<p>VeryHappy – per the Masterpiece Theater website: </p>
<p>09:00 PM</p>
<p>Downton Abbey, Season 3 - Part 7
Episode # 4307</p>
<p>The Great War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate. The international hit, written by Julian Fellowes, stars Dame Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern and Hugh Bonneville, with guest star Shirley MacLaine. The Crawleys head to a Scottish hunting lodge, while the downstairs staff stays behind at Downton Abbey. New romances flare up, and a crisis unfolds.</p>
<p>Sunday, February 17, 2013
Length : 01 hr, 56 min</p>
<p>I don’t remember it either, but my husband swears it took place. I might spend some time flying through some episodes to try and find it. I’ll get back if I do!</p>
<p>I just watched everything in the last three weeks, and I kinda think I remember that, but I can’t remember when. And if I try to go through them again, I’ll be even further behind in life than I am now!</p>
<p>I’m not sure if O’Brien ever told Thomas, but I think he might have figured it out on his own. In season 2, he is extremely suspicious of O’Brien’s sudden protectiveness of Cora, and even if he was never told specifics about the incident, he must have realized that something drastic must have happened to change O’Brien’s attitude.</p>
<p>Thanks patsmom for the FB parody link. I truly laugh out loud at these–and this was one of the best. oho! I agree with all of their jibes, and yet still love my DA.</p>
<p>I did enjoy this week’s episode. Like that they are calling the baby Sybbie, that silly Lord Grantham is finally letting the young men manage the estate, that an attractive man actually likes Edith, that Mary and Matthew seem headed for a baby, and learning that the Dowager spent an hour with her starched children EVERY day. </p>
<p>I am already pre-grieving that we are coming to the end of this season. Hopefully, like the Granthams over Sybyl, my grief will be short-lived. ;)</p>
<p>I can’t believe that next week is the last show! I feel like it just started! Definitely have already started mourning and can’t wait till it beings again.</p>
<p>Thank you for posting the facebook links. Absolutely love them and forward them to my DD at college!</p>
<p>One of the funniest parts of the FB link is when Matthew asks Grantham what he did to Julian Fellowes to make him write his character as an idiot now. And Grantham replies “ooh, shiny thing.”</p>
<p>I mean really, I know he’s a bit stuffy, but he showed a lot of thoughtfulness and insight in the past; now he’s a blithering fool. </p>
<p>And the line about Kieran Branson being there to play the part of “Irish stereotype” was funny, too.</p>
<p>And Garland, I agree – the part about Lord Grantham as lobotomized infant was the first moment I laughed out loud. The writers really are being mean to him this season. </p>
<p>operadivasmom – do let me know! I really don’t think she ever said it. penguin – do you think the Crawleys told everyone that Cora slipped on a bit of soap? Because I suppose if they did Thomas might have been very likely to put two and two together. You are certainly right that he was very suspicious of the new attitude toward Cora.</p>
<p>I don’t remember Thomas specifically being told about the soap by O’Brien either, but there were so many episodes of the two of them off together and smoking and what seems to be plotting… so maybe she did confess to him.</p>
<p>I know! While I haven’t watched it, I have read the spoilers, so I keep thinking if I don’t watch it, it won’t happen. D1 is going to lose it over this one; she’s already angry with the writers of this season.</p>
<p>I think it starts in the fall in the UK, but I don’t know how long it will take forpeople to post the bootlegs online. The ITV website may have some info.</p>
<p>The neat little bit in the cricket match is that Thomas got a century, meaning 100 runs. There is a quick shot of the scoreboard. That’s the kind of thing which gets talked about for a long time in a village. It’s a real feat. And I thought it humorous they made Thomas the athletic star. It was a nice play off the stereotype of the gay man of that era, which was of a foppish Wilde sort.</p>
<p>I can’t wait for the rest of you to see the last episode so we can talk about it!! I don’t know anyone IRL that has seen the whole season. The person whom I got that link was a friend of a friend.</p>
<p>Well, Wellington did say that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton–where all those guys were trying to kiss the young Lord Crawley.</p>
<p>Well…some of us have seen the ending for a while bc we ordered the DVD’s. (Here in the US - our British friends have known everything longer than we have!) If you want to start a new thread…just throwing that out there. I can wait, or I’ll join you - either way!</p>