Downton Abbey SM
Downton Abbey, which takes place about 100 years ago, is probably my favorite program. Earlier in the season, one of the characters, an older lady, was proposed to. Last week the man's grown son insulted her. The man asked his son to apologize to his future SM. In last night's episode, the woman received a nasty note from her future SS, telling her he would never accept her marriage to his Father. The woman told the man she could not marry him if she was not accepted by his children.
What surprise me is that it is so rare to view this situation as it usually is instead of watching another Cinderella story on TV. Another thing is that she had enough self-worth to tell the man she was not willing to endure his son's rude behavior to her.
As DH and I were watching this scene, I wondered what was going through his mind. I wanted to say, "This is what I went through with your daughter", but I kept quiet, hoping it would occur to him.
Hopefully, this situation which we all sadly share will be brought to light more often.
Where can I catch Season One?
Where can I catch Season One? I do get PBS but they are on Season 5 I think and I'd like to get hooked from the beginning!
I was just thinking the other
I was just thinking the other day how nice it would be if there were a series to watch or movies that stepmoms could relate. I just added all the Downton Abbey series to my netflix. My dh works nites so I will be curling up on the couch each nite till I get through them and I especially want to watch the the program you mentioned.
Can you stream it on Netflix
Can you stream it on Netflix or do you have to get the DVDs?
I had to get the dvd's
I had to get the dvd's
Maybe the writers were
Maybe the writers were reading Steptalk and saw the reality of steplife! Good decision, Mrs. Crawley!
Thanks for mentioning that it
Thanks for mentioning that it was Mrs. Crawley. It DOES seem like someone was reading Steptalk, huh? Her character has been portrayed as a loving, generous woman. No one in their right mind would think ill of her. She's the closest thing to Mother Teresa I've seen on TV. But it just goes to show sometimes it doesn't matter if you've attained sainthood a jealous Skid will make unfair judgements on you.
Hi Sandye - I, too, am hooked
Hi Sandye - I, too, am hooked on Downton Abbey. I saw those episodes as well and it was refreshing to see Mrs. Crawley take her stand about the sons. As has been seen through out the season, she is quite level headed and practical about things.
I also like what she told her "fiancé", when she told him that she had to withdraw her acceptance.....that she didn't want to and would not come between a father and his sons, grown though they may be. IMHO, what wasn't said is that she didn't want to have to put up with them for the rest of her life if she married their father.
One thing she was lucky in....they showed their true nature right off the bat. Some of our ASK's have only come out, with how nasty they are, after the marriage occurred. I can honestly say that if I knew Twit's true nature, and problems, before I married DH, I would not have done so. Life is too darn short to put up with carp from the "children".
You mentioned that a lot of
You mentioned that a lot of adult skids do not sow their true colors until the marriage. This was the case with my SD - the night before the wedding. Then at the wedding she pouted and sulked like she was at a funeral. From then on it was war. If I had known how mean and nasty SD was, and how unsupportive her Father would be of me before I married him, I would have never done so either.
i was thinking the same
i was thinking the same thing. too bad a selfish son stood in the way of his fathers happiness.
the character dickie already was shown to have been unhappy in an arranged aristocratic marriage and was rather relieved when his wife eventually died. he loved mrs crawley and sincerely wanted to be in a happy marriage.
yet another case of a twit asc ruining their parents life and happiness.
nice to see this on a tv show where brady bunch character all live happily together.
Yes, and nice to see a woman
Yes, and nice to see a woman know how to handle the situation. Do note that Mrs. Crawley told Lord Merton that she would not stand between his children and him. I believe the truth was that she didn't want to have to put up with them and their nonsense as they made her life with their father hell. Well put, Mrs. Crawly. AND, it got Lord Merton to talk to his sons, even though the one wrote a nasty note to her.
too bad lord merton did not
too bad lord merton did not stand up to his sons bad acts to his fiance. what a shame.
Well, Lord Merton did assure
Well, Lord Merton did assure Mrs. Crawley that he wouldn't let his sons interfere with their life. But Mrs. Crawley is a very, very smart woman. She knows better. AND, she was very smart in the way she told Lord Merton she wouldn't stand between his sons and him rather, putting the blame squarely where it belonged.