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Today I am breaking down 11 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:44,400 Outlander Season 8 Episode 1 titled Soul of a Rebel and I 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,600 wanted to do a long form podcast just because I have lots of 13 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,440 commentary on the episode. It's easier for me to really 14 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:56,240 fully flesh out my thoughts in a podcast form so hopefully you 15 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,160 guys enjoy. As always, if you are looking to 16 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:03,000 avoid spoilers from the books or the TV show, please be warned 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,280 that we will be discussing both in depth. 18 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:10,160 The title of this episode is the name of Frank Randall's book 19 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:14,400 that Bree brings back from the future in order to show Jamie. 20 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:20,800 And we open this episode with Claire and Jamie trying to sell 21 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:25,000 whiskey to a buyer in a boathouse in Savannah and Jamie 22 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,840 is under the alias Mr. Roy. He is speaking to a man named 23 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:34,240 Vasquez and reveals that he got his name from Mrs. Abbott in 24 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:38,720 Philadelphia and Mrs. Abbott is the woman who runs the brothel 25 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:43,760 that Jane and Fannie are from. The Captain, the Pirate had come 26 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:48,000 back to Philly with two girls whom he found at sea. 27 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:52,120 And we get the reveal from him that while on board the ship 28 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:56,160 that was under the command of a Captain Pocock, he discovered 29 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,680 that he had brought his wife and two daughters with him and he 30 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,240 owed a debt. So he ended up killing the 31 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:07,720 captain and taking Jane and Fanny because he knew they would 32 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,080 be worth a lot to the brothel owner. 33 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,960 And he described the captain's wife as a rabid dog. 34 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:18,920 And as soon as he went to take Jane and Fanny, she went 35 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,520 ballistic. And so he threw her overboard. 36 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,560 The whole time this is happening we can see that Claire is trying 37 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:30,960 to keep her composure and is struggling, and Jamie had asked 38 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,080 her earlier on in the scene to be quiet. 39 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,960 So we know that there's something going on here, and if 40 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,320 you didn't read the book you might be a little confused as to 41 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,240 what's happening. But in the book the story is 42 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,200 similar. Jane and Fanny's parents were on 43 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,640 a ship heading to America with their two daughters and their 44 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:53,800 dog, and when they finally arrived in America, Jane and 45 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,240 Fanny's parents were dead. Even though it's never confirmed 46 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:01,440 exactly how, but one theory that comes up in the book is that a 47 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,480 pirate had killed their parents, just like the show is choosing 48 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,160 to take that route and the captain of the ship sold the 49 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,040 girls to the brothel to pay his debt. 50 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:14,000 In the book, Ian actually goes to the brothel to try and find 51 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,880 more information about Jane and Fanny, so a lot of the 52 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,520 information that he gets in the book is second hand information 53 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:24,040 from the women in the brothel. So none of it's ever actually 54 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:27,720 verified. And Ian is also told that when 55 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,160 Jane and Fannie were sold to the brothel, Jane was supposed to 56 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,440 still have had her Maidenhead, but then it was later discovered 57 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,920 that that was untrue. So the show decided to make it 58 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,520 Canon that the pirate had taken it. 59 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,440 But again, in the book that's not confirmed and clearly they 60 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,040 are trying to truncate storylines. 61 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,160 And having Ian go to the brothel and do all of that legwork and 62 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,280 make him travel there would just take way too much time. 63 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,120 And we have him back at the Ridge. 64 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,360 And so they instead have this scene play out on screen as 65 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,000 we're listening to the horrible things that this captain is 66 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,200 saying. Claire then decides to take 67 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:09,560 matters into her own hands and she stabs him to death, which I 68 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:15,320 was so deeply confused by because Claire for eight seasons 69 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:19,240 now has sworn oath to never cross that line. 70 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:24,960 And it felt so out of character for her and the opposite of what 71 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,040 I would expect from this scene, especially so early on in the 72 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:29,720 season. It just made me think that she 73 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,400 was so unstable. And then to have the rest of the 74 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,840 episode carry on like she would not be carrying that weight of 75 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:40,320 having done that for the remainder of the episode. 76 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,720 It just felt so out of character because we've seen Claire go 77 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,400 through some horrific big things herself and she still wasn't 78 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,960 able to cross that line, but then she crosses it immediately 79 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,800 here. It just felt like a not very 80 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:58,040 well written scene in terms of us as viewers understanding her 81 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,200 motivations. Also for her and Jamie to 82 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:05,880 operate so strongly under the assumption that Faith lived is 83 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:10,320 so strange because they still can't even verify that Faith 84 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,160 lived, so for her to kill a man anyways is odd. 85 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:18,480 This never happens in the books. And for the show to insinuate 86 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,600 that Faith lived in this time, then was thrown overboard on a 87 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,720 ship for protecting her daughters and then having her 88 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,360 daughters be sold into a brothel. 89 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,360 And then hearing that this is what happens to her daughters. 90 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:37,680 Only for Claire and Jamie to magically cross paths with them 91 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,920 in this twist of fate and then learn that about their daughter. 92 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:47,000 It just seems incredibly unnecessary and cruel for what I 93 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,440 feel is very little pay off. It also just feels like such a 94 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,600 reach for me and I have never loved the storyline. 95 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:58,000 It does feel like a cheap one and it's not Canon to the books. 96 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,560 This will never ever happen in the book. 97 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,440 So it does feel like an unnecessary departure that the 98 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,400 show included and I just am never going to get behind it. 99 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,520 I don't think. Even if they change it or have 100 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,640 more twists and turns, I just don't think I'm going to enjoy 101 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,560 it. It feels like time wasted on a 102 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,120 storyline that does not matter in the long game. 103 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:19,840 Then we get a conversation between Jamie and Claire where 104 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:23,000 he has this beautiful line of I'm the true true home of your 105 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,120 heart. And they discuss how despite 106 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,600 Claire losing her own parents so young, she and Jamie found one 107 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,360 another and found love in each other. 108 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,000 And so they can take comfort knowing that Faith would have 109 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,320 been loved as well, despite not knowing that Claire and Jamie 110 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,880 lived and would have done anything to have raised her. 111 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:45,240 And again, this is meant to be a very tender moment between them, 112 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:50,040 but I can't invest in it because they still can't verify that 113 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,120 what they're upset over is even the truth. 