Amen, brother…I'm gonna have to take a trip to Scotland to find a proto-feminist hubby with a great sense of humor like Claire did…

Watching Fergus' rape by Randall was disturbing, but as a non-book reader, it felt really necessary to me to show some of what happened visually—it is TV, after all. Narration can feel forced and insincere and the show already uses voice-over narration a lot.

Even more telling than her using "fucking" as an adjective, as her knowing what a "Barbecue" was!

even the use of "fucking" aside, it was a dead giveaway, because I seriously doubt that anyone in 18th-century Scotland had yet heard of the term Barbecue—a term which came from the British colonies in the Caribbean…