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The long awaited finale of Outlander was finally here in Ireland last Wednesday
we sat down last Thursday with a glass of fizz and tissues as I knew this would be a sad one!
First of the finale wasn't perfect but for me it nearly was I love it! The jumps from 1968 and back to Culloden was perfect I really enjoyed how the writers done this. I do have some minor gripes, beautiful Caitriona Balfe didn't look 20 years older! I know Claire is meant to age beautifully but a few grey streaks in her hair doesn't make her look 20 year older! That said I did love the 1960's style and makeup on Claire she looked stunning. The other gripe I felt like they slightly crammed the Roger and Brianna storyline into one episode. Roger was perfect everything I imagined from the book and more, I thought Richard Rankins was a great choice to play him. Brianna played by Sophie Skelton was also good but I think I might need to see a little more of her to be sure about her.
I am hoping that in the third season we see some more of them before the time jump!
Some of the scenes from 1968 where really heartbreaking, Balfe really showed us how Claire 20 years later is still haunted by her choices. This is really showed in the scenes where she returns to a run down Lallybroch, haunted by the voices of the past. I did cry when she hears Jamie voice recite a poem and looks in the archway and for a second sees him standing there.
Back in 1746 Claire tells Jamie to avoid the slaughter of Culloden they need to kill Bonnie Prince Charles but Dougal overhears them. He calls Claire a witch whore and goes for Jamie, they fight to the death and Jamie kills his Uncle. He now knows he is a dead man, he killed one of his own and his clan will not forgive that. He has to leave with Claire quickly but before he does he signs over Lallybroch to Ian and Jenny's son young Jamie, sends Fergus of with the deed back to Lallybroch. He tells Murtagh he will be back to fight on the Culloden moor but wants his Godfather to leave and get to safety. Murtaght tells him he will not leave but fight by his side.....que more tears from me!
In 1968 Roger is showing Bree all the sights of Scotland, in doing so they accidentally bump into Geillis Duncan, Claire's time jumping friend from the 1700's! This is a younger Geillis but she is crazy about a free Scotland and the Jacobite cause and we now know why her and Dougal made such a good couple!
Roger and Bree find old documents and newspapers about Claire going missing back in the 1940's
Claire also makes her own discovery, turns out Roger is a MacKaenzie and he is directly related to Geillis and Dougal!
Bree confronts her Mother, Claire spills the beans about Jamie being her Dad and that he is from 1746! Bree of course doesn't believe her and poor Roger doesn't know where to look! He does what every Celtic bloke does and takes her out for a drink to try make sense of everything. Meanwhile Claire looks up Geillis Duncan's home address she isn't there but her poor lost drunken husband is, he tells Claire that Geillis has left him and uses all her time to look up history and magic!
Bree comes home and asks Claire to tell her about Jamie, but Claire quickly loses her when she brings up Culloden and time jumping! Brianna thinks her Mother has gone mad! When Claire relaizes that Bree and Roger have met Geillis she tells them that she met Geillis in the past, Bree eye rolls again! Claire tells Roger that he is related to to Geillis and Dougal and they have to go to the stones to warn Geillis that her actions will lead to her getting burned at the stake. Bree doesn't want to but Roger convinces her to go.
In 1746 Claire realizes that Jamie is bringing her back to the stones at Craigh na Dun she cries, and screams that she is not going back. If they die then they die together, Jaime tells her he knows she is pregnant again and he will not let there baby die here for nothing. The scenes at the stones had me sobbing brilliantly acting from Caitrina Balfe and Sam Heughan. While they tell each other how much they have loved each other in the past three years, how they gave each other there hearts and souls. They didn't do the cutting initials but the walk half dance to the stones as they both cry was heartbreaking.
Back in 1968 the trio get to the stones just as Geillis has set her husband on fire and runs through the stones. Straight away Bree knew she was wrong and believes her Mother, she says something very Jamie-like "I don't understand it but I beleive you" both Roger and Bree agree that they can hear the buzzing of the stones. As the dawn breaks and the trio in shock look on at the stones, Roger breaks the news to Claire that he has been looking through documents and that Jamie didn't die at Culloden like he was meant to, still in shock Claire looks at the stone as the sun rises and says "I have to go back"
The camera whizzes around the stones and then fades to black!
