The Divine Collections

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sashaudinov:

Robert: I want a good man for you, a brave man. Find a cowboy in the Middle West and bring him back to shake us up a bit

Mary: Oh, Papa

I hated this line because I just kept thinking “you can joke about Mary marrying a cowboy but you can’t accept the man - the good man - that Sybil married.”

this is a robert crawley hate blog

This. I was like “I don’t seem to recall you liking it when Branson “shook you up.”

He and Carson really should cut to the chase and just start up their Mary fanclub - but it’s cool, because Isobel and Mrs Hughes will start up their Sybil one and Edith will have one created by all the fab Roaring 20s friends she will make in London, as well as Sybil and Tom, ofc (because she is “much nicer than she was before the war” and will introduce Branson to all her awesome liberal London friends “and weren’t all the times we spent in the car, me teaching you to drive fun, altough not as fun as when Sybil was in the car-“)

It would be different if he had a change of heart, learned from his mistakes, thought differently of different people, and recognized Branson’s superior sense of honorable behavior and his admiration and respect for Sybil. If he actual meant that statement to Mary, then he is just clinging to a grudge against Branson.

But why exactly? If he is willfully ignoring Branson’s character, which as a man of sense he should be able to recognize, then it must be ingrained prejudice. It would be hard to say he doesn’t respect the servants of Downton, especially after sticking up for Bates in the trial. So does Robert hate him because he’s Irish? But we haven’t seen any other proof of that either.

So if not those things, it has to be him blaming Branson for Sybil’s blossoming independence. That kind of seems likely to me, considering his behavior after seeing that Sybil had been injured in the rally in the first season. He’s fought it off ever since. So to me, Robert seems to be a male chauvinist, ignorant and close-minded to both his daughter’s potential as a person (not just as a woman) and her capacity for self-determination.

And side note: how did nothing happen to him after the maid/gentleman tryst was discovered? No scene showing a real reaction from him. It almost feels like the Jane the Maid thing never even happen. Really? REALLY?

What’s that you say?

Sorry bro. You do not deserve special treatment anymore. I will be seriously disappointed if he remains this way until the show ends.