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DA3 trailer

A speculative ramble. A warning that I talk too much but I believe some of what I have to say may even be interesting. I'm quite proud of some of it.

Firstly, it appears that the colour grading of this film will be much improved on DA2. It is less orange. Literally everyone looks better. Presumably. We did not see Thomas. I went frame by frame. I know he's there somewhere. We have photos from a filming day that isn't featured in the trailer. It cannot be ruled out that he is only in one scene. I wanted Thomas time :(

Mary looks good, I like her hair.

Edith looks good, the pink is incredible on her.

Literally everyone looks good. This is why things aren't usually orange. Why did they do that for DA2

There is a split second shot of the outside of the Richmond Theatre, and another of the interior. I know that theatre. I like it. My initial thoughts are this movie was made for me. I love London theatres.

They're pretending it's in Piccadilly Circus (Eros Statue, advertising board for Bovril and Schweppes Tonic) which is fine and cool because it makes sense.

Just a five minute walk from the Theatre Royal Haymarket where Dominic West was in A View From The Bridge during the filming of DA3. I saw it. It was good I just don't like watching dramatic plays. My favourite thing I saw last year was actually Backstairs Billy (with Penelope Wilton) so I suppose if they really wanted to make this film for me they'd have set things in the Duke of York's.

I like how this scene looks I think. Better than the Lights and scaffolding at any rate. I also like the classic bus. I won't pretend to know what it is but I love a guy jumping onto the back of a moving bus.

Possibly actually they want you to think Richmond Theatre is along Shaftesbury Avenue or St Martin's Lane or (very unlikely) the Strand. It doesn't matter either way this is for sure only of interest to me. Can't wait to be proved wrong in September.

The show on in Richmond-Not Richmond Theatre is 'Bitter Sweet', which is presumably also the play we see Guy speak in on the next shot, rather than the 1929 Coward Operetta staged in His Majesty's Theatre, which is located opposite the Haymarket and couldn't be used for filming because it's massive and putting in PotO 8 times a week. Maybe it is the Coward Operetta actually. That's just the kind of thing Fellowes would do.

Actually I looked it up. It's exactly a line from it. I won't say more but in real time I was absolutely correct. They want you to think Richmond Theatre is His Majesty's Theatre which I think means I finally have to face my fear of seeing PotO.

The white house Mary enters is like. On The Mall and just around the corner from the house used as Grantham House. Just separated by Clarence House. Can't imagine these specific bits of information are anything to do with anything but it's the type of thing I like to know. Again, I feel like this movie is made for me.

There's paparazzi and a red carpet, clearly this is related to some kind of celebrity event. Mary in the lovely red dress and.. a tiara. Which feels like it might be on the nose. Obviously DA2 borrowed from Singing in the Rain and idk this makes me think of Grace Kelly or something. this is not my area of expertise. hoping it's something more interesting.

Back to the opening scene of the trailer:

I will admit I have no interest in horse racing or that entire element of high society I sincerely hope this scene ends up being brief and unimportant xx

Although if Carson is doing any level of announcement for it maybe its more of an unseen Crawley affair.

1930 is good (and previously known information) bc the economy is in shambles (a favourite passtime of the DA canon) and also bc the government is in shambles (Nat Lab coalition) In fact, 1930 is the year PM Ramsay MacDonald wrote the quote ascribed to him on the gov uk list of past Prime Ministers (“We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide.”) I can't imagine this has much to do with anything either but I'd be most impressed if it does.

The dancing is cute I guess. Clearly a daytime thing. I believe the press release mentioned 'many other fan favourites' who we are yet to see in this trailer. The vast majority of series regulars were named in the DA3 announcement so I think it's unlikely they do anything cool with it.

Not sure what Daisy's so happy about but I hope it's not a baby. Sorry.

So glad Hugh Bonneville is back in his Paddington's Dad era, he looked jaundiced as hell the last go around

Carson not only announcing a clearly significant horse event but back in the Butler's livery which I guess is interesting in that his palsy that necessitated his retirement is cured and also that they couldn't externally recruit or internally promote once Thomas left. Perhaps Carson is doing it for free for room and board. Indentured servitude <3

For sure they're downsizing staff, a thing that is alluded to on a national level even in the series.

Mary appears to be flat hunting, I don't know where exactly but if it's anywhere in Zone 1 (it will be) I'm sure I'll find it soon.

Probably some symbolism to the drone shot of the house at sunset. Unless it's not sunset and also like. the opening shot of the movie. But I've said something about it now so I feel at peace

They can't help it because of how time works but I feel I want to say something about the ages of the children. George is at best 9 and the boys who played him were 13 at filming. It doesn't matter and it couldn't be helped but I find it so distracting. To think in canon like 5 years earlier George is sweet enough to share his orange with Barrow

I had been concerned this film would split its attentions with goings on in America, but this doesn't seem to be the case.

Literally the only way they could make this more geared to my interests is by having the involvement of the personified National Trust but they can't do that because I don't think they'll get rid of the Abbey. mainly because it's an objectively and genuinely quite cool part of Highclere's history but also because they need the house because George Crawley comes of age directly into WW2 and I think the natural progression of the Crawley family curse is for him to get shot down over the channel returning to Britain (I imagine him to be a gentleman pilot, something about engines and absentee stepfathers or something) leading to another S1 style succession crisis. And only then does the Abbey get released from the clutches of the Crawleys as the title gets absorbed back into the Crown or something idrc

I warned you.