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The best thing about the way the final Downton Abbey movie ended is that Mary gets the house after all, no husband required.

The second best thing about the way the final Downton Abbey movie ended is that there’s nothing stopping me from headcanoning that somehow Mary and Evelyn eventually become friends-with-benefits-turned-lovers.

#downton abbey #mary crawley #evelyn napier #marvlyn #my ship still has hope dammit

myrnadalgleish

mary's story starting with her being told that she can't inherit the house and she needs to get married quick and move away and ending with her living alone in the house with her kids <3

thomas-barrows-marlboro-box

"i want a spinoff series of young cora and robert!" "i want a spinoff series of the crawley kids!"

YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT I WANT THE BACHELOR BUT THOMAS BARROW IS THE BACHELOR AND THE CANDIDATES ARE ALL OF HIS PAST/PRESENT INTERESTS

granthamcastle

#oh stunning #said in Olivia Cooke voice of course

neroushalvaus

Downton Abbey 4: The Last Goodbye

Downton Abbey 5: The End

Downton Abbey 6: One Last Time

Downton Abbey 7: For Old Time's Sake

Downton Abbey 8: This Is The Last One Prommy

Downton Abbey 9: The Grand Finale (For Realsies This Time)

Downton Abbey 10: It's A Nice Round Number So We're Really Stopping Now Okay

Downton Abbey 11: Promise You Won't Be Mad

emmybrown

bates is addicted to being in legal trouble like robert is addicted to being on the verge of losing everything. which is why they are soulmates

gordo--livingstone

just started rewatching downton and i can't stop thinking about the profound loneliness of the end of the grand finale. it happens so gradually over the course of the series that you almost don't notice it; sure, there are fewer unnamed servants in the background, and we lose the whole genus footman, but it happens so slowly. upstairs, edith gets married and leaves and tom starts his new life, but that's the natural order of things. the deaths of sybil and matthew and violet are devastating, but there's sybbie and george and rose, so the show is focused more on the absence of sybil and matthew and violet themselves rather than the concept of loss.

but when the series begins, the house is alive. there is constant motion, constant noise, people constantly coming and going. there are servants whose names we never know, but who are always in and out of the frame, working in the kitchen and going up and down the stairs. upstairs, the family is whole and intact; the house is a home, where people live. there's the revolving door of suitors and parties and distant relations who come and go.

and that shot of mary at the end of the grand finale, standing alone under the portrait of violet, literally surrounded by ghosts, is so deeply sad. not just because we, the audience, are sad that the franchise is over and that sybil and matthew and violet are dead, but because the house no longer feels alive. it's now just one sad woman, her voiceless children, and a few servants left. it's a shadow of what it was. it's tragic and haunting. the estate is intact, and mary has inherited all, and the original problem they had been trying to solve since 1912 is happily resolved. but what's the point? what is the point of the estate being intact and owned by the crawleys if it's lifeless and empty? what is the point of downton if it is no longer a pillar of the community, offering employment and benefits for the village? what is the point of protecting downton for the future when it is so obvious it is a relic of the past?

#okay well this is a bummer #not necessarily wrong though

gosh-whos-to-say

I saw the new Downton Abbey movie this weekend and I adored Edith's continued glow up, but I honestly think "he's not Turkish is he?" is the greatest line she's ever had.

11monkeysonatypewriter

Look Julian Fellowes did Thomas a little dirty with his lack of screentime but having a weird little trio of gays swagger their way through the house, annoy everyone, get a musical number, get up in people's buisness and bring back the household's reputation while doing it was beautiful. no notes

darkverrmin

what do you mean those aren't the actual lyrics

help-i-need-a-cool-username

Ciri's life in modern aus (and canon) is wild like her parents died when she was little so she was raised by her grandma but when her grandma dies her godfather who she's never met gets custody of her and she has to leave her home to move in with him and then because he gets custody of her his ex-wife comes back into the picture because the godfather needs the ex-wife's help with raising Ciri. Also now she has a lot of scary quasi-uncles and a quasi-grandpa who she sees occasionally. And then theres the godfather's ex-best friend who's a musician and the complete opposite of everyone in her godfather's family and somehow the ex-wife won him in the divorce