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I can't speak for all women but it doesn't seem gay to me. What behaviour are you specifically referring to? Could it be something that is unique to the time period the show is set in?
I'm curious, what prompts this question. What might make you question whether he is gay?
Yes, they announced that this is the final season. Episode 8 is the end of the story.
Yes, a couple of seasons ago Jesus and Maggie were having a conversation and he referenced the potential of having a male partner.
[spoiler]Yup. the first time she didn't know he was her teacher and then later they decided to continue having an affair and to just keep it quiet. [/spoiler]
Yeah, that's a theory that I heard. The "talking zombies" might have been people who covered themselves in "zombie effluvia" in order to blend in with the rest of the heard. I can't wait to see how this plays out.
I didn't realize that they were putting Bobby and Mary together romantically. I just thought they were close friends because of all they've been through. Oh god, I don't want to see those two together.
As weird as saving Benji's teeth? LOL
I saw it as a way Rick (who thought he was dying) was making peace with people he didn't have the chance to. He saw Herschel because felt guilty that Beth and Glen died, leaving Maggie alone. He saw Shane because even Shane could be an asshole, they were best friends since they had been in school and felt guilty about having killed him even though it was life or death. He felt guilt over Sasha's death because she basically sacrificed herself for Alexandria after she lost her brother Tyrese and her lover Abraham.
So yeh it was in his mind, but he was making peace with people he felt he had some unfinished business with.
I think the show is toast, or at least it should be.
I think TWD stopped being TWD when Carl died. Now that Rick is being killed off, it's complete. There's talk that they are going to make Daryll "The New Rick" which means the show will even be less TWD because Daryll isn't even in the graphic novel.
It's going to take a lot to keep me around if they don't do something pretty spectacular.
IIRC, Lori had sex with both men around the time Judith was conceived so, short of a DNA test, they really don't know who Judith's father is. I think he just assumed she's Shane's daughter so that he wouldn't be disappointed if it turned out that she really was Shane's.
Goodnight funny man....
That's pretty much the whole story this series is telling. If you're interested in the answers to those questions, it's well worth just watching the series.
*sniffle* you sound like you need a hug. I miss him too.
Don't worry, Reece has been such a consistently awesome and inventive pastry chef that I'm sure he'll have no problem lining up some great gigs.
It felt complete to me because the main story through both seasons was the Demelza-Ross-Elizabeth-George situation. All of the other plots (Demelza's brothers, Caroline and Dwight, Ross in Parliment, etc) are interesting, but not the main course. With Elizabeth's death, everything gets resolved.
But it goes even deeper than that. Elizabeth is the ultimate victim of her own pride and greed. After Francis died, if she had said the word, Ross would have left Demelza and moved to Trenwith to be with Elizabeth. Since everyone knew that Demelza had been his servant, society would not have been especially scandalized if Ross left her.
However, Elizabeth dithered. She had feelings for Ross, but she was dazzled by the idea of being married not only to George, but also his money and ability to buy a place in society. She wasn't completely stupid, she knew that part of the reason why she was so attractive to George was because of her family connections.
When Valentine is born (either on schedule or a bit early, depending on what you choose to believe) she finds herself in a bind. She enjoys the perks of being Mrs Warleggen, she enjoys the way he fawns over her but she knows that if he has a reason to suspect that Valentine is Ross' sone and not his, all of that can go away very quickly. He might not ever divorce her, but he would certainly cut off the tap in regards to the clothes, jewelry, life in London, etc.
To preserve her status and wealth, she not only has to stay Mrs Warleggen, but she has to make sure that George remains besotted to her. How does she do it? By inducing an early labor to make it look to George as if she just always delivers 8 month babies.
So yes, she is ultimately at fault for her own death but ultimately it's because of her own pride and avarice.
Yeahhhhhso, I'm not liking the whole female Doctor thing because (a) it isn't canon and (b)it makes no logical sense since there were (are?) Time Ladies on Gallifrey. I kinda knew they were going to go there when they gender shifted The Master.
Feh.
I've generally liked 12, 11 and the last half of 10so I have a bit of trepidation about what this season is going to look like. I'm all for new Big Baddies (I mean the Weeping Angels still scare the bejeezus out of me) but I'm hoping they don't throw the baby out with the bathwater there is a reason the Daleks and Cybermen are still discomforting. They are characters, who don't reason and hate humans. I'd hate to see them go away in the name of "new shiny".
It will be nice if they do more of the stand alone episodes but I'm hoping that (except for The Doctor's gender) the feel of the show stays about the same.
Rape, as a concept, did exist, hell, they even talk about it in the Bible. What has changed is society defines it and that change has only occured over the past 40 years or so. T
One of the most famous scenes in Gone with the Wind involves marital rape. We see Rhett Butler carry Scarlett, his wife, up the stairs and he says something like, she's not going to turn him away at the bedroom this time. There was also no thought to acquaintance rape or any kind of rape without explicit physical force. There were class issues, a wealthy man like Ross could coerce or even force a servant or slave to have sex with them with no reprisals.
(It reminds me of an old pop song from the 1970s that had the lines, "If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal/If her daddy'a poor they just do what you feel. There's just something vaguely sinister about that line.)
So if you were a woman (because men never got raped back in those days, right?) you had better be beaten and bloody, you better be a "nice, respectable girl/woman, and the man had to be from your class or lower or it just wasn't rape.
An aside, another difference between the 1976 series and this one is that George forces this marriage and just assumes that Morwenna will just be stuck in a marriage with a man who bores her. When she tells George and Elizabeth What Withworth did to her, George seems genuinely horrified and I think he and Elizabeth are a bit ashamed of the part they played.
I've seen the first few episodes and my take on it so far is, "meh".
I don't mind slow meandering plats, I love Charles Dickens, but this just feels pointless and repetitive. I've seen all of the characters before: the hero with the damaged psyche and dark secrets, the neurotic mother, the rebellious kid sister, the rugged, good looking detective telling the hero to stay out of the investigation. I feel sort of like they went to the murder mystery buffet and stocked up on a bunch of characters and plot points for $8.95.
I"ll keep watching it (I think) but I think that if I forgot to watch it I might not miss it. But then again, maybe it will pick up in a week of two.