HAHAHA I LUV YOU! XD You've elaborated on EXACTLY the points I kept bitching about through the episode. Poor boy of mine, having to put up with my "but...! but...! but WTF?!". Seriously, though - even with the mask, there's no WAY he could be passing, not with that accent! Even my non-Japanese-speaking boy heard it, and - yes, he doesn't speak Japanese. But he heard it. So that's pretty bad. Also - blue eyes?! DEMON! XD Agh, their Sakoku era Japan, it burrrrrrns. (Where is Biwako, and WHY ARE PEOPLE ACCEPTING HELP FROM A KNOWN GAIJIN??? Because, like you said - BOILED ALIVE. See also: guilty by association, so paying a gaijin to solve their problems? UM. BAD IDEA.)

...I might be just a tad oversensitive to these things myself. Just a little bit.

Also, Claire annoys me. I can get feeling smothered by not being allowed to be the "real" you after a couple of months (or maybe even weeks) of playing by the book, but - one day. She couldn't even try to keep it together for ONE DAY? And then she had to play with fire AND break her leg? Sigh. She disappoints me. (And why are cheerleaders always, always evil? Is that really true? And why wasn't there a teacher around for gym class - or would a teacher just have ignored the bitch queen trying to get the poor girl to do the jump? Because, see, I could see a teacher staying out of subtle bullying, but something where someone could get seriously injured...? HELLO LAWSUIT!)