*NEW season Downton Abbey

[elleng]

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tonight, 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m. Central Standard time.

[The empressof all]

1. I am so excited!

It took a lot for me not to peek at it on line.....But I was so busy a few months ago...I didn't have time.

Set the DVR and I am so ready....

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Me, too! Love that series. So well done.

[shanti]

3. I know!

I could watch it now online, but it's just not the same watching DA on a tiny screen. My timer is set! Do you watch Doc Martin as well? I wonder when the next season of that is coming...

[TorchTheWitch]

6. I downloaded them and burned them to DVD's

To watch on the tv. No waiting for the next episode, no commercials, and I can watch them over and over.

[Paladin]

4. Today's NY Times has a great write-up about the series.

Interesting details, but no troublesome spoilers. Good reading.

[TorchTheWitch]

5. You can watch all the episodes of season 4 online

All of season 4 already aired in the UK, so all the episodes are already online.

http://thewalkingdeadseason4.org/downton-abbey-episodes/

[Vashta Nerada]

7. Okay, I tried getting into the show.

I watched the first three seasons, but the show is dreadfully boring.

What's its appeal?

[elleng]

8. Character development,

excellent writing, history, but OK if you find it boring. I don't care for Breaking Bad.

[Vashta Nerada]

9. I've actually never seen Breaking Bad.

It's one of the 3897523895734987534 things in my queue to watch right now.

[elleng]

10. Friend liked it so much,

he was essentially AWOL for almost a month, watching everything. I saw it once and said

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. I've watched a couple of episodes and can't seem to get into it

The cinematography is wonderful and so is the acting. The locations are beautiful. It's the lack of plot or interesting events in the characters' lives that leaves me cold. I came away feeling that it was a little bit of a soap opera set in Edwardian England. There's a lot of people sitting around sipping tea and having crumpets with conversations in an English accent like: "I'm afraid I've engaged in a bit of farting this morning and it's left me rather disconsolate and enervated." I'm kidding of course but I really wanted to like it, as I usually love all things English of past periods. Maybe I need to watch it more.

[Vashta Nerada]

14. The characters are so dry.

I have it on right now and I already want to fall asleep.

[elleng]

16. British,

maybe a style you can't enjoy.

[Vashta Nerada]

17. Yeah. You're right.

I don't dislike it because it's British, however. I absolutely love Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Game of Thrones. All of those star British actors.

[elleng]

15. It is a bit of a soap opera,

but contains lots of stuff about history and culture that makes it interesting to me.

[dixiegrrrrl]

27. It could be generational

or cultural differences.
There are some shows that are wildly popular ( Walking Dead, for instance) that I simply do not "get" .

Downtown Abbey is, on one level, "high camp" to use an older expression
I like the era it portrays, the different characters are well written, for the most part.

For some people it is "too slow".
There is a lot going on under the surface, tho.

Season 5 ( being filmed now) is suppsoed to be the last season.
The writer has a new series in the works.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. Woo hoo!

I am planted in front of the tube for the next two hours.

[elleng]

13. DITTO!

[Lodestar]

18. I'm confused

I'm watching the premiere and don't get something. Can't think of his name right now but the
tall young man who worked as a servant who died last season from war wounds (and married the young kitchen maid before he died) is now alive and well this season? Huh? What am I missing? This season's guy is called Alfred.

[elleng]

19. No he's not alive,

there have been replacements among the staff.

[Lodestar]

20. It sure looks like the same guy.... n/t

[elleng]

21. Seen one,

Seen 'em all!!!

[oregonjen]

22. As people jokingly say, there are only 12 British actors. :)

[greatauntoftriplets]

23. Daisy was married to William, who died.

Alfred is another character entirely, though he's a footman, the same as William was.

[Lodestar]

24. Doesn't he look the like the same actor? And at the beginning of this program

when it was discovered that Ms O'brien left he was in the kitchen with the other servants and said "I know she's my aunt
but she's always been a dark horse". Wasn't William O'Brien's nephew last season?

[greatauntoftriplets]

25. No, that was Alfred last season.

They're both tall blonds, but other than that, I don't think they look alike.

[Lodestar]

26. Oh okay, I'm confusing the two. So Alfred is still around this season, and he's NOT the one

that married Daisy last season.

[greatauntoftriplets]

28. Daisy got married two seasons ago, to William, to then died of his war wounds.

William was heavier set than Alfred, if that helps.

[Lodestar]

29. Thanks. I've watched the show here and there when I could and obviously lost this story thread

in the process and mixed up the characters.