Downton Abbey - Strictly for Entertainment Only!
In response to this week's writing challenge-Writer Wednesday Prompt #67: Acceptance Speech
SPOILERS AHEAD
Downton Abbey received a SAG award a month ago and if creator Julian Fellowes was to make his acceptance speech the day after Season 3 ended I am sure it would go something like this:
Thank you for this award and to those who were not appreciative of my writing out dear Sybil and Cousin Matthew I have this to say to all of you:
Killing off characters in Christmas episodes is tradition. In the UK the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill off huge quantities of their characters. They have trams coming off their rails, cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. That time of the year is always a general clear-out!
Some say I should have "offed" both Lord Grantham and Mathew Crawley for the sake of keeping sweet Lady Sybil alive. I don't see why I have to defend anything, as Dan Stevens chose to leave. Yes, it was hard and heartbreaking, but - well that's life. The show is a melodrama after all. Not to worry, I'm sure Dan Stevens will show up on a Law & Order SVU episode very soon. What would you like me to write? A Ken Burns documentary?
I am shocked that I am constantly criticized about Downton's death list this season and not for other creative things I have written. Matthew, a trained Army officer, responsible for the lives and training of many men, needed help from a gamekeeper in how to aim and fire a rifle in the last episode. Am I the only one who found this more peculiar than his death? No one questioned me about that!
Yes, Cora got pregnant, only to slip on a bar of soap and suffer a miscarriage. Next, Sybil gave birth, but shortly afterward died from eclampsia. Then Mary gave birth, and her husband immediately got creamed by a truck.
So why not question me about whether Downton Abbey was built on ancient Indian burial ground that someone dug up and transported to England? Does no one else see Mary and Branson hooking up, down the road? That being said Matthew's death was tragic and shocking, but the biggest shock to me, is having viewers in Canada and the United States wait over a year for season 4.
Thank you for this award and the lesson here is - don't have a baby on Downton Abbey.
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Comment by Linda Seccaspina on February 25, 2013 at 9:35pm -
Me too sandra
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Comment by Sandra Ruffo on February 25, 2013 at 9:16pm -
Well I was shocked that Mathew was killed!!!!!! I knew the last episode would have DRAMA. Now we have to wait a whole year for season 4 I really do enjoy Downton very much. Now I am hooked on the following.
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Comment by Linda Seccaspina on February 22, 2013 at 10:41pm
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Id love to be a fly in the wall
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Comment by CreekEnd_UK on February 22, 2013 at 9:21am -
ANd some of us still live like they do in Downton. However, One just can't get the staff wot wot.
Also they argue so about who must DIE at Xmouse.
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Comment by Linda Seccaspina on February 21, 2013 at 12:21pm
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Shelley... LOL no hahaha
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Comment by Shelley Smith on February 21, 2013 at 10:01am -
In a RV. :) Time to download?
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Comment by Linda Seccaspina on February 21, 2013 at 8:08am
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I know that Marsha while you watch the good wife:)
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Comment by Marsha Shearer on February 21, 2013 at 7:53am
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All - and I mean all - my friends are addicted. It's like a soap opera for them in terms of a must see. Maggie Smith is a jewel.
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Comment by Linda Seccaspina on February 21, 2013 at 7:38am
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sigh.. maybe The Kitties should begin a new award show..:)
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Comment by alexander Mollison on February 21, 2013 at 7:26am
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Thje Kitties wanted to give Downton Abbey an Oscar had to tell them the could not.
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