mrv3000 | (no subject)

Aww, Sybil. Your storyline turned to crap and so they killed you off. I can't say that I'm overly upset at her death, other than the fact that she was wasted from S2 on.
What did get me sniffling were the reactions. At the top of the list were Cora, Mary and Edith. The three of them knocked it out of the park acting-wise. At least those were the three that made me sniffly.
It would be unrealistic (LOL THIS SHOW) if Mary and Edith would suddenly be BFFs now, but I can see them at least trying with each other.
Oh Robert, you're such a douche. Yeah, Sybil would have had a slim chance anyway during this time period, but his pompousness during all this - expect Cora to be angry at you for a long time, dude. Between this and the estate, he really should go fishing for the rest of his life.
I can understand Mary's reaction to Matthew (that was incredibly stupid and insensitive to discuss business then), but Mary's got to let go of her inherited pompousness as well, otherwise the estate is going to go down the drain. And she'll really only have herself to blame if she keeps digging her heels in with Matthew.
BATES. WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?

I would have been all for Tom dying and Sybil struggling through single parenting and wanting to go back to a career! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AWESOME. Instead we're left with Tom. I wanted the opposite of this.

I have absolutely no idea on the historical accuracy of how the childbirth thing went down. I sort of got the impression that everyone felt that hospitals were "common" and any proper birth was still done at home. (I've read a book where some upper class person had a home birth during this time, so maybe it was a thing?) However, Sybil was pretty out of it most the time to even say "GET ME TO A HOSPITAL."

Mary was bugging me a bit as well when she and Matthew were walking around. She's so defensive about her father that I just want to shake her a bit. Family loyalty is all good, but Matthew's family as well, and his opinion should be more important than her father's. (Unless he's being stupid, which he's not.)