The Consequences Of The War | Downton Abbey 

The way Isobel immediately looks at Matthew when Lord Grantham announces that they're at war always struck me. She probably immediately realised what it meant for him - because of his age, he's certain to be called up to fight. Her only child going off to war 😢

"Thank you for my deliverance." Pulls the tears out of me every time.

Her praying ALWAYS gets me crying. That’s how you knew her love for him would never die, regardless of the circumstances.

I love the way Sybil walked into Dr. Clarkson's office! Such a strong-willed woman. I do wish we had more scenes of she and Barrow working together - they're two of my favorite characters!

It's always nice to see o'brian showing some compassion

Thomas Barrow is the reason I've re-watched DA about 30 times in a row. Such a complicated and charming character. Like, WHO changed THAT much during the 6 seasons? Nobody! It's only Thomas who went through his transformation, and through suicide he discovered the reason that is making him unhappy, and actually DID try to become a BETTER PERSON. Nobody else in the entire series did that. No such transformation among ALL other characters. Am I going to watch the DA movie?? Hell, I AM! And that's 95% because of Thomas Barrow.

Downtown abbey creators really made it realistic I think that’s what intrigues me more for downtown

That's why I love Downton Abbey, they never forgot the history of the times!

It’s watching shows like this that make me really wish people back then were given the treatment they needed, and their ptsd, depression and shell shock acknowledged and helped.

3:40 O’Brien did some unspeakably awful things during her time on the show, but I wonder what made her evil. She had moments of kindness.

That moment when Sybill bursted in and supported Thomas...He remembered that, hence why he was immensly grief struck when the news came she died

I'll never forgive Isobel for pushing so hard to have William Mason forced into the military. The Dowager Countess tried so hard to protect him.

I love the non-linear timeframe and overlapping of scenes in this clip, it really well encapsulates the terror and constant on-guard-ness of the war

Little did Matthew know during those days in the trenches that his son would one day become Thomas’ best friend, and Thomas would protect and play with his son as if he were his own. ❤

Little did they know some 25 years later, a war several times the magnitude and venom broke out with Germany and Japan and killed several times more people.

A fitting and moving compilation for 11th November. Thank you.

he really brought out the good in thomas. such a shame

I have seen or heard so much about this war yet never quite had this reaction. I was given the gift of having to care for my very PTSD WWII Pacific Theater Survivor father with a lifetime of rage. Only in the last year of his life where I was initially forced to care for him, no one else would do it. He told me and no one else, including my mother, stories of when Two of his ships were sunk. I now hold these memories and don't know what to do with them. Please don't let these memories die.

I'll always regret Lt. Courtenay's death. It was totally avoidable, if only Dr Clarkson had listened. Physical injuries are not the only wounds in need of healing... Also, no, Thomas was never a coward for doing what he did to get out of the trenches. On the contrary. It takes real courage to willingly wait getting shot at.

I can't still get over Edward Courtenay's (The Blind Soldier) death😭 He should've lived!😭😭😭😭😭😭

Depressing subject but I'd enjoy more of these longer-format "thematic" uploads. E.g. Mary assuming an increasingly active role in management of the estate (from having to marry the heir to considering the economics) and Robert's growing support of her in that role. Or the changing relationship between Violet and Cora, in which Violet cedes the reins to Cora as Cora gets involved with more serious/modern concerns in the community (less garden club, more hospital).

My grandfather's closest childhood friend, Pvt. Lewis Conor, was killed on November 3, 1918, at the Meuse-Argonne. He was 27 years old. Please speak his name out loud. My grandfather survived and came home in 1919.

I think what’s amazing is Mary loves not many people, or has trouble loving people in the way of showing it, but it’s so evident that Matthew became so easy for her to love. She prayed for Matthew’s safety, of all people she’d be the last to do that, and she nursed him back to health, quite again impressive, thirdly she implemented his advice on relationships and became kinder, sadly she didn’t see that as an improvement and saw it more of Matthew and distanced herself from being nice once he SPOILERRRRR died

You know it's Real when the Dowager Countess cries at your wedding. 😥💗👰

Great acting by Robert, wow

u know. I'd really like to see the scene of Violet consoling daisy after the matriach catch the giirl sobbing over feeling guilty to let william think she loved him

Please create more downton abbeys... like honestly please... I’m 13 years old, i’ve never liked tv shows but this? Amazing... thomas barrow everything about him and this show. *please* ;;

Season 1: Noble's Normal Life in Early 20th Centries (also the rise of new idealogy). Season 2: Noble's War Time Living during the Great War Season 3: Noble's Transaction period After the Great War Season 4+: The rise of Modern Nobles and the downfall of Victorian Nobles

Did anyone else notice that the stretch-bearer’s head was above the parapet of the trench the ENTIRE time?! No wonder he got shot.

