I do love seeing Chaz and Frost as allies.  Particularly allies who scare the people they're working with.

And, as said elsewhere, I'm scared for Eddie and Dice right now.

I was completely creeped out by her utter inability to refer to anyone by a professional title.  It was 'Miss Worth' then 'Mrs Worth', 'Mr Brady', 'Mrs Falkner', and the fact that she signed her first letter 'Mrs Tom Johnson' (the total subsumption of her own personhood into a social identity of 'married woman who does not exist in own right', which, given what she did to 'her Toms', is both weirdly funny and deeply disturbing).  It was interesting to see her coming back to a sense of individual identity as the letters progressed, to the point where she was signing herself 'Betty'.

And in Australia, they're still all 'icing'.  Just different types of icing.

The difference between them (well, a difference, anyway) is that Frost knows it.

And the problem with Bones, for me, is that it holds its title character in complete contempt.

In Australia, 'frosting' is the North American word for 'icing'.

I think Charles Emerson Winchester III might have had a few scathing words to say to Gregory House himself, actually.  'Competent' might not necessarily be one of them.

Not obscure at all, actually! 

Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small quartet features at least one very frank discussion about contraception between the main character and her mother; the other books in the Tortall series also address contraception on a regular basis.

And I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Farscape and Aeryn Sun's kangaroo-like ability to delay gestation after fertilisation has occurred...and then to speed up gestation so it only takes the length of a mini-series...  ~/snark~  I remember some mention of the species that 'made' the Peacekeepers monkeying with their genetics to make that possible, so that female soldiers wouldn't be out of action for too long while pregnant.

~shrugs~

~goes away again~

~giggles~  And when I came to the site, the first thing up on the news crawl was: 'I hate you.  Where's my content?'

Most apposite. 

I can't remember exactly which extra it's in, but at one point Reyes puts himself into the category of the ones who caught the intellectual bug on the subject of the Anomaly - like Falkner, Lau and maybe Frost - rather than the ones who had personal reasons or experiences driving them, as Daphne, Danny and Sol did.

It could easily be bits of both...

And something else just occurred to me.

In 1996 Cecelia Ramachandran was severely injured in an incident involving a gamma in a hospital, which left her bleeding from the eyes, nose, and mouth, and possibly convulsing.

Lawrence Joseph Hakes, victim of a Munchausen's by Proxy parent, who has the ability to make people bleed out from the eyes, nose and mouth (at minimum) was apprehended in by Reyes and Todd in 1999.  But how long before that was he active?  How did they become aware of his existence - stop thinking of Clemson McCain as an isolated/historical case  (well, Todd was already thinking that way, but Reyes?) and as one in a series?

Was Cecelia Ramachandran one of Bloody Larry's early victims - the one who started them looking for him?

I believe I like Dr and Mr Gates very much.  Also Dr Ramachandran.  And it's always nice getting a bit further inside Reyes' head. 

...so there are 'measurable effects to the brain', hmmm?  Wonder what they are?

~adds to the growing forest of hands~  I was trying to work out which Goon Show episode was being referenced, and thinking that vicious flying llamas seemed a bit...tame for Spike Milligan.  And that Major Bloodnok would find more interesting things that blood to fill his socks with!