Or a French sovereign sitting on the proverbial throne.

Not certain if it's a spoiler, but Jaime can't time travel. IIRC, in the book, when Jaime takes Claire back to Craigh na Dun to allow her to return to Frank, (but she chooses not to), he grabs her hand as she touches the stone. He doesn't have an sensation of whatever it is one feels when one is about to teleport,…

Duh. Thanks for that little bit of important info. I didn't get what he was doing.

And Graham McTavish is pretty nice to look at, too!

There definitely are over the top characters all over the place. We've all known some, worked with them, went to school with them, etc. A sense of irony, sarcasm, wit, grand eloquence, lol, can make things quite entertaining.

Exactly! I think I read somewhere that Gabaldon first thought Sam not good looking at all. But that tossle of hair helps accentuate the very masculine lines of his nose, mouth, jaw.

Especially if you want to make yourself a target! No camo back in the day…

Sorry - didn't 'get' that that's what you meant.

Well, in WWI, the numbers of dead horses were in the millions. My military life was in the Air Force, so I can't recall specifics about the army, but one of the ranks used to have a hatchet, I believe, as the part of the emblem…the one who would go 'euthanize' the injured horses in the field.

Jamie and I think Murtaugh said something like 'well now we know' when Dougal stopped out in the moor. Whether it was a waste of time in the episode, don't know, if nothing other than to make Dougal seem bigger than life. Knowing the firing range of the enemy might be a tidbit of info that one would want to know.

The reason to walk into the moor was to see how far the firing power of the English would reach.

I wonder how much of being a 'war chief' he really has been? It's his title and position in the clan, but do we know enough of his life that he has actually been in war, and not just the cattle raids, etc? He has been pretty cool under difficult situations with the English in the past. It's as if he's simply been…

I agree. I've thought all along that some of what he does is more like trying to act. Last season he seemed quite natural in his role, but this year there is something quite different.

I think BPC would like skinny jeans, too.

On that same idea, "Saving Private Ryan" was thought to be simply too gory, as if D-Day were just a little skirmish.

Yes - and a way of saying 'I know of what I speak' because I am who I am.

Hear hear!!

As a non-Scot, but with some Scottish ancestry, I have really enjoyed becoming aware of this era of history even if it was through fictional history. I was somewhat disappointed when Scotland voted against leaving UK in their recent referendum…only because of Outlander. Have no idea if it would be beneficial for the…

I always wondered about that sharp 90* turn into the garage from the drive, and what also seemed to be a garage or at least a large extension of the house directly opposite it that was the same size of the garage.

So Mischa really does exist…speculation in the past was that he was just a story to keep Philip focused on his work. Since Mischa was supposed to be in Afghanistan, Philip would see his work as helping his son.