[Mari]

It is weird that Charles is going out with the same woman that
Tony dumped last season -- Mabel Lane Fox.


M

[bizi]

I talked with jeff about my questions and gave him a report of this weeks show that he missed. he said nothing new really just further developement of last weeks show. which I don't remember, probably from drinking too much.
sigh
love the show and yes interesting about charles. I think mary really likes him.
bizi

[mrsD]

About Barrows.... is what he up to what I think he is up to?

At first I was confused, but the hints of the "magazine" seems
like he is doing something not approved of at that time?

He looked awful coming back home... I couldn't get a real look at the ad that was flashed for one second in the magazine, but I suspect it was something an adolescent male would read and try?

or "hooking" up?

[bizi]

I have no idea what is up with Barrow.
I thought it was something to change his sexual orientation????
I thought the magazine article said something about it is your choice or maybe decision.
bizi

[mrsD]

The movie Road to Wellville had many electrical gadgets of that nature in it. I mistakenly took my early teen son to see it thinking it was about the history of Kellogg's...but but...
I should have researched it. (we didn't have a computer then).

Boy did I get the questions after THAT! LOL
He thought it was a great movie too... I less so.

[bizi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHHYQOHM2eI
just for the sarcasm....too funny cora is great!
bizi

[Mari]

Originally Posted by bizi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHHYQOHM2eI
just for the sarcasm....too funny cora is great!
bizi

Thanks for that, Bizi,

I find Elizabethan McGovern's accent on the show interesting.
She is an American who moved to England about twenty or or thirty years ago to marry a Brit director.
-- sounds somewhat American and somewhat British on Downtown Abbey

Here she is mostly American
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtRnCHuNQXM

Here is she is with her British band:
Sadie & The Hotheads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bZL0sPQq2o

M

[mrsD]

That was a great spoof. I enjoyed it.
The gal who played Cora did a wonderful job!

[mrsD]

I am looking on Downton forums for other peoples' take on Thomas.

One person provided a screen capture of the magazine (whose on air time was too short for me to see well).

Here it is:
http://downtonabbey.wikia.com/wiki/T...mphletS5E4.png

Many people have speculated that he may have diabetes...since Isobel mentioned it in a recent episode...the new insulin availablity etc.

Another said that one old treatment for homosexuality (conversion) was injection of apomorphine..to cause vomiting, connected to conversion to conventional straight behavior.
So we will just have to wait and see what evolves on the show.

I think his scene with Anna, on "not being liked", had more to do with his horrible sneaky troublemaking behaviors, rather than his sexual orientation. But it might be both in fact. He seems to be an antisocial type, with a poor conscience.

There is a "spoiler" here that it is something else:
http://downtonabbey.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:16905
(and everyone is wrong so far in the speculations)

[bizi]

Got our season 5 dvd in!!!!
Rewatched episode one...seemed vaguely familiar...must have been tipsy when I watched it the first time several weeks ago. sigh I was clear headed last night and appreciated all of the subtleties that I missed when I watched it the first time, also their accents seemed heavier, harder to listen to. poor edith....
bizi