Downton Abbey

I'd heard he was leaving, but didn't expect it to happen last night! It certainly won't be the same without him.... I was also a bit taken aback by Lady Mary's sudden transformation back into bitchy mode - I thought the point was that she'd become a nicer person after all the trials and tribulations of the three series!

Wot a load of tosh! It has got more melodramatic with each episode and last night was the worst..will not be picking up the new series!

Ooh, I love a bit of melodrama!

I gave up after the first series [which I loved] but caught a bit last night whilst the S.O. was watching it. I kept pointing out that I thought such and such a character was blind/crippled/incurably ill etc only to be told they had made miracle recoveries. At which point I was glad that I'd stopped watching it; there is a limit to how many times one can suspend disbelief....

...ok I know it's not really real ....

..she says realising that she's making a point of watching the programme about The Moomins tonight....

Blimey! - heaven forfend that there eshould be a happy ending!

It's all got a bit silly. There were hints at the beginning that Lady Mary was pregnant, even though she didn't look it. She dances a reel which brings on twinges of premature labour, pops on a train to return home - don't they have hospitals in Scotland? Gives birth to a baby that in those days probably wouldn't have survived due to lack of advanced neo-natal care and the doting father is then seen cuddling a bonny baby that looks about a week old.

Of course, he may not be dead. Perhaps the writers wanted to leave their options open in case he decides not to leave the cast in the next series.

He looked pretty dead to me! - but then again he has already made a miracle recovery from a spinal injury so anything is possible!

And it is tv.

You mean it's not real?? Nobody told me!

Did someone shoot him? And was it all a dream? deja vu.....

I think I must be the only person who has never watched this programme. (Pause for gasps of disbelief!).

There are very few things that I watch where you have to watch for weeks on end otherwise you can't follow the story. Probably why I watch so little TV and rely on DVDs instead!