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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I'm totally stealing someone else's idea...  I've been a huge DG fan from the beginning, and I've had a hard time responding to the current "watching Outlander" thread without posting spoilers.

Mostly I'm dying to discuss how the series is progressing versus what happens in the books.    I'll start small, just in case people who can't contain their curiosity click on this without knowing what a "spoiler" is.

1.)  What's up with Geillis Duncan??  Some of the previews I've seen make it seem like Claire is getting back to the standing stones in the next episode.  Are they cutting out that part of the story line do you think?[/quote]

I don't know for sure (I've been avoiding spoiler discussions on line) but since you asked my opinion :-) : I don't think Claire is getting back to the stones in the next episode. What I think is happening in the next episode, based on the previews (and on having read the book): the Scots continue on their camping trip and are attacked by a rival clan--I think that's the sword fighting we see in the previews. Claire and Jamie have more bonding time and more sex, also suggested in the previews. Also, in the previews there is a quick shot of an arrow landing near Jamie and Claire who are sitting together on a hill. That's got to be when Jamie's friend, the beggar who had his tongue cut out, meets up with them in the woods. I think it is after this in the book when Claire learns about Jamie trying to prove his innocence by finding the witness named Horrocks (or whatever). Then Jamie and the band of merry Scots leave Claire alone in the woods, after Jamie threatens to beat her if she doesn't stay put. Jamie and Scots ride off, Claire takes off, gets caught by Brits and taken back to Jack Randall, who attempts to rape her. I think that is what is being shown in the previews when there is a knife cutting her laces. I suspect the episode is going to leave us there, perhaps with Jamie peering in the window. It would be a great cliff-hanger. At any rate, that's how I would do it if I were writing this show. And also, I would definitely keep the scene where Rupert teaches Claire how to use the dirk.

I can't see how they can cut the Geillis story out, because the witch trial is so important. It is when Claire realizes that Geillis must also be from the future, and it is the reason why Claire tells Jamie the truth about where she comes from--after the trial, Jamie asks her straight out, "Are you a witch?" It's after that that he takes her back to the stones. I suspect this isn't coming until the spring.

[quote]2.)  I don't remember Dougal being THAT in to Claire.  Am I mis-remembering?[/quote]

Well, I don't think the book is so suggestive of this at this point. But much later on in the book, after Jamie has been taken from Lallybroch and Claire is searching for him, she meets Dougal who tells her that Jamie is in prison and is going to be hanged. Dougal's plan is to take Claire as his own wife. So I think Dougal's most recent bad behavior in in service to this plot-line.

[quote]3.)  For some reason I had the impression that Jamie's mother's pearls were more of a choker, not a long strand of beads.  Again, am I mis-remembering?[/quote]

I also had the impression that it was more of a choker. Also, he gave them to her before their wedding.

[quote]4.) I also don't remember ANY part of the story being from Frank's perspective (aside from letters).  If that's actually going to happen, I'm actually happy about it.  Anyone else?
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You are right, although we get more of Frank's side of the story in the third book (although still told by Claire). I really think this is something that's not well fleshed out in the book and is improved upon in the show. Claire keeps trying to get back to Frank, even after her mind-blowing love connection with Jamie. The book doesn't do a great job of explaining why this is, IMO. Jamie is so attractive and sympathetic that the reader wants her to stay with Jamie and forget about going back. I think the show is doing a better job of making Frank someone whom Claire WANTS to return to, if only because she doesn't want him to suffer. I have read in some fan discussions people complain that the show is making Frank too sympathetic, but I think that is exactly what needs to happen. This should be a wrenching choice for Claire, else why is she risking so much to get back to him?[/quote]

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