Will never be over William's death

What the hell were the point of the helmets if they didn't stop bullets?????? Also rare shout out to O'Brian for being shockingly compassionate to Lang

I make myself cry bec i have too or i.can't make it through the day. I love DA so much

Lest we forget

Mrs Patmore was a star.

The way the poor soldier suddenly fell down!!! 😢

Showing Barrow injuring himself and getting away with it is total fantasy. My father's cousin was in The Royal Artillery during World War 1 and was sent to the front. He prepared shells for firing by screwing a fuse into the tip of each shell. He was doing this when a fuse exploded severely damaging his hand. He was court marshalled charged with deliberately injuring himself. Despite witnesses speaking in his defence, the court didn't accept it was an accident. (If he'd done it deliberately he wouldn't know if it'd set the shell off.) He was reduced to the ranks from being a corporal or sergeant and transferred to The Pioneer Corps (general labourers who dug trenches and latrines). He got no compensation for his disability after the war. The authorities were totally ruthless. Shot in the hand, how? Try explaining how your fingers got injured if you're well below ground level.

4:24 love his lordship stood up for his servants, he won’t take this malarkey In his home.

The writer Julian Fellowes, himself of upper-class descent, has captured the mindset of the family perfectly. Never in the series of Season 1 and 2, it occurs to the Crawley family to modernize or help other people. Fellowes lets all positive impulses come from other parties outside of the family that lives in the house. This is exactly as it went down with most of such families. They were unable to understand what was going on, rejecting anything in advance that would change their position. The series is actually about an utterly useless and passive family struggling with the times. Fellowes did an unusually good job. The series Upstairs-Downstairs had little understanding of reality in it. It was a comical farce. Downton Abbey portrays the times and the utter stupidity and hopelessness of the old guard.

We can blame Dr Clarkson for that blind mans death

O'Brien. Who knew.

This was sad

Not even Downton Abby downstairs or upstairs was untouched by the war

Whilst these horrors were very real during the First World War, the saddest thing of all that yet again in Europe we are witnessing the same happening all over again in Ukraine. All because a despot with a huge chip on his shoulder ordered his country's forces to engage in a 'special military operation' for which there was and is not any basis whatsoever. Ironic that it should be just over a hundred years of what was known as 'The Great War'. At that time, the Bolsheviks revolted against their leader the Czar. Let's hope that this war also incites a revolt against the current leader of Vladimir Putin and that this time, the Russians choose the path of democracy, respect for the rule of law and peaceful interaction with their neighbours.

There was an ad for "Dune" before this came on.

I'm 66 in December and I lost two Great Uncles in the 1914-18 war and a Uncle in the 1939 War when he trod on a Landmine

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Anyone else have childhood trauma of walking in your grandma watching this show and all you see if the guy getting his hand shot? messed me up

7:16 Is this Simon Pegg?

1:00 *1917's* Lance Corporal Schofield was in this battle.

My Grandfather fought in this war luckily he came home his brother not so lucky he’s buried in Flanders Fields. It was supposed to be the was to end all Wars but soon the sons of these men will be fighting a Second World War god help us if there’s a third.

Wonder how they react to the casualties of the Somme or Passchendaele?

many shaled! have doed! that in that terrible war

Can we just talk about how much of a jerk the German was who shot this dude at 1:46 who wasn't retaliating and he stupidly had his back turned.

That White Feather was such a bunch of bollocks to be honest - because people who invented it didn't go to war or had to die

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Here I was wondering why he was just yelling - dude pick up a loudspeaker - forgetting this was WWI era and not some reenactment cosplay

Lesson learned war is ugly, and boomerangs will come at it.

the old lie dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

I did tell him to get down!

We r at war with Germany everything changes at once and so is Downton

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White feather?

Thomas that was cowardly.

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I like season one, it is a bit like any good soap opera. Or a more realistic version of Jane Austen with more crime and intrigues. The trouble starts when they go into WW I. I have not watched starting at season 2. But well, perhaps some of it is not about WW I and the aftermath. If it keeps on like that, I think I will stop watching any more. I like more or less happy show with happy endings.

The gripping reality of life and death most of which this present pampered, entitled generation has little knowledge.

Oh please, at least the british have the luck to live on an island.

I wish Robert had a bit longer speech to the ladies passing out feathers because, while Downton should be helping the war effort more and eventually do, they are still doing something to the best of their ability. Robert and many others desperately want to go fight but are unable to for multiple reasons. Mrs. Crawley is working for the hospital. Sybil is training to become a nurse. Matthew has been fighting in the war. And all the people there were at the concert to support the troops and raise money for the hospital(yes they should be doing more but they only a little later). What are these ladies doing for their country in which they seem so proud of that they feel to call out “cowards”? Oh right, passing out feathers to people who they don’t have all the facts (or really any of the facts on) during a concert that is literally there to raise money for the hospitals for the soldiers! I wish Robert got to call them out more.

Lest we forget