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

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

let alone what it would be to turn into someone with a tumblr full of them

its like you take a gif from downton abbey and you put an instagram-style filter on it and then you have a tumblr with a lot of them

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me8jiwgpDs1qejuifo1_250.gif

i'm having trouble finding those now

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me7pnmkd0d1qcm0m3o1_250.gif

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me7newLIBB1rrdqgmo1_r1_500.gif

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me7jpf0eUM1qkyf0no1_500.gif

ty

plenty of shit like this tho

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcn1uq9U4q1qdg2p2o1_1280.jpg

omgggg

really felt like they were fumbling around for something to anchor the plot to this season, the 2 dramatic climaxes (edith left at the altar, sybil's death) both just happened without leading to anything, and yeah the estate's financial crisis and bates' imprisonment resolved themselves in the most boring ways possible. i figure they'll either rush through edith marrying the newspaper dude in the christmas special (can't remember what happened with that) or have that be a plot arc throughout the next season (but is she pretty enough?) i liked everything with o'brien's cousin & thomas a lot

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNDM2NDUwNDU5OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTY0MzcxOA@@._V1._SX214_CR0,0,214,314_.jpg

lol when newspaper guy revealed his wife was in an asylum i was like smh this show is even more old-fashioned than i think it realizes

lol @ drawing, i could see liking bates non-ironically in s1 but surely we're beyond that now.

were people heartened or pissed off when every major character was like "oh yeah we knew thomas was gay ha ha."

i just finished season two + christmas special
watched the whole thing in like 2 weeks
WILL ADMIT that even though i have a heart of stone, i cried more than once
not reading this thread until season 3 airs

is this show so popular that there are well known stereotypes of different types of fans?

is that what this means? lol @ drawing, i could see liking bates non-ironically in s1 but surely we're beyond that now.

were people heartened or pissed off when every major character was like "oh yeah we knew thomas was gay ha ha."

i apologize for my ignorance -- i don't know anything about the hubbub surrounding this show. i can't say i even knew there was hubbub aside from the fact that i saw a "free bates" tshirt being loled at somewhere and i was like well, i guess bates goes to jail. and that was recently.

i will admit that i have enjoyed the ott camp elements as much as the genuine ones.

my knowledge of downton fandom is mostly from lol tumblr, which runs the gamut from earnest love to snark. bates get a lot of snark these days because his plotlines have been pretty cartoonishly written, especially in s3.

oh we don't have S3 yet...how could it be more cartoonish than p. gordon!?

I thought this thread got revived because of nu-Shelley Long.

oh this show

i know, right

yeah holy shit. this was a super boring christmas episode until the end.

season 3 starts on the 6th right? i put it on my calendar so i wouldn't make any other plans :-/