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Post by matthewsee on Jun 8, 2016 18:42:08 GMT -5
Je Suis Prest: Season 2, Episode 9. Whilst Jamie is training militia men for the upcoming Battle of Culloden, Claire is remembering her life in the 20th century and quite powerful a lot of these memories including when she was on a battlefield. Shocking when Jamie threatened his own wife Claire to get information out of a English spy!
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 15, 2016 8:39:08 GMT -5
Prestonpans: Season 2, Episode 10. Impressive depiction of the Jacobite rebellion at Prestonpans. Thrilling and bloody at the same time. However don't care much for the song for the dead.
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 22, 2016 5:25:35 GMT -5
Vengeance Is Mine: Antepenultimate episode of season 2. Claire gets another encounter with the Duke of Sandringham when he surprisingly when along with her cover story. It would turned out to be her last encounter as Sandringham shockingly came to his demise when he gets killed by Murtagh in a gruesome manner. Somewhat saddening that a long standing adversary came to his end as I would not have minded to see more of him in future episodes.
Meanwhile Outlander has been renewed for a third and fourth season
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 2, 2016 5:57:30 GMT -5
The Hail Mary: Penultimate episode of season 2. Quite tense dilemmas between two sets of brothers and the decisions that has made in the respective situations. We finally learn the date Black Jack's death but the question will he truly meet his fate on that date since there are efforts to stop the Battle of Culloden.
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 18, 2016 23:21:49 GMT -5
Dragonfly in Amber: Season 2 finale. Most of this episode took place in 1968 and I was surprised that 1968 began with kids at the reverend's wake watching The Avengers season 4 opener A Town Of No Return in which Steed meets Emma Peel for the first time. I soon thought why weren't they watching a Doctor Who episode featuring Jamie McCrimmon instead since Jamie McCrimmon was the inspiration behind Outlander including Jamie Fraser. This plus the fact that like Doctor Who, Outlander involves time travel. As this episode took place in 1968 the Doctor Who episode featuring Jamie that could have been played for this setting could have come from surviving episodes of Enemy of the World, The Web of Fear & The Wheel of Space. With Dragonfly In Amber we do go back to the 18th century at the Battle of Culloden but it is enthralling seeing the 1968 scenes with the much older Claire. We get to see Claire and Jamie's daughter Brianna as a redhead young woman and she is played by Sophie Skelton. Incidentally fellow redhead Karen Gillan was a popular choice online to play this character. We also get to see Jillian Edgars in 1968 just before she goes back in time. Jillian meets Brianna and Roger but misses out on meeting Claire even though she will later meet her in the 18th century. Heartwarming when it was discovered that Jamie had survived Culloden and the season and episode ends with an indication that Claire will soon go back to the 18th century to be with him.
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 3, 2017 23:39:04 GMT -5
Outlander season 3 make its world debut in the US on September 10 2017.
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 12, 2017 4:54:46 GMT -5
The Battle Joined: Season 3 opener. Pretty good beginning to the third season. Intriguing as we see how Jamie survived the Battle of Culloden when it seems certain that death was going to take him. We also see Claire adjusting to the life in the States in 1948. There was certainly quite a political discussion involving Claire, Frank along with Dean Jackson and as it takes place in 1948 and they were discussing the upcoming presidential election that year and Dean Jackson is convinced Democratic incumbent Harry S Truman was going to lose to Republican challenger New York Governor Tom Dewey. It is not shown here but Truman defied predictions and won that election over Dewey not to mention the infamous Dewey Defeats Truman headline. Dean Jackson was played by Colin Stinton and he himself had played the US President or President-elect (due to Russell T Davies not understanding the distinction between President and President-elect) in Arthur Coleman Winters in Doctor Who: The Sound of Drums. The Battle Joined ends with Claire giving birth to Brianna and couldn’t help but be a little amused when the nurse asked why Brianna has red hair.
