I ALWAYS watch episode one in honor of the day...

last night I was too tired after I got home from work. have to watch it this weekend.

i'll bet Hall had some old fashioned saucy "specialty" like "Chicken Marengo".

I keep hearing chatter that the ethan character is...

a.) a werewolf or...

b.) jack the ripper.

I'm viewing it somewhat casually and know little about the "lore" of either option so I'm not sure what "clues" people are picking up on on this point. was there an early episode where he "lost time" or something to that effect?

after originally thinking this was just something of a style-over-substance pastiche of Victorian horror melodrama the overall "narrative" is starting to become somewhat clarified for me.

the final shot of a smirking "Miss" Hoffman was the best.

and the mystery deepens...

any reports on last night's episode?

I haven't seen it yet.

that's good news. although a lot of the haters are vowing "never to watch it again" after the gay kiss...

the tempo of this conversation reminds me of the hysterics that often come up when it's suggested that a *certain* DS actor 'might' have been gay. I have to say there is a disturbing and virulent undercurrent of homophobia that runs through the "comic con" crowd. you'd think that perhaps being something of a group of "outsiders" themselves they might have a greater openness to difference in this area but they largely do not. there's almost an "adolescent" repulsion and defensiveness around "the subject".

I was offended by a lot of the remarks at first but then I rethought this whole thing. a lot of these deluded weirdos are in need of a bit of a reality check.