You might consider that the mechanics of the time travel work differently in the show than in the book, and that there are reasons some scenes aren't shown.

I don't think she does, unless I'm misled. Remember when Jamie took her back to the stones and left her there? She went to touch the stone and… fade. She was back to 1948, per this episode. She was *also* not transported, and came down the hill to Jamie again, per that episode. Her line forks. The stepping off in…

I thought it should be that the Claire that returns to 1948 is not the Claire that went to France. Remember the palm reading? Claire's persona splitting into versions that stay with Jamie, *and* return to her own time, would have been a resolution of her conflict (or a cop-out, I guess), but also a way to make sense…

The bigger-and-badder superweapon is meant to be a joke, you know. In the movie, they directly compare it to the Death Star—but this one is way bigger!—and then Han actually says something like, "well, how do we blow it up? There's always a way to blow it up." The writers are acknowledging the ridiculousness, and…

But they did pay an actor. Then they paid more to have Cushing's face put onto him.

Cushing did have agency, and exercised that agency before his death. His rights have been respected to the fullest.