I’m not toying with Wikipedia at all until I’ve watched the final episode.
Something similar to “slip on the soap” was in Upstairs, Downstairs eons ago.Same scenarios.
Bertie coming back is too easy so that’s probably what will happen. But I don’t hold out for happiness on that front if it does happen. But the series will be over so we’ll only know on the fan fiction sites.
Mary will tell Marigold around her 6th birthday while the candles are glowing at some grand celebration…
.“I predict you won’t like the cake…Your mom never could cook.” Oops. :).
(Because of course Edith STILL has the “grand secret” that the entire universe knows.)
I’ll be very sad to see this series end.
But I still hope it ends well with some integrity to the story Otherwise I’ll have to meet you all at a bar somewhere and hash this mess out!
“Yes, remember when Cora slipped on the bar of soap planted by O’Brien and lost the baby? As predictable as it gets”
Remember when the faux-but-possibly-real Patrick Crawley survived the Titanic with amnesia and developed a Canadian accent, joined the Canadian army and fought in WWI, got wounded and then recuperated at Downton Abbey, and fell in love with Edith?
Amnesia is perhaps the soapiest of all soap opera plot devices. It’s extremely rare in real life but happens left and right on soap operas.
That resurrected Patrick was one of several plot lines that just petered out without ever really being resolved. It just faded away and never came back.
Haha. All this reminsicing of the corny and overused soapy plot devices makes me wonder why I enjoy Downton Abbey so much. I think a lot of my interest is the costuming and other eye candy trappings and Violet’s one liners. They seem to be enough to keep me entertained for 50 minutes.
It definitely wouldn’t have held my interest without Violet. I think she made the show! Mary comes in 2nd for me.
Speaking of soap opera plot twists: Mathew couldn’t walk due to his war injuries. And then he could.
Bates also seems pretty mobile these days.
Just think how much we would all love an excellent period drama.
What can we talk about after this is over? This has been fun.
The people vs. O. J. Simpson? My guilty new pleasure.
I’m a sucker for any Masterpiece Theater, I really liked the one about India.
Any Call the Midwife fans? Season 5 starts in about a month.
Bates’s disability has been an on-again-off-again thing for a long time. Back when he was in prison he used to walk around and around the exercise track with that other prisoner with whom he was plotting without even so much as even a trace of a limp. But when the plot needs him to be disabled he can barely stumble around the aid of a cane.
I adore Call the Midwife. My other PBS shows are Grantchester, Last Tango in Halifax, and The Great British Baking Show. I think we are going to have a new show about Queen Victoria’s long reign to take the place of Downton next year.
LOVE Call the Midwife–much more than Downton and yet here I am 
Did anyone see The Vicar and Cop Season 1?? Is it good?
LOVE Call the Midwife! Thanks for the heads up about season 5, doschicos!
At this point, I prefer to see Edith as the successful career woman living in London happily with her little girl.
@VeryHappy Grantchester was great imo. Loved that series.
The Vicar and the Cop series is Grantchester.