This episode was somewhat frustrating and not particularly interesting. Some familiar characters show up again, and we get to meet H.G. Wells, who is in Toronto to give a speech to the Eugenics Society. His address is interrupted when a dog decides that the best place to take a severed arm is into the middle of the crowd. The murder victim turns out to be a member of the eugenics society, so Murdoch must figure out what the connection is between the victim and eugenics.
George was the star of this episode, for sure. Despite Dr. Ogden's "progressive" inclinations and Murdoch's adherence to logic, the both of them reject eugenics adamantly, which seemed a little out of character. Just because eugenics is considered evil in modern times, the progressives of the Victorian times like Ogden and Murdoch would have at least mulled over the idea. It felt like the writers were pushing their own views on characters in history (which they are wont to do), and robbed this episode of some potentially interesting conversations.
George was the star of this episode, for sure. Despite Dr. Ogden's "progressive" inclinations and Murdoch's adherence to logic, the both of them reject eugenics adamantly, which seemed a little out of character. Just because eugenics is considered evil in modern times, the progressives of the Victorian times like Ogden and Murdoch would have at least mulled over the idea. It felt like the writers were pushing their own views on characters in history (which they are wont to do), and robbed this episode of some potentially interesting conversations.
