She is not an idiot. She's negotiating a very difficult situation where she has to do her best to fit in, in a culture she really has little clue about. So far she's managed to stay alive, unscathed mostly, and convinced the people around her to help her achieve her goal without telling them what that goal is.

Well, one obvious reason why she would want to think BJR is redeemable is that she looks at him and see's Frank, the man she is in love with, has a wonderful relationship with and has been separated for years from, and was indeed on her honeymoon with when she found herself in this situation. For another, she is not…

Could I point out Dougal did NOT try to rape her, he merely snatched a kiss (and a bit of a grope, I'll admit) and told her to 'get ye gone'. She bopped him over the head with the stool because he had discovered her traveling bag and she didn't want to have to explain it. And as a matter of fact, he had just rescued…

If you'd read the books, Epi 1 should have gotten an A+. The background into the characters and who they would develop into, the Highlander outside Claire's window, the choices Claire is going to have to soon make, it took hundred of pages of the novel and they managed to pack it into an hour and still maintain the…