What if romance develops for Violet as it has been for Isobel? They could go on a double honeymoon. Can you imagine the men trying to talk to each other?
Now that made me LOL!
I have a feeling that Edith is going to confide in Isobel. Isobel hurt her ankle and it looked to me as if she was going to go and sit by Edith at the cocktail party. Maybe Isobel will let Edith and Marigold come and live with her and Lord whatshisname.
Rosamund is awfully proprietary about Marigold. I have been wondering since last season if she’s in fact Edith’s mother and went through a similar situation when she was young.
I watched carefully the part where Bricker hands something to Carson - it looks like a folded note but could be money for all I know. Carson doesn’t look down at it at all - would’ve been more telling if he did. We will have to wait and see if this comes up again.
I don’t want spoilers…BUT will someone who has seen it all tell me whether the Edith Marigold plot line is resolved this season?
If you watched the recent “Sons of Liberty” miniseries on History channel you may have notiiced that the role of Abigail Adams was played by the same actress who plays Sarah Bunting. I guess Daisy Lewis specializes in playing smart, strong, opinionated women in period-piece costume dramas.
Good catch, Scipio! I just watched Sons of Liberty and did not catch that.
It depends on what you mean by resolved, @missypie.
In P.G. Wodehouse stories there are several references to guests tipping the butler so I think it was probably money. Perhaps it was more expected if a guest did not bring servants of their own to attend them.
I have thought from the beginning of the Isobel/Lord Merton storyline that what bothers Violet most is losing the relationship she has with Isobel. They were so very much at odds at the beginning and now are such close friends, I would imagine that things would be very different if Isobel were to marry the Lord.
I, too, am tiring of the Marigold storyline. Having Edith lurking around on what seems to be a daily basis would annoy me, too, if I were Mrs. D. It’s ridiculous. What happened to her being a strong woman who wanted to write and run a newspaper? This is the kind of thing that is often annoying with DA, when they seem to totally drop a storyline or character development path and, I suppose, hope that we all forget. I love the show but I do find it annoying at times.
Also tired of the Who Murdered Mr. Green plot. How long ago did that happen now? How realistic is it that Scotland Yard, private detectives, etc. would have been employed/assigned to the death of a valet?
I guess I’m one of the few who was not sorry to see Sarah Bunting depart. I’m all for strong, independent young women (I have five Ds who fit that bill!) but I never found her believable with the way the part was written. I don’t think there was much that was appealing about her either, so I never saw that Tom was interested in her for more than her ‘socialist’ views.
Lastly, Robert has been an a$$ for much of this season. I hope that Violet does let him have it, so to speak, and that he realizes that his treatment of Cora is in need of improvement. I don’t blame him for clobbering Mr. Bricker but he needs to snap out of it.
I have a vague recollection that when Gregson hatched his plot to go to Germany, there was a timeline about how long he had to be there, that he had to become a citizen of Germany in order to get a legal divorce there. I remember Edith asking him if he would really do that for her. In other words, he would have to have actually become a citizen in order to get the divorce, to free him from the marriage. Didn’t he disappear right after he got there?
^^That was my understanding on all those points. I wonder if Fellowes ever expected his fans to fact check and dissect every nuance so thoroughly?
If the children that are supposed to surround Anna and Bates haven’t shown up yet, why does Bates think they’re going to start coming along? Maybe she’s been having miscarriages?
And while I’m thinking about ages, how old is Sybbie and how old is Marigold? They look like they’re about two years apart in age, but aren’t they actually about five years apart? We’re in 1924 now-- what years were these two girls born in? (I dare not go out to Mr. Google to discover these facts, because I’m sure to discover other facts I don’t want to know yet.)
Yeah - I wondered about that comment from Bates/Anna about having a bunch of children. Where are they? Haven’t they been married…forever?
Maybe the children will come when Anna stops calling her husband Mr. Bates.
Here is a timeline of events of DA. Don’t scroll down to season 5 if you don’t want to see spoilers. But check it out because it begins with a fascinating timeline of things back to the 1700’s. (1772 - George III creates the title the Earl of Grantham).
They say Little Sybil was born in August 1920
Edith returns from Switzerland around May 1923 so Marigold must be a month old or so by then.
If so, they are a little less than 3 years apart in age.
I’m not going to click on the link because I don’t want to risk spoilers, but that is helpful. Thanks.
So at the time of the shows we’re watching now, fall 1924, Marigold is one and a half (the perfect age to send to boarding school) and Sybbie is four.
Here’s the Tom and Lorenzo recap: http://tomandlorenzo.com/2015/02/downton-abbey-spare-change/
I really don’t think you are “one of the few” 
Our numbers are legion!