Outlander...Droughtlander coming to an end!

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't realize tonight was the finale! Argh, practically nothing happened this season.

This.

[Anonymous]

Did anyone else read that Sam Heughan is having some sort of breakdown in Hawaii? He’s sheltering there, and there was a twitter rant followed by support from Caitriona Balfe.

There’s a Daily Mail article from late April and the proof is on both their twitter feeds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTF was the point of the season finale?

I enjoyed hearing that song (hadn’t heard it in years, and I’ve always loved it) and seeing everyone in that cool house—especially Jamie with his younger wig. But the rest of the episode was pointless. What exactly did it accomplish? Setting the stage for what exactly?

It’s a major event in their life. It serves to highlight that Claire’s love for Jamie is so deep that she chooses to live in that godforsaken time and place even though she doesn’t have to. It also shows that Claire (and how she functions as a “strange” healer and not subservient to men) is an oddity in that time, which in itself is dangerous. The dream/fantasy scenes show the relative tranquility of the time that she came from, where a typical concern would be a leak in the ceiling rather than the ever present threat of death. But if you noticed, Jaime was the only one not wearing 60s era clothes. That is because, even if he could travel back with her, Claire knows that he belongs in the 18th century and that he would be just as out of place there that she is on the ridge in 17whatever.

As far as setting the stage, they will encounter the Indian from the future again, and that will trigger a major sequence of events.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else read that Sam Heughan is having some sort of breakdown in Hawaii? He’s sheltering there, and there was a twitter rant followed by support from Caitriona Balfe.

There’s a Daily Mail article from late April and the proof is on both their twitter feeds.

I saw that he was begging people to stop bullying him. It was really sad.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else read that Sam Heughan is having some sort of breakdown in Hawaii? He’s sheltering there, and there was a twitter rant followed by support from Caitriona Balfe.

There’s a Daily Mail article from late April and the proof is on both their twitter feeds.

I saw that he was begging people to stop bullying him. It was really sad.

I don’t think celebrities should read online garbage or engage in social media.

Jen Aniston only got on Instagram this year. That likely preserved her mental health.

[Anonymous]

Could someone remind me about the Otter Tooth storyline? Totally forgetting. (No spoilers from the books please.)

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Anonymous wrote:WTF was the point of the season finale?

I enjoyed hearing that song (hadn’t heard it in years, and I’ve always loved it) and seeing everyone in that cool house—especially Jamie with his younger wig. But the rest of the episode was pointless. What exactly did it accomplish? Setting the stage for what exactly?

It’s a major event in their life. It serves to highlight that Claire’s love for Jamie is so deep that she chooses to live in that godforsaken time and place even though she doesn’t have to. It also shows that Claire (and how she functions as a “strange” healer and not subservient to men) is an oddity in that time, which in itself is dangerous. The dream/fantasy scenes show the relative tranquility of the time that she came from, where a typical concern would be a leak in the ceiling rather than the ever present threat of death. But if you noticed, Jaime was the only one not wearing 60s era clothes. That is because, even if he could travel back with her, Claire knows that he belongs in the 18th century and that he would be just as out of place there that she is on the ridge in 17whatever.

As far as setting the stage, they will encounter the Indian from the future again, and that will trigger a major sequence of events.

Spot on! The books are LONG (~1,000 pages), and it’s hard to chunk it and capture all of the incredible details into single episodes. I thought the finale was well done, but I’ve read the books and can fill in details. We’ll have plenty of time before season 6 airs, so go read book 6 - A Breath of Snow and Ashes

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I've read the books and I agree they had to have this storyline because it's a big event in the books and has effect on later stories.

I think there is far too much rape as plot but that's what's in the books. If they changed it, they'd be diverting far from the books.

I do think the later books lose something and I'll be curious to see how the show deals with it. IMO, the later books set in America just go on and on and are full of subplots and minor characters that I do not care about at all. I care about Jamie and Claire and their family, maybe also Lord John. Very little about the other people on the ridge and DG just keeps adding more characters. I think the books could have been cut in half and been better, but since outlander got so popular, no editor was going to give DG a good edit.

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Anonymous wrote:Could someone remind me about the Otter Tooth storyline? Totally forgetting. (No spoilers from the books please.)

The young Indian guy from this week’s episode traveled back from roughly Claire’s “modern” time with a group of Indian activists that got separated (they went back specifically to attempt to prevent Indian genocide). The man named Otter Tooth went back farther in time, ended up pestering the Mohawk and was killed, but came to Claire in a vision at the location that his skull was resting. She found his skull and the big pendant (that eventually proved that Jemmy could travel) and discovered that the skull had modern filling in the teeth, indicating that he was a 20th century man. Ian brought Otter Tooth’s diary back with him when he returned to the ridge.

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Really annoyed by ending - so Roger and Brianna just decide that there is no place like home? I do not believe women coming of age in the 1960s would be like let me go back in time be raped and watch my mother be raped and have children without modern drugs and give up on becoming an engineer and having my children live in a safer world. Not buying it.

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Anonymous wrote:Really annoyed by ending - so Roger and Brianna just decide that there is no place like home? I do not believe women coming of age in the 1960s would be like let me go back in time be raped and watch my mother be raped and have children without modern drugs and give up on becoming an engineer and having my children live in a safer world. Not buying it.

Aside from their kid, their only family is in the 18th century. They tried to do the logical thing and go back to the future but “the heart wants what it wants,” and they apparently both now want to stay with their family. Brianna was clearly torn about returning to begin with; the Roger change of heart was a surprise.

[Anonymous]

2 more sleeps until season 6! The season 6 premiere is Sunday, March 6th at 9 p.m. It's an 80 minute episode.

[Anonymous]

I. Can’t. Wait!!!

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Season 1 was good but then I just hated claire. She needs to get over herself.

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Anyone watch the new season opener yet?

I thought the new version of the theme was awful.

Jamie’s flashback scenes we’re too long and very boring. Why was he acting so weird? Very uncharacteristic of how he typically acts.

I hope they don’t wreck Fergus.

Cinematography was too bright and all the sets look fake.

Overall, pretty boring.