Jesus... that's terrifying. No Government should be able to wield power like that.

At a hostel back in 2006 in France I was having dinner with a table full of other travellers and we were doing the introduction part of the evening when two 20-somethings said 'We're Canadian!"

I have to admit I'm not too much of a fan of it as a drink - but it makes a pretty kick-ass stew if you ever want a nice fall meal! :)

F-yeah Ninkasi!

I'm an atheist, though both my parents are agnostic (when I asked my dad why agnosticism instead of atheist like me he simply said 'do you know something I don't know?'). My parents also hit the double-whamy wherin they aren't married - they've been together for 32 years, but never felt the need to tie the knot.

I'm going to prove my Canadian-ness right meow:

This isn't really insane, but it is kind of a personal embarrassment...

That man is one of my favourite people!!

Holy shit - I had no idea that was her!!

That almost makes it worse than if it was a random ditzy Fox talking head....

Well except that lattes don't actually HAVE coffee in them - at least not regular coffee.

Hardly.

As a Canadian, and someone juuuuust young enough not to remember that song, I had to look it up.

Basic understanding of medieval history in Europe and Asia. Common war time practices, the fact that for a very long time the ROman empire saw rape of slaves and prostitutes as not actually being 'rape' (in fact, if a slave was raped the attacker would sometime have to pay a damage fee to the slaves owner as the sole…

Well... if it's an American law how does HBO get around it?

Did you complain about Anastasia? Or the White Queen? How about any historically 'based' novel ever written as fiction, like this tv show, using the names of famous/historical people that weren't biographical?

Every time someone is raped or attacked? I definitely haven't see that every time someone is raped on US cable... or is is only when they depict rape instead of things like Grey's Anatomy when a woman is raped and bites a guys dick off, where they definitely didn't show any sort of crisis number. Did Game of Thrones…

But this isn't a real person... this is a character on a teenage show that has never once be billed as anything but a period drama. No one anywhere would even jokingly call it a documentary.

I 100 per cent agree with you - there was no glorifying rape at all, they showed it clearly as being a horrible violation that left Mary physical and emotionally injured. I understand that some people don't like to recognize that rape was even more prevalent then than it is now, but it was. It was a horrible aspect of…

Even if that scenario is correct, we're talking about a politician with well over a decade of political experience who has perpetual foot in mouth disease at the VERY least.

I agree. I was hesitant about splitting the book in two, but as a fan of the series I can't fault the outcome. So much of the meat would have been lost had they done it in one go, and like you said, they fleshed out a lot of the story to show the other districts and the actual rescue - neither of which were covered in…