Hello Shat Crew,Thanks again for helping to navigate Lovecraft Country.I have to agree that this was not the strongest episode, but there were still some interesting nuggets. I am becoming much more interested in Hippolyta’s story. Her fascination with astronomy and trying to understand the orrery was much more compelling to me than the puzzle box mystery that Tic, Letitia and Montrose were following. Also, the fact that Hippolyta and Diana are heading to Devon county for answers should provide even more information that we need. The Christina/William reveal in the same episode as the Two Spirit person being found in the vault was a great juxtaposition of story elements. I could be wrong, but I don’t remember any time that Samuel Braithwaite and William interacted. But Samuel had to know about William. Right? Would he have thought it was just a useful trick his daughter could do? Or was she able to hide this information from her egotistical, self-involved father? And William doesn’t seem to be Christina pretending to be a man. Or maybe to explain it better, Chrisina doesn’t display any masculine traits and William never displays any feminine traits. She becomes William though, to carry out any activates that are male centric — escorting Tic and George to the men only dinner, punching out the guys tailing her, and then going on to seduce Ruby. And seems to use her Christina persona as a default, but she also uses it when being a white woman in the ’50’s could be something she can hide behind to make her enemies underestimate her. Could it be similar to Dissociative Identity Disorder? Something that is usually brought on by trauma (and I am pretty sure that Christina would have had a traumatic up bringing and self-worth issues). The biggest difference would be switching on command and continuity of memory, but that could be literally magicked away in the narrative. Even for a weaker episode there are still so many things to discuss. Thanks again.SusanState College
