They managed to put 80% of all the important characters in this episode. My hatred for the pirate grows.
I feel sick. Fucking bastard. He better die
Rape should never be used as a plot device or to build a character as a villain. I'm so fucking mad with this ending. It was so gratuitously violent.
I was so mad during this episode. I’m not a fan of Brianna to begin with - mainly because the actress is seriously terrible, hard to believe they couldn’t find a decent red-headed actress -, and what she does here just makes me so mad. She marries a guy who is basically the quintessence of toxic masculinity, telling her that if she wasn’t a virgin then he probably wouldn’t have wanted her - meanwhile he doesn’t seem to think it’s a problem if he had sex with other women before - I mean, ew. Yes, Roger traveled 200 years to find her, but to me that’s just because he feels possessive considering his mentality. She was born during the second-wave feminism and yet her mother, who was born in the 1920s, is more modern than she is.
Outlander has never really figured out how Brianna best fits into the story. And it does Brianna's character a disservice by having her so promptly change her mind about not marrying Roger. I'm glad she did, but it was abrupt.
I'm also not sure the rape was necessary to further the plot or show "the past can be a dangerous place," (those guys just sat in the other room doing nothing.) It felt a little bit like Brianna was being punished for leaving Roger. Jamie's assault felt brutal but necessary, but I'm not as sure about this one. I already hated the pirate prior to this. I guess we'll see.
This -along with Jamie and you know who- are the only episodes that I can’t bring myself to watch fully. Absolutely brutal, currently rewatching the show and have found I have to skip through the whole thing.
I'm so sad with this ending. I wish so much the death of this asshole.
I knew it was going to happen. From the first day she wasn't prepared for anything that faced her. Even didn't know about not saying about Claire to Laighiri (?) Even tho she was studying history on Harvard and she decided to go to the past and had time to prepare. Ehhh... I'm sad ofc, it was awful but I think it was necessary for her to start being an adult.
Apart from the horrifying ending, there are some more sunny aspect to this episode; Brianna and Roger find each other and get married by handfast, the "marriage vow" is somewhat moving; Claire saves the life of the governor's associate and is acclaimed as a hero (the operation was very tense as had she failed to save the man's life, everybody would probably condemn her since they were distrustful of her skills because she is a woman); Jamie manages to warn Murtagh.
Roger leaves Brianna after she discovers the truth about his lie of omission?! He would not give up that easily after following her through a freaking time portal, across an ocean, and being threatened with death by that damn pirate. No freaking way.
What a lovely christmassy episode. :-/
Shout by Anto ButeraBlockedParent2018-12-26T04:29:41Z
Oh, Brianna. You shouldn't have married Roger just because he followed you through time. All the issues that made you say no the first time around were still unresolved. It was doomed to fail from the get go smh
Also, I hope pirate dude (Bennet?) gets his jingle bells cut off (I'm keeping with the holidays spirit lol). He has terrorized and taken advantage of not only Jamie and Claire, but now also Brianna. I'm already looking forward to how satisfying it's gonna be when shit catches up with him. Slow and excruciating. That's what I'm hoping for.