I enjoyed this episode a lot more than last weeks. I'm finding it really hard to sympathise with Frank. After black jack, the actor that plays them really has a thankless job.
Spoilers below for those that haven't read book 3
I suspect this is the last time we'll see young Fergus, hopefully the actor that plays adult Fergus is equally likeable.
It is terrible what happened to the boy Fergus, it seems this is meant to underline the cruelty of the Redcoat soldiers who maim the boy out of spite and hatred.
Claire realises that she does not only miss Jamie but the fact that she had agency and influence on the larger scale of events. I wonder whether this is what draws her to Jamie because with him she could have political power and had an important role to play whereas in the 20th century America she is just a professor's wife. It is not only Jamie she craves but more action and adventures, ordinary life is boring to her. It is surprising how much intolerance she has to confront in order to be able to study. As mentioned before, 20th America turns out to be less egalitarian for her than the 18th century Scotland. It is great she wants to study and follow her passions though perhaps it would make her drift further apart from Frank.
This is so hard for Frank but he is a tough guy just for endure the situation. It always a pleasure to watch this series. Jamie is not a character that moves me but in this episode I could fell his pain
I disliked the whole episode. My love-hate relationship to Outlander is not new, but I'm starting to feel as if it really doesn't have much to offer to me. I've been struggling lately with the fact that the show is becoming more and more melodrama, something that I feared before I even started watching it, but was delighted to see that, at least for the first season, it featured some solid period drama with human, layered characters. It's a shame that this has devaluated into the classic soap opera blend of horrifying tragedy and torrid, cloying scenes. Stick and carrot, sugar and bile. Not that I despise that genre, but it's just not for me and there was a time where Outlander really felt as if it reached beyond that. I can't say there is a turning point where this begins, but late in season 1 the "carrot" part began to feel so gratuitous and histrionic that I could only assume there was some morbid taste in making these characters suffer so much, as in a c-movie or a fanfic, rather than the really good show it once was, and I don't know how long will I be standing that.
In this episode, Fergus amputation was predictable, but also to me it felt really bad directed. It's hard to say, but I hardly felt anything (ok, incredible as it may seem, I don't have much sympathy towards this character), it just felt rushed and dull. Additionally, the plot moves in a increasingly stiff, unnatural way, and I think this also shows in this episode, when Jenny moves from vehemently refusing to turn his brother in to just doing it, and we never see her changing her mind, at all. I get it, it's all part of the suspense that the scene is intender to rouse, but still it's unnatural how she finally agrees to sentencing his brother to jail for life
In a nutshell, no one regrets more than I do being the spoilsport here, because I really got to love this show, but I'm not sure whether I will stay with it if it's just continues playing these cards :/
Shout by C MonsterBlockedParentSpoilers2017-09-20T21:49:15Z
Fergus took it like a man better than Jamie Lannister, just saying....