Downton Abbey/Awesome


 * It's a beautiful moment when William finally gives Thomas the beatdown he's been asking for all along. Made all the better by the fact that everyone stands around watching in tacit approval until Thomas starts to hit back. Then everyone jumps in to pull them apart.
 * Anna finally laying down the law and telling Bates that . Guh.
 * When, he refuses, because he's of the opinion that   just wants to reap the financial benefits of being  . Cue The Lady Grantham inviting him for tea and letting him know PRECISELY why you should never mess with the Dowager Countess.
 * Robert chewing out the white feather girls in the series 2 premiere.
 * To elaborate, the white feather girls are rude, stuck-up pricks who hand out white feathers to men not in uniform and quickly inform them that it's for cowards who were too chicken to enter the army. They do this to William during a fundraiser for the war, and Lord Grantham FLIPS OUT ON THEM, interrupting the entire orchestra as he loudly orders them to get lost.
 * Cora supporting the free kitchen for convalescing soldiers that some of the servants have set up, and forcing O'Brien to work in it.
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