Experience the Crawley family and their loyal staff grapple with the relentless march of technological progress in the 20th Century. From the arrival of the telephone to the invention of the wireless. While these technologies are so common place today, how will the inhabitants of Downton Abbey react to these novelties?
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How lovely Granny is ,struggling with a telephone!
I love her so much!
Mrs Patmore was never keen on modern changes
The way the dowager speaks on the phone. Brilliant acting by Maggie Smith …
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They young always embrace technology and drag along their unentusuastic elders, at least until such a time as the young are the elders and being dragged along. The older I get, the more my sympathies lie with the elder members of the house.
"I wouldn't touch that thing with a 10 foot pole."
"Well my lady, I wouldn't mind getting rid of me corset."
"Daisy, may I ask why you have purchased a vibrating massage instrument?" -"It's… for me shoulder. I think I've pulled it." "I see. Well, I shall hope that this device will suit your needs." -"Yes, Mr. Carson. I'm sure it will. Thank you."
If you think about it, the servants had difficulties with it because those technologies posed a literal existential threat to them. With electric mixers you didn't need a lot more extra kitchen maids, with telephones – extra servants/hall boys to run small errands and with refrigerators, all those dairy maids and even cooks were becoming obsolete.
Carson reminded me a bit of the Bucket Woman… oh pardon me, Mrs Bouquet answering her telephone.
Modern technology even at this year of the century seems to have baffled everyone but that is progressive world greetings from Canada 🇨🇦
Dowager screaming into the phone: me when there’s bad reception.
Carson: A telephone is not a toy!
Me: just wait until the 21st century!
Mrs. P and grocery delivery : well, in 2024, you can still get them delivered. Same day, too. It’s called Instacart. 😂😂😂😂😂
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What is this insipid device? It is most provoking and vexatious and frankly makes us Quite Cross! 🎉 🏆. LOL from DownTURN abbey 😉
Imagine If Carson was around for the TV 😏
Torture yes Telephones turned out to be the Dark Mirror! What cha think Lady Dowager? Frightful ? Yes!
You can tell Laura Carmichael is trying with all her might not to crack up watching Maggie Smith on the phone and who can blame her? 😂
I can imagine such battles happened on a regular basis in the post-Victorian Era as older people tried to understand such newfangled devices as the telephone or the electric light. I remember how my paternal grandfather was completely befuddled by the desktop computer my parents bought in the early 1990s. He was born in 1918 and the closest thing to a “computer” they had in those days was an NCR cash register, haha.
Fabulous series and movies 👍👍👍
2:30 And now we are using our telephones to look at photos of people's pets or argue with other people on the Internet while we're, shall we say, biologically required to sit down for a few minutes.
And people think I'm backwards because I won't buy the latest cell phone.
"Well I daresay the things you do sound stupid to other people!"
True words, Mr. Carson. True words.
never realized an electric Singer was already realized in the early 20th century, thought it was still either foot-pedaled or hand-cranked
I am happy that we still use phones, for now.
The fact that I can quote everything they say as they say it should tell me I've watched this show way too many times
2:33 "The telephone is not a toy!" …. Och, Mr. Carson, if only you were still around to see the year 2024… 😂😂
Dame Maggie was given absolutely the best lines in the history of scriptwriting
The first scene is totally not believable. By the time this is set, 1915ish plus. Phones had been around for 20-25 years. They were hardly new. And the Dowager would have used one by now. We even had them in Melbourne, Australia in the 1880’s.
I love the excitement displayed by the ones who are embracing this exciting new technology.
When Carson came in at the end. Even Lady Rose left.
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Carson and Lady Grantham's fightd against technology were the best of Dowton Abbey 😂😂
"Why does every day involve a fight with an American?" 😂😂😂
Poor Violet, every day she has to struggle with Cora, also when Mrs Levinsons goes for a visit, and now an american invention 😂😂😂