I guess I don't think a person's attractiveness has anything to do with their ability to hate another attractive person, or anybody for that matter. I would think he was cast because he's fluent in French and really good at what he does. That he was attractive is secondary to his talent and ancillary to the plot,…

I don't think that's supposed to imply attraction. Its supposed to imply that they are matched in terms of formidability. They are enemies and on equal par.

Apparently the pants were silk and not very thick, so he was bitten through them. According to DG in posting a read today. I accept this. If it went so far as taking off his pants then I find it unbelievable.

Yeah, that's true. But That's the wonderful thing about comments -we can get down in the weeds of all the granular details of every little nuance of things that are ultimately all kind of pointless.

This was quibbling? If you mean it as in arguing a minor point, I certainly wasn't quibbling. I thought we were all agreeing with the OP that Claire's outing with the ladies couldn't have been afternoon tea.

Probably because these are book, not tv, spoilers. We have no idea how or whether any of this will happen in the show. Many things have been changed.

Didn't she say they weren't having sex, not they weren't sleeping in the same bed? When Claire woke that morning I thought she felt the other side of the bed, looking for Jamie.

Good observation. I think this is a coping mechanism for Jamie. He's overcompensating by trying to act normal so that he can feel normal. Fake it till you make it kind of thing. I think Sam's doing a great job of it. It's subtle so he doesn't get praise for it.

Works for me! Now I feel relieved :)

I hadn't even noticed this but now that you've mentioned it I can't unsee it. My assessment of this as a cohesive episode has now been called into question.

I agree with this. I was very disappointed that they chose to go this route last week, and then doubly so when it continued this week. With all the conflict happening between these two, this adds an unnecessary layer that will be hard to resolve. Especially since there's going to be another circumstance where she…

That's because the tv show has distilled all of her knowledge of history into what Frank has told her. They also wrote her to act like a simpering co-ed around him, receiving his lessons and parroting answers like a good, adoring student. These combined leave the impression that everything she knows about history is…

Deleted my last comment. How could I forget the haircut scene! So that why they put in that bad weave . . .

Episode after next is called La Dame Blanche. I think it's coming soon.

even if recognizable to us it wouldn't have been recognizable to anyone in this scene except Claire. No one else in the period depicted knew Bach as a famous composer.

Yes, it was mentioned that Willie had made sawny for Jamie. I think all of this happened in a convo between Jenny and Claire, after Claire found sawny in a jewelry box but I'll have to go back and check the details. The episode was probably The Watch and not Lallybroch.

I read a review that noted Sawny being a metaphor for show out of place Jamie feels. He's lost a piece of himself, just as he (thought) he'd lost Sawny, which had been something he'd help on to for years.

I wondered about this, too. Even the tasting of the urine was potentially dangerous to her unborn child. She says she was limiting herself to only those patients who didn't have anything she could catch or that would endanger her or the child, but her actions didn't seem to be cautious. She was doing pretty much…

I wondered why they added that dialogue with Jamie describing Sawny to Claire, and her acting like she didn't knew what it was. Especially when they had just shown the scene in 'previously on outlander'. If they wanted to include that best they could have had her say yes, I remember Sawny. Rather silly.

That's how I'm feeling. Loved the episode but these two need to prove Suzette wrong. Though I do think how they're handling this ptsd period is accurate, I fear that we will get some rushed resolutions.