Downton Abbey/Awesome

• It's a beautiful moment when William finally gives Thomas the beatdown he's been asking for all along. Made all the better by the fact that everyone stands around watching in tacit approval until Thomas starts to hit back. Then everyone jumps in to pull them apart.
• Anna finally laying down the law and telling Bates that he was going to marry her, now, because she's stood by him come what may for seven years, and she absolutely will not face their coming trials as anything but his wife because she refuses to be pushed to the sidelines with no proper place in his life. Guh.
• When a dying William wants the local priest to wed him and Daisy, he refuses, because he's of the opinion that Daisy just wants to reap the financial benefits of being a war widow by marrying William. Cue The Lady Grantham inviting him for tea and letting him know PRECISELY why you should never mess with the Dowager Countess.
• Robert chewing out the white feather girls in the series 2 premiere.
  • To elaborate, the white feather girls are rude, stuck-up pricks who hand out white feathers to men not in uniform and quickly inform them that it's for cowards who were too chicken to enter the army. They do this to William during a fundraiser for the war, and Lord Grantham FLIPS OUT ON THEM, interrupting the entire orchestra as he loudly orders them to get lost.
• Cora supporting the free kitchen for convalescing soldiers that some of the servants have set up, and forcing O'Brien to work in it.
• Matthew laying the smackdown on a very smug Sir Richard, after Mary breaks their engagement and Sir Richard insults both her and Lavinia. This is followed by Sir Richard trying to scrape together his dignity to tell the Countess Dowager that he's leaving and will most likely never meet her again. She shoots him down with "Do you promise?"