I don't know that I hated book!Frank in the first book. It was the later books that made me thoroughly dislike him.

Judging by how graphic they went with the last episode, I don't even know if I'll be able to watch the Wentworth stuff.

AND MORE SPOILERS

I kind of love magic in this series for that reason... obviously some supernatural stuff exists, but it's very unclear whether or not other forms of magic exist, or it's just superstition, or convenient coincidences.

Unfortunately...

Frank did straight-up absolve her of an affair during the war, after all. Sure, Claire got pissed at the suggestion, but she's got to be keeping that in mind.

The idea of such fanfic makes me feel sick to my stomach, honestly... ack. Some people simply should not get the Draco in Leather Pants treatment.

I'm kinda especially prejudiced against Frank at the moment because I'm rereading the books and I forgot about some of his opinions on... people.

Oh, hmm, I wasn't thinking nearly that early. I was figuring [SPOILERS, obviously] either when she's accused of witchcraft or when Jamie takes her back to the stones and she makes her decision. But there's sooo much to go before those bits, even if they skip over the whole beating part.

Yesss, it is very important.

Doesn't it also tie into ownership of Lallybroch? I kinda forget how that whole thing goes, but I thought that was part of it.

I'm really curious where they'll break it... there's two possibilities I can think of, but either one would need them to make up a LOT of ground in the next two episodes.

With that look of "Shut up, Claire."

I am so of two minds about this episode... on one hand, I straight up could not watch most of the episode, it was just too awful (when Jamie and Jack are slipping in Jamie's blood... ugh!). On the other hand, the last ten seconds were amazing and just what I wanted and why isn't it next week already.

Judging by the preview for next week... you won't need to write that letter.

A great number of things—did you have anything in particular in mind?

Besides, Lincoln actually did tentatively float the plan of buying some slaves in some of the border states. The plan was flatly rejected and everyone involved understood it wasn't possible to buy all slaves, but it's not like 21st century Confederate apologists are the first to have thought of the idea.

In all fairness, I had to look it up too. :)

Rupert, wasn't it?

Yup.