Solitary confinement can drive a human insane. Her need for companionship is more complicated than just practical "will he hurt me" concerns. And trust eases a relationship.

Augustus's gifts - tact, sneakiness, administrative efficiency, respect for talented underlings, knowing when to be self-effacing, knowing his audience every minute of the day - are, unfortunately, not especially sexy.

I thought the lack of women was smart. Agent Carter is utterly alone. It got across what being a pioneer is actually like - lonely and scary.

FM is also about a spouse realizing that their spouse is possibly a worse person than they believed. That's the parallel I was drawing.

Yeah, IIRC, It's in a footnote. One of the funnier ones. Essentially it says that fairie had a surprising number of human kings (listing the RK and Steven as some examples) and suggested that this was because fairies are by and large too lazy and unfocused to be effective kings.

Well we know that Stephen ruled long enough to be considered a historical king of fairy mentioned in the same sentence as the Raven King, so it doesn't sound like his reign was short.

He even had kind words for the Gentleman in the end. He understood that there was an innocence in his evil. I think the Gentleman and Stephan were the biggest misses in this adaption.

Well sometimes our positive and negative qualities are linked. Also, I'd watch out for self-deception. I had a friend who bemoaned being unable to find a man as exciting as her cheating controlling ex. In the end, she had to look hard at how she was defining "excitement".

Isn't dating all about sometimes being disappointed by promising prospects? You can't really inoculate yourself against that.

"There never was. It was be "White' (that is, a middle to upper class WASP version of white) or be left behind."

I think that was the cult of Cybele. Isis just demanded escalating payments in order to advance into greater "mysteries."

I think it's possible to both dislike something for reasons of taste and find it morally repugnant. Using a rape/mutilation/incest in place of character development is lazy writing and morally gross.

Because women and women's bodies are traditionally the property of the men in their life. Men get to decide who women have sex with.

So you're "obligated" but actually not because literally no one is subject to the draft … So, by "obligated," you really mean, "might someday be obligated but not right now or anytime in the foreseeable future."

The judge didn't say she was oppressed - the ruling was acting in selfdefense. You know, since she's a human being and allowed to defend herself from attempted murder?

Blaine is fascinating but so horrible. He's got the rabid qualities of the traditional zombie mixed up with human cunning and patience. So creepy.

What a trenchant point! Truely. People complaining about things are the most horrible things ever. Indeed you took time away from your busy schedule saving young girls from BH in order to complain about it!

Really? I think it went beyond that. People wept because they got the chance to touch him.

Nobody is being lynched. Having people think you're horrible isn't being lynched. We all know there will almost certainly be no justice for anyone here. So I'm not sure why we should wringe our hands because people have formed an opinion based on the words of 40 witnesses.

Doesn't seem like the same thing at all. Being comical is what comedies are about. Is being well-groomed a necessary quality for an action movie?