It was the poster for Seance on a Wet Afternoon—a brilliant 1960s UK thriller with Attenborough and Kim Stanley and so, being a big fan of that underappreciated gem, I was still upset. :P

That's what I assumed about the age thing but in this episode, didn't Hannah actually say something about how they graduated from college four years ago?

Part of the problem, as you say, is that we haven't seen all that much of Jessa and Hannah being close. I can't remember if they ever said how Marnie and Hannah met (were they childhood friends?) but I do find it believeable that Jessa and Hannah might consider each other their best friends despite never really…

"Revision is the special province of author's who simply cannot be satisfied."

I was just re-watching Maurice recently (I read a piece from novelist David Leavitt who claimed Merchant/Ivory "de-sexed" the novel, which is not what I remembered—and after re-watching I disagree with him). Callow really hasn't aged all that much in 30 years at all. Mind you, he's one of those people who always…

Fair enough—and I haven't read it since I was 13 when I probably had a lot more tolerance for things like that. I do think Goldman was smart when adapting his own novel to not try to adapt all of that. (When Peter S. Beagle did his adaptation of his The Last Unicorn, he dropped much of the meta elements from his…

Fair enough. Davies often comes off as boastful for all the wrong reasons in interviews. I like lots of his work as I said, but I remember him saying he needed help with the gay sex scenes in Line of Beauty like it was something to be prideful of (never mind he was adapting a novel that was wel known for its graphic…

Well yeah, exactly my point. A fan of the novels doesn't have to like the adaptation but they won't win any arguments by stating the showrunners stole from the author. Gabaldone is particularly supportive of the tv show, as far as authors go, and frankly I think it's pretty insulting to her to claim she is because…

Last year Outlander's audience was 58% female overall. Of course that could have changed over the past two episodes—I kinda doubt it (maybe I'm biased as nearly every friend I have who watches it is a woman).

Actually Andrew Davies who did the adaptation of War and Peace (which I mostly liked—but I do tend to like Davies' lit adaptations—Line of Beauty especially, Room with a View not so much) stated many many times—too many I think—that he had NEVER read War and Peace until he was offered the job purely based on his rep…

You don't steal from the willing.

(Am I the only one who prefers the novel of Princess Bride? The more meta stuff works a lot better for me in the novel).

I'm gonna disagree with that, even though I've read others who have said the same thing. I guarantee however if you were to ask many a working playwright, they wouldn't consider their work "dramatic literature" first—there are many who dislike even publishing their plays, and of course most of the best playwrights…

I was more confused by that woman with the nipple dress (that's what I'll call it). I thought I knew something about France, mid 18th Century, but would that really have been a thing??

Oh there are plenty of online review and blog sites that hate Hannah and the show. You're not looking very hard.

He CAN pass as younger, but I admit knowing his age does make some of it seem more creepy (like when he was at Hannah's writing retreat party with that drunk "Straight" student)

That confused me because weren't they at Talia's apartment? I guess not?

I think you make many good points. However, because so much of the show is seen through Quentin's POV, that kinda does make him the protagonist (perhaps co-protagonist with Julia). He doesn't have to be the chosen one or the one to save them all to be the protagonist.

I'll give the show the benefit of the doubt, but… It reminds me how there were several daytime soap operas (stay with me here) that had gay storylines and were scared to focus on the gay romance so instead focused on the gay (male) character having to get married to a woman for whatever reason (blackmail, green card,…

My mother's dead.