Outlander Season 3 Episode 1, “The Battle Joined,” may be nearly the perfect episode of Outlander. Mary and Blake break down Culloden, Jamie and Black Jack Randall’s silent final fight, Rupert’s goodbye, and Claire’s impossible restart with Frank.
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When is a sign more than a sign? When it’s A. Malcolm’s print shop sign in Outlander Season 3. What do the signs and symbols mean?
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Yes, Caitriona Balfe is one amazing actress. But she is so much more than that. Here’s a look at the impact she is having beyond the screen.
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I’ve decided that my Outlander obsessive tendencies might actually be scientific. Just hear me out. Studying scenes from the STARZ TV show has improved my critical thinking skills. Yes, really, it’s possible. Just ask author Amy Herman who wrote Visual Intelligence to help people do just that. It’s science. Seriously, science. Somewhere in my obsessive re-watching that began in 2016, I realized…
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Full spoilers for Outlander Seasons 1-3, including Wentworth, Faith, Culloden, and Black Jack Randall’s death. Content note: This episode discusses Black Jack Randall’s violence, sexual assault, abuse, and the trauma he causes Jamie and Claire. We discuss those events through the lens of story, character, and adaptation, not to excuse or romanticize them. In this…
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Take a walk with us through the history of Blackness Castle, aka Fort William, in this installment of Outlandish Locations.
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Diana Gabaldon makes reference to “trust” more than 60 times in the first two books of the Outlander series alone. (Trust me, I used Kindle Search to count.) It appears in all manner of references, like this simple-yet-powerful declaration Jamie makes to Claire in Outlander:“I decided to trust you instead.” Considering that trust is defined…
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Without revealing one smidgen of partisan detail, I will simply say that these past few months in the U.S. have been supremely distracting. After getting sucked into the quicksand of current events, I needed a break and I needed it bad. I needed the kind of distraction that could literally…
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Claire Fraser is the central heroine of Outlander: a World War II combat nurse, later a doctor, time traveler, wife to Jamie Fraser, mother to Brianna, healer, survivor, and the woman whose choices pull the entire story across centuries. Played by Caitríona Balfe in the Starz series, Claire begins the story as Claire Beauchamp Randall,…
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Full spoilers for Outlander Seasons 1-3, including Wentworth, Faith, Culloden, and Black Jack Randall’s death. Content note: This article discusses Black Jack Randall’s violence, abuse, sexual assault, and the lasting trauma he causes Jamie and Claire. We discuss those events through the lens of story, character, and adaptation, not to excuse or romanticize them. Black…
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