Mary: Say hello to your heir… Matthew: Hello little baby. Mary you make me so happy… Baby: You’re going to die on the road in a moment… isn’t he mama? Mary: yes… he is…
This season, Downton Abbey has killed off the only nice people who made it palatable. If they do in the Dowager Countess, I’m so out… I was seething last night, SEETHING I tell you, when the episode I recorded on our DVR ended.
A couple weeks ago, they killed off Sybil moments after she gave birth. Leaving us with her dreadful sister Mary clawing after her dead sister’s motherless daughter and her grandmother-cum-sister Edith to go find a job in town working for that lawless newspaper as … >horrors!< a Writer.
And now, just a few minutes after Mary’s baby was born, its dreamy father, Matthew (the other character in the house with any guts, class and heart and kindness and kindness and kindness) (do you see where I’m going with this?) was killed off because … he was ridiculously happy.
la la la… my wife is mean, but i don’t care… she just had our son, i don’t think he’s possessed by the devil himself… i guess because i’m nice it’s time to kill me off … they said to speed and not look at the road… la la la what’s that up ahead? oh nothing… keep speeding and smiling…
So… not only did his shrew-wife survive childbirth, dammit, but she also had a son, so that meant the Abbey was secure in its lineage (or whatever the hell it’s all supposed to mean…) and of course he didn’t see the oncoming truck and well, when the car you’re driving has 5″ wheels, lacks seat belts and airbags and your wife is a class-A snobbity snob and the only reason people speak to her with any civility is because of your kindness… it’s time for you to die because. … it just is.
The supposition of course is that we viewers will take several months off and have no recollection of much of a horrible creature evil hag Mary is.
Oh… we will. This is where Tarantino steps in. Or Richard Donner, he directed “The Omen.”
Reservoir Dowgs.
The Downparted.
Damien Abbey.
That baby is possessed, I know it. And this way, Maggie Smith can reprise her famous role as Professor McGonegal (whose wardrobe shift really won’t be too much of a stretch…) and save the day and the world from the clutches of Voldebabe, Downton baby of Doom.
Oh! The possibilities are endless. Branson can take over the place and turn it into a commune; Mr. Carson can finally let out his repressed love for Thomas and we can be done with that little tease-fest; Daisy can conjure potions from eyes of rodents and other fauna to lure her Alfred to her farm and then cook for him using Mrs. Padmore’s recipes…
But yeah, if they kill off Maggie Smith, I’m out. I can’t take much more of this. Quitting Facebook is enough of a challenge, now they have to go kill Matthew?!
The Inglorious Basterds.
Thank you.
Grass Oil by Molly Field 
I was watching Reservoir Dogs last night and I thought of you. LOL People have been trying to get me to watch this show, now I just have a feeling it would piss me off. Maybe I will skip it.
I was one of those people. I swear, they killed off the wrong guy. He had PLANS, man, PLANS! for the Abbey, to sustain it, to see it into the upcoming next World War… He had ideas for the people who worked for the Abbey. Now Lord Grantham is either going to piss it away again or that baby will destroy everyone as it summons hell on earth. Downton Abbey meets The Walking Dead.
it’s still a good show though. “Good show, chap!” and you’d like it for all the historical stuff. but yes. they killed off the good people because they wanted off the show. as if a 60th of the world’s population knows them by sight has somehow increased their marketability.
as my friend’s granny would say, “my how soft their wool grows…” <– that's not British at all, it's IRISH. HOLLA!
I just finished it last night, too! (We have watched all three episodes, from start to finish, over the course of 10 days. I can’t stop speaking in a British accent and calling dudes “chaps.”) I HATED that ending. But the Matthew actor quit the show, so they had to kill the character. (Reportedly, that’s the same thing that happened with Sybil’s character – they killed her off only because the actress declined to renew her contract.) I guess it wouldn’t have made sense to write off such major characters into neverending vacations from which they don’t return.
I want a spin-off that’s all Dowager Countess, all the time. Like ESPN, but with Dowager Countessness instead of sports.
i speak British too now after I watch it. it’s like what happens to me after i read too much Austen (really, did I just say “too much” and “Austen” in the same sentence?!). anyway, i would have much preferred it (see? i’m british) if Robert had shot Matthew at the deer hunt becuase Matthew killed Mary in her sleep because the baby wasn’t his… it was Thomas’s.
THAT.
All three seasons, I mean. Not all three episodes. Oh hell, you know what I mean.
oh yes… i was right there with you.
no, i was. but i was outside in the cold watching you watch the show and you never let me in.