Chasing Jane: Pursuing Jane Austen is Always a Pleasure

I most enjoyed your reply, Merry.  I've found myself puzzling over your points all week

I don't remember the specific example either but I have to say that I'm often conflicted by Claire's use of her clothing & other property.  There's one instance where pages are devoted to the creation of Claire's dress for an important event.  Of course she ends up first dragging it through the mud and then having someone bleed-out all over it.  Ruined I say!!  I'm using the term "conflicted" because this type of thing happens often and I always end up feeling materialistic and petty compared to Claire who gives not a whit for her things.

I agree with you about that jail scene.  I often feel that DG doesn't know exactly what to do with Brianna.  It's like she's a necessary character but not really a loved character.  Probably this is just my own bias as I find her annoying.  Brianna is there to drive the story forward and so she sometimes doesn't make a lot of sense along the way.

WRT Fergus, I actually hadn't thought of that before. 

As you say, in general DG doesn't want to gloss over the emotional repercussions of assault.  I think that the problem is that there's so much assault going on it's hard to balance it all.  At the time when Fergus is attacked by BJ Randall, both Claire & Jamie are suffering so much you just can't add more suffering from Fergus into the mix.  Fergus suffering is "saved" until books later.

You can see a problem with this balance in Season 2 of the TV series as well.  In the books, Jamie & Claire have time to spend in the Abbey so that he's on the road to recovery by the time they enter French society.  In the series, the timeframe has to be shortened so Jamie's recovery is extended through the season.  For me it meant that Jamie & Claire had very little time to enjoy (if that's the correct word) each other's company before they were again thrown into dire emotional straits.  I could have used a bit more happiness in the mix and I think it would have made the loss of Faith even more poignant. 

Of course it's oh so easy to be an armchair quarterback!

Well said.  I too can forgive her everything!

It was a really good idea to add that fodder, @leopoldina .  Unfortunately the timeline removed it.  Dang!  I never knew that was even possible - go figure.

I tend to agree with your timeline analysis.  Going to be interesting to see how they actually reveal it.

I do think we've already seen how Dolores kills Arnold but through Teddy's memories it currently looks a bit warped.  The why is yet to be discovered.  Perhaps Arnold's voice in their heads was making them all insane and she wanted to stop that?

That's an interesting view of Logan that I hadn't thought of.  Nevertheless, I'm going to go on hating him for now

Thank you very much, Olivia (Lady Olivia Chapman)!

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Love it,  @tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi ! 

You have weasels?  How did I not know about this??  Please post some pics when you get a chance

More from Inara Pey:

Lab deploys increased LI allowance to private regions in Second Life

• Full Regions:
  
  
  
  • Mainland: 22,500 (from 15,000)
  • Private estates:
    
    
    
    • 20,000 (from 15,000) at the same tier price OR
    • 30,000 for an additional US $30 a month (+a one-off US $30 conversion fee to add / remove the extra 10K allowance).
• Homesteads: 5,000 (Mainland and private) – from 3750.
• OpenSpace: 1,000 (Mainland and private) – from 750.

Spoilers ...

Dang!  Please don't tell me that Bernard/Arnold has been terminated again.  Holding out hope for both him and Elsie.  I'm guessing Maeve is going to look a bit crispy the next time we see her?  Is Dolores the real Wyatt?  More and more it seems to be so.  Can't wait to see more of her reunion with William/Man in Black.

Read something interesting that proposed that Ford kept Dolores in her abusive daily loop as a punishment for killing the real Arnold.  Mind bending ...

I can confirm that private regions have received their extra prim allowance today!!  Woohoo!!

I'm not really sure what I'm going to be doing with mine though my Christmas decorating can be a bit more extravagent than usual.  How about you?  Any projects planned?