She was a great character tbh - her and the Dowager Countess were iconic on the show, more so than the entire rest of the family combined.
Was she a wonderful sweet lovely person and a Woman Of The People? lmao fuck no. But she was a QUEEN on the show for everything symbolic of that era and class she represented.
Mary wasn't nice, most of the time. (But she was ride or die for anyone she loved, like Anna.) But fuck it, I love female characters who don't have 'likability' high on their lists of character traits. She doesn't have to be likable to be a great character!
It's a shame that the writing for her character was pretty shit the last couple of years on the show. Mary was most interesting as a character when she was written as a woman who loved her home and fought for it. Her storyline in the final two seasons was so mehhhhhhhh.
It's pretty rare for women to be written as unlikable and then to be treated sympathetically by the narrative and allowed to grow as characters. Usually unlikable women are written to be hated and remain two-dimensional portraits of the "snobby/bitchy" woman throughout their story.
ia with everything you said tbh, she was at her best when she was learning the ins and outs of the estate and working with Tom and generally trying to keep the estate going (and telling her dad off).
She wasn't a nice likeable sweetheart, but she felt more real and rounded in many ways than most others imho. She didn't have to be likeable to be a badass, and she wasn't really painted as a hated stone cold bitch trope we were meant to hate, which was refreshing for a woman really.
She could be massively unlikeable, but we saw her grow and learn from stuff and change her ways a lot of the time, which made her interesting and iconic.
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(I'm still bitter over Mary's story in the final season, in case you couldn't tell.)
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Was she a wonderful sweet lovely person and a Woman Of The People? lmao fuck no. But she was a QUEEN on the show for everything symbolic of that era and class she represented.
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Mary wasn't nice, most of the time. (But she was ride or die for anyone she loved, like Anna.) But fuck it, I love female characters who don't have 'likability' high on their lists of character traits. She doesn't have to be likable to be a great character!
It's a shame that the writing for her character was pretty shit the last couple of years on the show. Mary was most interesting as a character when she was written as a woman who loved her home and fought for it. Her storyline in the final two seasons was so mehhhhhhhh.
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She wasn't a nice likeable sweetheart, but she felt more real and rounded in many ways than most others imho. She didn't have to be likeable to be a badass, and she wasn't really painted as a hated stone cold bitch trope we were meant to hate, which was refreshing for a woman really.
She could be massively unlikeable, but we saw her grow and learn from stuff and change her ways a lot of the time, which made her interesting and iconic.
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