"Everything that happens here is everyone's business."
Hello everyone!
And boy, as we all know, things are heating up.
I'm still side-eyeing this particular plot like it's no tomorrow, because to be perfectly honest with you, A Breath of Snow and Ashes has a whole lot more going on in it than just 'Who's the baby daddy?'.
But the producers and show runners made the executive decision to focus solely on this one plotline for the sake of perfect drama, I suppose.
As such, I really wonder just how they're going to push and spin the threads further by the time we see season seven come about. HOPEFULLY we get to cover some more actual history again and not just this made-up nonsense.
It's Outlander; there's more to it than what we got this year.
Links to previous episode reviews and recaps can be found down at the bottom of the page, as per usual!
The episode picks up pretty much where we left off last time, which is to say, Malva's dead, Claire has tried to - unsuccessfully - save her baby, and everyone and their mother on the Ridge thinks she killed her, because for some reason it's important to them to know whether or not she forgave the little bitch.
Things go as you might imagine, in that people continuously keep trekking up to the Big House to ask insolent questions while Jamie and Ian work to find out who ACTUALLY did this, and Claire is having a mental breakdown in the process.
Listen, I'M NOT minimizing what happens to her, but the problem this season is that pretty much everything has been micro-focused on Claire with a lot of filler thrown in and not much actual substance, which made this season suffer. They didn't actually DO anything much, to be honest, and even the Jamie-Claire connection is at its weakest.
Anyway, things are slowly spiraling out of hand even at home, because again, the show writers feel that the Fraser servants are much better characters if they're insolent and disrespectful to their masters - which if you've read the books would have NEVER happened. Mr. and Mrs. Bug are two people fiercely loyal to Claire and Jamie both, and would die for them, with only a rare instance or two when this wouldn't happen.
This witchhunt for Claire? Mrs. Bug would have had all the hunters in her cooking pot before noon, and Mr. Bug sure as hell wouldn't be scaring his Laird's grandson with ghost tales, or speaking like he does to Roger in the show!
So that's another added piece of unnecessary drama while Claire finally breaks and admits to Jamie that she's seeing things - people, namely - and that she's been using ether to try and keep everything at bay. Jamie promises her they can survive anything and everything together.
Maybe not Lizzie and the Beardsleys, though.
See, Lizzie got herself pregnant, but she's been with BOTH of them, doesn't know who the father is, doesn't want to marry just the one, and doesn't seem to understand that her without a father for her baby makes her a whore. It's like she doesn't live in that time period at all! But it does make for some hilarious scenes since Jamie is so pissed off he can barely string a coherent sentence together without snarling.
He handfasts two of them, then Roger handfasts the other two unknowingly, so this is still a bit of a mess (not as much as the Malva funeral and all the people hissing at Claire though), but he doesn't have time to worry over it for now as, with Roger and Bree gone (Roger wants to be confirmed as minister), the Brown's militia enters the stage as some sort of weird surrogate.
They've come to take Claire into custody for murder. And you're left to wonder just how in the hell they've heard any of it, and gotten there so fast.
Then again, this entire thing is completely mind-boggling, but I think I've narrowed it down based on some direction and script choices: people are jealous of Claire, thinking Jamie would have definitely chosen a pretty Scottish girl over her, the woman who's saved countless of their lives over and over again and ensured their survival through thick and thin.
People would rather die, you know. It's unnatural not to die when you have a fever!
So really, it's got to be just jealousy, of Claire and Jamie both. I've finally figured it out. Everyone's jealous of how successful they are and want to bring them down, no thanks for everything they've done for pretty much anyone in their close vicinity.
Thank GOD there's only one more episode this season!
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