114 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,720 So it just feels cheap to me, for lack of a better word. 115 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:59,960 Then we get the title card of the episode where we see hands 116 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,360 typing on a typewriter, which are meant to be Franks, who is 117 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,240 writing the book. And they do something new here, 118 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:09,000 which is that they put the credits into the title card clip 119 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:13,160 on the piece of paper and then also on a book. 120 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:17,200 So that's kind of a new device that's been introduced here. 121 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,960 We get a date, a time stamp and a location. 122 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:23,320 Savannah, 1779. We don't know what month and 123 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:27,040 Jamie has already been awake. He says he hasn't slept because 124 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,760 he was thinking about faith. They wish that they could give 125 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:35,480 themselves more answers through Fanny, but they both don't want 126 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:40,160 to push her on it. And in the book, Fanny does have 127 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:42,480 very little memories about her parents. 128 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,280 And so Claire kind of pieces things together about them 129 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,040 through Fanny and what she can recall. 130 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:51,840 But it's again, very fragmented and she went through a lot of 131 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:53,520 trauma. So a lot of it is stuff that 132 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:57,760 Claire doesn't want to dig too deeply into so not to incite 133 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,600 more trauma on her. But again, it's so strange to me 134 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,160 that they're both so dead set on Fanny being their granddaughter 135 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,760 and I just don't understand how we got here. 136 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,680 It doesn't feel like these very rational characters would allow 137 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,280 themselves to buy into something like this so easily. 138 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,440 The scene breaks when Jamie hears giggling outside his door 139 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,000 and when he opens the door, he finds all his grandkids at the 140 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,320 door with Marsley and Fergus. So now we know that they are 141 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,240 staying with them at their print shop and Savannah. 142 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:34,520 And this is a storyline from the books where Fergus opens up a 143 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,960 printing company where he prints the local newspaper. 144 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:43,799 And he notes to Jamie later on that they had just arrived here 145 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:45,960 before the British took over the city. 146 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,040 And so Fergus is choosing to keep his newspaper neutral so 147 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:51,960 not to draw attention to himself. 148 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:55,040 Since he is French, he actually is even complimentary of the 149 00:08:55,040 --> 00:09:00,000 British in the newspaper and is trying to use the tools and 150 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,560 advice that he had learned from Jamie. 151 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:06,240 When Jamie was working in his own print shop, many of the 152 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,880 British Army that had seized the city were also Highlanders, and 153 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:13,400 so Fergus notes that it that was helpful that his last name is 154 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,720 Fraser and that he's also married to Marsley, who is 155 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,600 Scottish. The scene with Claire and Jamie 156 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:23,640 and the grandkids. When Jamie is in the print shop, 157 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:28,840 he goes looking for a hidden compartment similar to one that 158 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,720 he would have had in his print shop, and he finds seditious 159 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,240 papers that Fergus has hidden in the walls. 160 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,120 And he warns Fergus about them because he has a family and we 161 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,160 have seen just how big his family is. 162 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,480 We got our eyes on all the children. 163 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,400 Fergus, who I absolutely love. I'm thrilled to have him and 164 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,880 Marsley back on screen. They make such a big difference. 165 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,560 In the show. He tells Jamie, I learned how to 166 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:55,200 do this from you. And he basically calls Jamie out 167 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,120 for that. And he has this beautiful line. 168 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,920 My pen is my sword. But Jamie wants Fergus to be 169 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,160 careful, and he promises that he will always. 170 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:08,440 And so I loved that even though this was a short, quick scene, 171 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:12,160 we have now confirmation that Fergus and Marsley are in 172 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,040 Savannah. They've opened a print shop. 173 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,640 They're all doing well. And so I know that this 174 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,680 storyline for the two of them is going to be very heartbreaking. 175 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:22,400 So I'm reveling in the fact that the scene that we do have with 176 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,800 them is so sweet because I really do love Marsley and 177 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,120 Fergus. Yes, the scene with Claire and 178 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,080 Jamie and the grandkids actually steals dialogue from a scene 179 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:36,320 that happens later on in the episode where Mandy and Jem have 180 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:40,720 arrived at the Ridge and are eating cookies before Mandy asks 181 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:45,200 the family to read her a book. And here the line that they 182 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,160 borrow is about counting legs and dividing by 4. 183 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,880 They use it amongst Fergus and Marsley's family instead. 184 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,440 And so when we are back at the table with all of those kids 185 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,680 ready to eat, we see Fanny with them as well. 186 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,800 She's eager to help with all these kids once Once the kids 187 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:07,720 leave, Fergus and everyone at the table start to talk about 188 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,240 Fanny and he starts asking questions about her childhood in 189 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,040 a brothel because he can relate to that. 190 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:18,520 And he points out that she has lost her home and her sister, 191 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,320 and that would be something that's very difficult for her at 192 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,480 her age to wrap her mind around. And she's alone. 193 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:29,760 So they tell Fergus and Marsley that they're going to bring her 194 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,920 with them back to the Ridge and leave Savannah. 195 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:38,320 And so we leave Fergus and Marsley there, and Fanny and 196 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,320 Claire and Jamie start to head back to Fraser's Ridge. 197 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:46,960 Now, again, a lot of this is heightened by the fact that we 198 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,520 as viewers know that Jamie and Claire are so convinced that 199 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:55,240 Fanny is their granddaughter. So there's a lot of that kind of 200 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:57,160 going into the acting choices here. 201 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:01,560 Claire looks at her very affectionately in every scene 202 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:02,880 that they're in. In the book. 203 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:07,320 I think the relationship dynamic between Claire and Fanny is also 204 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,560 very friendly and motherly, but I think the show's playing it in 205 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:13,160 a very different angle than the book. 206 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,160 And Fanny is being played in a very different way than in the 207 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,640 book too. She's someone who's very candid 208 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,480 in the book, she has a tongue tie, so she has a lisp in the 209 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:28,200 book, and she blurts out what comes across as very 210 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,080 inappropriate statements informed by her time in a 211 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:36,080 brothel throughout the story. And Claire has to kindly teach 212 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,880 her that you can't talk like that in front of people. 