You don’t know that, at all. And the fact that she instantly accepted Nia as the new Dreamer indicates she didn’t have any problems, intellectually or emotionally, believing Nia as a woman and Dreamer.

At the time she had the dream, she had no children (though was pregnant) and, presumably, the dream was something along the lines of “your daughter will be a dreamer.” She then had a daughter and assumed it was likely her. She then had a son, and so she didn’t revise that assumption.

Experience. It’s the same argument as why not teach creationism at the same time as evolution.

He’s not really that well fleshed-out in the books. We get, basically, the same story told second hand about a man who we know was a time traveller and a Mohawk but, other than that, have no idea of his motivations - what, in the present day, inspired him to commit to so drastic a course of action? We don’t know and…

I notice they’ve missed the moot, which is fair enough, nothing that significant happens there apart from getting to know a few of the Regulators and we’ve already done a bit of that. They’ve kind of rushed Jamie’s call up, though, a few episodes of meeting his tenants (and eventual militiamen) might have been good.…

Absolutely. Neither were violence for violence’s sake, they were both violence for a reason. Both men were trying to prove their worth, in different ways. I guess Kayla can’t understand this.

Roger has had months to heal from the beating Jamie gave him while believing that Bree told her parents that she wanted to be rid of him (that’s what he at this point suspects).

According to one of the posters above, the Mohawk gauntlet was an actual historical practice they applied to captives, a test of their fortitude that would determine their future standing in the tribe. It’s a show thing, incidentally, it’s not in the books.

Like what? Claire and Jamie went through pretty much all the possibilities last time we were at River Run and they all failed.

I suppose it was a little indiscreet of Grey to do that in the kitchen where he could be overheard and seen by, I don’t know, somebody coming down for a midnight snack. In that sense, it’s a bit unrealistic. A man of his years and experience would surely be more careful.

Point taken about her resorting straight to blackmail without having even tried anything else.

And Ian. And Brianna. Not primarily on Roger at all, though he gets a lot of them, true enough. You could argue that Ian is ultimately the most affected by it (and you could also argue that he could have been gotten to his position another way, but that would mean rewriting the whole of the second part of the book.)

Maybe the plot in the book required it but the plot in the book was incredibly stupid and the show runners should have figured out a better way to get where they need to get. That they didn’t shows a lack of imagination.

The idea that a random group of people would simply ignore the screams of a woman being raped in a public place at ANY point in history is frankly absurd.

They’ve deviated from the books before (Murtagh is still alive and has an entire plotline that literally doesn’t exist in the books, apparently)

In the mid 80s in Europe many feared that if a nuclear war ever broke out, it would be the Americans who started it. Not the Russians.

Mostly because of Gorbachev, who American history has done a massive disservice to by putting as utterly subordinate to Reagan, as if the ending of the Cold War was solely accomplished by him.

Why the hell (pun intended) didn’t Harry orb to avoid being dragged the Tartarus?

“This is the most beautiful land I’ve ever seen.” How can someone from the Scottish Highlands ever say that?

I don’t know that Gabaldon spends so much time on the ex-pat community to justify it being North Carolina.