People always made me feel like a total jerk for thinking it- but the one that always felt iffy to me was Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. He just made the kids rooms so damn ugly and everything looked like it was seconds away from crumbling and the sob stories were always a bit too much

If I've learned anything over the years its never trust your home (I don't own a home btw) with a TV crew. I feel like all of these remodeling shows have these kind of lawsuits against them.

Amen.

It's hard to understand weather or not this god anointing stuff still had the weight by the 1740's. The English had had their civil war, killed their king and put a different one on the throne (The reason Charlie isn't on that throne) and the Sun King was long dead and neither Louis XV and XVI had any of the same…

There were a lot of scenes I really loved in this episode (Louise getting shaved, Jamie and Claire in bed, Master Raymond) but I feel like at times they're trying to unload a lot of political intrigue too quickly. I wish this season had a larger episode order.

But Claire knows at least enough about the Jacobite cause to know it's not a nationalist war of opression, right? I think that's why she's not understanding why people are gung ho about who's butt sits on the throne- she comes from a world that is pretty much done with real monarchy and largely sees them as a…

Although isn't Frank doing this to himself a bit? She wasn't begging him to stay, the opositte. It's not like she was, oh so I loved this other dude and now he's dead and I'm with his chils, let's pick up where we left off, cool? He's making his own disastrous marriage, imo, out of a desperate want to not only have…

If there's one element they change it should be gellis in Paris. A missed chance, IMHO, especially when she says she was there in Voyager

I read them after I finished the main books. They're okay but Scottish prisoner is the best since half of its Jamie's story. But I just don't like murder mysteries, but that's me

Mine is the sigh I get in the later books when there's some kind of murder mystery that needs to be solved. Because all end with that annoying thing that when the killer is confronted they immediately confess. Does anyone read these books for murder mysteries?

I wish the show would bring up pointedly how old Claire was when she married Frank. And yeah, Frank is still taking on the paternalistic role that a lot of older male/younger woman relationships can take on especially in the post war world (watch ANY movie about this time where this dynamic is at play or read Rebecca,…

It was the line, "but you're still wearing our ring." Like, okay you had an affair but you never took our ring off and still was married to me the whole time. You had your affair but its done and we can come back together

I took a women's history class recently and we had a lively lecture/discussion about how and when the world of medicine- particularly birthing babies- was taken away from women and made a "man's job" requiring years of education

Or that he's not taking seriously her relationship with Jamie- namely that she can't understand why he's not more angry with her. She may not have left purposefully but she stayed on her own will with another man she was deeply in love with. I think she thought he was looking at it as a fling or flight of fancy and…

I've often thought that scene of Claire and Jamie arguing about her working in the hospital was a great contrast to the same argument she would have had in the 20th.
"You're my wife isn't that enough?"
"Are you content just being my husband?"

I just meant his reaction to the idea of raising another man's child. There's a long history of men in the western world being opposed to raising other men's children (a lot of writings from the 18th century really harp on the harsh laws against women because of this fear of them passing another man's child off onto…

There's a LOT more story without giving spoilers and a lot of stuff does get talked about later and is involved with fights she has with both Jamie and Frank.

I agree except about adoption. Adopting had a lot of social stigma to it in the olden times. In the first book Claire brings it up to Frank when she's convinced its her who's unable. He kind of scoffs it off not being able to bring someone else's child into the marriage. It's a good line that gets paid off in this…

I think the first 3 are a solid trilogy. I like parts of the rest of the series but I think the heart of the series has always been those three books. As much as I love Colonial American history and hanging out with these characters I never warmed to a lot of the newer characters and I feel like she's just pushing off…

I think it's what makes the 2nd book the best of the series.