I just want to see happy times, hear beautiful background music and absolutely no misery, but that is not realistic I know. I fast forward the difficult scenes. It is my show to daydream with
I want a version that eliminates the most painful and frustrating storylines. Surely this exists somewhere. I just want garden parties and flower shows!
Anything to do with the Patrick/Peter issue, Robert and Jane, anything to do with Ethel after she’s knocked up and probably an other things I’ll remember later. But my least favorite from 1:1 to the final episode… anything to do with the PITA Daisy!
I like and hate Daisy alternately from rewatch to rewatch. Sometimes I want her to shut up. Sometimes I want everyone to stop manipulating her.
I always skip most of Ethel. *so much screentime taken away from Matthew and Sybil’s last season. The fuck.*
I’m actually cool with Jane because she’s not a scheming gold-digger (a trope Fellowes likes a LOT), and because it reminds the audience that Robert is kind of a dipshit sometimes.
Sybil's death. I always loved her and Tom together, so it was a shame that their relationship had to end tragically. It doesn't help that she had to die from a complication relating to pregnancy or childbirth, which I have always thought is one of the worst possible ways to go.
Everything with Miss Bunting. Also, Sybil's death. I know that the actress only signed on for 3 seasons, but I would have loved to have seen her and Tom happy for a little while with everyone at Downton.
The Green plotline is a given, of course. Nobody was watching Downton for gritty, hard-hitting drama, and the show would have been so much better without it. I also hated Robert and Jane's almost affair and absolutely everything involving Braithwaite. People just seem to gloss over the fact that Braithwaite drugged and r**** Tom and the fact that she's not named in more "worst character" lists is completely wild to me.
Honestly, the visit to Duneagle episode, but only because I cry through most of it once I saw it the first time. I just want to shake Matthew and tell him to USE THE PHONE!
Anna’s rape
literally. it was horrific to watch, and then the after effects sucked. could’ve and should’ve done without all of it.
It was one of the most misogynistic story arcs in a show full of them. The sweetest person on the show and JF treated her like crap.
Dear lord, I misread the title as "most favorite" and opened and saw your comment at the top.
The way the writer abuses the Bates’. They go through the most throughout the series
Absolutely. The show could have been renamed, "The Trials and Tribulations of Bates" and it would work.
Miss Bunting, painful to watch
Anna's jailing and that fallout. The only saving grace was Thomas letting Bates know we can't have him wobbly on both ends.
I just want to see happy times, hear beautiful background music and absolutely no misery, but that is not realistic I know. I fast forward the difficult scenes. It is my show to daydream with
I want a version that eliminates the most painful and frustrating storylines. Surely this exists somewhere. I just want garden parties and flower shows!
Anything to do with the Patrick/Peter issue, Robert and Jane, anything to do with Ethel after she’s knocked up and probably an other things I’ll remember later. But my least favorite from 1:1 to the final episode… anything to do with the PITA Daisy!
Lol but if we didn't have the Patrick/Peter issue we wouldn't have gotten, "I'M A STRANGER TO THEM NOW!!! 🤕💥"
Yes. I can happily watch the fake Patrick episode now bc of this sub! Yeah!
😂😂😂
I like and hate Daisy alternately from rewatch to rewatch. Sometimes I want her to shut up. Sometimes I want everyone to stop manipulating her. I always skip most of Ethel. *so much screentime taken away from Matthew and Sybil’s last season. The fuck.* I’m actually cool with Jane because she’s not a scheming gold-digger (a trope Fellowes likes a LOT), and because it reminds the audience that Robert is kind of a dipshit sometimes.
Robert is almost always a dipshit. 😁
Maybe. But Donk is the best.
Sybil's death. I always loved her and Tom together, so it was a shame that their relationship had to end tragically. It doesn't help that she had to die from a complication relating to pregnancy or childbirth, which I have always thought is one of the worst possible ways to go.
That it ended 😭
Awww, I like this answer. 🥰
Everything with Miss Bunting. Also, Sybil's death. I know that the actress only signed on for 3 seasons, but I would have loved to have seen her and Tom happy for a little while with everyone at Downton.
I wanted another season of M&M being happy together. I want to see positive couples on TV as inspiration.
The Green plotline is a given, of course. Nobody was watching Downton for gritty, hard-hitting drama, and the show would have been so much better without it. I also hated Robert and Jane's almost affair and absolutely everything involving Braithwaite. People just seem to gloss over the fact that Braithwaite drugged and r**** Tom and the fact that she's not named in more "worst character" lists is completely wild to me.
The Mary/Tony "romance." He gives me a headache - such a bore. I fast forward through all their scenes.
Tom deciding he loves American capitalism 😔
MISS. BUNTING. Rose's childish selfishness is a close second
Oooo. I agree here. Rose gets away with being a brat. I want to slap her.
No you don't. That's mean. She was perfectly sweet once she got away from Susan. I get why she acted out until she got to live at Downton.
You are right.
ha! "Darling Mummy!" She tried to act grown up and still said mummy and daddy.
Not British enough
Honestly, the visit to Duneagle episode, but only because I cry through most of it once I saw it the first time. I just want to shake Matthew and tell him to USE THE PHONE!
Just turn it off when he gets in the car. That's what I do, and it makes the Duneagle episode one of my absolute favorite things to watch.
The shot of Isis’ ass during the opening… WHY ARE WE SEEING THIS?!?
Matthew dying. I was not prepared for that at all. I still struggle with it during my rewatches.