Great post, Lydia. Those are the kinds of thoughts that occur to me these days, that never did earlier. Those particular observations hadn't occurred to me at all, yet, though.
For about five years, 2002-7 I guess, the end of this episode was
the end of 1795, for me. One day's indecision on my part, regarding whether to buy all of 1967-71 on VHS for $1.50 each (still hundreds of dollars), meant that someone was able to walk into the thrift store that day, and carve out and buy a hunk of DS right in the middle. Apparently, he/she was only interested in BC from his death onward.
I'll have to admit that I never would have had the thought about the lace on Naomi's sleeve. Why is that, I wonder? The rest seem like very familiar sorts of impressions, even if I haven't had them all myself, yet.