mrv3000 | (no subject)

Yay! It's back! And it's soapy as ever! XD

Bates is still in jail, and it feels like it's going to be a boring plotline. Well, maybe he'll be killed off by his cellmate and that will be the end of it. One can hope. Poor Anna, though.
Robert lost the entire fortune. Good job, Robert. You're lucky Cora's so understanding that you lost her money. You should kiss her shoes and never look at another maid again.
I can see why Matthew doesn't want to take Lavinia's father's money, but I still want to poke him with a stick. He still doesn't seem to quite get that the estate isn't simply about living in luxury. An entire county's livelihoods depend on the estate either directly or indirectly. So he'd let his pride and/or guilt take down hundreds of people? POKING WITH STICKS. Suck it up, Matthew.
Branson's douchiness seems to be down a notch. Slightly. Hopefully it's on a downward decline. They should just assign Violet to him on a permanent basis so that after everything he says, she'd be there to say "lol whatever." It'd be very good for him.
I wish that Mary hadn't gotten married in the 20s. That style - it looked like she was in a sack. A pretty sack, but still a sack. I have to credit the costumers on this show since it did look very authentic 1920s, and they didn't try to shape it differently so it'd be more flattering. Actually all of the costumes were amazing in this episode.
On that note, Edith looks absolutely fab in 1920s clothes and hair.
Sybil looks dowdy, but she's supposed to.
This show. I half expected there to be some dramatic thing that stopped the wedding, but it looks like they actually pulled it off. :D

I'm still kind of irritated with Robert after that pointless cheating-with-the-maid storyline. I'm kind of surprised Cora let the money thing go so easily, but at the same time, I'm glad they had him tell her and not keep it as some horrible secret that forced an even bigger wedge between them.

I'm glad they didn't create bigger drama between them, especially since there will be enough drama over it with Matthew.

I feel like he’s going to backslide and offend everybody (especially Mary) by insulting their lifestyle.

Yeah, it seemed a bit off. Like talking to Mosely - I thought he understood about that.

By the end of the episode I was pretty happy about the Sybil/Branson relationship (especially Branson's ~bonding~ with Matthew) but he really irritated me when he was all “Don’t disappoint me Sybil.” Wow, patronizing much Branson? You could at least try to fit in a little bit for your wife’s sake. Y’know, cause she gave up everything and ran off to IRELAND with you. But like I said, he seemed to calm down a bit by the end of the episode.

It was nice that they're trying to include him and it's not quite so antagonistic between them all anymore. Now if only he'd get down off his high horse more often... And I missed the bit about "don't disappoint me Sybil." When was that?

"Yeah, it seemed a bit off. Like talking to Mosely - I thought he understood about that"
I know, I felt like he'd finally accepted (or at least tolerated) some stuff like that.

"And I missed the bit about "don't disappoint me Sybil." When was that?"
If I heard it correctly, it was while they were in bed and she was talking to him about those people visiting (y'know, with the jerky son who then drugged Branson's drink). She was trying to get him to compromise a bit - like go to town and buy the proper attire (which was perfectly reasonable imho).