Oh lord yes. Why do people want to watch a show about such horrid, horrid people?

I dunno ... I live in SF and I just don't get it at all.

That show ... grrrr. It offends my Geek, Nerd, and Feminist sensibilities!

Gotchya, thank you for responding anyway. I was keeping myself informed of the most recent Holocaust scholarship until around 1998, when I felt like everything I was reading was going over the same ground without many new insights. Then I moved on to other uplifting topics until I started paying attention again in…

I tried that once. My cats did not appreciate it. But on the plus side if I need to clear the room of cats, now all I need to do is take out the vacuum.

Second or third viewing? I think it 5 seconds in. And then I think uncharitable thoughts about Maru's Mom, because obviously she has nothing in her life but two cats and a vacuum cleaner.

Also, what's the book on Belsen you're reading? Because of all the footage and the sheer massiveness of the humanitarian response, Belsen is one of my particular interests.

Oh I bet. But the jokes will be damned funny (even if we will all disavow knowledge at a later date).

I've thought about this a great deal as well (also how I would behave in an 'Ordinary German's' shoes). I think you've effectively captured how it would have been. I go round and round in my head because I know that I am a person who will fight to my dying breath for the downtrodden ... but would I be that way if I…

I am also a member of this odd club. Study the Holocaust extensively, wrote my thesis on Black Death, now delving into slavery and its impact on the current day. We could throw the best party.

I just wish I liked her new series half so well as the Parasol Protectorate series.

Ha! Very possible. You're right though, if he had the sort of witty and banter filled marriage he would likely understand women more fully.

Of course, the tension was a major plot point, but tween me still swoons for these two.

I'm assuming it's how he perceives his wife.

I see what you're saying, and I agree with you on the mechanics. I was reacting to how she took charge and wrangled Hyde, that her strength was what got through to him, not his love for her. At least that's what I took from their first big tussle.

I really enjoyed that one. Honestly, it was why it took me a very long time to accept Moffat's issues with writing women. Jekyll just screamed 'Moffat really loves his wife' to me and it's hard for me to think a man who wrote such a clear story about the power of partnership is also deeply sexist. But then he…

Me too! I was about 12 when this aired and (for the first time ever) I could not wait for the summer to be over.

I would never presume to say I have any idea what it's like to be black in America. However, there does seem to be a tipping point for white people where the veil is lifted from their eyes and suddenly you see the racism, and oh my lord it is everywhere. I wish there were some sort of vaccine we could give people that…

I see what you did there, Pavel.

We noticed a huge difference in our marriage than some of our peers when things would get real. We would draw together, back to back against the world. But some of our friends would turn on each other or draw away. That's when we realized that seemingly happy marriages might just be untested!