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 18, 2017 22:44:55 GMT -5
Surrender:
Season 3, Episode 2.
The Redcoats are after Jamie and horrifying when one of them chop off the boy’s hands.
Meanwhile in 1949 marital relations between Claire and Frank isn’t getting any better with the two of them ending up sleeping in separate beds.
Quite a momentous when Claire attended her first class made up of mostly white men.
That was quite a bold plan in which Jamie deliberately get himself captured by the Redcoats.
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 25, 2017 5:52:22 GMT -5
All Debts Paid: Season 3, Episode 3. This episode with Jamie being backed in prison and the debts refer here are ones that have kept Jamie alive so far. Intriguing episode with Jamie getting a little trip outside of the prison, a certain flashback and Jamie’s conversation with the new prison governor. Meanwhile we are seeing the end of Claire and Frank’s marriage which became accelerated when Claire met Frank’s girlfriend. The marriage does end but sadly not in the way anybody had expected but in a way that was originally intended.
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 2, 2017 8:26:50 GMT -5
Of Lost Things: Season 3, Episode 4. Jamie has an affair with a lady who is about to get married to an older noble which eventually result in the birth of a son and the lady in question dies from giving birth to this child. An emotional episode which sees Jamie spends time with son before deciding to make use of the freedom he was given and go home to Scotland but leaving the son behind. Meanwhile Claire and Brianna does all they could to find Jamie but ultimately done all they could in this effort falling short of what they had wanted to find and that was very sad.
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 10, 2017 2:45:40 GMT -5
Freedom & Whisky: Season 3, Episode 5. Quite a surprise that Roger comes to Boston to see Claire and Brianna as he gave Claire a way to get back to Jamie. Very emotional as Claire gets prepare to be reunited with Jamie. Fun that the 1960s Batman theme gets played here after the said series got mentioned by Roger as Claire kinds of make her own Batsuit. What a reunion between Claire and Jamie at the end but Jamie collapses upon seeing her.
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 24, 2017 6:36:04 GMT -5
A. Malcolm: Season 3, Episode 6. Claire is finally reunited with Jamie. After attending to some business, we see a substantial amount of time of Claire and Jamie doing what couples normally do. Did not expect that such time would be devoted to this moment. Shocking when Claire stumbles upon an intruder in her and Jamie’s room and ends with a cliffhanger with Claire in danger with the intruder.
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 30, 2017 23:17:10 GMT -5
Creme de Menthe: Season 3, Episode 7. The episode title means a peppermint-flavoured liqueur. Thankfully Claire survives an attacker from her attacker who gets seriously injured. Claire as a doctor then treats but was ultimately unsuccessful in keeping him alive. Commendable of Claire in trying to save this man’s life given what he had just done to her. Really was not a good idea when Jamie lied to Ian about young Ian. Thrilling the fire at the shop but luckily young Ian survived.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 8, 2017 2:00:55 GMT -5
First Wife:
Season 3, Episode 8.
The episode title refers to Claire as she finds out that Jamie got another wife in the long years that she has been absent and that second wife is Laoghaire.
If that wasn’t enough Laoghaire in order to claim what is rightfully hers gets a gun with the intention to use it on Claire but ended up accidentally shooting Jamie instead who thankfully was only injured from this shot.
Shocking cliffhanger with young Ian in place of the injured Jamie swimming to the island only for him to be forcibly taken aboard a ship.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 14, 2017 4:23:15 GMT -5
The Doldrums: Season 3, Episode 9. For almost all of this episode Claire and Jamie are at sea. When the Chinese person Mr Willoughby told his story to the ship’s crew it felt similar in the Doctor Who story when another Chinese person Ping-Cho told a story to her audience. Interesting episode of Claire and Jamie on a ship as they overcome superstition of a ship having a woman (Claire) and a redhead (Jamie) on board. Quite a climax when Claire boards a passing ship to treat the crew who has typhoid only for it to take off with her still on it.
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