The episode's director Graeme Harper explained in the episode's commentary that only psychic characters such as Lucius from "The Fires of Pompeii" were aware of the beetle's existence.
The data-psychic character Sylvanshine can glean trivia about anyone simply by looking at him, but is "weak or defective in the area of will".
In some way, the biggest compliment was when my older sister said after reading Sisterland: "Are you psychic?" Your characters, especially your female characters, are all the more realistic for sometimes acting in unexpected or unlikable ways.
Yet if much is familiar about "The Good Apprentice" - including its heavy-handed symbolism, its overlong passages describing its characters' psychic landscape, and its occasional descent into what amounts to a philosophical soap opera - there is also much to recommend it.
Oddly, the museum does not mention that Mr. Springsteen's father was a bus driver, which may explain the singer's metaphorical obsession with vehicles that can attain prodigious speeds without the encumbrance of making frequent stops, as this would impede his characters' psychic and spiritual searches.
Clearly, Green thinks Penny Dreadful is good; she revels in playing a character in psychic meltdown.
Maybe the Scoobys have brought on this latest apocalypse; maybe the First Evil feeds on each character's psychic fragility, on negativity and unquiet minds.
And I remember being appalled for Tom Skerritt's character — a psychic researcher — when he discovers that Satan has claimed his brother and his mother: his loved ones have been turned into monsters, and now they want to kill him.
What cries out for explanation is not the Romans' militaristic character or psychic aggression, but why in a world that was universally violent the Romans were so consistently more successful than their enemies and rivals.
The play's other female characters are insightfully inhabited by the lovely Ms. Dizzia, whose wild fluctuations between starchy propriety and unbridled emotionalism signify her character's psychic dislocation; Ms. Bernstine, who brings a quiet dignity to her performance as the wet nurse; and Ms. Stetson as the crisply efficient but also sympathetic doctor's assistant.
