Downton Abbey Season 6 - PBS broadcast

[skatesindreams]

I'm "unspoiled".
I hope that Mary doesn't "change her mind"!

 

[berthesghost]

although i am sorry for tom who desperately needs a friend.

tom seems to desperately need a friend with benefits. But alas, no one seems to bat an eye at all his fangirl drooling over Henry's crankshaft, meanwhile evil-butler can barely say hello to any boy under 40 without the constable being called. I'm sure that lady editor hussy will cure tom's "loneliness".

 

[kittyjake5]

yes

i dont see any special chemistry between them and his love for turning left all afternoon with his friends just made me eye rolly. i was glad when the car crashed so they could go home.

although i am sorry for tom who desperately needs a friend.

I never felt there was any great chemistry between Mary and Matthew. The depth of Mary's grief for Matthew was a revelation to me that she deeply loved Matthew because I always thought that the relationship was one sided which I blamed on Mary's character.

Maybe there will be a romance between Tom and Edith's new editor. Everyone seems to be getting together romantically except
Tom and I agree he desperately needs a friend. I do like the way Mary and Tom have bonded as best friends.

Mary just can't seem to find the right man.

 

[my little pony]

tom looks like he has been getting together romantically with a basket of scones
as soon as the editor got invited to the race, i thought oh good maybe tom can hook up and stop matchmaking

 

[skategal]

Part of me was hoping that Henry had died in the crash so that storyline could be over...

I like Edith and Bertie but she needs to get a clue and say yes immediately.

 

[my little pony]

Part of me was hoping that Henry had died in the crash so that storyline could be over...

I like Edith and Bertie but she needs to get a clue and say yes immediately.

yes to the first part, then mary would have to go everyplace by train and horseback

yes to the second, this merchandise isn't exactly flying off the shelf. what is she thinking over? how much poorer she will be and if she can stand it? she should be able to live off whatever the nazi victim left her.

 

[Artistic Skaters]

Poor Thomas cannot even sit on the nice upstairs furniture when everyone is out of the house without getting mean comments. He just wanted to be part of a fun moment but was denied again.

 

[skategal]

Predictions for upcoming episodes:

Mary will find out about Marigold and tell Bertie. Bertie will be angry but marry Edith anyway.

Tom and the editor will have a fling.

Isabelle will get back together with Lord Merton.

Violet will die. Sad but you know it has to happen.

Cora and Robert will move to London.

Mary will remain single and live at Downton with George and Sibby. Tom will run the estate.

There will be a reduced staff but it will include Carson, Mrs. Hughes, the Bates and Thomas.

Mrs Patmore will retire as cook. Daisy will be the new cook.

Mosley and the young footman who wants to be a pig farmer (forget his name) will both leave service making room for Thomas to stay.

 

[berthesghost]

what is she thinking over?

option a: tell him the truth and potentially have the person I love denounce me as a disgusting whore unfit for civilized society.
Option b: don't tell him and then live with the guilt I tricked the person I love into marrying me, while keeping up this charade that I somehow feel like a mother to some random kid I picked up on a pig farm.
Oh well, I'm a smart woman raised in an institutionally sexist society, so I'll just waffle and be vague until life happens to me as usual.

 

[Artistic Skaters]

Mrs Patmore will retire as cook. Daisy will be the new cook.

But Daisy wants a new career out of service, so if they made Carson the new cook now that he has experience, then Thomas could become the butler. Mrs. Hughes doesn't mind working with him.

 

[Artemis@BC]

Violet will die. Sad but you know it has to happen.

I thought they were leading toward that when they shipped her off, some tragic but fitting foreign death ... then I realized it was probably just so she could have time off for filming The Lady in the Van.

I really don't think Fellowes will kill her off. And that's not just wishful thinking -- if the series had gone on into the 30s, then yes, but at this point I think she'll be dropping her witticisms til the last frame.

Mrs Patmore will retire as cook.

I think Mrs Patmore better not quit her day job. Whoever that was skulking in the underbrush outside her B&B was probably some nasty government inspector all set to hit her with a big fine that will probably mean losing the business, and maybe the house.

 

[danceronice]

Rofl...though I will LAUGH if Daisy fails her exams. That would be so funny. She's such a dope. She's been a spouting know-it-all, but it's Mosley who aced it so well on a last-minute offer he's got a teaching job without having to even go to school. She can get with the illiterate footman and they can go raised pigs with her ex-father-in-law.