213 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:44,320 But we don't seem to get that. She seems to be far less mouthy 214 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:48,880 and candid in the show version when they're riding in the 215 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,800 carriage together. Fanny is shocked that Fraser's 216 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,400 Ridge is so vast and so large, and Jamie and Claire make a 217 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,280 point to tell her that this is her home now as well. 218 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:03,960 And we cut then to Lord John and William. 219 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:08,040 And I feel like this is where the show starts to get really 220 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,840 choppy for me because the splices in this make no sense. 221 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:16,320 We are with them in the woods driving to Fraser's Ridge. 222 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,320 We cut to Lord John and William, they have a very short scene, 223 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:22,440 and then we cut back to the Ridge and then cut again to John 224 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,360 and William. I would have liked them to just 225 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,880 finish the scene in Fraser's Ridge, then go to John and 226 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:31,480 William, have that play out in its entirety, and then move on. 227 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:35,160 So I don't really understand the choices made for how they 228 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,080 spliced this. But in our first scene with Lord 229 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,080 John and William, there's a baby. 230 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:44,240 And John is holding this baby. And William has been taken to 231 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:48,680 his house by a British soldier because he had been drunk. 232 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,760 And they're worried that he might have been, you know, 233 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:57,120 coercing with the enemy. And that's when we're introduced 234 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:01,080 to Trevor, who is William's cousin Ben's son. 235 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,920 So it does look like we're going to be getting the Bend 236 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,840 storyline, although again, I assume it's going to be 237 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:08,960 truncated. Then again, we cut back to the 238 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,200 Ridge. Claire is with Fanny. 239 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,160 They're at the location of the house that had burned down. 240 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,760 And Ian comes to see them, and he runs over to them very 241 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:21,640 excitedly and reintroduces himself to Fanny and tells 242 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:23,240 Claire that the baby hasn't come yet. 243 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:28,160 So they all will head together to see what Ian has been doing 244 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:31,640 in their absence before we splice back to John and William 245 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:35,720 and William admits that he is in the city looking for Captain 246 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,800 Richardson, but none of the rebels would speak to him or 247 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,160 give him any information unless he got them drunk. 248 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:46,000 So that's why we see him very intoxicated and hungover in this 249 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,160 scene. But in the book, William shows 250 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:52,400 up to Lord John's home with another character named John 251 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,720 Cinnamon, who I believe they have cut from the show, and he 252 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,800 meets Amaranthus for the first time in John's house, but it's 253 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,520 under very different circumstances and in a very 254 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:04,760 different timeline. He had already been searching 255 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:08,600 for Ben by the time he meets Amaranthus in the book. 256 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,320 At this point in the show, he does not know that Ben had gone 257 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,760 missing and is presumed dead. So in the show, John confirms 258 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:21,600 William's cousin Ben has a wife and a baby, but tells William 259 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:25,320 that Ben is not here and is reported as dead. 260 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:27,480 And William is deeply hurt by this. 261 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:31,440 And John says that then was taken prisoner, held at 262 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,320 Middlebrook encampment in New Jersey, and then succumbed to an 263 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:39,040 outbreak of jail fever. And when William asks For more 264 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:43,680 information, John tries to comfort him despite the fact 265 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,200 that he doesn't have any more information beyond that. 266 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:50,400 And both Henry and How are mentioned by John and he says 267 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,920 that neither of them know about Ben yet because he doesn't know 268 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,360 how to tell his brother that his eldest son has died. 269 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:00,280 In the book, that's when William offers to go and search for Ben 270 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,080 because he does not believe that he could be dead. 271 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:10,320 And in September of 1778, William finds Ben's grave, but 272 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,960 the body buried inside of it is not Ben's. 273 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:18,680 And so he goes searching for Amaranthus in January of 1779 274 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,800 after he gets a tip from Claire. And while looking for her, he 275 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:26,440 doesn't find her, but instead finds Fanny, and Fanny tells 276 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,160 William that Jane has been taken and arrested. 277 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:33,000 And so you can see here that the timeline has been changed quite 278 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,840 a lot in the show because Jane has already died by this point 279 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,360 in the story. Amaranthus and Trevor are 280 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:44,160 revealed to have appeared on John's doorstep, with Amaranthus 281 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:48,880 claiming she was Ben's widow and she had fallen into a difficult 282 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:50,920 circumstance because of Ben's death. 283 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:54,960 And William starts to question things because he believes Ben 284 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,840 would have told him if he had been married, or at the very 285 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,840 least told his brother. And so William thinks someone in 286 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,480 their family would have known if he had actually been married to 287 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:06,880 this woman. In the book, John and his niece 288 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,720 Dottie actually go looking for Amaranthus and Trevor in 289 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:13,040 Savannah. So that's another change from 290 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,760 the book. And John and his brother Hal are 291 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:19,400 the ones who ultimately end up finding her in the show. 292 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,280 She had come to John with love letters with Ben's signet ring. 293 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:27,599 And Trevor bears the name Water Suede, which is a family name. 294 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,120 And William thinks that John's being a fool. 295 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,720 And that's when Amaranthus appears and calls William a 296 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:38,720 drunkard and a fool himself and leaves very abruptly. 297 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,160 And I thought it was kind of interesting that she just 298 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,880 leaves, because I was thinking to myself, did you leave without 299 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,040 your baby? Back on the Ridge, we see the 300 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:50,480 new big house, which in the show is already built. 