Man, Claire is really bad luck. Not much good has happened since she came back!
She’s a random variable and she is stirring things up!
She better not step on any butterflies!
Well, Laoghaire sure knows how to make an entrance!
I really wished Jamie hadn’t known Laoghaire was behind the witch trial. In the book he doesn’t find out until much later but here we got a weak, “You told me to be kind to her!” Jamie, love, you’re not that dumb. I guess I can swallow that along with the charming daughters (and damn if the casting black magic doesn’t hit again. The actress playing Marsali is a dead ringer for Nell Hudson.)
The fight was epic and it was so fun seeing Ned Gowan again. Now, off to save Young Ian!
I haven’t read any of the novels but from what I’ve been seeing online, a lot of Outlander fans are upset that this season isn’t following Voyager. I guess previous seasons were more “by the book”? I know complaining about such things is par for the course in an adaptation, but some of it seems to be seriously vicious against the producers I’m looking at you, fans on Facebook :shudder: And leave Jenny alone! She is NOT the devil incarnate!
I…don’t know. After Culloden everything so far seems to be a letdown. Things, to me, don’t seem to be flowing the way they did. I think it might be more of the adapting-the-storyline than anything else because, as always, I have no complaints about performances. Hopefully things will change when they attempt to rescue Young Ian.
(Somewhat) off topic: Has anybody read any of the Lord John novellas? I’m halfway through the Hand Of Devils. I’m not sure what to think of it.
(For the uninitiated, Lord John Grey is a minor redcoat character in the Outlander series who befriends Jamie during his imprisonment at [name escapes me at the moment].)
I’ve read the LJG novels. They’re good. You should read them after Voyager but before Drums.
There has never been a straight book to film adaptation, IIRC. It’s physically impossible. Hell, Gone With the Wind cut out two of Scarlett’s children and Suellen’s husband (HBO, step up with a a remake already.) I am enjoying the show for the show and the books for the books. I’ve gotten into Facebook heated debates with fans who say stuff like, “Oh, you won’t like it. Book readers will understand” but when I push them to point out what is wrong with the episode WITHOUT comparing it to the book they slink away. Yeesh, everyone was upset when they cast Caitroina as Claire because she doesn’t have amber eyes.
There will be adventure on the high seas, don’t fret!
I am not sure if I am prepared to meet Bonnet. I personally think they are handling the books really well, yes Bree isn’t what I had imagined (she just isn’t big enough), but I am prepared to see how it works out.
I’d read the second volume of “Outlander Companion” (or whatever’s it titled) before last season ended. In it Gabaldon suggested that the LJG novels can be read as a separate entities. I was curious because I find wading through a 600+ page novel a bit unnerving, LOL.
That’s true about GWTW – I completely forgot about Scarlett’s other children until you mentioned it. I do remember Suellen having a husband, though. I do realize that not everything can be adapted tit-for-tat. Unfortunately many people can’t seem to accept it until, like you said, you point things out to them that shuts them up.
I’m sure there will be 
You’re right, they can, but they also fill in the holes between Dragonfly and Voyager (I was mistaken earlier, not Drums.)
They couldna found a wee boat for Ian to row to the island in?
Otherwise, holy bad timing, Batman!!!
I quit reading the third book before the plot got moving again. I found the plot/pace slow way down once Claire reunited with Jamie.
I knew the gold/treasure would be a factor.
Is this correct to the book that the kid swims out and a boat shows up? I have also heard high-seas adventure were coming in this book or the next.
If this season ends excitingly, I may give the fourth book a shot.
Yes, although there’s a bit more to it. Jamie would take the Murray boys to swim out to the island to grab a jewel or two when times were tough at Lallybroch. It was a rite of passage. Jamie feels some guilt about taking Young Ian out to grab some cash, since he was using it for selfish purposes, paying off Laoghaire, instead of helping out the estate.
Considering how dangerous the swim was, there’s no evidence that any precautions were taken so that Ian could return while carrying the box of treasure, which much have bee a considerable weight. He’s such a skinny lad that he might have sunk like a stone with that box in tow. This was, I think, the weakest episode of the season. The characters’ motivations seem forced and more driven by setting up unrealistic plot elements than anything else.
I did like the heart-to-heart between Claire and Jenny. That felt like the most sincere scene of the whole episode.
I don’t think Ian was bringing the whole box back…just a jewel or two to get Laoghaire settled.
It’s just one thing after another with these guys, isn’t it? Sheesh.
Can I just say I love Lauren Lyle’s (Marsali) feistiness? She’s not afraid to get up into Jamie or Claire’s face.
The captain of the Porpoise and Mr. Pound are played by appropriately baby-faced actors. My heart about broke at how desperate they are.
I would rather they not set up Hayes and Lesley to be Angus/Rupert reboot. There will only be one Angus/Rupert.
Good repurposing of The Black Sails’ ships…and we’re on our way to Jamaica!
Would British sailors of this time period (officers, too) have been so readily accepting of a female “surgeon”? And as soon as Claire decided to go onto the other ship, I knew she was a goner. Gone girl, she is. Sing me a song of a lass that is gone.
I think historically there was a wife of a captain or the cook who handled minor medical emergencies and such. I’m sure someone more knowledgeable can weigh in.
At this point in history, a surgeon was not considered a “doctor;” a surgeon was roughly one step up from a butcher in terms of respect and education (whereas a physician was a “learned practitioner” who would have been addressed as doctor). They wouldn’t have questioned Claire’s “surgical knowledge” per se, but might have worried that she didn’t have the physical strength to perform an amputation quickly enough. You had to be able to saw or hack through bones really quickly before your patient lost too much blood or died of shock.
The situation was set up so that 1. amputations weren’t their primary concern and 2. they were clearly desperate, so I think the acceptance was pretty believable.
I thought more was going to come of Jamie’s casually mentioning that he hid the body of the thug that Claire killed in the Creme de menthe, which Ian had sold off to that guy. I haven’t read the books, so maybe they’ll circle back to it.
I also find it rather strange that Claire is so quick to judge the sailors’ horseshoe superstitions, seeing as how she uses magic rocks for time travelling.