's honeymoon though i guess that'll all happen off-screen as with sybil & branson's marriage/married life outside of downton?

the show would never do it in a million years but i think it'd be much more interesting if bates were actually guilty. part of me wonders if he'll be cleared of his wife's murder but in the interim he kills his cell mate. in self defense obv but being bates he won't allow this to be entered into evidence for fear it might risk his dewy eyed martyr rep

― balls, Tuesday, September 18, 2012 10:38 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good guess. fsr part of me (basically all of me) is, like, thirsting for bates' destruction?? weird because i'm sure i would be moved by anna's mourning, and yet all i truly want whenever he's onscreen is to see him, like, embalmbed

also maybe i'm crazy and i haven't heard the x-files theme in forever (didn't really watch that show that much tbh) or maybe this is obv and has been pointed out many times but does anyone else think the 'downton abbey' theme is reminiscent of the x-files theme?

oh, totally

yeah get it edithhhhhh. i'm going to be so pissed if something ruins edith's big day, let edith be HAPPY you monsters.

american serving girl is the worst, bringing back that boring maid who got pregnant last season is second worst.

bates isn't being helped by the poor way his scenes are being written, they all follow the EXACT same format every time. anna says "i'm going to do this" and bates is like "it's no use!" or "why would you do that!" or something similarly contrary. they had the same problem with sybil/branson last season, every time they cut away to garage for a scene you knew it was just going to be them arguing.

i cracked up when bates said he was really sad that downton abbey might get sold

dogg you are in prison why are you shedding tears for your oppressors

edith is kind of monster herself tbf

dogg you are in prison why are you shedding tears for your oppressors

― marx, Monday, September 24, 2012 7:59 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as i have said before i find this show to be counterrevolutionary

i'm going to be so pissed if something ruins edith's big day, let edith be HAPPY you monsters.

Totally. But World War gives the youth some pretty good burns to employ when Dad won't let you do what you wanna.

Can't wait for season 12 when the family is so broke they have to open up a resort hotel together with the downstairs crew.

as i have said before i find this show to be counterrevolutionary

― max, Monday, September 24, 2012 9:40 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol idk where but somebody quizzed a bunch of historians abt this show and one of them was like "altogether there is not nearly enough physical and emotional abuse of the household staff depicted"

shirley maclaine is so fucking unbearable in this

arghhhh they did it, they crushed poor edith's happiness. what did she EVER do to ANYBODY except cheat with that married farmer guy and sell out her own sister as a murderer to the turkish consulate???

My money was on him having a heart attack at the altar and dying right there.

arghhhh they did it, they crushed poor edith's happiness. what did she EVER do to ANYBODY except cheat with that married farmer guy and sell out her own sister as a murderer to the turkish consulate???

― i've hidden a white teen on Crimedoer Mountain (reddening), Monday, October 1, 2012 7:18 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So OTM haha. Can you believe she has stans?

o max i'm so sorry

ha that doesn't sound good

wow kind of cant believe they had the balls to do it

BUT, that aside, why on earth would branson as a radical socialist republican want to baptize his child??

the calming influence of a reactionary household?

hahah theyve calmed him enough to be religious but not enough to be an anglican

also, I knew she was toast when both she and him fiercely proclaimed their love for one another.

they kind of really telegraphed it, i just didnt think theyd follow through!!

honestly, I assumed they chose eclampsia because it often results in a coma, which offers rich dramatic possibilities. while they probably wouldn't go with showing everyone leaving her funeral and cut to her clawing at the inside of her coffin, a pre-credits sting where she's on the slab and her eyes pop open and she screams would be reasonable.

this season is really annoying me. sybil dying was a nice touch but absolutely everything else seems to frivolous and ridiculous post-war. also so sick of Mr. Bates.

How did he get outta jail? missed that bit...

most anticlimactic prison release ever

man i'm so glad they killed off the lovely and charming sybill in order to bring us a plotline where branson and matthew manage a farm

I actually came here to post that the most exciting subplot this season is Matthew modernizing Downton and making it self-sufficient.

I actually came here to post that the most exciting subplot this season is Matthew modernizing Downton and making it self-sufficient.

this! have loved the last two episodes, precisely what i want from downton abbey.

2 months pass...
Did anyone watch parades end last night

― just sayin, Saturday, 25 August 2012 12:29 (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

2 weeks pass...

i actually watched an episode of downton abbey for the first time recently. it is such a weird show! neither the cameras nor the people move! i felt like they were all being pushed around on wheels to arrange the shots between times -- the one scene where someone said something and walked away felt like high drama

also

everyone makes very long pauses before they say anything

"That bloke Ponzi seems to be doing some remarkable investment opportunities" ...

most anticlimactic prison release ever

― akm, Monday, October 29, 2012 11:05 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha otm, all that build up and then dude is just like "cmon stop"

tint-shifted anigif?

still have no idea what that means