About Domingo...

Sooo, uhh, honesty and forthrightness has no place in a marriage?

remember Iris wanted "to be with a man" as she so honestly told her sisters.

Turn it around: What if Iris could not perform for her husband? Should he have accepted that for the remainder of his life? Neither signed up for the priesthood or nunnery.

And if that is how Domingo reacts to rejection, clear out now!

It was so out of character of him that I kept waiting for it to be explained. But it never was (and the bad writing on this series was such a turn-off that I only watched a few more episodes). So I fan-wanked it that he was whacked out of his gourd on opiates - which could happen, in the 1920s they gave away morphine like candy.

In my version, he and Iris were eventually reconciled, they adopted some children, and they lived happily ever after (until the late 1940s when he died from his wounds). I mean, they're just rabbits.


"Hey, that's right... We're supposed to sing about pirate-y things!" - Mr. Lunt

I felt sorry for him. I understand how disappointed Iris was, but still feel she was rather cruel in what she said & how she said it, such as, "You're not even complete!" Those sisters would've gone into a rage had anyone spoken to Billy that way. So he then had to live with the pain & suffering from being injured, then having his fears re. his injuries confirmed by her reaction. To me, whatever pain she felt dims compared to his.

Iris didn't just want children, she wanted to be able to have sex--normal, healthy intimacy. Also, in the early part of the 20th century, adoption was a shame and an embarrassment both for the adoptive parents and for the child, who would always carry the stigma of illegitimacy. It's not at all like today. So today's answers wouldn't have been condidered?