The Goddam Bates Problem

10 THINGS I HOPE TO SEE IN SEASON 3: - Anna gives Bates the "now that you're in prison for life I think it's time we see other people" speech, Bates says something oh-so-Batesy like "thus it should be so" and immediately gets raped by the prison guards. - XMAS TIME 

I wanna strangle Bates and Anna."Were happy! We're sad!" Back and forth and back and forth and for fuck's sake, I'm now rooting for the dead wife to arise from the dead and club them both to a pulp with that leg-straightener thingee he threw into the lake. - XMASTIME

Article HERE re: what everyone I know who watches Downton Abbey thinks: ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING BATES SHIT ALREADY!!!  NOBODY CARES!!!

Downton has long overestimated Bates's appeal —that was so not the sex scene we wanted last season — but last night's episode was the breaking point: He is now the dullest character on a show that spends hours arguing about dinner jackets and real estate.

"On second thought fuck him, leave his old ass in there."