I find Thomas rather annoying in that the actor plays him as as such a cartoon villain that I don't really appreciate the moments when he transcends his own limitations as much as I ought (whereas the times when O'Brien unexpectedly reveals hidden depths are fantastic, and I get a kick out of Mary and Sybil's moments of triumph over the baser self as well).
I'm quite prepared to believe that there is a know-your-place ideology guiding the storylines, but it annoys me less than the dreadful plotting. I am currently trying not to be REALLY IRRITATED by the everyone-knows-about-the-DTI-except-Lord-Grantham crap. And I simply refuse to believe that IRL Bates would have taken his wife's word that Anna was involved without asking Anna herself, so therefore he must obviously be a psychopath who has Ulterior Motives in buggering off.
I liked the idea of Bates in S1, though I do wish we had been spared having to watch him and Anna snogging (Wolfgang said "It's a hard life being an actress." He has been watching with me and considers the real flaw in the series to be the shockingly low number of moustaches amongst the generals - possibly too much of his knowledge of the Great War is derived from watching Blackadder, but he does have a point).
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Date: 2013-01-31 05:58 pm (UTC)I'm quite prepared to believe that there is a know-your-place ideology guiding the storylines, but it annoys me less than the dreadful plotting. I am currently trying not to be REALLY IRRITATED by the everyone-knows-about-the-DTI-except-Lord-Grantham crap. And I simply refuse to believe that IRL Bates would have taken his wife's word that Anna was involved without asking Anna herself, so therefore he must obviously be a psychopath who has Ulterior Motives in buggering off.
I liked the idea of Bates in S1, though I do wish we had been spared having to watch him and Anna snogging (Wolfgang said "It's a hard life being an actress." He has been watching with me and considers the real flaw in the series to be the shockingly low number of moustaches amongst the generals - possibly too much of his knowledge of the Great War is derived from watching Blackadder, but he does have a point).