Pyramids: I think it might be the wormhole-made-of-disco ball-lights that's throwing me off, honestly... ;) I dunno, Sutehk is just so...eh. He's a bit of a moustache-twirler Maybe it's not so much the villain as that I can't quite believe the main characters are ever in danger, for whatever reason. I tend to respond better (where "better" = get scared) to things like the creepy ticking robot at the beginning of GITF, or the ghostly typing in TDD.
Genesis: I don't think it's Harry. I think it's that I can't see much difference between the two factions, and I don't really get why I should care one way or the other. It's just so draggy. It could've been chopped to four episodes, easy.
Does your book say how often they'd actually go to the trouble to wash a dress?
Washing day was usually Monday. Common ideas of cleanliness-being-next-to-godliness meant that if you skipped a week, you would have immense guilt. Also, most people didn't have enough clothing to go more than a week without laundry. This is for people with at least one servant, which was all but the very far bottom of the middle class. Actually, I think even those without servants tried to do it once a week as well. (Much of the working class seems to have been composed of domestic servants. What few weren't in service, I suppose, didn't do washing all that often; the book concentrates on middle class domestic life, and so there's not a lot of detail about the ends of the spectrum. But the middle class had expanded by leaps and bounds in that period, so probably there were a lot of people who did their laundry once a week.)
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Date: 2006-06-16 09:01 pm (UTC)Genesis: I don't think it's Harry. I think it's that I can't see much difference between the two factions, and I don't really get why I should care one way or the other. It's just so draggy. It could've been chopped to four episodes, easy.
Does your book say how often they'd actually go to the trouble to wash a dress?
Washing day was usually Monday. Common ideas of cleanliness-being-next-to-godliness meant that if you skipped a week, you would have immense guilt. Also, most people didn't have enough clothing to go more than a week without laundry. This is for people with at least one servant, which was all but the very far bottom of the middle class. Actually, I think even those without servants tried to do it once a week as well. (Much of the working class seems to have been composed of domestic servants. What few weren't in service, I suppose, didn't do washing all that often; the book concentrates on middle class domestic life, and so there's not a lot of detail about the ends of the spectrum. But the middle class had expanded by leaps and bounds in that period, so probably there were a lot of people who did their laundry once a week.)