serious announcement

[pocochina]

As of an hour and a half into episode 2x6 of Downton Abbey, THIS SHOW IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST.

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[upupa_epops]

Do you want me to tell you if it gets better?

[pocochina]

HOW COULD IT POSSIBLY GET WORSE?!

[upupa_epops]

I KNOOOOOOOOOOOOW. It's awful :(. If it's any consolation, Christmas Special was pretty decent?

[pocochina]

I hope so! I'm still attached enough to Mary and Thomas to want to stick it out at some point, but blargh. probably not tonight.

[snickfic]

What has just finished happening? I'm trying to figure out if 2.6 on PBS is the same as 2.6 when I watched it *ahem* online last year.

[pocochina]

Lavinia tells Matthew how even she thinks she should DIE FOR OUR SHIP, Robert whines about how Cora at death's door right in front of him is a disturbance to his lifestyle, and both the single moms decide they're just too noble to catch any financial lifeline they get thrown.

But it does leave off with Bates getting taken away in cuffs, so. I take the lulz where I can find them.

[snickfic]

But it does leave off with Bates getting taken away in cuffs, so. I take the lulz where I can find them.

There is that.

About four episodes ago, I was chatting with someone privately and I said, "Poco's going to hate the end of S2, isn't she? Like, really hate." And the other person said, "Yeah, yeah she is."

[pocochina]

HAHAHAHA. #predictable

[lutamira]

Bwahahahahahaha - I knew you'd love ep. 6...

[pocochina]

SO HATEFUL THOUGH.

[lutamira]

Episode theme: women choosing men = women choosing their own happiness. I don't know if that makes sense. I might have to actually post about this 'cause I haven't it right yet, but this episode epitomizes for me the old-school paternal theme that women can be happiest when their lives are centered around making men happy. It is such a nefarious trope because there is a bit of truth in the idea that it is within relationships (of various kinds) that lots of humans find a sense of satisfaction, but this particular trope is always focused on women, the noble sacrifices of women, the ways women serve and love and live and, just, uggg. I think it is the exact converse of the Man!Pain trope, but I don't know if there is any kind of shorthand for calling it out. (Is there? I want there to be.)

[pocochina]

UGH, YES. It's this idea that ideal womanhood is self-sublimation. I don't think it has a snappy name though!

[vash26]

Lols! I havn't seen this, but it sems like everyoneon my flist loves it!

[pocochina]

The first season is fantastic, but things have Taken A Turn for the wildly melodramatic and misogynistic lately.

[cold_clarity]

I watched ep 6 with a friend and by the end we were both yelling at the screen because WTF THIS IS BULLLLLSHIT.

[pocochina]

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK HAVE I EVEN BEEN WATCHING?

[cold_clarity]

IDK DUDE. and I fucking loved Lavinia--her unexplored backstory = one of my favorite things in the show, and she was EASILY one of the best of the "upstairs" cast, in my opinion. and I saw her death coming from a mile away BUT THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT ANY BETTER.

[pocochina]

SHE WAS SO EXCELLENT. I mourn. And not just because she was half of my favorite pairing on this ship O MARY WHO WILL YOU LOVE NOW?!