Violet will NOT die (unless we come back twenty years down the road and she's just referred to vaguely in the past tense.) Fellowes has spoken. He said she'd just go off to the seaside (and, well, look what happened.)

And now Mosley has a new job, they're going to be short-staffed again, and Robert and Mary can point out to Carson there's no need to rush Thomas out the door, he does love the children.

Edith runs off with Marigold after getting dumped for having a love child. She is, after all, the unluckiest human being on Earth. (I mean, she got knocked up by a man who managed to get killed by the Nazis when they were a minor group of ruffians in Bavarian beer halls, that takes a special amount of 'God hates you.')

 

[skategal]

I was thinking the man in the bushes was a journalist writing up a report on a new B & B in the area, thus making business so brisk that Mrs. Patmore would need to quit as cook. Lol!

 

[skatesindreams]

Bertie doesn't know the truth about Marigold, yet.
From the preview, it seems that the situation will be revealed next week.

 

[my little pony]

i never even thought of violet dying. DONT LET GO VIOLET!

there are plenty of people i could party with but do not touch violet or evil butler. i'm not worried that he would kill mary. i can part with most of the others if i must.

 

[Coco]

Maybe Mary and Edith end up alone, rattling around in that house together. Edith finally reveals her secret 10 years for now when George takes a shine to his first cousin Marigold.

Tom and Lady Editor, of course.

Thomas accepts demotion to footman after Mosley's departure, remains bitter.

Anyone have a theory as to the point of Lord Grantham biting Rosamund's head off at dinner?

 

[skatingfan5]

Maybe Mary and Edith end up alone, rattling around in that house together. Edith finally reveals her secret 10 years for now when George takes a shine to his first cousin Marigold.

I'm pretty sure Edith's sekret baby will be revealed in the next episode (there are only two left, and one is the UK "Christmas special.")

Tom and Lady Editor, of course.

Yes, please. Such an upgrade from Miss Bunting!

Thomas accepts demotion to footman after Mosley's departure, remains bitter.

That would be eating a large slice of humble pie, if he did. Thinking back to season one or two, didn't he display no small proficiency for dance? Perhaps he could leave service to become a tango instructor or something.

Anyone have a theory as to the point of Lord Grantham biting Rosamund's head off at dinner?

I can't recall what Rosamund said that set him off, but she's always irritated him, hasn't she?

 

[skatesindreams]

I don't think that he really "approves" that she is Violet's confidante.

 

[skatingfan5]

I don't think that he really "approves" that she is Violet's confidante.

Ah, sibling rivalry then.

 

[Artemis@BC]

Tom and Lady Editor, of course.

Of course indeed -- but it all seems so convenient. Lady Editor is the only single female around who is bright and pretty but not too upper-crust to be paired with Tom? I like her (what we've seen of her -- we don't know much about her), and I think they could definitely be compatible, but it comes across as the same as all those movies & TV shows where the only two black characters end up together ...

I would have loved it if Lady Editor and Edith were paired, but I don't think we're going to go there.

 

[my little pony]

I would have loved it if Lady Editor and Edith were paired, but I don't think we're going to go there.

edith has more chemistry with the editrix than with her boyfriend, i can get behind this

 

[skategal]

I don't see a true love interest for Tom in Lady editor. I think it will just be that he is dating and trying to find someone.

I also have a new theory about Edith and Bertie. I think Edith tells Bertie about Marigold and he breaks it off with her and Mary learns the truth and patches it up between Bertie and Edith.

 

[Wyliefan]

Maybe Mary and Edith end up alone, rattling around in that house together. Edith finally reveals her secret 10 years for now when George takes a shine to his first cousin Marigold.

Too bad Bette Davis and Joan Crawford aren't still around to play the older versions of them.

I'm just getting caught up with my episodes now. Is #ShutUpDaisy a hashtag yet? If not, why not?

 

[kedrin]

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the new DOWNTON PUP! And the look on Robert's face when he saw her was adorable. #Tiaa

 

[Finnice]

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the new DOWNTON PUP! And the look on Robert's face when he saw her was adorable. #Tiaa

I cried. It was lovely.

