Sure, but I mean he hasn't done anything particularly malicious. He didn't not want to treat that man because he wanted him to die, only because he wasn't certain that the treatment would work/what using the treatment would mean for the hospital or whatever. He's definitely a jerk, but not nearly a Thomas-level jerk.
Well, we're both seeing the same thing: the rape scene and then, much later, the small acknowledgement of it before her husband (whose name I do not know at all) left the show. I think saying that it's something she tried to get over but "never forgot" is certainly correct. (How could it not be?) I'm not trying to say that she should have said more, or exploded in anger, or stood up for herself earlier. But after the episode ended (the rape episode), it hardly changed how her husband was portrayed, and it didn't change the way she acted towards him. She was still strong. He was still fine enough. We knew he had raped her, which is something that tinted other things he did, I guess, but did it ever really mean anything? Was it just to prove that EVEN Joan was weak? If so, why do we need that proven? Of course we know that EVEN Joan is weak. A major, great part of Joan's character is how her outer strength belies a quiet inner weakness. Was it to show that sometimes in the past husbands raped their wives, even when their wives were Joans? I'm just not sure what the purpose was, other than a quick shock.
Serious answer: I thought it was "good." It wasn't as great as I expected, from how everyone on Earth told me I had to watch it, but it was enjoyable and quiet when it needed to be, which was nice, and dramatic when it needed to be, which was nice and never really too much. Honestly, it's difficult to really judge how you feel about a show when the whole time you're thinking about what jokes you can make about it, but that may be a little TOO behind the curtain, so I will leave me answer as "I thought it was good." Except for the part when they told me the whole thing had taken two years. That part was very upsetting. And I wish that Thomas could have had at least one or two decent human moments. That was also upsetting, that he was just a monster the whole time.
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