Why didn't Michael Gregsen's wife inherit?
Nothing is said about what happened to Michael Gregson's wife - why wouldn't she inherit the apartment and paper? Did Edith take care of her expenses?
shareShe was no longer convenient so she was written off the show and never discussed and acted as if she never existed.
Fellowes needed a reason for Gregson to not be able to marry Edith, thus the wife. And a reason for why divorce wouldn't be easily obtainable, and thus a crazy wife. She was just a plot device to be used to justify a tricky piece of plot development that otherwise wouldn't have made sense without making Gregson appear a cad and bounder.
I think we can assume in the rosy tinted world of Fellowes' Downton Abbey that there was money set aside to ensure the wife's care in the asylum.
Fellowes needed a reason for Gregson to not be able to marry Edith, thus the wife. And a reason for why divorce wouldn't be easily obtainable, and thus a crazy wife. She was just a plot device to be used to justify a tricky piece of plot development that otherwise wouldn't have made sense without making Gregson appear a cad and bounder.According to JF Gregson was written and cast as a nice guy with a problem. And he's said, as if it isn't obvious, he likes writing courtship, not marriage. Like Don Draper, he only likes the start of things.
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I think we can assume in the rosy tinted world of Fellowes' Downton Abbey that there was money set aside to ensure the wife's care in the asylum.
Or we can assume that Fellowes dispatched her the same way he got rid of Matthew Crawley's inconvenient fiancée: he killed her off. share
That’s the way. You’ve nailed it.
shareShe was no longer convenient so she was written off the show and never discussed and acted as if she never existed.
Ha ha, true. I'm partially convinced Gregson was never married but just didn't want to marry Edith (the hit it and quit it kind).
I think we can assume in the rosy tinted world of Fellowes' Downton Abbey that there was money set aside to ensure the wife's care in the asylum.
Yeah everything always works out well. I mean, it's not like Gregson was expecting to die in Germany but luckily rewrote it beforehand (as we all do before traveling).
I think it would have been interesting if when Gregson was missing Edith sought out the wife. But a lot of interesting things were actively avoided.
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Ha ha, true. I'm partially convinced Gregson was never married but just didn't want to marry Edith (the hit it and quit it kind).Edith called another paper and asked them him--that's how she found out he was married.
I think it would have been interesting if when Gregson was missing Edith sought out the wife. But a lot of interesting things were actively avoided.Those cut scenes shot up in the scriptbooks--written, and sometimes shot, but cut for time. Mostly they add something, but not too much, to the story.
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Reportedly JF was leaving the door open for Charles Edwards to return but his theatre obligations prevented it--he was in a hit play, and then another hit play. So we got season 5.
Edit: Absolutely nothing remotely improper or wrong about the now-deleted post I replied to. This really is obnoxious.
Looks like my on topic message was once again pointlessly deleted, but that DOES make more sense if the character was likely to return and writers are at the mercy of actors leaving and sometimes have to recalculate away from original plans. It happens, like with Dan Stevens, that I think the story would be better if he stayed but I also get if he chose not to, the story must go on.
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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.