"Downton Abbey" fans, I know you're still reeling from what happened in the final minute of the show's season (well, you're reeling if you managed to avoid the spoilers that were everywhere after the season finale aired in England a couple months ago).
I know it may be hard to hear this, but all things considered, I think Matthew Crawley's death was for the best.
But let's be honest: The actor, who talked about his decision to leave the show late last year, was saddled with some of the show's dumbest story lines. In Season 2, Matthew went from wheelchair-bound invalid to healthy chap in less time than it takes for Carson to serve tea, and in Season 3, he kept turning down a fortune (a magical fortune that fell from the sky at just the right moment, of course), thanks to hidebound morality that even Queen Victoria would have thought was a little too uptight. That's to say nothing of the endless, repetitive obstacles that were placed in the path of Lady Mary and Matthew, who we all knew were going to get hitched as soon as we saw them start to spar in Season 1. We all had to sit through storylines that pretended that they weren't meant for each other, some of which were reasonable diversions, some of which were no.
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