Wednesday, February 5, 2014

WHAT? WEDNESDAY: LADY EDITH

Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell,

If you haven't seen this week's episode of Downton Abbey yet, then stop reading NOW. Spoilers ahead!

While we wait for the uninitiated to depart, I have an announcement: We shall have a guest post on Friday by Jessica L. Brooks, author of If I Speak True.




Okay. I think we've dumped the folks who haven't seen Downton Abbey yet this week.

You know we need to dish about Lady Edith. What in the world will she do? Robert is going to shit a brick cackle and lay eggs when he finds out she has a bun in the oven. She can't find Michael, who so callously robbed her of her virginity as she spread her legs and enjoyed the romp in the hay, and then he disappeared.

So what do you think? Will Michael turn up? If he doesn't, then what should Edith do? I think that a way of keeping Tom Branson, the Irish chauffeur who was married to the adorable Lady Sibyl who died immediately after the birth of her baby and then they made Tom the estate manger, uh, where was I?

Here are Sibyl and Tom before she bought the farm, and I don't mean purchased land – bought the farm as in went toes up:




Oh, yes. To keep Tom from moving to America with Baby Sibyl, he could marry Edith to save the family's reputation.

What do you think poor beaky-nosed Lady Edith should do?



She's not showing yet, but she will be before long.

Lady Edith before she got knocked up:




It must be so difficult to be Lady Mary's younger sister. Here's my favorite photo of Mary:



No wonder Edith makes such a display of herself:


She has to do whatever it takes to get attention, but I don't think she'll like the attention she gets for being on the nest without a husband.

So, please, I eagerly await your responses regarding what Edith should do, as do Edith and her unborn bastard child. And I hope they don't make the problem go away with a miscarriage. They that dance must pay the piper.


Infinities of love,

Janie Junebug

27 comments:

  1. Pissed myself at the lady Mary photo

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  2. Spoiler Shady here, Janie Junebug, come to dish the dirt on Downton. I've watched the previews and I have the following disclosures. For the first few months, Lady Edith convinces mum and daddy it's a "food baby." When she's about ready to drop she cleverly manages to steal Jack, the African American Jazz Singer, away from Lady Rose and elope with him. ("Once you go Jack... you never go back.")

    The Dowager appears to come down the a case of the sweats and is bed ridden. As it turns out, it was merely morning sickness and, in the season shocker, she admits she's preggers to none other than Mister Molesley!

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    1. I read your comment to Willy Dunne Wooters, but I was laughing so hard I don't know if he understood anything I said.

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  3. Oh, I don't have to do abs today because I laughed so hard!!!! Ah, Lady Edith...cluck, cluck. It will be interesting how this unfolds.

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  4. Wanted to read, but I'm a season behind. Dammit.

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  5. When I decided to stop watching the program, I searched the ending. So I know. So sorry.

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    1. You don't have to be sorry unless you give it away. Last year I found out before the U.S. season began that Matthew was going to die in the last episode.

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  6. This post made me smile. I guess we will have to wait and see what happens.

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    1. I'm glad you smiled, Beth. Sometimes I worry that I'm unacceptable to polite society.

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  7. Lady Mary is a man, right? If she is a woman, she is seriously the ugliest woman I've ever seen!

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  8. Downtown Abbey? What's that?

    Blessings and Bear hugs!

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  9. I dont watch this series as they dont show it here. But your post made me laugh.
    www.thoughtsofpaps.com

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    1. I'm glad you could enjoy it even without seeing the show, PAPS.

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  10. Poor Edith! She wears her heart on her sleeve and trusts too easily. Starved for love--and for good reason being the least pretty of the three daughters and always overlooked--she is in a real pickle. As much as that storyline grabs my attention--I am wondering more how Bates is going to find out the identity of the rapist, which I am sure he will eventually--and will he kill the bastard or not? ;) And what does Thomas have over the new ladies maid that he can make her do his bidding? And will the Dowager toss out another one-liner that will make me laugh out loud so that I have to rewind? ;)

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    1. Will Mr. Bates actually commit murder this time? It just occurred to me that Anna calls her husband "Mr. Bates". Does he have a first name? Maybe his first name is "Mister".

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  11. Well hi there, Janie. It's (I quote) "been a while", but that's because poor me was virtually blind for a long time and I also got a free psychedelic trip. But I'm doing much better now, thank you for asking ;), so I thought I would add you to my partners in crime list. You don't mind, now do you? I thought so. Not much of a crime when Janie's not in.

    Anyhooters and straightshooters... you were talking about the many mysteries in our little world, like where's my whipstore and in your post you said something that's a mystery too: how exactly does one shit a brick?

    Well, Blue is back. I hope you're all good. Or bad. Which is good if bad means great.

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    1. I think you can take "shit a brick" literally. I'm doing pretty well. I have a very nice boyfriend named Willy Dunne Wooters. People mistake him for Ryan Gosling all the time. One of my dogs, Scout, died on Labor Day. Franklin and Harper are still with me. I'll sulk a little because I had to whine to get added to the partners in crime list, but I'll take the bone you throw me. I'm glad you're back.

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  12. I have yet to watch Downtown Abbey. Maybe I should...?

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    1. Yes, you should, but don't try to start watching with the current season. You'd be hopelessly confused. Begin with the beginning. It takes some time to figure out who all these people are.

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  13. Another amazing show that I don't watch. lol. I am losing my cool cred with TV entertainment. Still I loved Fred Armisen in drag, always funny.

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    1. I didn't even know that was Fred Armisen, but I can tell you about every character on Downton Abbey.

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