I'm midway through Season 2. It's an interesting watch, though it's kind of too coarse for me sometimes. I will have more thoughts when I finish.
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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I am *so* loving Downton Abbey. I can't believe they're dumbing it down for US audiences. I'm not entirely sure what needs to be simplified. I'd never heard of "entail" before, and I get it.
I am *so* loving Downton Abbey.
It's absolutely wonderful. The first good thing shown on ITV in decades. What are they doing to dumb it down?
They're cutting out an hour, doing something about the entail (seriously, I don't get entail--I just get that the guy is now the heir, end of story), and speeding it up so that he arrives in the first episode.
Okay, caught up on Misfits.
That is...quite a show, considering it's more or less about a group of deeply stupid people. Except for Simon. They need to listen to Simon a lot more.
Oh, thank god. There's nothing obvious to lose, and no way losing anything makes the inheritance plot easier to understand.
Wouldn't which properties and money involved in the entail be something that would be planned at the time the entail was created? (i.e., I seem to remember that there was some small amount of money that Mr. Bennett from Pride and Prejudice was able to pass on to his daughters.)
I love the ironing of the newspapers.
I have to confess, I've ironed newspapers. A friend in England wrapped and padded a boxful of Christmas presents in newspaper. I smoothed out a sheet which happened to be a front page with a sensational murder trial report. The other pages were so wrinkled and crumpled, I wound up ironing all th pages so I could read all the titillating horrid evidence about the murders. The ads were fun, too. The newspaper may have been the best present she sent, that year.