Every time I listen to the radio I just get annoyed. It's either overplayed "oldies", new stuff that's pop crap, country, or worst of all, Christian rock.

Completely off topic, but I love your screenname.

I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. I'm sort of amazed by how well it turned out. A Syfy show, of all things.

So- it was erotic and had BDSM (specifically sadistic) themes, then?

I'm not disputing this- in the text, he uses it to describe having sex with her without her consent, which in modern terms would be rape (at the time, raping a wife wasn't something thought to be possible). He is using it as a euphemism.

I'd blocked out that scene, where she tells him he's hurting her… I'm pretty sure that disturbed me more than the beating.

Dude, I quoted the book in the other comment, where Claire calls what he wanted to do rape.

No, it's rape. Jamie likely does not think he can rape his wife, but definitely have sex without her consent. Flat out, here's the quote from the book.

He later details how he was aroused by it and wanted to, essentially, ra pe her. It, and the scenes where they attempt to resolve it, are erotic. I think the point where the whole 'call me master' thing happened really lost me, it wasn't historically accurate in my view, nor were the multiple 'I'm really turned on…

He later says he enjoyed it and he needed to restrain himself from "rogering" her(euphemism for ra pe) . So yes, I do know what I'm talking about.

The assumption is that she came from a relatively privileged and sheltered life in London, however she does tell Jamie that she was raised by her archeologist uncle ( referring to him as something more antiquated than archaeologist) at some point, and that she traveled with him.

I've read most of the book, and this was an episode that was going to be problematic. They made it significantly less problematic than it was in the book (it is much more violent in the book, and there is far less explanation as to Jamies' motive).

Does your hypothetical person like Orphan Black?

After leaving their crew mate to die.

With the idiots inside Alexandria? They'd all get themselves killed.

Yes, her motives for not giving him brains are odd, I don't really get why they took it in that direction.

The homeless kids are food- easy pickings (kids unlikely to be cared about when they disappear) and there's really no profit motive for turning teens.

Some, but others have gotten remarkably normal after having some concerning behavior. Especially Michonne and Carl.

I would say it can be at a similar level, but you trade some intimacy with the characters (in the game) for greater realism.

Eh, maybe he picked up some seroquel and a book on Zen Buddhism.