Well yes, but since when is Ramse stupid enough to mention his son to someone he knows is a bad guy? It makes fuck-all sense even if he assumes that Deacon knows about the kid, and I'm not sure he has any reason to assume that. (I may have forgotten some plotline from last season here, I guess.)

I dunno. I liked Deacon from the start, and was pretty pleased to see last week that he was being set up to play a bigger - and slightly less evil - role this season, but I fear "explaining" him too much will break what made him so interesting. Giving him standard telly-baddie daddy issues, and having him respond in…

I haven't! I'm waiting for the paperback. I've heard great things about it though.

I need to get round to finishing season 2 - I got stalled for some reason. There's a whole 'nother season, I'll never catch up at this rate!

Good luck with the amends thing! It sounds pretty tough.

Still on Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh, which is still great. I've got about 100 pages left (out of 600) and am quite curious to see how Ghosh wraps it all up.

I can't even remember if I've seen that… I suppose I must have, as I loved the first one as much as the next teenager in the 80s, but clearly it didn't make much of an impression.

Hmph. That's… not really where I was hoping it would go.

No, you're not the only one. And I really liked the dynamic between him and Cassie - she has the measure of him, to some extent, but he's not that easy to manipulate, if only because he's slightly nuts. So it'll be interesting to see where that goes.

Ah, thanks. I thought he'd arranged the deal beforehand and was going to be rewarded for finding and incapacitating Ramse (and Cole), so his next move, had he not been thwarted, would have been to ring the 12 Monkeys for pick-up. But if he hadn't, that obviously makes more sense.

This was all in all a great start to season 2, though I did find it a little odd (by which I mean clunky) that Dr Kalman would a) actually take out Ramse's tracker, seeing as his intention appears to have been to bump off Cole and then hand Ramse over to the bad guys, so why bother?, and b) conveniently lay out the…

I presume "overpay" in this case means "pay her something vaguely similar to what Fillion is getting"?

in both cases the lead actress's disenchantment with the direction of the show had something to do with it

Eh, what?!

Huzzah, 12 Monkeys!

It's got Robbie Amell.

I suspect there may be a tiny hint of sarcasm involved in the naming choice.

MODS! @Powerthirteen:disqus is trying to make me cry!

I'm not familiar with the Slane Castle version. I'm pondering seeking it out, but we know how that'd end…

It also introduces you (or, well, introduced me) to a whole world and historic setting I knew little about. I love it when a book does that well, by creating characters and stories that present huge events on a personal level.