Lady Mary's dresses, everyone's dresses,
Lady Mary's bedroom with all that red on the walls is utterly fabulous.
Take the test and see what character you are:
http://www.weta.org/tv/picks/downtonabbey/quiz
and go to the PBS website to look at more fabulous images of this fabulous show. Just can't imagine Lord Grantham in the dentist chair, or parking a car, or waiting in line, or standing in the rain. This series is so wonderfully done I feel as if I am at a window looking in.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/index.html
I took the Downton Abbey quiz: First time I was Matthew, but there was one question I had to think about. Had to do with goals. "Find true love" was my first instinct, so I answered it thusly, but another answer, work hard to maximize your talents, or something like that, I thought, well, that's a goal, so I took the quiz again and answered it that way second time, and that was enough to knock me out of the Matthew box and put me into the Annie box, the maid that was in love with Bates. Yeah, I could see that, I liked Annie, liked her values, etc. But I found it interesting. You should try that, take the quiz, but make note of any questions for which two answers seemed possible, then take the quiz again and see what happens when you change one answer. I wonder what answer I would have to change in order to be Lord Grantham. I mean, he seems like a good chap, has ideals, cares about people, has the capacity to love, and runs a tight ship. What answer would tip the scales to make me Lord Grantham? Maybe I'll have to do some trial and error. I don't know why exactly I love this show, but like all good soaps, there's characters there I care about, and a few I hope get their due. Most of all, i think, with hindsight, we know that their world is on the brink of a big change. The whole Austro-Hungarian Hapsburg Empire is about to crumble, war as they know it will change, the whole fundamental financial, economic, artist, social world is about to change radically, and most of them are looking ahead with the sight of the past, and a few are grappling with the present future with just a soupçon of what the future holds. I find that so curious, wondering, if we are living in such a time now, or not. There they are, the Grantham's and their servants and their friends, etc., and they have no inkling of what's coming, they go about the business of love and work and play with hardly an inkling of what's to come, and they do it so quaintly. Perhaps I see myself in all of those characters, maybe even the despicable ones, if I'm honest with myself. In the end, they all seem to be trying to find love.
ReplyDeleteYegods! I'm Bates!! Decent sort of chap, I suppose, but can you imagine me serving anybody anything other than a cocktail? Somewhat dicey background, Bates. At least not a low vaudevillian like Carson. I would have thought I'd be more in the Dowager class, observant and wicked-tongued, you know. (Remember Maggie Smith in California Suite? "...wit and parry! Wit and parry!") "What is a week-end" is right up there with the best one-liners.
ReplyDeleteWell, that is interesting, Max. Do you have something to hide? I get the feeling that Mr. Bates is hiding something from us all with his holier than thou attitude, which of course isn't you at all. No you are not a low vaudevillian like Mr. Carson, but you have some of Carson's attention to the best.
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