Weir and DeFilippis later stated that they were happier with losing this plot, as they did not like the direction it would have taken Julian as a character, noting that, "[t]he Julian who developed since then is not a guy who'd have a problem with Victor being gay.
As one character notes, "Things have a habit of coming full circle: a bad habit".
A Nashville Yoda who, as one character notes, has "discovered half the people in this town," Watty White links the various subplots and frames the big-picture narrative about a town full of flawed strivers (like Connie Britton's Rayna Jaymes).
This is partly because the world it depicts is one in which, as one character notes, the rules are made for and by husbands and fathers.
A part of you feels that you should stand up and yell, to defuse tension and deflect disaster, though, as one character notes retrospectively, "nothing at all had really happened".
As one character notes, "The horror of the world hides beneath these infinitely pretty things". He is referring to Leiter's opulent wares, but he is also speaking to a more universal condition of human evil, the tendency of corrupt, exploitative societies to conceal themselves behind the trappings of luxury and glamour.
In addition to these three stories, the same article also noted a humorous ode to black as a part of a wardrobe or in fact as a wardrobe, when one character notes: "Sometimes I buy something that isn't black, and I put it on and I am so sorry".
Our national security can be threatened through lack of preparedness, including poor coordination among 50 jurisdictions, as the Laurence Fishburne character notes.
Taubman told no one about the meetings; not the then-CEO of Sotheby's, nor his closest business associate, who testified as a character witness, Greene noted.
As a character in the book notes about one of the murder victims, "That girl and trouble, they was always together".
As a character in another story notes, "The hard thing in life is to know when to hold fast to one's principles and when it's acceptable to bend them a little".
