Downton Abbey is one of the few TV shows that I watch. I was writing a blog post for today while watching the season finale last night. I was too mad to finish the blog post, so instead I give you this “Downer Abbey” graphic. ha!
Sorry if you don’t watch this series! I won’t go into detail other than I thought it was a huge downer. After reading my Facebook stream, it sounds like I’m not the only one.
At least this line came out of it…
If you are a Downton Abbey fan, what did you think of last night’s show?
“Alright, let’s give it a go and see what the future brings.”- Lord Grantham
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just watched it after our vacation! sooooo mad! soooo sad! wth, people!? the two nicest people on the show in one season. lame!
I think Matthew’s death was a suicide. He’s had enough of his emotionless, cold, narcissistic wife. Pity the child.
Sad sad ending. Matthew brought out the very best in Mary. And Lord Grantham was finally starting to see the wisdom in Matthews ways. I’m really disappointed that he survived so much; he and Mary finally got together; finally got preganant and had a baby boy; and now he’s gone. This season ending left emptiness where the 2nd season ending left us hopeful and yearning for more… But.. I’ll be back for more, of course
I wasn’t expecting that until I saw the truck coming his way. I have actually enjoyed all 3 seasons and I didn’t watch it until this Christmas break.
Love Downton Abbey. I agree with a previous poster. The first two seasons were much better. I too knew Dan was leaving the show, but this was not at all the ended I hoped for. It was a bit too predictable in my opinion. Read somewhere the 4th or 5th season will most likely be the last so hoping for some better writing next go round.
Please don’t hold out for better writing since Julian is going to go part time! He took a job with CBS. BUMMER!!! ;o(
Well Mary is a very tough cookie, and with all the fame this actor has raised from the series, he should have many , many juicy contracts $$$ from all over… Maybie they bring another fab hunk in the next season they are already filming !
I am so sad…poor Mary.
Great information here. I loved all the series.
Dan only signed up for the 1st 3 seasons – he’s been on Broadway for over a year in the Heiress with Jessica Chastain (they film Downton Abbey far ahead of the actual presentation on TV). I believe that the “spoiler” was actually well known from season one.
I liked the ending – I expected him to be shot in one of the hunting seasons and when that didn’t happen, I was confused as I knew he had been written out of the script.
At least he “died happy” thinking about his new baby!
Here’s an update and link for other opportunities to see him:
Stevens, who just wrapped THE HEIRESS on Broadway alongside Jessica Chastain, is being considered to star as the next ‘Mr. Darcy’ on the BBC’s impending adaptation of P.D. James’s novel DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY.
Read more about Dan Stevens to Star as ‘Mr. Darcy’ in BBC’s DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY? – BWWTVWorld by tv.broadwayworld.com
I was in shock. Broke my heart! I loved Matthew’s character. I’m just glad I didn’t have to watch it on Christmas day like the English fans.
I hated it! Matthew was my favorite character. All I can say is don’t be havin no babies!
How else could they have gotten rid of the character. He certainly wasn’t going to take off with the love he had for his wife and the new baby. Personally, I think the actor is a fool for not riding the Downton Abbey ride until it’s natural end. Perhaps Julian Fellowes found the gruesome death a fitting end to a quitter.
I knew something was up as I was reading fb posts about upset my friends were with the finale. So I was prepared for SOMETHING, just not that. So he is leaving the show, really?! It has to end in a negative way on the day his son is born? They could have ended differently just as they have each season. No wedding episodes, but a death?! Downer Abbey is the perfect name for this episode.
Ugh, I hated the ending even though I knew Dan Stevens (is that the actor’s name?) was leaving the show. Pretty gruesome, right? One comment that I read on a blog said that Julian Fellows could could have simply had the next season open with Matthew’s funeral. I thought that was a good idea. As opposed to blood pouring from his head! I think the first two seasons were better than this one…The characters this time seemed a little flat somehow. I’ll still keep watching, though!
I’m not looking for reality. I’m looking for a lovely escape from it just for a little while. That is one of the many things fans love about Downton Abbey. Just lost my mom & stepmom is fighting cancer. Brother is loosing house to foreclosure. Life it tough & downer enough. That is why some people watch TV to have just a bit of escape or go to a happier place just for awhile because life is anything but Disney. If it were, Disneyland/world wouldn’t be as popular as it is.
After watching it (and crying like a baby), I googled why it happened. The writer said that he hated to write both Sybil and Matthew’s death into the show, but when a family member leaves there’s really not much else to do other than kill them off. He couldn’t figure out how to have Matthew with a new baby and wonderful marriage just leave and never come back and make it a plausible reason. So that’s why they killed him off. I was very sad to see both Sybil and Matthew’s characters leave the show.
I actually read something a few months ago regarding the possibility of Matthew leaving the show to become involved in other projects.
One must remember that this is not an American show. Other parts of the world do not find it necessary to have Disney endings. People die and sometimes the hero does not get the girl. This is more realistic. Try watching Asian movies. Sometimes the hero dies.
Downton Abbey was written to be a view of the times. Although changes must be made when actors change their minds, the audience must realize that to keep this from being a total fantasy, people must die.