SHAKESPEARE MEETS DOWNTON: sarah o’brien as lady macbeth

O’BRIEN: Get him to trust you.

THOMAS: That’s easy to say, but how?

O’BRIEN: Make him grateful. Do him a good turn. Hide something he loves, then find it and give it back.
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downton abbey
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sarah o'brien
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downtonians
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originally this was going to be in two parts
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look like the innocent flower with cora
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and serpent under't with thomas
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and the point wasn't - and isn't! - that o'brien is a 'serpent'
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the point is that she may not be a 'people person'
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but she DOES know people
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and these are two people she cares immensely about
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but who have almost wholly different perceptions of her
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oh o'brien
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ambition parallels spurring thomas forward parallels need for control and consumption via guilt
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phyllis logan may be a mean lady macbeth (and she is. she absolutely kills it go listen to her and weep)
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but elsie hughes isn't anywhere near the lady mac o'brien would be
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favourite fictional ladies
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shakespeare meets downton
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my graphics
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ify about the text but we'll manage
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going to do some requests now i think
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see what i can do
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    And it’s even more awesome because Thomas reads Shakespeare in canon. According to deleted scenes, anyway.
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