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I think Sybil would be a wonderful name also.

Flopbert isn't getting his way in the christening thing and you know it.

Bates could shank his cell mate, and then spin Anna some story about how it couldn't possibly have been him and the cell mate obviously committed suicide in order to frame him.

The scales fall from her eyes, and Anna walks the hell away.

could also be "so" or "it".

OOOH. I LIKE YOUR SPECULATION FOR #7.

bb i have missed your flawless spot-on comments so much! ;___; I have had almost no time for LJ, are you on twitter or something? I need your pithiness in my life tbh #hangbates

I've embarked on a "Picspam Every Episode of Downton Abbey" project, so for the foreseeable future, all my before the cut pics are going to be random caps that I've edited for that project. XD And me being me, there is a lot of Mary.

4. Same, same. Well, I mildly dislike person junior names when the person is living. But when they're dead (especially recently deceased), it's feels like you're replacing the dead person with the new one and yeah. idk. I don't lie it.

YEP, same here tbh. i'm going through the grief stages, right now i'm at anger. WHY did she have to die? no really though, any solid explanations why the writers thought this just had to happen?!

I agree - and, JBF wanting to leave aside, it was such an unnecessary death, just to create 'drama' which could have just as easily been created with her alive. There were so may ways her character could have developed, and it was sad to see her so underwritten even before she died.

oh man if Thomas starts getting decent tail i will be watching those episodes on repeat until my eyes explode. no shame.

oh man, I would flip out if they found another interest for Anna. but with how they've written the storyline, that is never going to happen.

and I think it was a lot more common back then to name children after their parents.

Being named after our grandparents is very common in my country (Greece).
It's the most common naming process, actually, but now many people can just choose names they like for their children. (We're kinda traditional, to the point where grandparents would fight for their name to be given to a child, or not talk to their kids if it didn;t happen, etc., but now most grandparents don't really care and let their children name their kids the way they want)

But being named after your parent is a different thing. It is very rare here, much rarer than the USA/UK etc., from what I've gathered, and it's also considered very bad luck. There is a saying that, if a parent and a child have the same name, one of them will die [:/] ''beofre their time'', and I've actually heard it happen.

And anyway, I find it really stupid! I had a friend once who had two older brothers who were named after his male grandparents, and since there were ''no other names left'', they named him after his own father. Everyone is fine, but anyway, it's considered very weird here.

I was born within three months of my grandmother's passing and was named after her. I have no issue with it, in fact I'm honored to have been named after someone so universally beloved in my family.

haha ikr, i actually sometimes get them mixed up for a second!

i saw a promo pic and was all "holy fuck why are there two Daisies?"

disturbing, tbh.

Yeah I definitely heard that in the promo as well.

I can't root for Thomas/Jimmy it will only end in tears smh

no, he actually had a heart attack or something, he wasn't murdered.

I figure he had an aneurysm. Didn't see the actual death, so who knows?

Edith Napier poisoned him, for reasons political. (Perhaps the Napiers have a financial interest in the Turkish status quo.) Sure, Bates said that poisoning Pamuk would be impossible because you'd have to get past Mrs Patmore, but in the very episode where he said that we see that Patmore had cataracts, so that wasn't a problem.

Evelyn decided to off Pamuk at Downton because he knew Robert would be the sort to try to keep things quiet to avoid scandal or publicity. Plus, the local medical man was an employee of the estate and unlikely to kick up a fuss about an inquest. Especially if Evelyn sowed seeds in the right ears about heart trouble or something. Having gotten Pamuk's manservant out of the way with a little more subtle poisoning, they head for Yorkshire.

Evelyn couldn't believe his luck at how well it went down. Even he didn't imagine they'd hush up the death so quickly as to have the body out of the house and buried before it was even cold.

It wasn't until later when Edith's letter reached London and rumours began to spread that he began to suspect why the Crawleys might have moved so quickly. As damage control he makes sure Mary knows where the London rumours came from. If anyone were to suspect he was the source they might start asking uncomfortable questions. Plus, he needs the Crawleys to know about the potential scandal so they can quash questions asap.

Unfortunately, the rumours get out of hand and this Vera Bates seems to have evidence that Pamuk died in Mary Crawley's bed. Evelyn panics - publicity might mean questions about the exact circumstances of Pamuk's death. What if there's an enquiry? Or an exhumation? Much easier to shut Vera up and head off the risk. After all, he rightly figures that her violent drunk ex-con adulterous husband will take the blame. And he hopes self-interest will continue to distract the Crawleys from looking beyond Mary's reputation to the real crime.

Just kidding. Pamuk died of SADS and Vera murdered herself.

I just want Bates dead, lbr. I don't even watch any of his scenes.

i actually wondered if Jimmy might be gay (or lean that way) and he wants Thomas' attentions off of him so as not to ~out him, because he gets a lot of perks in his position from being a ladies' man? idk idk ... may be wishful thinking haha. also he didn't really answer ivy and i thought kind of blew her off but then again that's exactly the kind of man I'm attracted to ... although on the other hand sometimes they DO turn out to be gay! ;)

a roast!