KarenX

I agree and thought that she was going to break up with Thor before he confessed to her.

Something was off for sure. I have a whole TED Talk ready that I’ll keep to myself about the writing or maybe editing of this episode. The plot at the village simply did not make sense. I loved the series. I loved the character development. I loved the scenery and the imagery. I love where we ended in the story. I am happy to end with everyone paused on a precipice, waiting for the next thing to happen, in the moment where all dreams could come true. They stuck the landing! But the writing went awry. I’m not sure what happened with that script. Like I don’t even know where to start with the Toranaga/Blackthorne/Erasmus/Seppuku/FishermanSpy debacle. Luckily, I care more about emotions and character relationships than plot. :)

Blackthorne has a dream… Toranaga has a dream… We know what happens in the book, we know what happened in history, but the show ends with a boat partially ashore and Anjin-sama telling everyone to rest now. We can imagine whatever we like happening next to these characters.

At least Bill has the notoriety now that Goldbug failed and can build his own brand. If Juno dissolved the Fortunato enterprise I wonder if that automatically voids the BILLT copyright. I am sure she would sign it over to him anyway. Plenty of agents would happily shepherd him to a new fame. I think Bill escaped the happiest. He didn’t see Tammy break down and her death wasn’t THAT gory. And no living creatures were involved.

Henry Thomas was born in 1971 playing a guy born in 1975 or 1976. He doesn’t look like a California Early 50s but he looks his age. It doesn’t stand out to me.

I thought they poisoned him with cyanide? And were surprised he took so long to die? The candle is throwing me off about their intentions. Bricking him up conscious after being surprised by him waking up and even taunting him I can see but having a pillar candle already lit? Why have that unless you were performing morbid symbolism on someone who would suffer from it?

I am hoping I don’t have to worry about Lenore; I am hoping we will learn that Morella was unfaithful to Freddy and that Lenore is not an Usher by blood and I hope that would protect her. I am hoping Juno is not pregnant and can truly escape. And I am hoping that she is in the will even though Roderick didn’t say so when pressed by his progeny a few episodes back.

Well, he’s already had one love affair that broke convention and nothing actually terrible happened. He didn’t lose status. He didn’t lose his home. He just had an ugly breakup. Isaac hasn’t really faced down his fears like Nigel did. Isaac has only faced them. He has no experience of going through with it and being ok to give him confidence.

You guys… the NYT Spelling Bee!

The squirrel was his only friend when he was still alive, after being abandoned. I wonder how angry Ghost Squirrel was when Ghost Thor showed up!

Maybe just too unladylike, given the way one rides a bike :p? For sure! But there was this whole social campaign/moral panic to try to keep women from riding bicycles. It went beyond “unladylike” and straight into BS pretend “diseases” women would be damaged by, like Bicycle Face. I can see Hetty buying into it utterly.

Butbutbut… he’s a Tech Lord! He made money in TECH! We all know Tech Lords are good at everything. And they can afford the special machines and paper.

I am enjoying the show! My persistent complaint is that the fake clouds if breath are so distractingly fake and those girls just simply do not act cold enough. They do not look or move as if they are starving and freezing. Ok fine I guess they can pass for starving but there is no sense of actual numbing cold. The actresses are too vigorous. It doesn’t look like they are at the point of delusions and desperation. They would be. I think mostly the show presents it well with script and plot but you see these girls and it’s not jiving. I think that makes the timelines seem off. If we were a book club and this was a novel we’d have no problem accepting it.

Him being in it prompted me to watch Ghosts US! Full circle. :)

If I remember my Clan of the Cave Bear correctly, you can boil pine needles into a tea that wards off scurvy.

The actress who plays Flower… Does she consider herself a person of color? Flower’s characterization is overtly “hippy” but it doesn’t exclude other identities; I don’t remember if the show has addressed it.

Weren’t those car headlights they all misinterpreted in the moment?

If the beam comes for you, can you decline? Maybe it came for Hetty—whose character has wanted it very badly—and the story arc will be she decided she wasn’t ready yet after all.

Alberta can be heard by Alexa. Audiobooks are easy to ask for. Last season, some other poster pointed out that the Iron Vault demonstrated that ghosts can touch but not pass through iron. That person mused about whether the ghosts could handle iron tools. Putting a few iron dowels in their hands could make them much more independent. Nigel could probably turn the pages of a book!

Yes but Misty killed the black box ping. She, in that moment, didn’t want to be found.

We are getting Denis Leary vibes in our house.

Is it because he was still holding them?

Well… there’s a two-men Regency romance called Manners & Mannerisms by Tanya Chris that I borrowed from the public library for my Kindle. But I also would prefer to read a Nigel/Isaac romance. Especially if it ended up with them as ghosts at a romantic B&B getaway. I’m surprised she didn’t document everything Isaac said and just pitch it as a novel. As for Baxter and the fifing… when Nigel and Isaac took their first walk around the grounds to discuss the peace (and other matters), Nigel told Baxter to stand down and Baxter did. Has there been any fifing since?

I was surprised he was acting like that. He is usually direct about what he wants and he’s been very gracious and patient about Isaac’s hangups and insecurities. Being jealous of Hetty didn’t make sense.

Wrong wrong wrong! Yellow fever! Whoops. But there was cholera in the first half of the 19th century. You know Mary from The Secret Garden? She was orphaned by cholera in India. Fun fact! That epidemic spread to New York. Maybe the cholera ghosts were from that wave.