tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post7612737341972922832..comments2024-03-29T05:43:36.177-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: Downton Abbey: Season Five, Episode SixBillie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-60949560764226793342016-05-29T21:01:47.603-04:002016-05-29T21:01:47.603-04:00They burned the ticket, thinking that it would be ...They burned the ticket, thinking that it would be incriminating. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-24095876079875326712015-10-22T23:43:12.168-04:002015-10-22T23:43:12.168-04:00I started watching the series a couple of months a...I started watching the series a couple of months ago...I was hooked and have been binge watching until catching up. I agree with your criticism of Edith. I find her handling of the baby thing so reprehensible that I cannot empathisize with her. Her choices have been terrible from the beginning. Mary is often a pouty child who is in constant need of attention who bullies and snipes at Edith simply because she can. Neither Cora nor Robert and Not Lady Violet either have done much that I can see to stop this. Tom, sensible as he is, and the only one who seems to see things clearly might be able to do something. My favorite character is Tom (apart from Lady Violet and Isobel who of course are magnificent) He just strikes me as much more the true gemtleman than Robert so far.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07920602807335686737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-15312145897553040962015-02-15T17:22:51.382-05:002015-02-15T17:22:51.382-05:00Cris -- Mary says that what she is doing is to hel...Cris -- Mary <i>says</i> that what she is doing is to help Mabel and Tony "walk into the sunset," but she's going about it in an odd way. At the beginning of the episode, she asks Anna if she is too dowdy because she wants "them to know what they've given up." Later, she tells Mabel that she "doesn't want to make it too easy for [Tony]." Mary is in her mid-thirties and a widow. It's time to get over the fact that she was once the belle of the county.<br /><br />Billie -- Mrs. Hughes found the ticket and gave it to Mary who threw it into the fire. To be fair, they both thought they were helping Anna.<br /><br />I see your point about Edith, but I believe what she did is terrible. As desperate as she may have felt, the things that were happening were all down to her choices. The choice she has made now has broken Mrs. Drewe's heart (whose only crime was raising a child not her own) and taken Marigold from the only family she has known. Somehow, ice cream in a hotel room doesn't seem like adequate compensation to me.ChrisBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10843864158239536750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-86146413018623714152015-02-15T15:45:13.930-05:002015-02-15T15:45:13.930-05:00I actually thought Edith's actions were unders...I actually thought Edith's actions were understandable. If Mrs. Drewe hadn't decided to shut Edith out completely, if Mr. Drewe had simply told his wife the truth, I don't think Edith would have done what she did with Marigold. Being told she could never see her baby again right before confirmation that her lover had died after all was just too much for her.<br /><br />So the confirmation that Bates didn't kill Green probably won't make a difference if they don't find that train ticket. Who has it? I've completely forgotten. Did Barrow take it?Billie Douxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-53521496382839607312015-02-15T15:18:25.631-05:002015-02-15T15:18:25.631-05:00I've been re-watching previous seasons of Down...I've been re-watching previous seasons of Downton (since I introduced a friend to the series over Christmas), and I just saw Mathew's farewell *sob*<br />Have seen the next two seasons, it was particularly interesting to hear Mary tell him she hopes she's always <i>your Mary Crawley</i> and not <i>Edith's Mary Crawley</i>. Just another show of how Mathew changed her life for the better. But to be honest, even with Mathew around she was always barely civil to Edith!<br /><br />As for Tony and Mabel, I saw this episode months ago so I don't remember the details. But isn't she (Mary) doing it on purpose to push Tony into Mabel's arms?CrazyCrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17512240982215608638noreply@blogger.com