Poor Edith

They need to find her something to do. Maybe she can fix that stove?

• Why would you want that digbat to fix the stove?

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• I really feel bad for her, and relate to her. She's sort of the awkward underdog who gets continually run over by life. Some of the scenes where she's at drinks after dinner in the parlor, I totally relate. She's either getting told off by her sister, or some guy is showing interest in someone besides her. Totally my life.

• Hey Edith! Get in here and fix this here stove!

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• Thank heavens she comes out as a lesbian later in the season.

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• At least Edith has some gumption. Watching that chinless Matthew every week debate his own internal demons is turning quite boring. They need to kill him off.

• The actress is way to pretty to buy as someone no one would want to marry. They should have cast Lena Dunham.

• I'd hit that.

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• R6 Its not that there are no men who want to marry her. Its that A) most of the eligible men are dead and B) eligible for them are men who have money, title etc.

• Maybe she and the Dowager Countess can masturbate together.

• She could always join the hookers that Isobel is helping out.

• Why doesn't she just find, fuck and marry one of the land farmers who work for her dad? He sister married the chauffer. Edit's so desperate to have her kitty punched that it would seem plausible to marry someone of a lower social standing. I mean, it WAS done.

• I have a feeling the tall footman is going to knock her up.

• What happened to that farmer she kissed from Season 2?

• What happened to Shirley Maclaine? I thought she was a regular now.

• [quote]What happened to that farmer she kissed from Season 2? He had a wife. And she nearly chased Edith off her property after coming on to her husband.

• I feel bad for her too; that actress ought to punch Julian Fellows for giving her such a shitty character. Aside from all the obvious reasons to feel her for her, she's a creature of her time. She has no outlet - she can't say "fuck it" and run off to London, get drunk and walk the streets with her skirts over head. The one thing in life that's expected of her - to marry well - she's failed at. Plus, I don't see why Mary still has to be such a cunt to her. She got her rich husband and could surely afford to be a bit gracious.

• That actress was born to play Dorothy de Rothschild, the look is nearly exact.

• R16, Mary doesn't owe Edith a damn thing, not after Edith outed Mary's one night stand just to be ugly.

• Well, she did it in retaliation for some cunty behavior from Mary. Plus, Mary got her back by that shit she talked to Sir Anthony in Season 1 so surely those two are even at this point.

• Yeah I don't get why Edith's parents can't attract a suitable husband through a substantial dowry. Isn't that what they did with homely spawn back then?

• R20 Perhaps you have not been watching but there are two problems. One, as already mentioned, all the men who are eligible are dead and two, her parents are broke.

• I don't think she is homely at all. She was much more attractive when her hair was all messed up like bedhead after being jilted. The hairstyles of the times were not flattering.

• I want to see a Parent Trap storyline where a housemaid who looks just like her appears on the scene. They switch places and Edith fucks everyone downstairs, even Daisy, and then returns to her former life, now a very experienced Lady Edith.

• I'd love to see her become an adventuress. Sail off to India, shoot tigers with a Raja, become interested in social causes, flirt with radical politics- basically become a glamorous Edwina Mountbatten type figure. This was not impossible for an Earl's daughter.

• The actress, Laura Carmichael aka Lady Edith. Very attractive.

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• I guarantee you she will have a better career than the woman playing Mary. She was good in "Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy".

• Edith becomes more fashion forward than anyone else as this season goes on. At least they give her that much.

• R21 I have watched all the episodes but I can't believe every eligible bachelor is dead and the money issue just came up. Surely they could have bought her a husband before the money was lost. Also, they considered the possibility of sending Mary to Italy to find a husband (before Matthew came and saved her reputation) so why don't they do that for poor Edith? And maybe the reason why Edith was jilted at the alter is because one-armed what's his face found out they were broke.

• R25 a hairstyle can make all the difference in the world.

• Why did she want to marry the gimp geezer anyway? As the footman said, she could do better.

• Today, a girl like Edith would be total fag hag material. All she needs is a drinking habit and a gay BFF and she's every straight, unmarriagable, female friend I've ever had.

• I feel sorry for Lady HEdith of Downton Sixby.

• r31 I think you have a brilliant idea. Let's give her a drinking problem and introduce a[italic] likeable[/italic] gay character. This show needs both.

• Edith will find some sort of joy, I'm sure. I wouldn't be surprised if she makes a noble marriage, the second son of a duke, marquess, earl etc. Her jilted one-armed knight might even come back, who knows!

• I think R23 and R24 both need to be hired as writers for Downton Abbey!

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• [quote] Today, a girl like Edith would be total fag hag material. Absolutely

• "Today, a girl like Edith would be total fag hag material." Edith and Thomas would make a good pair.

