I think the Jim/shoes plot might be something sadder. Perhaps a departed love? He's buying the shoes as a gift for a woman he can never give them to. There didn't seem to be anything sexual about the way he was looking at/touching the shoes at the end of the episode.

I read the Rosalie story in the same way you did, Terry is in the early stages of alzheimer's and she has no idea how to deal with it.

I didn't mean to get in to a discussion of the history of slavery in Africa. As you say it's a complex subject and includes not just sub-Saharan Africans taken as slaves by Europeans and Arabs but also Europeans (and American seamen) taken as slaves by North Africans. Lincoln was apparently in part swayed to the…

Are we sure he's dead? Couldn't he be transformed into a werewolf?

For me the show failed the most basic task for any comedy, it just wasn't funny. I'm not sure why but the jokes just don't hit for some reason.

The moment at the party when Theo is upset that Lip is wearing his tie is going to prove telling I think.

Judith's special baby destined for great things is named Alfred. Is he going to grow up to be Alfred the Great?

Did anyone else hear a musical similarity to the soundtrack of 'Under the Skin' in the scene where Jennifer Goines is threatening Cole with a scalpel.

Are you sure you want to describe a rape victim as 'his mistress'?

Does anyone else think the Simmons/Triplett/Fitz storyline is in danger of playing out as a rehash of the Fred/Gunn/Wesley storyline from Angel? On the other hand could the writers be using Whedon fans familiarity with that story to mislead the audience here?