Downton Abbey, season 3
Nov. 21st, 2012 01:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerI have, through nefarious means, been watching Downton Abbey season 3, and have been duly punished for this nefarity, because Downton Abbey season 3 is full of pain. It's the kind of pain you can only feel when a really good show is being really, really mean, and while I like angst as much as - indeed perhaps more than - the next person, THERE IS A LIMIT, AND OH GOD, DOWNTON ABBEY HAS SURPASSED IT.
SIR ANTHONY STRALLAN LEAVES EDITH AT THE ALTAR. I AM GOING TO HUNT HIM DOWN AND KILL HIM WITH THE SHEER POWER OF MY BRAIN.
The next episode does not appear to involve the Crawley sisters burning down Sir Anthony's house. I am not sure that would actually make me feel better. I am not sure there is enough vengeance in the WORLD to make me feel better. How could he do this to Edith? He's all, "I'm too old and crippled to make you happy! I'm leaving you at the altar as a weird way to raise your self-esteem so you will have the young man you deserve!"
WTF, SIR ANTHONY. THAT WILL NEVER WORK. You have just trampled Edith's self-esteem in the dust and all but ensured that she's going to be a miserable and lonely girl for, if not the rest of her life, certainly years! She's not a particularly resilient person! Way to plunge her into MISERY AND DESPAIR, Sir Anthony!
And I was so on board with Edith/Sir Anthony! A May/December romance that is actually rather romantic, thought I! How interesting! And how awesome that Edith will finally be happy!
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
I hope Sir Anthony dies of a long, slow, dire wasting disease.
I'm going to go lick my wounds and finish that story where Sybil brings Gwen tea while she is ill. It is fluffy and light and very very fluffy and will hopefully succor me in this dark time.
(I will discuss later Sybil & Branson in season 3. I thought Branson in season 3, episode 1 was mortifying enough to spawn a post, but it has been trampled in the dust by SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER DIE DIE DIE BAD CHARACTER DIE.)
SIR ANTHONY STRALLAN LEAVES EDITH AT THE ALTAR. I AM GOING TO HUNT HIM DOWN AND KILL HIM WITH THE SHEER POWER OF MY BRAIN.
The next episode does not appear to involve the Crawley sisters burning down Sir Anthony's house. I am not sure that would actually make me feel better. I am not sure there is enough vengeance in the WORLD to make me feel better. How could he do this to Edith? He's all, "I'm too old and crippled to make you happy! I'm leaving you at the altar as a weird way to raise your self-esteem so you will have the young man you deserve!"
WTF, SIR ANTHONY. THAT WILL NEVER WORK. You have just trampled Edith's self-esteem in the dust and all but ensured that she's going to be a miserable and lonely girl for, if not the rest of her life, certainly years! She's not a particularly resilient person! Way to plunge her into MISERY AND DESPAIR, Sir Anthony!
And I was so on board with Edith/Sir Anthony! A May/December romance that is actually rather romantic, thought I! How interesting! And how awesome that Edith will finally be happy!
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
I hope Sir Anthony dies of a long, slow, dire wasting disease.
I'm going to go lick my wounds and finish that story where Sybil brings Gwen tea while she is ill. It is fluffy and light and very very fluffy and will hopefully succor me in this dark time.
(I will discuss later Sybil & Branson in season 3. I thought Branson in season 3, episode 1 was mortifying enough to spawn a post, but it has been trampled in the dust by SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER DIE DIE DIE BAD CHARACTER DIE.)
