Which part doesn't make sense?

Fortunately, you don't have to get why I bother.

Yes, and in the source material, she functions as essentially the narrator- an interesting and strong one who helps drive the story, and we feel like we are in her shoes. But it isn't HER story and she isn't The Protagonist - the source material is a story of a marriage. The show is Super Claire & Her Minions. If…

Not really. Or at least, it shouldn't be, and the more it tries to be, the worse it gets.

Yes, these scenes were making it all about Claire when it shouldn't be. It's okay if we go a whole episode or two without creating something dramatic to happen to Claire, especially when they keep talking about not having time for everything.

Why hasn't Claire bothered to learn any 18th century Scottish curse words yet?

What's wrong with that? Wine = truth juice.

I will give the writers credit for that change- I think we've had to see Claire's bodice ripped open quite enough by now.

Oh, so much wine!
Damn, I miss Lost and all its philosophically meaningful names!!!

The name Desmond just makes me think of Lost and then I get all nostalgic

I knew pretty early on in season 1 that I was going to regret raving about Outlander to people who hadn't heard of it. I'd say roughly by the opening credits I wanted to take all my gushing back because I could tell it was not going in a high-quality direction. Too bad, because Sam really would have made an excellent…

And I like puppies, but not in the way I like Book Jamie, cuz that would be really gross :)

Yes! Sam was really great in the first half of season 1 but we really haven't seen that since then.

Why not?

No, I want love. Clearly, my mommy didn't love me enough if I dare express displeasure with a f***ing TV show.

I was confident that Sam was a great actor until this episode (even though 115 and 116 were lame- but Sam and Tobias did a great job with what they were given). Could be that there were better takes of these scenes and they chose to keep the worst ones. I like Sam and all but if this was all I had ever seen of him…meh…

Hence the appeal of the story. Something the showrunners refuse to accept.

Whoever decided to make it all about Claire yet again and waste half an episode on random PTSD (not even during an actual battle, ffs) needs an a$$ kicking. We have this much time for flashbacks, but not to actually develop the primary relationship, for which the rest of the story is really a backdrop? Claire could go…

ding ding ding!
I am confident that you are absolutely correct.

You aren't fully developed until you've been raped and/or sold into slavery in DG's world, apparently.