What show doesn’t have an apologist fandom?

Good point.

Dutch colonial, specifically. I’ll never have a house with eyeballs like that.

Did you read or anything? I always marvel at people on airplanes who just sit there doing nothing. I’d lose my mind.

I think you have to get ungrayed at the different sites individually. 

Hey there! How’s tricks?

But then he elaborates: “When the show’s writers construct categories they do it so that there’s a flow in terms of difficulty, and if you jump to the bottom of a category you may get a clue that would be easier to understand if you’d begun at the top of the category and saw how the clues worked.”

That is strangely riveting.

Obviously (as I’ve said numerous times already) it’s not the same but it is the case that Jamie was compelled to service, possibly for life, and that experience causes him to empathize with the slaves more than most men of his time.

You have no idea how much I’m dreading that. 

Christ almighty, the two things do not have to be identical in every particular in order to make Jamie more empathetic towards slaves.  And that is honest to god the only point I’m trying to make here.  I’m done with the hair-splitting. 

I think we are supposed to start there - god knows that’s what Jamie was hoping for - but the shenanigans with making Jamie her heir without telling him and the her weak-ass slavery justifications are supposed to plant some doubt.

There are 11 more episodes in the season. Maybe let’s wait and see what happens. 

I’m just saying that Jamie’s experience gives him the background to identify with people held in servitude against their will. Jesus, I’m not trying to say that the situations are exactly analogous. I’m just saying that Jamie has a point of view on the subject that a lot of people lack.

See, I don’t think the show portrayed her as sympathetic. I think we were meant to think that what she was saying was kind of gross. However, I’m familiar with the source material in which she isn’t exactly a bad guy, but she’s not someone who is entirely trustworthy, either, so I am primed to scoff at things she says.

Yeah, we were in no way supposed to sympathize with her.  Even the books, which were kinder, made it clear that she couldn’t be trusted. 

You’re only assuming that J&C are going to stay there and accept the situation.  There are 11 more episodes of the season. 

No, you can’t compare it, you’re right. But Jamie’s experiences with forced servitude in England have given him a point of view that most white men of his time would not have. 

I don’t entirely understand your point. 

I think a C is a fair grade because it was not a well-done episode of television, I don’t think. The writing was just so clunky and everything was so fraught and melodramatic, even before the drama with Rufus.