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I wish I was that cigarette
Thomas Barrow smoking ❤️🔥
#hot damn#thomas barrow#rob james collier#downton abbey#how many cigarettes do you think he went through during filming 😭
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#rob james collier#robert james collier#rob james-collier#downton abbey#thomas barrow#robert james-collier
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ROB JAMES-COLLIER as THOMAS BARROW in Downton Abbey #1.01
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sorry let me rant about downton abbey 10 years later
Thomas's conversion therapy plot pisses me off so much. firstly, it's incredibly out of character. he never wanted to change to conform to society, he wanted the world to change to accomodate him. the man who said "it's not against the law to hope is it" and "I'm not foul, Mr Carson, I'm not like you, but I'm not foul" would NEVER
secondly, from a storytelling perspective, the only 'problem' is that he used infected needles. did we forget that Thomas was a sergeant in the RAMC? he knows how to sterilise needles and how to recognise and treat infection. this also shifts the blame to Thomas himself for getting sick and implies that the conversion therapy itself is harmless (Dr Clarkson says it's just saline solution)
thirdly, it's not historically accurate. I'm not an expert but conversion therapy was not at all common in the 1920s, even Sigmund Freud was against it. hormone therapy and chemical castration were barely developing let alone available to the public (I can't imagine what else the 'treatment' was supposed to be). the only practices that I can find evidence of were psychoanalysis and electric shock therapy
Thomas also mentions that he did electric shock treatment - if you really want to make a point about homophobia in the 1920s (and make Thomas suffer as much as possible), show that instead. watching him be literally tortured for his sexuality would have been far more impactful than him just... looking sweaty for a few episodes
#I'm just shouting into the void#i just think that if you're going to make the only gay character constantly suffer it should at least be a compelling narrative#i have very similar thoughts about his plotline with jimmy. its stupid and out of character. Julian fellowes just wanted to punish him#for being gay without even giving him a chance at a happy relationship#i think sexually assaulting Jimmy is one of the only genuinely bad things that Thomas does and yet its the only one framed sympathetically#it's conflated with being gay generally and we're meant to pity him#you know what would have been a sympathetic narrative? if they were actually in a relationship and punished for an innocent love#and then thomas could still take the fall for it and go to prison and Jimmy would have to live with that guilt and be separated from him#which also would have been way more interesting than the bullshit anna and bates prison plot that dragged on way too long#ugh downton abbey could have been so good if the writer wasn't an old bigoted tory#downton abbey#thomas barrow
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Every time I go to London after da2, I find myself smiling at these:
They obviously love to be seen together 👀
Now this is kind of funny.
#also considering how thomas’ storyline was tied to the hospital#I just can’t#this is so silly#thomas barrow#guy dexter#dexmas#downton abbey
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ive been watching downton abbey with my roommate 🤡
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People said the queer coded villain was tired but I ask my fellow friends, romans and countrymen to remember Thomas Barrow. No man has ever nor can they ever serve that much evil cunt swag and all for a show whose median age demographic would probably be in the 60 range. Nobody has ever or will do it like him.
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i always feel like a gay little freak when i talk abt downton abbey irl to like. old women. they’re always like “oh…you’re favorite is thomas? the gay evil footman…?” YES THE CUNTY GAY EVIL FOOTMAN. god why is that so hard to understand.
#and they like mary#thomas is just like downstairs (personality wise) equivalent of mary#downton abbey#thomas barrow#rob james collier#rob james-collier#robert james collier#robert james-collier
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tw: brief mentions of miscarriage and suicide attempt
the dichotomy of the level of stakes in each episode of Downton Abbey will always be funny to me. Some episodes are like
“Thomas is on the brink of being fired for being gay”
“it’s the actual World War I”
“Sybil could very well die in childbirth”
“Bates has been arrested for a murder he didn’t commit”
“one of the staff caused a MISCARRIAGE of someone from Upstairs”
“Thomas has been found half dead in a self-inflicted bloody bathtub”
And then other episodes are like
“Will Carson let the staff go to the town fair”
“who will win the flower competition”
“The cooks dropped the chicken on the floor”
“Sybil is wearing pants”
“Branson is still fraternizing with the Downstairs”
#The stakes of Downton Abbey#Makes me laugh when I think about it#‘Cause you know you’re just as invested at the flower competition as you are at the war#Downton abbey#thomas barrow#sybil crawley#mr carson#tom branson#mr bates
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Thomas Barrow:
it just reminded me so much of him
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Thinking how future historians in the downton abbey universe will wonder if the crawleys were actually murderers, bc there’s just an excessive amount of deaths on record to make any of it look innocent
And like an entire subreddit would exist to prove lord grantham was some type of mob boss in the aristocracy, who killed anyone who wronged his family. The descendants of the granthams are constantly in the media trying to disprove these theories, like “no great grandad was just a guy… we think” but they don’t really have any solid evidence to disprove any claims bc the family took those secrets to the their graves
It’s so bad that people wholeheartedly believe he was the one who sunk the titanic and caused World War I
#downton abbey#the granthams#robert crawley#violet crawley#mary crawley#edith crawley#sybil crawley#cora crawley#elsie hughes#charles carson#john bates#anna bates#thomas barrow
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Happy 14th birthday Downton Abbey // 26.09.2010 // original Downstairs cast
#Downton Abbey#Downton abbey anniversary#original downstairs cast#Charles Carson#Elsie Hughes#Thomas Barrow#Sarah O'Brien#Beryl Patmore#Anna Smith#Gwen Dawson#William Mason#Daisy Robinson#John Bates#downton downstairs
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#rob james collier#robert james collier#rob james-collier#downton abbey#thomas barrow#robert james-collier
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sport scholarships were invented when Lord Grantham suddenly accepted Thomas Barrow's homosexuality as soon as he realised he was decent at cricket
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Thomas Barrow x CVNTY HATS 🎩✨
#thomas barrow#downton abbey#mine#rob james collier#he is serving cvnt#what am I supposed to do? NOT root for him?
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