301 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,680 That's a change from the story. When Claire and Jamie get back 302 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,120 to the Ridge in the book, the big house is not built yet. 303 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:02,200 It had been cleared for land and everything, but it was not built 304 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,240 like it is in the show. It does look close to the 305 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:09,680 description in the books, and Ian shows them what he built 306 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:13,040 with the other men on the Ridge, saying that people of the Ridge 307 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:16,040 all joined together to put the house together by donating 308 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:19,640 furniture and that he had already staked out a garden for 309 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,320 Claire. So all of this is a show change 310 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:26,040 and we get to see Rachel for the first time, who is very visibly 311 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:30,880 pregnant, and Ian, Jamie, Claire and Rachel go into the house 312 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,440 together. We hear Jamie thank Ian and 313 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:38,880 Gallic, and the inside of the house is so much more rustic 314 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,440 than the one previous to this. We can see that it's still 315 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:46,200 incomplete and so I expect over the course of the season that 316 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,040 the house will change quite a bit as they start to put the 317 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,480 finishing touches on it. Claire walks into her new 318 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:56,240 surgery so we can see beds and instruments because everything 319 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:58,800 would have had to be replaced since she lost so much in the 320 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,880 fire. And this is when Hiram Crombie 321 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,600 is mentioned. I'll go into a deeper dive on 322 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:08,640 him later on in the episode. Claire promises that she'll take 323 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:11,840 good care of Rachel and the baby since they're going to be the 324 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,560 first patients. And Jamie brings Fanny upstairs 325 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:19,160 to show her her very own room, which is still framed and the 326 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,880 walls are not completed. And Fanny can't believe that she 327 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:24,840 would be getting an entire room for herself. 328 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,680 And since they're adding the layer of Jamie believing she 329 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:31,200 could be one of his grandkids, that adds to the intensity of 330 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:35,200 this scene in the book. Like I said, Fanny also is 331 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,600 tongue tied with a lisp. And so since they removed that 332 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,880 from the show, we don't get the scene in the book where Claire 333 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,040 performs surgery once they're back on the Ridge. 334 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:47,200 And over the course of the story, they help Fanny to 335 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:51,520 improve her speech. And she's also a character that 336 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:56,320 serves kind of as comedic relief with how abrupt her commentary 337 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,120 is. So I'll be curious if over the 338 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:01,200 course of the season they introduce any of that because it 339 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,840 seems like she's a very different character in the show. 340 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:08,960 That night we see Claire looking out the window and Jamie comes 341 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:13,240 in and it's a very similarly composed shot to season 1 when 342 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:14,760 they are in Lally Brock together. 343 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,640 And it sets the tone for the scene before the dialogue even 344 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,440 starts, because it's a visual callback that show watchers will 345 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,080 immediately recognize. The camera angle's the same, the 346 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,440 distance is the same, the physicality is the same. 347 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:32,120 But in the book, this plays out very differently because Roger 348 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:34,560 and Bri and the kids are already there. 349 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:38,360 They're staying in the very first cabin that was built on 350 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:41,640 Fraser's Ridge because the Big House has not been finished yet. 351 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,680 And the conversation in the book starts off a bit more tense 352 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:49,840 because Claire is concerned about why Bree and Roger have 353 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,040 returned, and she knows that the reason must be bad. 354 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,200 And her and Jamie are both terrified, knowing that they are 355 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:00,240 not safer in this time than they would be in the future. 356 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,200 So for them to come back means that they're running from 357 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,280 something quite terrible. Jamie and Claire then leave the 358 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:10,560 house and continue their conversation outside by a fire, 359 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,320 which is where this dialogue is pulled from. 360 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,200 In the show. Jamie and Claire are in the big 361 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:19,200 house and Jamie tells her that he is convinced he knows that 362 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,240 the night Faith was conceived is when they were at Lally Brock 363 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:27,800 and In the book they're looking at the stars outside laying 364 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:31,280 outside by the fire and he recalls not seeing stars like 365 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,400 this since the night they conceived faith. 366 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:38,120 The show instead does the same camera blocking and angles and 367 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:42,240 choreography to draw the parallel to a different moment 368 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:46,560 from season 1. Instead of the Abbey, he thinks 369 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:51,200 that the night they conceived faith was in the Abbey in France 370 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:54,200 after he is rescued from the prison. 371 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,240 And so the dialogue here is much the same as the book. 372 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:01,280 But in the book, he is recalling that he had been near death in 373 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:05,720 that Abbey after they escaped. And so the weight of his words 374 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,720 is very different here. Because in the show, Jamie is 375 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:14,440 reminding us and Claire that it was the night she first told 376 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:19,080 Jamie she loved him, that he conceived Faith with her. 377 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:23,160 And we get dialogue call backs of what he said to her back 378 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,160 then. So the entire scene is 379 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,640 definitely meant to be a strong visual and narrative call back 380 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,200 moment. And he says he knew he was 381 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,400 giving her a child. We cut back to the people of the 382 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:39,120 Ridge who were all meeting at Crombie's trading post and Jamie 383 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:41,400 and Claire look incredibly happy to be back there. 384 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,480 And we see Amy McCallum, her boys. 385 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:48,320 She confirms that she has now married someone else and her 386 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,920 last name is Lindsay. So she's married Evan Lindsay, 387 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:57,200 and this is the same character we saw Roger with while she was 388 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,800 in mourning. But in the book her name is Amy 389 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:04,000 Higgins and she's married to a man named Bobby Higgins, who I 390 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,920 think the show has completely omitted. 391 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,840 Bobby was originally hired by Lord John Gray to be a servant 392 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:15,880 and he had been sent by John to the Ridge back in 1773. 393 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:20,240 The first time they went, John brings him to have his eye 394 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,760 inspected by Claire. He ended up losing it after a 395 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,200 fight in a Tavern. The next time he comes to the 396 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,200 Ridge, it's to bring letters from John, and he shows interest 397 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:34,200 in both Lizzie and Malva, but both women are not interested in 398 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,280 him and they reject his marriage proposal. 399 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,760 And then he ends up coming back to the Ridge for good in 1776. 400 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,720 And that's when Roger actually introduces him to Amy McCallum 401 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,120 and they get married and they live in the house that Jamie and 402 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:51,720 Claire built first on the Ridge, which is where Bree and Roger 403 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,400 used to live. So by the time we're in 1779, 404 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,840 which is the current timeline, Bobby would have been in the 405 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,800 role that we see Ian and where he had cleared the land for the 406 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,680 big house, helps build it. He'd been serving as a factor on 407 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,040 the Ridge and he had ushered in multiple families while Jamie 408 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,440 and Claire were gone and is very close to Jamie and the Fraser 409 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,240 family. Unfortunately for this character 410 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,760 and the show having introduced her, they can either lean into 411 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,720 this or omit it and just mention her as a character in the book 412 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:26,040 later on after everyone returns to the Ridge. 