Cora walking up to them saying she wished she could join Anna and Bates for dinner… Talk about class! She has many great moments in the show but that quick one is so great!
4:55 Sybil's face is so funny here. I love how she can barely look away from Mary and Matthew- she's so transfixed she looks like she's watching her favorite show
Of all Lady Violets words of wisdom, the one I have taken away and I live by since I first heard it: "Seems a pity to miss a good pudding." Violet may be gone but her lesson will live in me!
She said "Debretts". It is a book, a Who's Who guide to the upper classes. I smiled at the idea you thought she would say "Brits", a very modern slang for British. That would have been the opposite of class 😀
My eyes started leaking at Tom's reaction to hearing that Sybil had told Mary she wanted the baby to be baptised in the Catholic faith. I'm not a Christian at all but faith is very important to many and it's clear that to have yet one more tiny remembrance of Sybil meant so much to Tom.
I love the Sea Monster one because Sybil stops the servants from giving her food so she can watch Mary and Matthew 😂 It always cracks me up. It’s like it’s a show and she wants to see how it will end
Cora's words at the end, in the last scene is so deep, because most likely she would have had to sacrifice a lot of who she was, her beliefs, etc, when she married into that family.
Personally, I have learnt a lot from the characters of Violet and Cora. Those women have made me see things differently. Now I deal with a lot of problems in my life quite effectively and practically. But at the same time, I also enjoy my life. For example, the line "No life appears rewarding if you think too much about it" is a lesson for lifetime for an overthinker like me. I also got inspired a lot by Cora's strict but compassionate character and ability to handle difficult situations practically and calmly.
Isn't it marvelous to see characters one can draw life lessons from? A shame so many works of fiction try to show perfect protagonists, or hollow self-inserts. But great when we see examples of real virtue and struggle well-met on screen!
I watched the whole series a while ago and I have never paid much attention to Cora, but these videos make me appreciate how she was a good character, calm and fair to people.
In the movie Clash of the Titans (1981) Andromeda is cursed to be chained to the rock by the sea goddess Thetis. Thetis was played by Maggie Smith, aka our beloved dowager, Violet Rest in Peace Maggie Smith ❤ you were the most brilliant star
This show is definitely one of the best show I've watched (and I watched quite a large number of them) ! Cora is definitely a character that is so underestimated but from the beginning we can see that she is strict but at the same time kind and loving. The well being of her household is the most important thing for her and for that she is ready to fight, always with elegance and dignity.
FROM THE REMARKABLE CASTING , SCREEN WRITIERS PRODUCERS, LIGHTING , CAMERA MAKE-UP, AND SO MUCH MORE..... TO THE ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS AND HANDSOME. ACTRESSES AND ACTORS WEARING THE PERFECT CLOTHING. WHAT A MAGNIFICENT EXPERIENCE TO GO THROUGH THIS WONDERFUL JOURNEY OF DOWNTON ABBEY. THANK YOU ALL THANK YOU VERY MUCH ❤
I can't be the only one who thought it was hilarious they actually thought he was trying to MURDER someone! Don't get me wrong, I get the stakes here in general, but their minds went immediately to murder?? Tom is radical for his time, but he ain't THAT crazy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
We're let to know him better throughout the show and we know now he's not a killer/murderer; however, I found it to be a fair assumption. I mean, he was very clear from the beginning about what his ideals were and even one of the first things he does when he was introduced in the show was to invite Lady Sybill to a protest. I also found hilarous that it took a lot of time and effort for him to convince the family he was not going to burn the abbey.
@@leoncarrillo89 That's exactly it thought, even Tom wasn't about to risk his own life or anyone else's for his ideals because as he says when he and Sybil returned from that gathering (it wasn't actually a protest, but it turned into one, so remember that part) that "I'm a socialist, but I'm not a lunatic". And no he didn't invite Sybil to that gathering, SHE knew what it was, but Tom didn't, and he even said if he knew what it was, he wouldn't have taken her. He actually was aghast when they got there.
@@jenniferhiemstra5228 On the other hand, he wasn't as aghast at the goings on as he was at the fact that SHE was there. He knew it was a dangerous place for HER. Forgetting for the moment how well we know Tom, some individuals espousing the same beliefs as him were involved in uprisings, etc. Its just like racism. You hear about a few notorious bad apples and if you are isolated enough, its easy to think "they're all alike."
@@Robert08010 Ahhhh but you forget the rest of that phrase…”a few bad apples…spoils the barrel” It’s not about isolation, it’s about how things like this can spread in insidious and subtle ways. But you make a a point, about him knowing it was dangerous for her at least.
They didn't know that..plus his ominous-sounding note combined with his very vocal disdain for the english government and "that lot"... lol, the rest of the servants didn't know him THAT well.
Then there's the luncheon when Spratt kept trying to put Mosley in a bad light (and burned his hands in the process), all because he thought Mosley was after his job, when it was no such thing.
An authentic touch, at 6.20 you hear"Tristesse" which means sadness, on the piano. It is a melody by Chopin which was popular in those times. My grandmother would hum it to my mother as a child. It is a beautiful piece that always makes me sad and nostalgic.
I’ve written it’s title and author down to find on YT. What a sweet memory to have of your mother and her mother. My mother would play “Ragtime Cowboy Joe” on the piano her folks bought her in the late 1930’s. Mom’s piano has lived in my middle daughter’s home since Christmas time 2017.
Jeez to think how much of a non-issue being Protestant and marrying Catholic is nowadays and just how much of an issue was 60+ years ago really shows how much things have changed.
My grandparents were Catholic (South Boston Irish) and Protestant (German Lutheran) and when they married, you’d think they’d committed a felony. The grandparents only wavered when grandkids came along. And honestly, it’s still the same in some places.
Isn't it amazing how Lord Grantham is so scathing about poor Ethel having a child out of wedlock...but several series on he just accepts that his daughter, Edith, has done the same thing!!
Actually, it’s Miss Jean Brodie from “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, Nora Charleston from “Murder by Death”, Bowers from the original “Death on the Nile” and Daphne Castle from “Evil Under the Sun”, among others.
Because the general represents oppression and genocide in Ireland,by the English.Tom is a proud Irish man and the struggle for independence at that time was ongoing. I suggest you read and study the history books. Because the schools in England are avoiding teaching about it!
He wanted to protest the British army. Originally je wanted to be a conscientious objector (incredibly rare at the time) when he was drafted, but the army didn't want him. So this was plan B.
Mary laughing at a guest getting a mouthful of salt is a disgrace. Shame on her! 😠 Then she tries to embarrass Matthew talking of a King who sacrifices his eldest daughter to a monster. I don't like her and her awful manners. It's not surprising that she had a soft spot for Thomas Barrow.
I think the best best volcanic DINNER Eruption was Roberts when that terrible and insufferable feminist kept picking a fight " what i should like is that you leave this house and NEVER return!"
@@davidthaler7018 it is an observation. There is something servile inside humans that hungers for the approval of lords even when they call from the past. You don't have to get triggered to say the king is naked.
