Absolutely and the world has moved on. When Charles married the preference was still to marry a royal to a royal. All those ghastly royal courtiers and the Queen mum holding on to a world that had disappeared in the 30s without them noticing - idiotic.

I'd imagine the Laird and the Duke would transact on estate matters and the Laird would hold court to the Duke (so the feast in the hall would happen) but they wouldn't be hanging out, sharing hunting weekends.

She is a commoner and, worse, a middle class commoner. There's nothing more abhorent than the middle class!!

At last! It's clear we're going to have to put Moore on a quota. He's just not to be trusted.

You are such a tough marker. I think the love scenes aren't as steamy now because they've been married 3 years and are probably not having sex on every flat surface.

The scene where those battle seasoned warriors Murtagh and Rupert were grimacing at all the tooth extraction was more credible (and more amusing) than Claire swapping witicisms with Rupert after Rupert had just had his skull gouged.

Dukes weren't people too, they were as close to the Sovereign as it was possible to be without being royal (although there are royal dukes), and the English aristocracy did not recognise, in any formal sense, the Scottish laird system. It never appeared in Burke's and was seen as a form of address, not a denomination…

And also the Duke having a god daughter who is the daughter of an untitled wealthy merchant? What are we French now? Never happen.

For me it's back to our good ol' Aussie roots of excellent story telling. We haven't had much of that in the past decade, sadly. Some outstanding acting, also. Might be a bit tame for an American. Not much happens in Australia so our drama tends to be not very dramatic, for reality's sake.

I'm opposite although I mark my season 1 love from the moment I saw Sam Heughan without a shirt so my love may not be tied to the show's artistic merit, strictly speaking.

I can see why she did it and she's also said that she was researching in a library so tough circumstances.

But no Jamie in the 40s??????

I have a smallish crush on Murtagh.

True but he just wouldn't be in that situation in the first place. A duke at that time in history……no way. An earl, a viscount maybe. A duke? Never happen.

If you've got something to complain about…….come sit by me.

You people have made me (MADE ME) start reading the Internet about Outlander and I'm not happy. I'm going to get coffee and then edit rant about how pretentious and slightly deluded I find Gabaldon in interviews.

…or that Sam was gone if they didn't give him some job security!

I wonder that people are giving up on the series. Season 2 quality is pretty patchy.

Given that Sandringham, an 18th century Duke, would never deign to even speak to someone as lowly as Claire, let alone chat casually in a kitchen (bloody Americans have no idea about British class system), Sandringham would be unlikely to do anything other than issue edits for Claire's disposition - he certainly…

In Australia we also have Secret City, a political thriller. Excellent if you can suspend the sure knowledge that nothing interesting ever ever ever happens in Canberra (Australia's Washington).