413 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:31,720 Amy, Brie, Jimmy, Mandy and Amy's sons are out hunting, and 414 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,560 Amy is very tragically killed by a bear. 415 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,760 And Brie manages to get her back to the Ridge, but she ends up 416 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,800 passing away there with her husband and her sons. 417 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:44,640 And it's a really, really sad, tragic scene. 418 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,120 And I think this is going to be a callback to the trailer 419 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:52,480 because we got a shot of Jamie building a coffin and I think a 420 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,000 lot of people assumed it might be for ornery Christian, but it 421 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,320 could be for Amy as well. We see Hiram Crombie appear and 422 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,640 he welcomes them back, shows them inside of his trading post 423 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,360 where he sells fabrics and tools and medical supplies. 424 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,800 He is a character who is largely representative of the Fisher 425 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,920 folk on the Ridge, and in the book he has a brother, Cyrus, 426 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,360 who ends up showing interest in Fanny down the road, so it'll be 427 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:19,760 interesting to see if we get him. 428 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,360 Hiram is also largely intertwined with Captain 429 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:27,480 Cunningham and a side plot that Cunningham gets up to on the 430 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:31,640 Ridge, but ultimately he is a character who is loyal to Jamie. 431 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,080 We do meet Charles Cunningham for the first time in this scene 432 00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:38,120 and he announces himself as Crombie's partner for the 433 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:40,760 trading post. And the actor who plays him, 434 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,200 Kieran Beau, is also in the show House of the Dragon. 435 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,960 You might recognize him from that show if you watch House of 436 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,200 the Dragon. Charles Cunningham has been 437 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,880 living on the Ridge with his mother, and he moved here while 438 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,080 Jamie and Claire were away. And so Jamie accompanies him out 439 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:00,880 of Hiram's trading post to start asking him more questions and 440 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:02,680 get to know this man a little bit more. 441 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,320 And Jamie clarifies to Charles that he is no longer associated 442 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,480 with the Continental Army and therefore or does not maintain 443 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,600 his title. This dialogue mainly felt like 444 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,800 filler to remind the viewer of what happened at the end of 445 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,120 season 7. And then Jamie presses to find 446 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:23,600 out more information about Cunningham's title as captain. 447 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,360 Cunningham says he prefers Captain because he never liked 448 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:29,880 the name Charles, but also admits that he served for the 449 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:34,120 King for 30 years as a British captain who fought against Jamie 450 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:36,720 as both an American and as a Scott. 451 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,400 He tells Jamie he laid down his sword after the Battle of Bemis 452 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,880 Heights and points out that he knows Jamie was at Saratoga and 453 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,120 so Jamie acknowledges that they were very recently enemies and 454 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:51,480 Cunningham says he is most happy to be done with war. 455 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,440 The Battle of Bemis Heights is the one that took place in 456 00:26:55,440 --> 00:27:00,640 October of 1777 where we saw General Simon Fraser, just for 457 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,640 reference. Jamie asks him how he finds 458 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,560 himself at Fraser's Ridge, and Cunningham tells Jamie that he 459 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:11,440 had acquaintances, he came to visit them, and then he walked 460 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,720 until his legs could carry him no further, and that brought him 461 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,800 to Fraser's Ridge in the spot on top of a hill that we see in the 462 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,680 show. On their way back to the house, 463 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,960 Jamie and Claire start talking about Cunningham and how things 464 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,800 have changed so much at the Ridge in their absence, and 465 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,400 Jamie is suspicious about Cunningham, which rightfully so, 466 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,240 but Claire points out that people can wonder the same 467 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:38,000 things about Jamie, as in, is he ever truly done with war and 468 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,080 serving? Many people would argue that 469 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,320 Jamie can say that he is all he wants, but I don't know how many 470 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,240 people can believe that fully, including Jamie himself. 471 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:52,080 We cut back to William and John, and we see John giving William 472 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,240 an egg to help with his hangover, and John says he's set 473 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,920 to dine with General Provost in an hour and asks William to go 474 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:02,240 with him. And that's a character that's 475 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,480 mentioned quite often in the book. 476 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,040 He is a commander of the British company from Florida who joins 477 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:12,800 forces with Colonel Campbell to take Savannah in the book. 478 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,240 And both Hal and John meet with him a handful of times 479 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,600 throughout the story. He had a nickname, Old Bullet 480 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,960 Head, because he had been hit by a bullet and his skull fractured 481 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,560 during the Battle of Quebec. William can largely see through 482 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,400 John's attempts to get William back into the army, and John 483 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,000 tries to remind William that the British Army is not to blame for 484 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,800 Jane's death. But William very deeply feels 485 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:41,600 that it is his fault and both he and John want revenge on Captain 486 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,520 Richardson. But John reminds him that they 487 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,000 can be more calculated with their efforts because William, 488 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,240 like his biological father, can be quite hot headed. 489 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,640 If William is truly done with the army, John thinks he should 490 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,240 perhaps return home to England and take up his role as the 491 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,080 Earl. And William struggles in his own 492 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:05,160 head with this quite a lot. Through the last two books, 493 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,400 books 8:00 and 9:00, he does not feel worthy of his title. 494 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:13,480 Despite those details. He owns the title, and he 495 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,840 doesn't know if he even wants it, especially now that he knows 496 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:21,120 that his parentage is so false. And John has a great quote 497 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,800 that's pulled from the book and reworked slightly that a peerage 498 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,720 is the gift of a grateful monarch. 499 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,120 There are no means sit down in law to renounce it. 500 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,640 A monarch who ceases to be grateful can strip a man of his 501 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,360 title, though the only grounds for that which come to mind are 502 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,720 to engage in rebellion against the crown. 503 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,240 And in the book, how Gray is actually present during this 504 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,480 conversation. And he warns William that if 505 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,680 he's willing to resort to treason and betrayal of his 506 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,840 country, king and family as a way to deal with his issues, 507 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,720 then John had not raised him very well. 508 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,440 In the show we see William sort of smiling sarcastically when 509 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,320 they talk about treason and he feels unsure of who he is. 510 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,800 And John says if it is up to him to decide who he wishes to be, 511 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,680 so be it. But regardless of the name or 512 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:14,120 title, he claims no man with any claim to his parentage would 513 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,200 speak to a lady the way he did Amaranthus. 