Downton Abbey
Sep. 27th, 2011 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Spoilers for eps 1&2 within, and I don't know about you but....
....so far I'm a teeny bit underwhelmed.
Don't get me wrong. I'm still enjoying it, in the same guilty 'I shouldn't be enjoying this romanticised, nostalgic, chocolate box-y claptrap' way that I enjoyed season 1. The Duke of Wotsit, Mr Bates and Anna are still ridiculously sainted, Maggie Smith and Penelope Wilton are just brill, and Ladies Mary, Edith and Sybil are all great fun (and Iain Glen as the possibly evil Lord Beaverbrookalike as Mary's new suitor is yummy, though I'm not getting much UST from the couple yet, but give it time, Iain Glen is a slow burn IMO). However, I don't remember season 1 being quite so trite and predictable.
I mean, is there a single person watching who didn't know that the minute Evil Thomas the gay (former) footman's stretcher bearing comrade said he thought every man had a bullet with his name on it that he would encounter his? Likewise, is there anyone who was surprised when Evil Mrs Bates turned up just after Mr Bates had proposed to Anna?
Oh, I dunno. Probably season 1 was this predictable and I've just forgotten. Am now wondering how long it will be before the Irish driver runs off to join the IRA rather than be subject to conscription. Not long at all, I would imagine.
Spoilers for eps 1&2 within, and I don't know about you but....
....so far I'm a teeny bit underwhelmed.
Don't get me wrong. I'm still enjoying it, in the same guilty 'I shouldn't be enjoying this romanticised, nostalgic, chocolate box-y claptrap' way that I enjoyed season 1. The Duke of Wotsit, Mr Bates and Anna are still ridiculously sainted, Maggie Smith and Penelope Wilton are just brill, and Ladies Mary, Edith and Sybil are all great fun (and Iain Glen as the possibly evil Lord Beaverbrookalike as Mary's new suitor is yummy, though I'm not getting much UST from the couple yet, but give it time, Iain Glen is a slow burn IMO). However, I don't remember season 1 being quite so trite and predictable.
I mean, is there a single person watching who didn't know that the minute Evil Thomas the gay (former) footman's stretcher bearing comrade said he thought every man had a bullet with his name on it that he would encounter his? Likewise, is there anyone who was surprised when Evil Mrs Bates turned up just after Mr Bates had proposed to Anna?
Oh, I dunno. Probably season 1 was this predictable and I've just forgotten. Am now wondering how long it will be before the Irish driver runs off to join the IRA rather than be subject to conscription. Not long at all, I would imagine.