![]() She turns around to see Carson, "You're quite a plotter when you want to be aren't you?" "It's a skill all women must learn," replies Mrs. Hughes looking out the window with a sly smile on her face as Jimmy is carted off into the sunrise. So insert a chance sinister element I can't think of at the moment into the handing over of the book to Edith, Edith tosses it into the fire, Thomas saves Edith and his job, Jimmy is found out by Robert and loses his job, ticking timebomb diffused. All of a sudden, they're friends again, so she could be worried she has another "ticking timebomb" on her hands. Hughes didn't want Jimmy to cause Thomas to lose his job without a reference. Now if you DO want a sinister alternative, Mrs. The result was the fire, which we had to have so Thomas could keep his job and Jimmy could leave. It's just applying her good idea last time to this new scenario, which she didn't do. You'll know best what to do." Something like that, which is what she suggested to Carson about Matthew's box, maybe the fire doesn't happen. I'm saying had she given the book to Cora and said something like, "I'm worried seeing the book might upset Lady Edith, so I'm putting this into your hands. No, she didn't try to upset Edith on purpose. Hughes is clearly uneasy about giving the book to Edith she even says she was going to give it to Cora. The photograph didn't appear until AFTER the fire. Of course not nothing so intentional or sinister as that. ![]() And even knowing that, I still like that version of him better. I know that's an actual storyline that he works through, but it reads a lot like conservative propaganda, honestly. I do think it's a shame that his political views seemed to lessen - it made it seem that once he had a more privileged position himself, he didn't care quite so much about his ideals. ![]() I really only started to like him in the later seasons when he has mellowed somewhat, and began to value family above politics. Tom diminishes those relationships and accuses her of just not wanting to give up her status. They dote on her! She has excellent relationships with both of her sisters, and she's close to her parents, despite her arguments with Robert about attending political events (which were dangerous! She got hurt at one - he did have a point). It's not like her family treat her badly or are cruel people who don't care about her. I also don't like that he's so dismissive of the life she would leave behind for him. ![]() Before that she was talking to him because of a shared interest in politics, is that really a sign of love? He does bully her! She really gives him no indication that she's into him romantically until well after he starts insisting that she does. But that wasn't going to stop him from exhibiting the behavior he grew up with and accepted as natural. We want our heroes to be as pure as the driven snow, so as not to cloud the issue of who to side with. Let's face it, we hate seeing the oppressed being the oppressor in turn. Sure he loves her, but she is still his, and will submit her will to his, or else. He's one of the good guys, right?Īnd then we see our good guys' behavior towards women, specifically "his" woman, and are appalled that he treats her like his property. So we freedom loving Americans are with Tom on this. The English have been oppressing Ireland for centuries, taking their lands, a few massacres, random killings with the justification that the man just shot was probably a rebel. Again, we are being shown the realism of the time. ![]()
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