Wrapping Up Downtown Abbey

For John, BLUF:  No, I don't think that I can become a Hollywood script writer, like Jim Webb did.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Downton Abbey.  My wife likes the BBC show Downton Abbey.♠  I don't.  However, as any reasonable husband will explain, if the wife likes it, you like it.

It was OK as long as that Solicitor Matthew Crawley was alive and kicking and making things hum.  But, he was squeezing out the women, so he had to be bumped off.  Poor chap.

Then there is Earl of Grantham, who I kind of like, but he is portrayed as a bumbling idiot.  What can I say?  Women can't inherit, but they are surely portrayed as the brighter sex (or is that gender?).  At any rate, that may be what it is all about.  Women should inherit and then everything would be right with the world.

In the mean time, I endure.

So, given the current state of play, I would like to suggest we wrap it up this way.

• With Tom Branson about to go off to Boston, to join his brother selling cars, Lady Mary Crawley declares that she can't stand for Tom to leave.
• Tom declares that he can't bear to be separated from Lady Mary.
• They embrace passionately, and in front of the family engage in some hot kissing.
• Lord Grantham, in a moment of insight, declares, "Well that is settled, Mary goes back to her Mother's homeland".
• Mary and Tom are married in the Great Hall of the Abby, the wedding officiated over by Mr Carson (it is, after all, the couple who performs the marriage and the other person just serves as a witness).
• Tom and Mary then move to Massachusetts, where they settle in Lowell and Breed like rabbits.
• Tom sells autos and becomes a US Citizen and then a Republican and then a State Rep, where he is an early advocate for highways.  He pushes the idea of freeways (getting 3 and 93 and 495) and also gets Route 38 widened to four lanes from the New Hampshire Border all the way down.  (Its my fantasy and so I can have it do whatever I want.)
• Tom and Mary end up moving to the Belvidere and buy the Castle, retiring amongst their children and grandchildren.

The rest of them I have only passing interest in.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Not to be confused with the satyrical and pornographic movie of almost the same name, which I stumble upon when I misspelled "Abbey".  Never seen it and not likely to.