Jimmy Higgins
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Oh yeah! Everyone is ready for the US debut of Downton Abbey Season Five. After all the exciting stuff from Season Four that happened almost exclusively off screen, fans can't wait to find out what doesn't happen on screen in Season Five. Well, I have good news, because thanks to my number of sources, I have the breakdown on the opening scene for the Season Premiere.
For a first, the show doesn't begin with the opening credits. Rather, we see a dark and grim setting in the yard of Downton Abbey. Dust fills the sky, the color in the air is a deep auburn from what light can come through from the setting sun. Dozens, maybe several hundred dead soldiers, allied and German, are scattered throughout the grounds of Downton Abbey. Some bodies are being scavenged by birds, others by flies that consume what the birds have left behind. Isobel Crawley is scurrying around the yard, having apparently gone mad from seeing all the bodies of the dead soldiers. Soldiers she would have no chance to treat and save.
Portions of the home are damaged. It appears bombs had exploded and taken out one or two of the rooms. Other portions were darkened and turned black from what would seemingly be fires created by the bombings.
The camera then cuts inside. The body of Daisy lays out in the foyer. Her eyes starring out into oblivion. Irony that she'd die from the war that her devote husband would die trying to prevent from happening a couple decades earlier. Ms. Patmore walks up from the kitchen, and sees Daisy's body and begins to cry. Thomas sees her and comforts her with a hug, which then turns into a passionate embrace.
The camera pans deeper into the home. A muffled sound is heard as Anna walks past a hallway entrance with a Nazi soldier, who's head is locked in her arms. She cracks his neck and walks into the seating area where some of the family is seated. She looks over at Mr. Bates, they share a glowing smile with one another as she marks a 23nd swastika on the wall under her name, Mr. Bates has 24 under his. Lady Mary is sitting on the couch, looking inconsolable. Her mother is no where to be seen. Has she become a victim as well?
Lord Grantham is holding a paper with the Headline reading "Victory!" He puts down the paper. You see he has an eye patch and almost all of his hair is ragged and white. His age looks greatly advanced from an insurpassable mountain of stress and anguish. He looks around and exuberantly announces, "Now that was a war!" Goes to opening credit sequence
For a first, the show doesn't begin with the opening credits. Rather, we see a dark and grim setting in the yard of Downton Abbey. Dust fills the sky, the color in the air is a deep auburn from what light can come through from the setting sun. Dozens, maybe several hundred dead soldiers, allied and German, are scattered throughout the grounds of Downton Abbey. Some bodies are being scavenged by birds, others by flies that consume what the birds have left behind. Isobel Crawley is scurrying around the yard, having apparently gone mad from seeing all the bodies of the dead soldiers. Soldiers she would have no chance to treat and save.
Portions of the home are damaged. It appears bombs had exploded and taken out one or two of the rooms. Other portions were darkened and turned black from what would seemingly be fires created by the bombings.
The camera then cuts inside. The body of Daisy lays out in the foyer. Her eyes starring out into oblivion. Irony that she'd die from the war that her devote husband would die trying to prevent from happening a couple decades earlier. Ms. Patmore walks up from the kitchen, and sees Daisy's body and begins to cry. Thomas sees her and comforts her with a hug, which then turns into a passionate embrace.
The camera pans deeper into the home. A muffled sound is heard as Anna walks past a hallway entrance with a Nazi soldier, who's head is locked in her arms. She cracks his neck and walks into the seating area where some of the family is seated. She looks over at Mr. Bates, they share a glowing smile with one another as she marks a 23nd swastika on the wall under her name, Mr. Bates has 24 under his. Lady Mary is sitting on the couch, looking inconsolable. Her mother is no where to be seen. Has she become a victim as well?
Lord Grantham is holding a paper with the Headline reading "Victory!" He puts down the paper. You see he has an eye patch and almost all of his hair is ragged and white. His age looks greatly advanced from an insurpassable mountain of stress and anguish. He looks around and exuberantly announces, "Now that was a war!" Goes to opening credit sequence