Full spoilers for Outlander Season 2, Episode 10, “Prestonpans.” This discussion is spoiler-free for the books, but full spoilers for the television episode. Quick answer: Outlander “Prestonpans” works because it gives Claire, Jamie, and the Jacobites the victory they have been chasing, then refuses to let that victory feel clean. The Battle of Prestonpans…
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Full spoilers for Outlander Season 2, Episode 9, “Je Suis Prest.” This discussion is spoiler-free for the books, but full spoilers for the television episode. Quick answer: Outlander “Je Suis Prest” works because Jamie is trying to make men ready for war while Claire already knows war is the thing no one is ever truly…
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Written by: Anne Hawkinson A Great Blue Heron appears on the page of a library book and soars in the sky as Episode Seven, “Faith” opens. It had to be more than just a pretty image to fill a space in time, so I searched for characteristics of both the soaring bird and Claire’s earth-bound…
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Written by: Anne Hawkinson It’s more than just a staircase, more than a mechanism to get from one level to another. The staircase in Jared’s Parisian apartment is a curvaceous, sensuous journey from one floor to the next. The balusters are swirling filigree topped by a grooved, serpentine handrail. Between flights, an oval paned window…
Read MoreWritten by: Anne Hawkinson Jamie and Claire have found their way back to each other! Break out the port, whisky, or your beverage of choice for a celebratory drink! But wait. What? Hold the mental images of sex, tenderness, and re-connection. Jack Randall is back! Instead of two people caressing and canoodling, Claire and Jamie…
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Full spoilers for Outlander Season 2, Episode 8, “The Fox’s Lair.” This discussion is spoiler-free for the books, but full spoilers for the television episode. Quick answer: Outlander “The Fox’s Lair” works because Claire and Jamie finally leave France, but Scotland does not give them peace. After losing Faith, they come home needing family, land,…
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Master Raymond is one of Outlander’s strangest mythology characters: healer, apothecary, time traveler, blue-light figure, and possible ancestor to Claire and Geillis.
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Full spoilers for Outlander Season 2, Episode 7, “Faith.” This discussion is spoiler-free for the books, but full spoilers for the television episode. Quick answer: Outlander Season 2 Episode 7, “Faith,” works because it refuses to treat Claire’s loss as a plot point. Claire does not simply lose a pregnancy. She holds the daughter she…
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Written by: Anne Hawkinson In “Best Laid Schemes,” Murtagh is finally told the secret Claire and Jamie have been keeping from him. But the timing of the reveal really threw me off. Wait . . . what?? Claire has just given Jamie her smallpox potion, which means any second now he should be vomiting and…
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Written by: Anne Hawkinson Source Alex Randall is a really good guy, despite the fact that his brother is the sick, perverted Black Jack Randall who abused and tortured Jamie at Wentworth Prison. Alex also happens to be in love with Mary Hawkins, which sets all manner of alarm bells ringing for Claire. Alex and…
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