Will you open this door!?

Thomas Barrow and Richard Ellis

Don’t mind me crying over the two of them 😭😭

Like when he insists everyone calls him Mr Barrow, it’s for a reason, he’s had a promotion & it’s a mark of respect that they should adjust as such. Just because someone like Anna doesn’t do it (which is mostly to prevent confusion anyway) doesn’t mean he shouldn’t?

I’m not saying he isn’t rude with it. But if Carson was in the same position - he would blow a gasket & do the exact same.

Does Thomas take this behaviour too far? Yes. He outright bullies William but he also is just doing what he sees Carson doing - William is a little late? Tell him it’s unacceptable. (Yes they are basically in the same position but Thomas is still that little bit senior.)

Like… Carson tears a strip out of William for having a split seam in his livery - I know Carson is in charge but is that behaviour not the same?

I think it’s pretty clear where Thomas learnt it.

And like an entire subreddit would exist to prove lord grantham was some type of mob boss in the aristocracy, who killed anyone who wronged his family. The descendants of the granthams are constantly in the media trying to disprove these theories, like “no great grandad was just a guy… we think” but they don’t really have any solid evidence to disprove any claims bc the family took those secrets to the their graves

It’s so bad that people wholeheartedly believe he was the one who sunk the titanic and caused World War I

When his new heir found himself a fiancée who was not related to them, she died mysteriously while staying at their house. When a turkish diplomat tried to bed the daughter he wanted to marry his heir, the guy mysteriously died.

When his new heir tried to implement changes, he died just after Downton Abbey was informed the child his daughter bore was a boy.

Two of his servants were convicted of murders but, probably because they were his hitmen, he managed to get them freed thanks to relations. There is circumstantial evidence that he knew where Bates was while on the run and didnt tell the police.

Bates? Killed the woman trying to make scandal go down on the family. Anna? Killed the trusted valet of a guest who didnt want to take his daughter's no seriously.

Sir Philip Tapsell failed to save his daughter? [The actor] died a few years later, complete coincidence of course... unless.

He doesnt approve of Gregson's sights on edith? Gregson dies.

♛ favorite unpopular characters meme:
 a character you love who gets hate for opposing a fandom favourite.

Rob James-Collier as Thomas Barrow