Awesome, thanks!

For book readers: Noticed on a rewatch that they credited an actor as Brian Fraser in the end credits. Assuming he would have popped up in the flogging flashback scene, did anyone catch who this might have been in the scene?

Agreed, although it still feels odd to me to most look forward to shows airing on Friday and Saturday nights. I was pretty displeased about the 8 ep order as well, although it made me feel a little better to find out the production actually needed the extra time to get everything finished and it wasn't just general…

Not sure. Starz schedule has 107 and 108 listed for the next two weeks though. http://www.starz.com/guides…. And as far as cancellation goes, it's been renewed for a second season at least already (yay!)

No there is. And the week after. The show goes on break after episode 8 and comes back "early 2015"

Pretty sure Lord Thomas and his at-risk claret are my two new favorite non-book characters.

Yeah, I've certainly watched (and at some points) liked it quite a bit. And I have some sort of completist compulsion that's seen me through the end of some truly awful television, so I suspect I'll watch the rest of this season. It is pretty much whatever the opposite-of-uplifting is to watch though. Very exhausting.

Ha well I figure redemption for the characters is certainly unlikely. I suppose I meant redeeming in the sense that there is anything about the episode that is going to make it worth watching.

So…I read this review before watching the episode so as to mentally prepare myself should anyone else get set on fire and burned alive this go around. I know the grades don't really matter, but I'm having trouble reconciling it with what I read. What, if anything, are the redeeming parts of this episode?

Yeah...I would certainly throw some things. But given the cliffhanger that I'm kind of expecting Episode 8 to end on I think it would make sense to include the wedding night stuff with the actual wedding.

No worries, I didn't think you were putting them down - its more that these books frequently get described that way and then people feel like they have to defend them against that or something. I just didn't want to sound like I had anything against romance novels :)

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Standard Romance Novel, and I love them, but I wouldn't consider this that. Its a historical fiction adventure story featuring some unexplainable elements like time travel, and in which there is also a love story. Romance novels tend to end after people fall in love. In…

Episode 7 is titled "The Wedding". Infer what you will.

I understood that bit as her hitting him because he's seen her escape bag - in the book she somehow hid stuff under her skirt, so that doesn't come up - and at that point Dougal has already backed off and told her to leave. So to me her hitting him with a stool wasn't so much a change to make it seem like she was in…

The reaction to the Dougal scene last week- which honestly was not all that different than the scene as written in the book- and the whole 'rape of thrones' business earlier this summer has really made me think about the complications that arise out of adapting these sorts of scenes. With GOT Alex Graves really did…

In the author's theory of time travel time continues on in a roughly parallel fashion. If she was gone for twenty years she would return to a point about 20 years after she had disappeared.

Yeah I definitely cringed at Diana's line. But then thought, or maybe just hoped, that people who weren't looking out for her cameo might not have really noticed.

Yeah, I can definitely see that- although we probably differ about where in the story that starts to become an issue *SPOILERS* Even the fourth book has a pretty strong major through line with Brianna's search, Roger following and then the search for Roger that I can see being easy enough to adapt without major…

In the book Dougal is still pretty assault-y. He kisses her after chasing away the other men and generally makes Claire uncomfortable, but he backs off on his own and she doesn't need to smash him with a stool.

I think one of my main frustrations with this episode was that it just felt like a long series of things that happened, but a lot of it wasn't really propulsive enough or tied together. To paraphrase a lovely lesson ( http://popwatch.ew.com/2011… ) it felt like a lot of "and then" and not enough "but/therefore". If…