I was surprised that Holmes was cited as the first American serial killer—what about the Bloody Benders (famously mentioned by Laura Ingalls Wilder in an anecdote about her possible-vigilante father)?

Graham Greene is a very good actor! But sometimes I think everyone on this show (except Jaime Murray) fails with the acting a little. It's like they just air the first take or something.

Wasn't it supposed to be a lot, since she was comforting him about getting raped by the soldiers in the Votan Alliance? It felt like she just wanted to get out her whole story—and kind of felt like she needed to tell someone about it who would understand, anyway.

It's also possible that Stahma and Alak (mostly Stahma, who is making the decisions), couldn't stomach the idea of killing him. They could barely watch him getting beaten up.

The point being that far more people are abused than are abusers. That's why the two statements can make sense together.

Ironically, I read it because I was shipped to my grandparents' house that summer…but they disapproved of "fantasy" novels with witchcraft, so no Tolkien. It was either C.S. Lewis (who writes about witchcraft, so don't ask me why he's okay) or Auel. My grandparents owned all the Auel books, for reasons of a…

Congrats! I hope you're working for Tampax, on the ground floor of rodent-tampon technological breakthroughs.

In fairness, I read that quote three times and had no idea what he was trying to say (even though I knew about the mechanical problems in the movie Jaws). Punctuation has a purpose, people!

Eh, if you feel the need or have time to read it, I'll break out my copy and we can discuss it over Pop Culture Weekend threads. I can't in good conscience tell you to read it otherwise—the book is just too absurd to read without justification (such as, "I'm 12 years old and want to read sex scenes," or, "this weirdo…

Christie actually seemed to have reasonable lines this week. The lines made sense logically and plot-wise. I was bowled over. She is still not a strong actress, but I didn't physically cringe at her delivery.

I suppose teens today could imagine that they are trapped by fate and personal history into enacting a certain course of events—the way that the Gatsby characters were. But those teens would be fucking stupid. So, having met a few teens, I would say: yeah, makes sense.

Hemingway's alter ego Nick Adams.

I recall there being a great fetishization of Ayla's blondeness v. the complete dark hair-society of the Neanderthals (a detail that turned out to be genetically inaccurate). I don't really think the book is racist, either, but it does play up the blonde-thing.

I've met her sister. Her sister is very pretty, or was about 10 years ago.

Awwww, too bad for Ayla, because it's a pretty name if you don't know it's from these books.

It would be a good nominee for a book group, if only because then you would have an excuse for reading a book that is largely melodramatic, goofy pseudo-history. There are cool moments about psychology and women's lib in there, though. And she gets animal sidekicks!!!

I mean, unless something goes wrong with the delivery. But yeah, it's possible. I think her age at the time (wasn't she a young teen?) could have worked against her, since her pelvis was probably still tiny. But I don't remember all the details…

I enjoyed a humorous line from Pottinger…"That game that Canadians…Americans…used to play—baseball-hockey…"

I was annoyed that she kept getting laid out by the same guy! Stop fighting him, Berlin, it just gets you badly injured every time!!!

I was wondering if Pottinger is planning to use the rape scenario against Amanda. In other words, he's not the original rapist, but using his knowledge from the Creep Cam and from the story she told him that he reenacts aspects of the rape in order to control her.