Am I jaded? With television, that is.

[mariness]

So last night, PBS finally got around to broadcasting the episode of Downton Abbey with The Scene.

If you've been keeping up with season four of Downton Abbey at all (and I'll understand if you haven't), you probably heard about this scene months ago since for various not very good reasons Downton Abbey is broadcast months earlier over in Britain

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[haikujaguar]

*reads this and is confused, probably because she downloaded the entire season from the internet when it originally aired and is way far ahead in the timeline and can't remember anything that might be 'a scene.'*

[mariness]

It's the scene with Anna and Lord Whatever's valet while the opera singer is singing. It lit up my Twitter feed a few months back and was/is apparently very controversial.

(I'm trying to be somewhat spoiler free here; I guess in retrospect I should have been more specific and put it under a spoiler cut.)

[haikujaguar]

Oh! That. I found the whole plotline in poor taste, but the actual filming of it rather low-key, to be honest.

[mariness]

Yeah, but apparently others found it incredibly shocking and awful and very violent, which.....not so much?

I didn't like the leadup to the scene at all since it seemed to be heading to victim blaming/listen when a guy warns you, and I didn't like the aftermath at all, and I agree it was all in poor taste, but "low key" is otherwise correct.

[haikujaguar]

I suppose the poor creature was assuming (like the rest of us) that such a storyline would be in such poor taste the writers wouldn't put her through it, so what was there to fear? :,

[mariness]

Heh. True enough :)