514 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,680 And so he insists that William make it right with her, which we 515 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,800 do see later on in the episode. Back on the Ridge, we see the 516 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,800 bee's nest that Lizzie brings to Claire, along with her daughter, 517 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,120 who is named Claire. But in the book, John Quincy 518 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,000 Myers is actually the one who brings Claire a swarm of bees, 519 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,240 and he's the one who tells Claire about how to talk to 520 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,680 them, and he blesses them. But they give a lot of those 521 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,920 talking points to Jamie here, actually. 522 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,520 And so they set the hive quite close to the house. 523 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,000 And the books, it feels like they're closer to the woods over 524 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,960 by Claire's garden. And Jamie tells Claire about the 525 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,040 lore and the bees and why you have to talk to them about 526 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,760 what's going on with the Ridge and the people who reside there. 527 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,640 And so that's a theme that is woven into the book quite 528 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,520 heavily. So I expect that we're going to 529 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,960 get a lot more scenes of Claire actually talking to the bees. 530 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,640 That's when the camera angle changes, and we get this fuzzy 531 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,600 image of a doll in a little girl's hand, and we see Rodger 532 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,520 and Bree and the kids approaching the Ridge, and 533 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,320 Claire looks like she's seen a ghost, and she might fall over. 534 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,320 And Bree runs to hug her, and they're reunited again. 535 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,440 And once again, the wigs are terrible. 536 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,600 The Hello the House scene in the book takes place right at the 537 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,320 end of Written in My Own Heart's Blood. 538 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,920 And then this scene is quite shorter. 539 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,560 It drags out a lot longer in the book than it does in the show. 540 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:45,040 And we see in the show Claire and Jamie meet a grown Mandy and 541 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,120 we hear Bree tell her parents that they simply wanted to come 542 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,480 home. In the book, Claire knows there 543 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:54,200 is far more to the story than that, none of which can be good. 544 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,320 And I think the show version is less impactful than the books 545 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:00,840 because in the book, Claire sees them approaching from a great 546 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:06,240 distance and can hardly believe her eyes as the family walks 547 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,480 across the field. And she keeps thinking to 548 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,760 herself that they look so much like Brie and Rodger and the 549 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:16,640 kids, and it's not until they hear hello the house from a 550 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,800 distance that they realize that it's actually them. 551 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,880 Once they're inside, Brie asks Jamie about Fanny and how she 552 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:28,000 came to be with them and Jamie mentions that it was by way of 553 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,480 William and Brie learns that William now knows Jamie as his 554 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:37,360 dad and therefore that she is his sister and Brie tells Jamie 555 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,400 to give him some time to come around to it. 556 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,680 So Brie and William stories intertwine with one another in 557 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,880 the book. So this is more foreshadowing 558 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,000 that we're going to get to see the two of them interacting in 559 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,160 this season. This is when Mandy asks Jamie to 560 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,720 read her book and how we're going to get a Segway onto the 561 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,960 topic of Frank's book, which is a huge part of season 8. 562 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,760 And Jamie opens Mandy's book and is shocked by the way it looks. 563 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,480 And Fannie is also shocked by the way it looks. 564 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,000 But for them to openly look through this picture book and 565 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,240 not be at all concerned about Fannie, who in the book is like 566 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:16,360 such a blabbermouth, it seems weird to me. 567 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,920 But again, they've changed her. In the show she doesn't seem to 568 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:23,400 be as candid about things, so I guess they're not worried about 569 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,000 her talking about it in front of other people. 570 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,360 In the book, German is actually with Jamie and Claire as well, 571 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,000 but in the show he stays with Ferguson Marsley. 572 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,480 So again this is a slightly recycled scene from the book 573 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,160 that plays out differently on screen. 574 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,800 The other change is that the story Jamie reads in the book is 575 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,760 a Doctor Seuss one. In the show they have a call 576 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:50,920 back to season 3 and Claire tells Jamie that this is the 577 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,080 story she told him while they were on the ship. 578 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,360 She used to read Brianna as a kid. 579 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,960 Bri looks like Santa Claus pulling books from her bag and 580 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,360 she gifts Claire the Merck Manual 13th edition. 581 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:06,440 And a lot of the dialogue that Jamie delivers in that scene is 582 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,719 straight from the book as well. For Jamie she brought Frodo 583 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:14,520 Baggins and Lord of the Rings and in the book they give Jamie 584 00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:19,040 books one and two and he thinks it would be nice to read them 585 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,360 with Fanny because Fanny was taught how to read by Jane and 586 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,960 that would be something that the two of them could do together 587 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,920 and bond over. Jamie and Roger are talking 588 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,880 later and Jamie asks him if he was a minister in the future and 589 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,960 he says no. Jamie then reassures him that 590 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,960 there's new folk here that have settled here and he should make 591 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,080 a point to go make his introductions, and he tells 592 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,960 Roger about Cunningham and that he wants Roger to help him get a 593 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,679 better read on him. And that's when Claire and Brie 594 00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:50,920 come back, sit at the dining table and say that the kids have 595 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,760 been put to bed. And they talk about the letters 596 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,720 that Claire and Jamie had left them at a bank in Edinburgh and 597 00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:00,600 how Claire and Jamie didn't know if they would work. 598 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:04,360 They largely leave that entire storyline out of the show and 599 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,040 truncated a lot. It's actually really fascinating 600 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,520 how they explain away the letters in the book. 601 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,840 It's too much for me to include here in a formal breakdown. 602 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,280 Maybe I'll do a separate video about that or talk about that 603 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,680 separately. But they definitely truncated 604 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,360 that. And that moment is when Brie 605 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,120 decides to present the soul of a rebel Scottish Roots of the 606 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,080 American Revolution book by Frank to Claire. 607 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,600 It was published after she and Claire left, and she tells Jamie 608 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,520 that she's never read it, which to me is wild. 609 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,920 And she says she knew that if she had read it, it would feel 610 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:41,880 like she lost her father all over again. 