There is only ONE question to ask yourself after seeing the final episode of Season Three of Downton Abbey: How did the United Kingdom ever grow to be 62.6 million people? The place must be full of Australians.A baby is born; someone dies. That's pretty much how Willie Nelson describes his birthplace, Abbott, Texas, where the population always stays the same; a baby is born, a man leaves town.
It's no wonder those big mansions never get fully occupied and they fall down around someone's ears. There's no one in all those bedrooms.
Of course Matthew's auto accident is a plot device, but really. The Crawleys and the Granthams are resembling the Kennedys. At the rate the show is going, there will be no one to 'soldier on' in WWII, and history will be changed, Plus one, minus one is a guaranteed way to keep the country from aging and turning into America, where getting old is not free and there are Republicans who basically think we should adopt the Julian Fellowes system of population control.
There are other things that of course happen in the the two hour final episode. Basically, none of them are weighty enough to be worth mentioning.
The only take-away worth mentioning is that absolute scariest pair of people, Shrimpie's and Susan's butler and head housekeeper, will easily have work in horror films when the pile in Scotland goes under the auction hammer. They are frightening standing still.
Season Four? We'll all be back, no matter what you say now.
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