I really like this picture because I like to think Thomas and Daisy are good friends. They had a rough start but in the end they could probably see they had a lot in common. It’s easy to imagine a time typical umbrella right?
So, yesterday i watched Downton Abbey: a New Era and even if actually really liked it, i wasn’t so happy about certain parts of the plot, that I’m gonna explain in this post.
1) Lady Violet
Lady Violet was one of my favourites charachters of Downton, and watching her dying was SO sad for me, so that’s my first point: why? I mean, obviously, as the other humans she is supposed to die, but I don’t understand why this should be a part of the film, her funeral could be a very sad but necessarily part of the series, but not of the film. I feel like they shouldn’t put it in the film, but instead just putting another scene of like "some months after" and let the people guess what happened.
2) Thomas
I’ll start saying that I like Guy Dexter very much, and he’s not the reason of my doubts about the Thomas plot in the film. Let’s start talking about Richard Ellis, I was so mad about what happened to him. In the first movie he’s like a gay rights icon, talking about how they shouldn’t hide and how law was stupid, AND leaving Thomas a “locket” (I don’t find a better word sorry) so it can remind he of him. Then, in the second film we discover that he’s engaged and going to marry a woman, so he was basically talking bullshit (?) I guess we’ll never know.
But what really leave me astonished is when, Thomas, in the last part of the film, leave Downton. So really, can we take a step back and think about it, because I just can’t find a sense in this. Thomas wants to live his life whit a man who loves him, ok, all fine, but I don’t understand why he should leave the place where he lived for over a decade, with the only people who truly love him, where he (an ambicius person) finally found a job as butler for going to the America with a guy whi, even if is very nice with him, he barely knows amd start a new life. I’m really lost about this, really.
3) Cora sickness
Cora sickness has no sense, well it would if we where in the TV series, but in the film it just doesn’t make any sense. It doesn't get anywhere in the plot, she isn't gonna die, so really I don't know why they put it in there.
However, as I said before, I really liked the film (even if I liked more the first one tbh) and even the relationship between Guy and Thomas could make sense, if it was explored and had more screen time that it did.