611 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,120 But to me, I'm I'm not buying that. 612 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,480 To me, I think if you're holding a book that your father wrote 613 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,680 about the very thing you're about to walk back into, which 614 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,440 is the American Revolution, I would want to read that. 615 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,480 I would, especially when the dedication page is for her that 616 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,760 I have a hard time buying into. Rodger and Bree also say that 617 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,840 they had spaced out reading the letters because it felt like it 618 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,360 suspended the belief of them still being alive, which also 619 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:13,000 happens in the book. Bree and Rodger also come closer 620 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,360 to admitting why they came back in this scene and Claire says 621 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:20,280 they need to know about Fanny and Bree's sister Faith. 622 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:24,080 And once again, I really just dislike this storyline. 623 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,360 We don't even get this conversation on screen, which to 624 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,560 me felt like an odd choice. So we as viewers don't actually 625 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:34,000 know what Claire and Jamie have decided to tell Bri and Rodger 626 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,680 about this faith storyline either. 627 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,200 So it just felt like an odd clunky choice to insert here and 628 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:45,640 bring it back up again. When we cut back to William, we 629 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,800 see him nervously approaching Amaranthus, who was outside in 630 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:53,160 the garden, and he apologizes to her and insists that he acted 631 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,920 that way because he was in shock about Ben and it made him angry 632 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,640 with her. And she admits that she had also 633 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,840 not been kind to him. So she invites him to sit and 634 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:06,640 tells him more about her marriage to Ben and admits that 635 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,680 they were married quite quickly. They had sent a letter, but it 636 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,920 seems to have been lost and that would be why nobody and his 637 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,000 family knew about it. When she starts to tend to 638 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:20,280 Trevor, William feels struck by how much he resembles Benjamin 639 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,920 and Amaranthus says it's a reminder of the love that bore 640 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:29,000 Trevor. And William then decides that he 641 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,240 is going to do everything he can for Trevor and Amaranthus 642 00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:35,640 because his cousins were like his siblings, he grew up with 643 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,760 them. And she reaffirms that by saying 644 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,360 that Ben had said the same about William to her. 645 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:45,720 This is kind of the first hint into Williams heroes journey of 646 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:48,720 the season. So I'll be very curious how much 647 00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:51,960 they include of it and also the Lord John storyline, how they're 648 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:56,200 going to change that and speed it up because it does last 649 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,200 nearly the whole book. When we're back in the woods, 650 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,560 we're with Jamie and Brie, who are out hunting and they are 651 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:06,600 talking about Rob Cameron and they wonder if Rob has the 652 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:10,280 ability to time travel and if he does, whether or not he has 653 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,480 already traveled back in time to come looking for her or not. 654 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,760 Brie figured she and her family would be safer back in time than 655 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,080 staying at Lally. Brock and Jamie and her talk 656 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,680 about how they can hide the gold in a different location so that 657 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,800 if he ever comes back, he would not be able to find that gold 658 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:31,400 through anyone except Jamie, and that removes Jamie from the 659 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,840 equation. In the book, Rodger spends a 660 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,400 very long time explaining everything that happened in the 661 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:40,400 future to Jamie. It's not Brie and he includes 662 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,880 the whole story with Rob, Cameron and Jimmy being 663 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,800 kidnapped because he met Jamie's father. 664 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:52,600 And the reason he tells Jamie is because Jamie's sister Jenny is 665 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:56,120 on the Ridge in the book and he's going to see her again. 666 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,800 And he worries that Jenny will recognize him from when she was 667 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:04,320 younger and when Roger and Buck visited their home in the past. 668 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,960 So again, that's a different storyline that they've shifted 669 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:11,160 around in the show. Jenny isn't in the Americas in 670 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,000 the show. I'm curious if they're going to 671 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,960 send her there at some point, especially when young Ian has 672 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,240 his baby, because she is actually quite important. 673 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,160 Later on in the book, as they are getting back onto the path, 674 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,160 Brie and Jamie stumble upon two men who are hanging in the tree 675 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:31,520 labeled with GR. And this is when Jamie kind of 676 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,440 points out to Brie that it's not much safer. 677 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:38,080 Back then, these men were killed for being loyalist, and Jamie 678 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:41,480 has a great line that there are devils on both sides of this 679 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,720 war. We see someone then approaching 680 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:47,440 the big house and it is Captain Cunningham's mother, Elspeth. 681 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,440 She's dressed in all black, which we'll learn about later in 682 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,440 the season. And Mandy starts singing and 683 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:58,240 showing her her doll. And the two of them get into a 684 00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:01,440 tift because Mandy, she is so forward. 685 00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,000 And the women slaps Mandy across the face. 686 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,840 And that's when Jamie and Claire approach her and they introduce 687 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:13,080 themselves and she presents them with the Jesuit bark. 688 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:16,000 So that's how Claire and Jamie both realized that this must be 689 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:20,160 Missus Cunningham. And the scene plays out nearly 690 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,640 exactly the same as it does in the book version. 691 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,960 So now we've met Cunningham, we've met his mother, we can 692 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:27,840 tell that there's something going on with them. 693 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,280 And that's a big storyline that they are going to explore in 694 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,880 this season. We've seen that from little 695 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,200 splices of the promotional material as well. 696 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:42,080 Later that night, Jamie is sitting by the fire and he opens 697 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,640 Soul of a Rebel. The dedication page on the front 698 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:50,000 says for My Dearest Deadeye, which is what Frank called Bree. 699 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,600 So again, we know that he wrote this book and dedicated it to 700 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,520 her with a nickname that only she would recognize. 701 00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:00,480 And we see Jamie flip to the back of the book, and in the 702 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,680 jacket sleeve, he sees the photo of Frank. 703 00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:06,480 And there is a voice over that says, says, is it my face you 704 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:10,400 see looming in the darkness? And it's Blackjack Randall's 705 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,200 voice, which is so ominous. I was not expecting that at all. 706 00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:17,680 And Claire approaches Jamie and puts her hand on his shoulder. 707 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,600 And that snaps him out of it and back into the present. 708 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:24,400 And that's when Jamie asks Claire why she didn't tell him 709 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:27,320 that Frank looked just like Blackjack Randall. 