Full spoilers for Outlander Season 2, Episode 13, “Dragonfly In Amber.” This discussion is spoiler-free for the books, but full spoilers for the television episode. I’m just going to say it plainly: “Dragonfly In Amber” is simply a breathtaking episode of television. That is the review. That is the thesis. That is the whole thing….
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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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Claire can travel through the stones because she appears to have an inherited time-travel gift tied to bloodlines, gemstones, Samhain, Master Raymond, and blue-light mythology.
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Outlander Season 1 Episode 11, “The Devil’s Mark,” is the episode where Jamie loves Claire enough to let her go — and Claire finally chooses the life that can hurt her most. That is why this episode works so hard. Yes, “The Devil’s Mark” has the witch trial. Yes, it has Ned Gowan going full…
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Outlander Season 1 Episode 10, “By The Pricking Of My Thumbs,” is the episode where Claire trusts the wrong witch — and finally learns that superstition can become a death sentence. That is the trap sitting underneath the whole hour. Claire thinks she understands what is happening around her because she is modern, educated, medically…
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Outlander Season 1 Episode 4, “The Gathering,” is the episode where Claire Randall finds out she is not the main character of everyone else’s life. Claire wants out. She wants back to Craigh na Dun, back to Frank, back to the life she understands. And honestly, who can blame her? She has been kidnapped by…
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Outlander Season 1 Episode 3, “The Way Out,” is the episode where Claire Randall learns that being right can still get you burned. Claire wants out of Castle Leoch. She wants back to the stones. She wants back to Frank. She wants to believe that if she is useful enough, careful enough, and smart enough,…
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Outlander Season 1 Episode 2, “Castle Leoch,” is the episode where Claire Randall learns that being smart is not the same thing as being safe. After falling through the stones, surviving Black Jack Randall, and getting dragged into the MacKenzie world, Claire arrives at Castle Leoch thinking she may have found a temporary stop on…
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Outlander Director Mike Barker Interview: The Devil’s Mark, Lallybroch And Claire’s Impossible Truth
Outlander director Mike Barker joins Mary & Blake to explain how the show made Claire’s impossible truth feel real. That is the center of this interview. Yes, Barker directed two hugely important Outlander Season 1 episodes: “The Devil’s Mark” and “Lallybroch.” Yes, those episodes include the witch trial, Geillis Duncan’s reveal, Claire telling Jamie she…
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