Picking Nits
Alice and Uncas's unexplained romance; single-courier communication; tea service in the wilderness; period wigs
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- It is unclear when the younger sister fell for Uncas, with jokes about a missed ice-cream date.
- Wartime communication hangs on single couriers crossing the forest with no backup; the fix would be a triple courier system and trained birds. — Chris Ryan
- Duncan's tea with Cora at a table in an open field raises who staffed it; the answer offered is England's policy of recreating home anywhere, an imperialist bent.
- Wig strategy of the era: Colonel Monroe's gray wig is age-appropriate, and one participant would have gone Nick Cage Conair mullet; no further nits.