I can respect that Rafael wants to spend more time with Mateo, but I CANNOT respect that he still thinks that, even after reassuring Jane that he would be able to have Mateo for the rest of the day, Rafael still thinks it's okay for a father to dump his kid off back with the mother because something comes up for him,…

That would make me so happy. With less and less hair. Ron E shouldn't have eyebrows.

Yes, but in a time when those kinds of replicas weren't really made. And it's not like Claire and Frank could tell the guy—who's very impressed and interested—who made them or where he might find others like them. It's not a huge deal, but they're far more likely to inadvertently raise problems than simply go away.

In honesty, I can't make out a reasonable timeline either. All of this action must be highly compressed. The Jacobite Rising and the return of Prince Charles to Scotland takes place in 1745/6 (Culloden in April of 1746), and Claire—already pregnant on the boat to France—arrives in the 20th century no more than a few…

Though I may not have been clear, this is precisely what I think. Both men choose to believe her because they love her, at least as far as it governs their actions. It probably helps that her seemingly insane explanation does actually explain a few things, but it would still be nearly impossible to actually believe…

Well I can't speak to the missing months, but I can speak to the missing century. 1743… in France by 1745. If they'd arrived in France in 1845, that would certainly be an interesting story.

Yeah, except I have to think that dealing with rape babies—however horrific the crime that brought them into the world—had to be an unfortunately more common occurrence in his world, especially in an area with a continuous foreign military presence. Everything in his response is era-appropriate, and all those…

Whatever Claire's barking at him, Frank's response isn't all that different from Jamie's, if for different reasons. Claire's just in almost polar opposite emotional states when she delivers the news. Frank doesn't understand it, and he has trouble believing it (though I imagine the whole mystery about her clothes…

It's not about forgiveness; it's about moving forward. Frank's two conditions for resuming their marriage are entirely reasonable. He can accept, even if it stings him, that Claire loved this man and lived with him as a husband for two years, and he can accept that the child is not biologically his, but he will not…

No, as Frank's professor friend made clear, those clothes raise questions neither Claire nor he are prepared to offer reasonable answers for. They can't reasonably account for them. Since the local press is already playing up the "kidnapped by fairies" angle, it wouldn't be a good idea to introduce new juicy…

Different circumstances, surely, but Jamie handled Jenny's possible (if ultimately untrue) child by Randall VERY poorly. Dealing with the possibility of an illegitimate child is, so far, dodgy for all of the male characters in Outlander, Wakefield perhaps excepted.

I also think she has WAY more difficulty finding empathy for those in her immediate circle and connected to the same personal events she's connected to. So, she has very little difficulty finding sympathy for people whose lives are largely disconnected from her own—nearly all of her patients, the "changeling" baby,…

I realize that it might send someone into a predestination crisis spiral, but it always seems like the most logical thing to me to assume that (if you're a time-traveler) you were always in history, so nothing you learned about History before you traveled there can change, since all those cause-and-effect bits are…

I think Claire is exceptionally sympathetic for what she actually sees or is directly informed about. Her turnabout when she realizes the depth of Murtagh's affection for Jamie and, in particular, his mother was, I felt, genuine, but you're absolutely right about her tendency to assume that no one has secret…

I realize that Claire's never seen Back to the Future or read any number of time-travel tales (some available in the 1940s—The Time Machine anyone?), but you think she'd be a little more reflective and circumspect about how this whole time-travel thing works. So far, nothing has happened (potential, but unlikely,…

I nearly cheered aloud for Frank when he finally told Claire she needed to shut up and let him get something out for a few minutes. I do adore Claire, but she has a frustrating tendency to forget the other collateral of her time-traveling adventure. And, yes, Frank was probably being condescending in the way he…

Except that remake would be AWESOME!

I'm sorry. No. Rafael was not being reasonable. And Jane should DEFINITELY NOT accept money from him for their house, because that would come with so many strings. It's a mildly obnoxious commute, but a much shorter one than most separated parents sharing custody of a kid have to deal with. It's workable. And,…

My problem with this whole set-up is that Hadrian's Wall thinks they can dribble information to the other characters and still expect them to help out and intuitively stay out of their way. Renard and Meisner's run-in a few episodes ago was, to me, very telling. Why should Meisner expect him not to have his own…

Re: Eve's wigs. Sure, they make her stand out in a crowd, but they also distract from her face. You'd be really surprised how little people remember the faces of folks who have something very, very notable in their make-up, hair or dress. In general, it means that she may stand out, but if she goes without a wig,…