OMG! I thought it was just me! I admit, I miss the first 2 seasons--but I have NO IDEA who these people are and I've been trying to figure it out for months!
And yet...I'm hopelessly addicted to this show. I think it's because each scene is like 30 seconds long at the most. No chance for my ADD to click in. :)
I kind of liked that sad-eyed Matthew is going to stir the pot regarding the finances, and maybe suggest to Mary's darling papa that he act like a responsible landowner for a change. The man's never been responsible a day in his life. Heh. (Maybe Matthew will grow a spine in all this.)
The way he's going about it makes me want to punch him in the nose. He's got a nasty habit of saying he's not doing something objectionable at the very same time he's doing it. Like telling Mary he wasn't accusing her of forging that letter and then in the next split second ACCUSED HER OF FORGING THE LETTER!
So here, he tells Lord Grantham that he doesn't want to make him feel like he has "absconded with the Squires's money" and yet that's just exactly what he's doing. And saying he doesn't want to put his foot in and then putting his foot in and blah blah.
And I don't know that we've really seen evidence that Lord Grantham was irresponsible up until this point. That's one of the issues I have with the writing. There's a lot of this sort of plot point stuff going on. This Lord Grantham is not season one's Lord Grantham because this is not season one's plot and season one's Lord Grantham does not serve this plot and therefore, meet the new irresponsible Lord Grantham. How do you do?
I guess I always had the sense Lord Grantham was blase about anything to do with the household (and by extension the estate). But maybe it's just that sense of entitlement that comes with being titled. Lady Grantham is always more aware of what's happening.
So you're saying Matthew is a little passive aggressive (to use a much overused term)? He should have just been forthright and asked to at least learn how to run the estate. He is the heir after all, and supposedly a lawyer (which usually suggests a level of competency).
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OMG! I thought it was just me! I admit, I miss the first 2 seasons--but I have NO IDEA who these people are and I've been trying to figure it out for months!
And yet...I'm hopelessly addicted to this show. I think it's because each scene is like 30 seconds long at the most. No chance for my ADD to click in. :)
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So here, he tells Lord Grantham that he doesn't want to make him feel like he has "absconded with the Squires's money" and yet that's just exactly what he's doing. And saying he doesn't want to put his foot in and then putting his foot in and blah blah.
And I don't know that we've really seen evidence that Lord Grantham was irresponsible up until this point. That's one of the issues I have with the writing. There's a lot of this sort of plot point stuff going on. This Lord Grantham is not season one's Lord Grantham because this is not season one's plot and season one's Lord Grantham does not serve this plot and therefore, meet the new irresponsible Lord Grantham. How do you do?
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So you're saying Matthew is a little passive aggressive (to use a much overused term)? He should have just been forthright and asked to at least learn how to run the estate. He is the heir after all, and supposedly a lawyer (which usually suggests a level of competency).
I do enjoy your rants. :-)
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