For an appallingly long time, Kristy and I have entertained ourselves and others by starting discussions over the potential outcomes of fictitious cage-matches between characters, actors, random people we met at college….For the most part, you should imagine these matches in terms of American Gladiator, preferably the bit with the giant Q-Tip® things, although now and then the individuals and circumstance call for something a bit more violent and painful (or useless and stupid).
It’s been a while since we last engaged in this kind of speculation, but it came up in an e-mail chain last week (taken directly from the e-mail in which I posed this to Kristy):
Lady Catherine DeBourgh, Mrs. Thornton (aka, John’s Mom), and Lady Violet Crawley go at it Amer, er British Old-Lady Gladiator style. Three will enter, only one will emerge victorious…..Discuss.
For those who are not so disturbingly acquainted with BBC costume dramas, that would be:
Lady Catherine DeBourgh from Pride & Prejudice
Mrs. Hannah Thornton from North and South
And the Dowager Countess Violet Crawley from Downton Abbey
All three are formidable, potentially scary, definitely overbearing gals. Is it a balanced match which will drag on in agony, or is there a clear winner to dispatch the other two back to their needlework and smelling salts?
We challenge YOU to bring your comments. Hit us with your take on the way this plays out. We have our own discussion which we’ll share later this week….but the game’s more fun with others contributing.
