Are we going to get one of your witty, thoughtful commentaries to today's episodes? I really want to get out the tape and have a look at these. Thought Joan looked at her loveliest.
It is interesting to see the comments in the "Naomi notions" post about Naomi's suicide. Although for obvious reasons I can't really put myself in her shoes (my feet are too darned big for starters, lol), I do find dramatically plausible her traumatic reaction to discovering what had happened to Barnabas, resulting in her act of suicide. I haven't seen these shows in many years so perhaps the way the story was written, or the way Joan played the scene, makes the depth of Naomi's shock implausible ... but I don't think the concept is at all unlikely, I'm sad to say.
In certain cultures, Imperial Rome and classical China for example, suicide was almost programmed as the "correct" response to family misfortune, particularly for a female. A lot of the casualties in Chinese wars throughout the ages were women who committed suicide because the alternative was vulnerability to rape.
Gothick
