"Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day."
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So said novelist and screenwriter, Richard Price ( Read more... )

"[W]hat's the matter ... [t]hat you have such a February face ...?"

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Well, we know the answer to that do we not? (:points to meme title:) ... We are saying goodbye to the month of February, and I thought I would let the Bard of Avon play us out with today's quote. (Besides, I could not let my mirror shipper buddy, eolivet, down, could I?)

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"I will never love again the way I love ... [them]."

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Day 27 - When it's over, where will Matthew and Mary stand in your annal of OTPs?

Well, dear Anna (in one of the best, quietest, most effective -- and affecting -- scenes from S2) said it best. And I will never love a fictional couple the way I love(d) them. I never had before and now, even ( Read more... )

"If it's to be our last, let's make it a wonderful last."

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Day 26 - How long do you think Downton will run?

The short of it is: Who knows? If I had had to answer this question a couple of weeks ago, prior to Dave Itzkoff's (New York Times) interview with Julian Fellowes, I would have said that Downton would conclude after five seasons. After ( Read more... )

"That's done now .... Finished. It's time to move forward."

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Day 21 - How long do you think Mary will be in mourning for Matthew?Lady Mary Crawley spoke these words to her grandmother, the Dowager Countess, at the beginning of 2x04 in response to Violet's question about the prospect of her marrying Matthew. Mary put on her best pragmatic face ( Read more... )

"Deep down you're not on our side!"

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It is a trifecta! In an effort to catch up (again), it made sense to take on not two but three topics today since, in my mind anyway, the next three on the list are thematically linked. What is the theme? In a word: loyalty.

Day 18 - Other than Matthew not dying, what is the one thing you'd have changed ( Read more... )

"We can never be happy now, don't you see?"

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I am continuing to tag dead!Matthew posts "spoilers" for the six people left on the planet who have not seen it, but ... phew! What a relief in some ways that Matthew's death is no longer a "spoiler" in much of the Anglophone world but a dead horse we can continue to beat daily.

Speaking of death:

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"I feel like I'm only half myself without ... [them]."

[Downton Abbey S3 Spoilers Ahead]



Day 15 - Describe your thoughts while watching the Downton Christmas Special.

Taking advantage of the long weekend to travel, I am now running a day behind on this meme. But it is perhaps serendipitous since the S3 finale -- aka the CS 2012 (or the "CS of Doom" as eolivet calls it) airs in the ( Read more... )

"We  must never take us for granted."

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Day 14 - When did you begin to suspect that Matthew was going to die?

So we are going a bit morbid for (a belated) Valentine's Day. (And knowing how the creator of this meme loves irony, I suspect it is not coincidence!) But for a character who got down on one knee in the snow to pop the question (even if ( Read more... )

"I don’t know if I will be returning to Downton."

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Day 11 - How long did you hold out hope that Dan Stevens would sign for S4?Dan Stevens' line up until late last fall was always that he "didn't know" if he would be returning for S4. In August, as he was preparing to cross the Atlantic for his Broadway debut, he said, "I will be taking the ( Read more... )