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Drama Writers’ & Directors’ Struggle for Emmy Gold Starts With Pitched Battle

“Downton Abbey” (PBS) Directing: Michael Engler, “Episode 9” Writing: Julian Fellowes, “Episode 8”

For the penultimate episode of the series, Fellowes delivered some long-awaited take-downs of Lady Mary Crawley (Michelle Dockery). “We had two scenes, which had in a way been missing: The moment when Tom [Allen Leech] really tells Mary off and the final battle between her and Edith [Laura Carmichael], when Edith calls her a bitch, which every viewer must have known was coming,” Fellowes says.

I loved both these moments because we, the audience, had expected and wanted them for so long … I have always enjoyed writing for Mary, because Michelle has that wonderful gift of not caring if the public hates her, which is tremendously freeing for a writer. As for Tom, every now and then the public needs to have a character say what they are all thinking.”

In directing the series finale, Engler wanted images that encapsulated the show’s themes and relationships.

“Julian’s script set that all up, but I felt a sense of responsibility to really make sure the visuals and the emotional expression of the actors was as vivid and clear and iconic as possible,” he says, noting that sometimes the emotions of the characters and the actors playing them were in sync. “That’s such a gift for a director and actors when the love and sense of family they share as a company can spill into the scene.”

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Then long live our Queen Mary,

This sequence concludes with a somewhat eerie but prophetic and beautiful, silhouetted shot of Mary gazing into the house’s gorgeous gallery. Her responsibilities will surely increase from here, and the episode fades out with her looking into her dressing mirror, clearly also now planning how to confirm her suspicions about Marigold.

Downton Abbey Episode 6.5 Recap: Brewing Romance and a Big Scare

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I was staring at a gifset of Baby Bates on the CS (as we all still do) and I'm still utterly disappointed that Fellowes even decided to include Anna's statement that she wants to stay on working if Of course it makes sense that the woman who had three miscarriages and feared she could never carry to term, who went through every struggle imaginable while working at Downton before finally achieving a dream she nearly gave up on, who has been planning with her husband for TWO SEASONS to buy their own property and fulfill their dream of being their own masters, would decide to carry on working and leave her only child - the baby who almost never was - to be raised by the household nanny while she spends her day helping Mary buckle her shoes or put on her robe.

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Cobert in my dash all day makes me 🤗🤗🤗🤗😍😍😍😍

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So, finally caught up and faced the Downton finale (thanks to the magnificent @repmet). And I have to say I'm not as wrecked as I thought I would be; mainly because they didn't do as much harkening back to past seasons as I had thought they would (like remembering Sybil last year). But it does make me feel old, in a way. I first saw Downton as a junior in college, sitting in a room with some of the women I love most in the world; back when I had a plan for my life. And here I am 6 years later...

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Gif sets I would love to see from the Finale...

Henry & George, and Branson & Sybbie in the manager’s office

The opening sequence of Lord G with kiddos running around in the garden

Mary & Henry in above garden/bridge scene

Mary & Anna when her waters broke, and Henry telling bates to come upstairs

a parallel gif of Mary getting off the train whilst in labour with Anna, and Mary helping Anna as her waters broke. - It’s all about the parallels...

Mary & Henry at the dinner where he says he has an errand with Branson and Mary the next day

The full scene where Talbot & Branson Garage is unveiled and Mary telling Henry the news as well. 

(Basically any scene with Mary...or the kiddos)

...no doubt I’ll see more on the rewatch...ugh, I wish I could gif...

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“You’re such a paradox: you make me miserable for years, then you give me my life back,” said Edith to Mary, a line that no doubt echoes the sentiments from many of Downton’s unwilling viewers in living rooms across Britain.

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