" I like your politics, Branson! Why are you turning into such a douche? "
Because he's lower-class trying to better himself, and in this series that is a Bad Thing. (Last series, with the stenographer, not so much.) Think about it: Uppity Maid gets pregnant, Uppity Chauffeur turns into the bad guy, and I'm pretty sure there are others but I haz drug-brain.
Frankly, if William died -- I haven't seen this week but am not caring about spoilers because IT IS ALL SUCH CRACK -- it's better than I'd hoped; I was afraid that he was the one who was going to come home hopelessly broken and then it would be poor Daisy stuck caretaking a husband she didn't want in the first place and I would have been giving Mrs. Patmore SUCH THE SIDE-EYE for projecting her Unresolved Dead Nephew Issues into "Go ahead, give the lad a good seeing-to before he goes off to war. Only respectably."
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Because he's lower-class trying to better himself, and in this series that is a Bad Thing. (Last series, with the stenographer, not so much.) Think about it: Uppity Maid gets pregnant, Uppity Chauffeur turns into the bad guy, and I'm pretty sure there are others but I haz drug-brain.
Frankly, if William died -- I haven't seen this week but am not caring about spoilers because IT IS ALL SUCH CRACK -- it's better than I'd hoped; I was afraid that he was the one who was going to come home hopelessly broken and then it would be poor Daisy stuck caretaking a husband she didn't want in the first place and I would have been giving Mrs. Patmore SUCH THE SIDE-EYE for projecting her Unresolved Dead Nephew Issues into "Go ahead, give the lad a good seeing-to before he goes off to war. Only respectably."