"the world was in a dream before the war, now it's woken up and so must we."
They are awake at Downton Abbey now that it has been turned into a convalescent hospital with Lady Sybil working as a nurse, and Matthew's mother, Isobel pushing way too hard to run things. She rushes in to see her Ladyship saying,
Isobel: "My timetable has been wantonly disregarded. If I'm not appreciated I must seek some other place where I can make a difference,"
Lady Cora, "perhaps it would be best."
Isobel: "I repeat it, I mean it."
Lady Cora, "I'm sure you do."
Meow.
Really, what does Isobel think pushing Lady Cora? It's HER house.
We've got Lady Sybil and her revolutionary chauffeur Brandon, Matthew on patrol with William the footman who both go missing and create more tension upstairs & down, O'Brien, so evil, and always, as my friend Max points out, depositing nasty ideas into her Ladyship's head when she is doing her hair. Makes her look a little bubble headed. What a wonderful observation. Isobel has left to make a difference in France, and her man Mosley has nothing to do so offers his services to his Lordship.
BATES returns, after Lord Robert goes to see him at the Red Lion Pub and asks him to "help me through the veil of shadow," trumps Mosley and he and Anna are in heaven again. Bates can get rid of his wife, Vera, he just has to give her MONEY. It's fun to watch Bates and Thomas snarl at each other. As my friend JACK said, "I loved Bates retort to Thomas about how Thomas is now running things at Downton, 'All the more reason to pray for peace.' OOOH, that was cool."
The telephone has been installed and the WAR office is calling, electricity is all over the house, the Crawley sisters are giving a concert.
Lady Mary: "I don't care about the stupid concert."
Lord Robert: "We have to keep going, whatever happens, we have to help each other to keep going."
Everyone assembled for the concert, and I almost fell off my chair when Matthew and William reappeared as Lady Mary was singing If You Were The Only Girl In The World. TEARS, tears and these are FICTIONAL CHARACTERS. Lady Mary LOVES Matthew and everyone knows it. How is she going to get rid of Sir Richard Carlisle and get back to Matthew? And WHAT about Lavinia? How can she easily disappear? How wonderful Downton Abbey is. How wonderful the writing.
You're so kind...
how very kind....
"Would you Kindly leave the room," MRS. HUGES says to Ethel when she catches her red handed with the very Ernest Hemingway looking officer she is rollicking with in one of the servants rooms. "You are discharged, without a reference or a character."
Ok, but why discharge Ethel and not discharge Branson for planning to pour a silver dish full of muck onto a Colonel's head in the Crawley's very lovely dining room? Mr. Carson said there would be too much scandal and publicity, the wrong publicity for Downton, but what about this event? Ethel turns up at the end of the episode, you guessed it, pregnant.
There is so much else to discuss. Mrs Burns and Mrs. Patmore in league to feed soldiers in the village, the Dowager Countess whose way of looking down her nose at everyone who isn't a family member is remarkable, Daisy who struggles away in scullery, but not enough time; I need to go re-watch episode 3.
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