Lord Grantham is pretty old-school and hidebound, so I can see him feeling like it would destroy everything if the named head guy wasn't actually in charge.
Yeah. He's my hero.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Feb 08, 2013 4:23:08 pm PST #10499 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Stephanie - Feb 08, 2013 4:24:10 pm PST #10500 of 30001
Trust my rage
Cool- I should start watching the show. Everyone loves it. But I'm already so far behind on the shows I do watch.
§ ita § - Feb 08, 2013 4:25:33 pm PST #10501 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Speaking of lather--I managed to make it to 44 before buying Bronner's--does it normally lather weakly? I tried two small bottles to test scents, but I'm surprised that such a renowned soap seems to be performing...differently.
sumi - Feb 08, 2013 4:26:42 pm PST #10502 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
smonster - Feb 08, 2013 4:31:34 pm PST #10503 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
ita, yes. Bronner is not a big lathering soap.
Over 300 posts I catch up on, and I comment on soap. Go fig.
-t - Feb 08, 2013 4:33:20 pm PST #10504 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
IME Dr. Bronner's is not big on suds. ISTR that may have been mentioned in the myriad of bizarre writings that covered the bottle, that there wouldn't be a lot of lather but the clean would still happen.
Jesse - Feb 08, 2013 4:33:26 pm PST #10505 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Cool- I should start watching the show. Everyone loves it. But I'm already so far behind on the shows I do watch.
The good news is, it's not a lot of episodes?
Sue - Feb 08, 2013 4:38:24 pm PST #10506 of 30001
hip deep in pie
OH! Oh! I know this. The entail means that Lord Grantham doesn't have the right to break the estate up (or leave to his daughters). Whatever way the inheritance is written, the current is really kind of holding the estate in trust for the next in line. Somehow Grantham's father must have had Cora transfer her money to the estate, so now that is part of the Estate, meant to be inherited by the next male heir.
Also, I'm pretty sure Downton has aired everywhere in the world now. Do we need to still white font for season 1?
Sue - Feb 08, 2013 4:38:25 pm PST #10507 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Not important enough to say twice.
le nubian - Feb 08, 2013 4:59:44 pm PST #10508 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Hil,
the question you asked about "Downton Abbey" you have received good responses, but I would offer you this advice: the show is not particularly deep. So while some things can be confusing at first, hang in there. It will be explained 2-6 more times in subsequent episodes. The level of complexity is at its height in Season 1. Never quite so complicated after that.