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Post by Hodge on Nov 28, 2014 19:34:31 GMT
Then he'd better find himself a girlfriend quick and he can catch up! Guess Emily's spoken for now though so it won't be her!!  My other prediction was George was going to make a play for Lillian Moss, not understanding the Girl Thing... Wondering when he'd get to meet Lillian. Unless she pays Emily a visit in the morgue and George happens to walk in....  |
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Post by snacky on Nov 28, 2014 19:40:14 GMT
My other prediction was George was going to make a play for Lillian Moss, not understanding the Girl Thing... Wondering when he'd get to meet Lillian. Unless she pays Emily a visit in the morgue and George happens to walk in.... Toronto seemed to be a very small city when William was running into Julia and Darcy. Also with the political campaign in play, Lillian and Emily will be creating a ruckus in public places. George may have to arrest them both.  |
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Post by snacky on Nov 28, 2014 19:54:26 GMT
My other prediction was George was going to make a play for Lillian Moss, not understanding the Girl Thing... Wondering when he'd get to meet Lillian. Unless she pays Emily a visit in the morgue and George happens to walk in.... Btw, that scene totally reminded me of Journey to the Center of Toronto. Sooooooooo blatantly over the top, lol. And The Hysteria Machine is in the same episode. I'm wondering if the whole episode is going to be a send up of the "scientific" investigation of gynecology (including concepts like hysteria, "the vapors", "the rest cure" for "nervous disorders", the first vibrator, the male management of pregnancy, etc.): i.e. women seen through the perplexed male gaze of science right when actual women are coming on the scene, and their own expert opinions are being ignored as "subjective". Meanwhile, Emily has an "invitation" to explore beyond the boundaries of Victorian gender roles. She's explored the boundaries of life and death - this might make her curious as well. Have her "passions" been defined by her education and culture? Is everything what the masculine world of science thinks it is - or are "masculinist" ideas being imposed and then being called "scientific" and "the norm". Charlotte Perkins Gilman was really having thinky thoughts just like this at the time, btw! (And every girl at Vassar was supposedly reading Women and Economics...) |
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Post by snacky on Nov 28, 2014 20:34:23 GMT
Make up sex is always the best!  So I take it you guys enjoyed it? I'm not gonna lie, I was nervous about it!  teeeeny-tiny nitpick: "passive-aggressive" might be a modern concept. Though I agree William would probably fight in a passive-aggressive manner. Loved the cards that were played during that fight and how they were played! The fact that I didn't know the Station House was empty was an additional element of suspense. The whole time I was assuming George "has very good hearing"...and the rest of the Station House can hear a "bellow"...and who could miss Julia being slammed against a window...oh my this was turning into SH4 gossip/porn forever! Glad you resolved that in the next section, lol!!!! |
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Post by Fallenbelle on Nov 29, 2014 2:48:14 GMT
So I take it you guys enjoyed it? I'm not gonna lie, I was nervous about it! teeeeny-tiny nitpick: "passive-aggressive" might be a modern concept. Though I agree William would probably fight in a passive-aggressive manner. Loved the cards that were played during that fight and how they were played! The fact that I didn't know the Station House was empty was an additional element of suspense. The whole time I was assuming George "has very good hearing"...and the rest of the Station House can hear a "bellow"...and who could miss Julia being slammed against a window...oh my this was turning into SH4 gossip/porn forever! Glad you resolved that in the next section, lol!!!! I agree about the passive aggressive thing, but I wanted to refer to it and I couldn't think of any other way to do it. Do you have any suggestions? |
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Post by snacky on Nov 29, 2014 6:55:38 GMT
I agree about the passive aggressive thing, but I wanted to refer to it and I couldn't think of any other way to do it. Do you have any suggestions? I'm not sure you can put a label on it at the time. Maybe describe the behavior or put it in a rhetorical question, i.e.: "how to have a duel with someone who refused to draw...?" Passive-aggressive can mean different things, though. Do you mean William lures people in with fake helplessness and then strikes? Or is the passiveness itself a weapon by claiming to be a victim? Or is he just frustrating Julia's attempt to fight by refusing to engage? |
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Post by Fallenbelle on Nov 29, 2014 7:06:13 GMT
I agree about the passive aggressive thing, but I wanted to refer to it and I couldn't think of any other way to do it. Do you have any suggestions? I'm not sure you can put a label on it at the time. Maybe describe the behavior or put it in a rhetorical question, i.e.: "how to have a duel with someone who refused to draw...?" Passive-aggressive can mean different things, though. Do you mean William lures people in with fake helplessness and then strikes? Or is the passiveness itself a weapon by claiming to be a victim? Or is he just frustrating Julia's attempt to fight by refusing to engage? I think it's the last option...he knows Julia wanted to talk, but wouldn't-then he lets her know he knows about the lost necklace and painting-but does so emotionlessly-refusing to engage her, open a dialogue with her (he knows that's what she wanted) but he still gets to communicate with her. But it needs to be more succinct than that. I've just changed it. The exchange now reads something like this: "What on God's Earth do you think you're doing, Mrs. Murdoch?" William angrily asked. "Mrs. Murdoch? You haven't acknowledged my existence in almost two days, refuse to take my phone calls, sneak in and out of our home in the dead of night, leave passive notes that are still most aggressive with lost articles on my vanity, suspect me of adultery, and suddenly I'm Mrs. Murdoch again?" Julia spat back, sitting up on the table while her arms flailed about wildly to make her point. But in doing so, her breasts jiggled most beguilingly, a fact not lost on William as he stared at them. |
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Post by snacky on Nov 29, 2014 7:25:18 GMT
"What on God's Earth do you think you're doing, Mrs. Murdoch?" William angrily asked. "Mrs. Murdoch? You haven't acknowledged my existence in almost two days, refuse to take my phone calls, sneak in and out of our home in the dead of night, leave passive notes that are still most aggressive with lost articles on my vanity, suspect me of adultery, and suddenly I'm Mrs. Murdoch again?" Julia spat back, sitting up on the table while her arms flailed about wildly to make her point. But in doing so, her breasts jiggled most beguilingly, a fact not lost on William as he stared at them. I think separating the terms like that is good enough. I think it's just those terms smushed together that sounded like modern self-help jargon! That was a really minor quibble, though. Really great story, btw. The curiosity about where the other constables were was a nice suspense touch, whether intended or not!  |
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