 

[Jenny]

If there were more eps left I'd say something's definitely up with Lady Editor, but more than likely she's just supposed to represent the new swinging London girls. Mind you, the idea that she's a lesbian is intriguing and could explain the whole Cassandra thing - wanting to hire her on the spot etc. Would be fun if she came on to Edith though, she does get so flustered!

Maybe the photog is a reviewer, but my first thought was that the nice couple at breakfast were perhaps not married so he's either a detective or paparazzi (did they have such things then?) and that niece is an informant, so Mrs Patmore has to spend more and more time at her inn. That would certainly cushion the fall for Daisy not doing well enough on the exams and staying on at Downton as family cook for the reduced staff and family when Edith moves out. I don't think Daisy will fail - that would reflect badly on Moseley, her tutor - but maybe she'll just do OK and realize that either she has to keep studying or that she should focus on her career as a cook.

I also would prefer that Mary just takes on a series of lovers, with her true love being Downton Abbey. Relationships with her just never seem real enough.

I very much fear as I said last week that Thomas will try to take his own life. Hopefully he can just move to London and be Edith's butler/nanny - that's the perfect solution. Ideally, Edith would ditch that crowded apartment and take the Grantham's townhouse, now that Tom and Mary are making the estate make money.

And oh my the very idea that Violet dies or simply sails off into a Mediterranean sunset! And yet it's possible - the last two eps had her at her very best, and the part when she gave a dog to her son seems awfully symbolic somehow. Loved the scene with Miss Smarmy and with Isobel so much - vintage Maggie. Surely though if she dies that would have crept across the pond? I didn't hear a single spoiler when it aired in the UK.

Of course for me the biggest question is what of Sprat? I want a happy ending for him

 

[Skate Talker]

My theory on Thomas is that he ends up "working" for Bertie's cousin, (was his name Peter?), who was described as a really nice fellow who loves to paint the young men of Tunisia rather than hunt and fish. They probably meet up and become instantly attracted at Edith and Bertie's wedding, or perhaps he comes across Thomas and saves him from suicide in the nick of time and they fall in love. Bertie will of course prove to be totally un-shocked and accept Marigold as his own. Mary will learn the truth and surprise everyone by gaining respect for Edith - come on Mary, stop being so very childish. One would think you were the one who wasn't going to be Queen of Downton.

Mary will relent after Tom's advice sinks in fully and make peace with the rather un-charismatic Henry, though they will not marry. For some reason the writers have failed to make him even as interesting as the boring Evelyn Napier to the point where it has made no sense that Mary was the least interested in him. I thought she had much better chemistry with the guy who worked with Tony Gillingham, or even Gillingham himself. Can you tell I am not a Henry fan? I think the best thing for her would be to stay single as others have suggested. She needs to be in control too much to marry.

Tom and lady editor - check. Tom becomes a great success, first with a repair shop and then as with an upscale car dealership.

Isobel and Lord Merton - check and mate - they will find some way to outlive, or disinherit those horrid sons and future daughter-in-law to have the last laugh. Isobel will probably relent anyway so as not to leave him in the hands of such horrid people. Knowing they don't care for him any more than they do for her will overcome her concerns about coming between them.

Violet will continue to be Violet.

Mrs. Patmore will retire to run her B&B - haven't figured out the skulker's story unless the guests are having an illicit fling.

Andy is sweet on Daisy already and will court her and run the pig farm with Mr. Mason.

Baxter will visit her bad guy and prove to herself that he has no further hold on her. Moseley and Baxter will start courting once he leaves the house to teach.

 

[JasperBoy]

I missed the episode in which Mrs Patmore acquired the B&B. Can someone explain, please?

 

[Coco]

I am afraid for Thomas. The show is a somewhat rose colored view of the eras it depicts, but it is still a morality tale of sorts. He is not going to end up in a good place. And really, the actor who plays him is AMAZING. To give a villain like that so much nuance and depth...oh, I can't stand it.

 

[Skate Talker]

I missed the episode in which Mrs Patmore acquired the B&B. Can someone explain, please?

A distant child-less relative made her a sole heiress to a modest sum. They used it as a humorous part when she asked Carson for advise on what to do with the money and he ended up giving her some very poorly researched advise to invest in a building company the family had been talking about. She and Mrs. Hughes had to do some fancy footwork to ignore the advise without bruising his delicate male ego.