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• I felt so badly for her character - jilted at the altar! Poor ol' plain faced Edith. She seems to have a brain and a kind personality and her looks are middling; she's not hideous. I hope her life path becomes more interesting, hope there is some twist to come -- she deserves it. I would love it if Edith became a feminist suffragette activist, for example. (very 1920s)

• She was the worst Zoomer ever

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• This show is beyond ridiculous, and no, I don't expect it to be a documentary. Maggie Smith's character rushing up to the altar and demanding Edith "let him go" was ludicrous. Her son married an American Jewess for her money. Her daughter-in-law married her son for a title. Neither one loved the other. Her pretty granddaughter ran off with the Irish chauffeur, who to someone in Maggie's position would be the human equivalent of donkey dung. Her eldest granddaughter is known by all of society as someone who killed a Turk in her own bed through literal fuckery, then enlisting the household help and mama into dragging the body through a half mile of house. And she jumps up at her plain, dull granddaughter's wedding and demands her granddaughter be jilted at the altar by a wealthy aristocrat because he's a little older and has a bad arm? He's got a huge country home, and she's upset because the bedrooms aren't up to snuff? This is the same woman who sympathized with selfish brat Daisy the dumbass kitchen maid who felt guilty about marrying another dying servant? She knows her granddaughter actually loves her fiancé and she would make a spectacle of herself at her granddaughter's wedding, telling the poor girl that she needs to be jilted in front of everyone for her own good?

• The show needs a fun, handsome gay aristocrat (maybe that Duke?) to come on the scene and befriend Edith. They'd be drinking/partying/adventure buddies and have a marriage of convenience. He could be a famous poet or something. They'd be soul mates, they just wouldn't sleep together (except maybe once or twice to make a couple of babies)

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• [quote]This show is beyond ridiculous It's a soap opera. What do you want from it?

• I wouldn't say she was attractive in that photo. She's a bit owlish. Something avian about her.

• I love the show but find it ludicrous that PBS includes it under the "Masterpiece Classic" banner. Dickens, Austen, et. al. are classics. No one will have heard of Julian Fellowes in 100 years.

• Aren't there stables on the property with some strapping young stable lads?

• I think she is avian looking too but I've also noticed that birdlike features crop up quite frequently in human faces just as quite a lot of people have simian-like or hound-like features.

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• I like r41's idea. Maybe an Oscar Wilde bon vivant type. The show could really use that.

• Wouldn't it be great to have a witty gay Oscar Wilde type of character trading barbs with Maggie Smith?

• Upstairs/Downstairs (1.0), Poldark, The Forsyte Saga, The Dutchess of Duke Street were all soap operas and were not ridiculous. They were fun, fictional, melodramatic, sudsy, but not overly insulting to the intelligence. DA is literally senseless. The dowager countess pooh-poohs the fact that everyone knows Mary took a dark foreigner into her bed (this is early 20th century Britain, where Mr Pamouk would have been condisered a "wog" even though he was not Indo-Pakistani) within hours of meeting him, then dragged his dead body back to his bed; but she's horrified her spinster granddaughter might marry a respectable wealthy Englishman and publicly calls for her to be humiliatingly jilted at the altar. I could see if the show were set in the 1500s. But it's set in the 1920s and there are reams of information on how the titled aristocracy behaved back then. Violet would have been confined to a distant part of the house with a nurse for the rest of her life, allowed to stroll a walled garden in good weather and receiving a weekly visit from the vicar. If they wanted the show to be this crazy ass, they should have set it in ancient Rome where the aristocracy was insane, brutal, two-faced and so very far in the past that we have little written (and no photographic or video) contemporary account of life.

• [quote] I like [R41]'s idea. Maybe an Oscar Wilde bon vivant type. The show could really use that. But then it would be Mapp and Lucia without Mapp. Edith should go to America, marry a rich Jew and become a fashion designer.

• I do believe Uptown Downstairs Abbey is more believable than this show. And more interesting. The cloth puppet is less dull than Mr Bates and Anna.

• Sorry, it's Upstairs Downton Abbey

• For crying out loud, r49, stop bitching and moaning about its "ridiculousness" and just stop watching it if it bothers you that much! I'm sure it's galling to you that it's such a huge hit, but there's nothing you can do about it. There are millions of people who enjoy its "ridiculousness." You sound like a cranky old cunt.

• I would like to see an entire series starring Simon Callow as Julian Fellowes.

• I think Edith will get her revenge by landing the best catch of them all: maybe royalty! Wouldn't that be something? Then she can rub bitchy Mary's nose in it like a naughty dog that has done doodoo on the Persian carpet. And hopefully Mary will have to grovel at her feet at some point when she's down and out. Well one can dream can't one?

• [quote] There are millions of people who enjoy its "ridiculousness." And millions who don't. Deal with it. You're a controlling old twat.

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• R55, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was a "Lady Edith" type: a dowdy daughter of a Scottish Earl who married Prince Bertie, the Duke of York.

• The pitiful trials of Edith are some of the great joys of Downton. I hope they find more ways to embarrass and debase her.

• Lady Edith should go down to London and join forces with Radclyffe Hall ("The Well of Loneliness").

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