#s6 cs

[annambates]

“I am a father and I have a son.”

“We have a son, John.”

And…

“Happy New Year!” 💘🥹🥰💘

Happy 100th Birthday to our favorite baby boy! 🥳

[leelajoy716]

Thomas balances his sorrow at leaving his longtime home with a new lease on life, hoping he may make a fresh start at his new position. Still, it's evident that he will miss Downton more than it will miss him.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/features/recap/downton-abbey-s6-e9-best-quotes/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=downton_2016

[leelajoy716]

Yeah.  "Nice Thomas".  Who CANNOT get laid to save his life. That was nice homophobia between the suicide attempt and, now, making him the sexless last man standing and serving at Downton Abbey.  The mausoleum of his ambition and his penis.

A depressingly accurate comment on this recap:

http://www.vulture.com/2016/03/downton-abbey-recap-season-6-episode-9.html#

[leelajoy716]

I was thinking about the conclusion of the Downton servants’ storylines, and it occurred to me: not only is Thomas the only one who doesn’t have prospects outside the house at this point, he will soon be the only servant living in the house. Carson and Hughes have their cottage, as do the Bateses; Daisy is moving to the farm; Molesley is moving to his new schoolmaster’s cottage. That leaves just Thomas, Baxter, Andy, and Patmore living in. If Dandy, Baxley, and Patmore/Mr. Mason all happen as hinted in the finale, Thomas will be on his own. At day’s end, everyone will go home to their cozy dwellings, and Thomas will go up to sleep in Carson’s old room. On an empty floor (unless they keep the hallboys).

Well, at least he has the bathroom to himself... :/

Or, he’d better get Mary to agree to let him hire someone with whom he can share all that space...and other things. ;)

[leelajoy716]

Back at Downton, the fam is taking off to meet Edith’s mother-in-law. Thomas says his goodbyes and thanks Robert for his homophobia over the years. WTF. Then, Cora reminds me that Thomas saved Edith from dying in a fire! That makes the way people have treated Thomas all season even worse! I’m glad he’s ditching these jerks once and for all.

http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/03/06/downton-abbey-series-finale-recap-shake-it-off/

[leelajoy716]

Back at Downton, in the shoe polish room (where else?), Thomas tells Baxter he’s going to try and be someone else at his new job. No, Tommy, it’s not you, it’s them!

http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/03/06/downton-abbey-series-finale-recap-shake-it-off/

[leelajoy716]

In the shoe polish room, where everything happens, Thomas approaches Baxter, Andy and Anna to thank them for saving his life post-suicide attempt. Baxter and Andy react like normal, empathetic human beings, by saying they were glad to do it and are glad he gets to stay a bit longer. Anna takes a different approach: “Why not use the time [you have left here] to try and understand what brought you so low?” Ex-squeeze me? Victim blaming? Really? Also, it won’t take too much time to understand what brought him to slit his wrists: homophobic bullies like Carson, Robert, Andy and your very own husband. Get out of here, Anna.

http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/03/06/downton-abbey-series-finale-recap-shake-it-off/

[leelajoy716]

• Meanwhile, the reciprocal man-crush between Tom and Henry has reached quite bizarre heights (“It can be hard for a woman to understand that a man is what he does”) and only gets more ridiculous when Atticus enters the mix and tells the boys they needn’t reinvent themselves because “I rather like the old models.” Get a room, you three.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/arts/television/downton-abbey-finale-a-grand-british-story-with-an-american-finish.html?_r=0