- Thank goodness Droughtlander is over, at least for 7 more weeks.
- So worth the wait!
- So much of the dialogue in this episode is right out of the book, just what the book fans want! But the VISUALS add so much! And the story played by actors who somehow miraculously BECOME the characters we love (and hate)! Perfect!
- Sam and Catriona did the best ever marital fight scene at the riverbank. She was right in his face, and he was in hers too. Then when he reigned it in and sat down, "You're tearing my guts out Claire", my heart was breaking too, along with Claire's! I really don't think any male actor that I've ever seen could have done that scene anywhere near as perfectly as Sam played it. These actors, and whoever cast these characters, all deserve an Emmy!
- Then there was Claire's punishment for disobeying Jamie! I worried about this scene, knowing what was coming. I think they handled it perfectly! Not too violent, too funny, too serious, or too sappy. Just the right balance. As has been said before, this behavior is NOT acceptable in OUR TIME, but it was exactly what was expected of a husband in THAT TIME, and Jamie would not have been respected by his comrades if he hadn't taken care of his marital responsibility to punish her appropriately. But Diana Gabaldon wrote this in such a way that a modern audience COULD understand and accept it in context. And she did that by having Jamie explain his actions to Claire, and put it all into perspective for her (and us). The whole TV production team did justice to what I expected would be a very difficult scene to show to a modern audience! And I think they did it by staying very close to what Diana Gabaldon wrote.
- The Laoghaire part is quite a bit different though (she didn't try to seduce Jamie by the stream), and I didn't like that they made it seem like Jamie was tempted by her—we all know that he's in love with Claire at this point, even though he's in the doghouse at the moment. But Laoghaire did orchestrate Claire going to Geillis because she thought she was ill with the intention of getting her arrested for witchcraft. They made her a little more evil than in the book. Though the fact that Jamie KNOWS it was Laoghaire who left the ill-wish does throw a kink in things in season 3 (based on Voyager).
- Most of the changes they've made so far to the story in the book I like and understand, but not the ring. I think the book version of the ring is better, but that's just my opinion. I'm not the only one who thinks that's one of the very few things they didn't get right. Still, we can live with it. It being made from Jamie's key to Lallybroch was a step in the right direction (at least it had meaning), even though it's kinda' ugly. The ring difference shows up here. In the book, Jamie buys Claire a beautiful wedding ring right after they return to Leoch, they have a huge fight which he's very surprised by (it's not really a continuation of her being mad about the spanking—she's very upset because she thinks Jamie married her for the rent money he's entitled to as a married man, and she thinks he's still interested in Laoghaire and went to her first thing after getting back), then he explains to her where he really was and gives her the beautiful ring he's bought. He gives her an out if she wants to live apart, she says no, that's not what she wants, then they make up and have pretty dramatic (more so than the TV version) makeup sex (the sword to the chest and fielty oath happened earlier in the book, when they did make up over the spanking).
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