Thanks — that was my impression … but then I couldn't think of anything specific — although Teddy's lack of enthusiasm for Daniel's return was unmissable — I wondered if my own problems with Teddy were clouding my memory.
I never got the feeling Amantha felt that Teddy had "taken Daniel's place" … hadn't ever…

She certainly treats him like a younger brother and he seems to regard her as his older (rather than younger) sister. Why she dislikes him so has intrigued me and is a question not yet answered. 19 years ago, she took the lead in trying to get her older brother — convicted when he was around Jared's age — released…

I liked that too … sheriff is a good-guy —- smart and patient … but not predatory … and with a rather dry sense of humor about it all … the moment when he placed Trey under arrest was a glorious "we're done here" moment …

yeah, maybe the therapist calling B.S. on his claim he would just die a long slow death if Tawny left him snapped him out of his woe-is-me act … suddenly his life seemed to offer new possibilities ….etc.

Does Amantha even know about Daniel's assault on Teddy?
They seemed so companionable … if not chummy … and I had always felt she rather dislike her younger stepbrother, but now can't exactly remember why … but felt certain that IF Amantha had known of Teddy's threat to press charges … things could become volcanic…

yes, I was remembering that episode where Teddy was spying on Tawny as she changed her clothes … through a cracked open door … I think that once she physically got away, the fear/dread/humiliation she was living with cascaded for her as it fell away … I think she also — despite the "frightening" attraction she felt…

and the play on Daniel's baptism under Tawny's approving eye … melting into Daniel's return to childhood playing in the waves … melting into Tawny's dream … IDK, I think her time with Daniel "baptised" Tawney to a lot of possibilities … again they handle faith (loss of faith, quavering faith, dead-and-gone faith so…

I'm not sure whose DNA has been tested and whose has not … I think thing are pointing hard at Chris … unless "the senator" decided to finish Hanna off to protect his nephew … something that had never occurred to me … Daniel apparently found Hanna dead and naked and clothed her with flowers… but Trey (rather…

I remember being absolutely furious with Fowles for the ending … outraged … to be thrown out of the story like that, as the end — whatever it would be — was rustling in the shadows ahead of me … It was deeply disturbing for many many readers and I suspect Pinter — who is cognizant and capable — wanted those…

I was shocked by his parting zinger to Amantha though … that Daniel had deserved a lawyer who was not so distracted … ouch … but again, virtually no tenderness between them on parting and Jon is not uncaring or unfeeling. Amantha needs to fleshed out and/or redeemed next season … she's brittle and she's stuck … she…

Tawny's dream reminded me — suddenly — of the beginning of that Peter Weir movie — "The Last Wave" — about Aboriginal Dream-Time where it also rained frogs … for days, as I recall … (I don't remember the context in which this happened again 30 years later in that movie, Magnolia) … wiki: " It is about a white…

I'm not sure that the problem is with Pinter … many many people adored this movie when it came out (not people I knew) — however, I think that Pinter assumed that we would both like and identify with the modern couple in a way that changing morality has made difficult. In fact, the modern couple, although married to…

I think we were supposed to be struck that contemporary Streep was still striving for "freedom" and professional fullfillment, etc. and contemporary Irons — like his victorian character — was still wanting her to settle into a more conventional relationship (as his partner) so he could be at peace and they could have…

Evelyn Waugh authorship had/has a certain cachet as he was considered a major intellectual … and this work was seen as his explanation of his own conversion to Roman Catholicism .. In fact, he said: ""The book is an attempt to express the Roman Catholic faith in secular literary form." and - wink/wink nod/nod — the…

There are people who don't watch a lot of TV and who aren't engaged in vast lofty pursuits, they're just doing something else that requires their attention or takes them away from the TV. Neither of my brothers — both fairly dyslexic and ADHD types — have ever been TV watchers … and I've never heard of them doing…

The movie (and the book) were considered to have considerable feminist subtext and in the movie contemporary man/woman dynamics echo the victorian — the remarkable Ms. Woodruff's independence and her willingness to sacrifice to maintain it. In the current day saga, the married actress would have been quite happy to…

Black Beauty (and the other horses in the book of that hame) … and of course Moby Dick.

I think there was also a "dog that didn't bark in the night" aspect to Daniel's reactions/answers … Daniel's reaction throughout their exchange does not include anger at or undue suspicion of Trey. Daniel honestly doesn't know anything about George's death and is emotionally fairly neutral.
He's beginning to be…

It did not awaken a sense memory of having throttled Hanna … which, of course, was why he engaged in the exercise … because he wasn't certain that he hadn't blocked/blanked/forgotten some terrible act he did commit. Sure, he was afraid that it might awakened repressed memories … but ""nothing happened""

Actually — and I just realized this — Daggett is much more suspicious of Daniel's high school friends than it has yet occurred to Daniel to be. One of the things Daniel's "naïve" statements make clear is that Daniel was fairly unguarded (if observant) around Trey … I think Daniel is only just beginning to understand…