710 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:32,480 And Claire looks very surprised. In the book, this conversation 711 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:36,840 doesn't take place until chapter 72 of Go and Tell the Beast that 712 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:40,320 I am Gone. And Claire says she hasn't 713 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:41,840 thought about it in a very long time. 714 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,960 But once she was acquainted with Blackjack, the resemblance she 715 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,000 picked up on when she first met him quickly wore off because he 716 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,600 was such a evil person. And Jamie still thinks that she 717 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:57,040 could have told him. But Claire explains that she 718 00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,160 doesn't know how she would have explained to him. 719 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:03,440 In the book, Jamie tells Claire that he had a dream where he was 720 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:08,040 looking into Frank's face, which then morphed into Blackjacks, 721 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:12,800 and he was staring across Frank's desk at Jamie with his 722 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,720 evil eyes. And he had only woken up when he 723 00:42:15,720 --> 00:42:19,360 realized how much Frank and Blackjack looked alike, which is 724 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,400 why we get that audio overlay in the show. 725 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,040 It's meant to convey that internal moment. 726 00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,760 And we couldn't actually see him dreaming it. 727 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:28,200 So this is kind of the compromise. 728 00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:32,200 Jamie says he may have been initially upset about knowing 729 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,600 that Frank looked just like Blackjack before, but there 730 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:39,040 would have been no point in him staying upset because he knows 731 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,640 that Claire is his. And he starts to ask more 732 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,440 questions about Frank, like if he was honest, and Claire admits 733 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,280 that they both kept their secrets, but he wouldn't have 734 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,280 written anything that he knew to be false. 735 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:54,480 Jamie then tells her that he's already mentioned his name 14 736 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:58,400 times so far, and Claire can't believe that Jamie is in this 737 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,600 book. This dialogue takes place 738 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:05,520 between Jamie and Ian in the book version in chapter 62. 739 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,760 So again, the show is very quickly speeding up the timeline 740 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,520 and implying that Jamie has already read a lot of the book. 741 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,840 So evidently he disappeared that night and read half of the book 742 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,280 alone. An important part of this 743 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,840 conversation that we don't get here, but I do hope they cover, 744 00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:28,240 is that Jamie can tell Frank did not value Claire as much as he 745 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:31,520 does. And Claire tells Jamie that when 746 00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:35,080 he was afraid for Claire and the baby's safety, he sent them 747 00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,320 away. And then contrast that with 748 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,680 Frank, who wrote this book while Claire was with him in the 749 00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:44,760 future, and he knew that Jamie lived and didn't tell her. 750 00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:49,360 So it's a huge admission of Claire and Frank's relationship 751 00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:53,520 that he wrote it while she was grieving Jamie, and he chose to 752 00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:58,360 keep this from her. And he never wrote the book with 753 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:02,800 the idea or really kind of understanding that the 754 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,440 circumstances would work out in this way where Brie would 755 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:10,040 physically bring this book back through time for Jamie to read 756 00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:12,440 and that he might use the book as a warning. 757 00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,160 So even though Jamie does largely feel like Frank is 758 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:19,880 speaking to him throughout the story, I don't think that Frank 759 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,240 would write this book with that in mind or that intention. 760 00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:27,400 So I am hopeful that we'll get that dialogue. 761 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,080 And I know for a fact that in this story, Jamie is going to 762 00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,520 read this book and feel as though Frank is communicating. 763 00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,800 That's still going to be a big aspect of the show. 764 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:41,560 But Claire doesn't believe that Frank wrote it on Jamies behalf 765 00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:45,800 or as an aide to Jamie. Jamie does then say that the 766 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:50,120 book warns of war in the Backcountry and a battle at 767 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,640 Kings Mountain where a James Fraser dies in it. 768 00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:56,480 And that is the cliffhanger for the episode. 769 00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:01,120 But it's also a huge window into Jamie's character arc and what 770 00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:02,600 he will be going through this season. 771 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,720 So that is how we end the episode. 772 00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,040 They've laid out all the major plot points. 773 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:08,800 We've seen all the major characters. 774 00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:12,160 We've gotten kind of a lay of the land of where everyone is at 775 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,160 so far. We've reintroduced Ferguson, 776 00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:17,600 Marsley, so they cover a lot of ground in this episode, but it 777 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:22,080 felt incredibly fast-paced and very choppy in the edit. 778 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:25,960 So that was something I wasn't entirely thrilled about. 779 00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:30,680 But most of the time the first episode of a season really kind 780 00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,040 of has to set up things for the rest of the season. 781 00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:38,760 So a lot of times it doesn't flow quite as well as later 782 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,800 episodes. It has to cover a lot of ground 783 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:45,440 and kind of state things instead of show them to you. 784 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,640 So I do feel like it's done a lot of that. 785 00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:52,760 And hopefully by next week we'll kind of live in these scenes a 786 00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,760 little longer because it felt like we were bumping around from 787 00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,000 person to person quite quickly. And we never had a scene where 788 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,920 we actually stayed in it for long enough to feel like we were 789 00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,120 in meshing with the story or feeling like a part of the 790 00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:06,320 story. We were more just kind of 791 00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:10,200 observing and listening to dialogue and picking up what 792 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:14,600 we're meant to, but we don't actually feel tied to it. 793 00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,320 At least that's how I felt. I can't believe we're in the 794 00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,320 final season of Outlander. It's just crazy to me that it's 795 00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:24,040 all ending here. So far, they have included a lot 796 00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:26,800 from the source material. They've referenced it quite a 797 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,640 bit. But the faith stuff is such a 798 00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:31,960 departure. I have absolutely no idea where 799 00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,120 they're planning on taking that. I'm very curious. 800 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:38,160 And the season preview at the end of the episode really does 801 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:42,160 insert a lot of clips that we can kind of infer what they're 802 00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:43,400 going to cover. Yeah. 803 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,600 Let me know your thoughts about episode one. 804 00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:47,680 What was your favorite part? Yeah. 805 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,960 What are you most looking forward to as we continue the 806 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:54,240 rest of the season? And we we finish with the the 807 00:46:54,240 --> 00:46:58,440 whole 10 episodes and cap the show off, which is just crazy to 808 00:46:58,440 --> 00:46:59,880 me. Happy to be back in the 809 00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:02,600 Outlander verse, happy to be back talking about these 810 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:07,600 characters in this story and excited to see what happens next 811 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,840 week. So thank you again for listening 812 00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,000 if you've made it this far. I so appreciate it. 813 00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:14,080 And we'll chat soon.