# Outlander Season 5
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlander-season-5/848408
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted
**Created:** [February 23, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlander-season-5/848408 "2020-02-23T20:58:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlander-season-5/848408/22 "2020-05-13T15:04:23Z")
We also watched every week and liked the season pretty good. My wife has read all of the books now(she read them about a year ago) and feels like the show reflects pretty well what the books felt like. Yes, there are plot differences, but she has been satisfied.
I believe the third book was originally advertised as the conclusion to the “outlander trilogy” and it feels it in some way.
I like Outlander, was not put off by the violence in the final episode, and thought the season was solid. Outlander remains one of the best shows on TV. One of the few that I anticipate hugely.
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### Author:  [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlander-season-5/848408/23 "2020-05-13T21:11:23Z")
> [@ivylass](#):
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> No, Otter Tooth is part of the Montauk Five, as was Wendigo, who was part of the band that kidnapped Claire. They went back in time to try to save the Native Americans from being decimated.
Yes, that’s true. But wasn’t he also a physician?
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlander-season-5/848408/24 "2020-05-13T23:15:59Z")
No. Dr. Rawlings was someone else. PM me if you want a spoiler. I’m on my phone and don’t feel like fiddling with spoiler tags.
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### Author:  [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlander-season-5/848408/25 "2021-05-01T13:25:11Z")
started watching season 1 and it’s good so far. It’s on netflix now
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlander-season-5/848408/26 "2021-05-01T15:29:47Z")
Yes, unfortunately they are very much delayed in adding new seasons. This thread is discussing season 5 and that still hasn’t hit Netflix after an entire year.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2021, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlander-season-5/848408/27 "2021-05-02T05:25:36Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#):
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> I am getting a bit tired of it. I know it is from the books. I have read the first book (and generally thought it was meh), but it has soured me from reading any more. It’s just a bit too much at this point. At this point I don’t mind spoilers - is their more rape going forward. If so, I may just quit.
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> And I know in the time period, sexual violence against women was far more normal. And there is probably a reason that the author wants us to remember that (it helps prevent a little bit of pining for the days of ole - even though the rest of the series seems to promote that).
My sense of it, or my response to it at any rate, was that in a lot of movies and books being raped is positioned as an ultimate threat, something that our protagonist could never recover from. In Gabaldon’s books and the TV series modeled on it, we see people badly hurt by it, devastated by it, yet eventually coping. I don’t think she can be justly accused of minimizing rape or trivializing it, but she’s also portraying it as something our protagonists may have to go through and cope with. And they seem stronger as a result.
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