What an ending to a brilliant season....hurry up season three...I hate Droughtlander!
we sat down last Thursday with a glass of fizz and tissues as I knew this would be a sad one!
First of the finale wasn't perfect but for me it nearly was I love it! The jumps from 1968 and back to Culloden was perfect I really enjoyed how the writers done this. I do have some minor gripes, beautiful Caitriona Balfe didn't look 20 years older! I know Claire is meant to age beautifully but a few grey streaks in her hair doesn't make her look 20 year older! That said I did love the 1960's style and makeup on Claire she looked stunning. The other gripe I felt like they slightly crammed the Roger and Brianna storyline into one episode. Roger was perfect everything I imagined from the book and more, I thought Richard Rankins was a great choice to play him. Brianna played by Sophie Skelton was also good but I think I might need to see a little more of her to be sure about her.
I am hoping that in the third season we see some more of them before the time jump!
Some of the scenes from 1968 where really heartbreaking, Balfe really showed us how Claire 20 years later is still haunted by her choices. This is really showed in the scenes where she returns to a run down Lallybroch, haunted by the voices of the past. I did cry when she hears Jamie voice recite a poem and looks in the archway and for a second sees him standing there.
Back in 1746 Claire tells Jamie to avoid the slaughter of Culloden they need to kill Bonnie Prince Charles but Dougal overhears them. He calls Claire a witch whore and goes for Jamie, they fight to the death and Jamie kills his Uncle. He now knows he is a dead man, he killed one of his own and his clan will not forgive that. He has to leave with Claire quickly but before he does he signs over Lallybroch to Ian and Jenny's son young Jamie, sends Fergus of with the deed back to Lallybroch. He tells Murtagh he will be back to fight on the Culloden moor but wants his Godfather to leave and get to safety. Murtaght tells him he will not leave but fight by his side.....que more tears from me!
In 1968 Roger is showing Bree all the sights of Scotland, in doing so they accidentally bump into Geillis Duncan, Claire's time jumping friend from the 1700's! This is a younger Geillis but she is crazy about a free Scotland and the Jacobite cause and we now know why her and Dougal made such a good couple!
Roger and Bree find old documents and newspapers about Claire going missing back in the 1940's
Claire also makes her own discovery, turns out Roger is a MacKaenzie and he is directly related to Geillis and Dougal!
Bree confronts her Mother, Claire spills the beans about Jamie being her Dad and that he is from 1746! Bree of course doesn't believe her and poor Roger doesn't know where to look! He does what every Celtic bloke does and takes her out for a drink to try make sense of everything. Meanwhile Claire looks up Geillis Duncan's home address she isn't there but her poor lost drunken husband is, he tells Claire that Geillis has left him and uses all her time to look up history and magic!
Bree comes home and asks Claire to tell her about Jamie, but Claire quickly loses her when she brings up Culloden and time jumping! Brianna thinks her Mother has gone mad! When Claire relaizes that Bree and Roger have met Geillis she tells them that she met Geillis in the past, Bree eye rolls again! Claire tells Roger that he is related to to Geillis and Dougal and they have to go to the stones to warn Geillis that her actions will lead to her getting burned at the stake. Bree doesn't want to but Roger convinces her to go.
In 1746 Claire realizes that Jamie is bringing her back to the stones at Craigh na Dun she cries, and screams that she is not going back. If they die then they die together, Jaime tells her he knows she is pregnant again and he will not let there baby die here for nothing. The scenes at the stones had me sobbing brilliantly acting from Caitrina Balfe and Sam Heughan. While they tell each other how much they have loved each other in the past three years, how they gave each other there hearts and souls. They didn't do the cutting initials but the walk half dance to the stones as they both cry was heartbreaking.
Back in 1968 the trio get to the stones just as Geillis has set her husband on fire and runs through the stones. Straight away Bree knew she was wrong and believes her Mother, she says something very Jamie-like "I don't understand it but I beleive you" both Roger and Bree agree that they can hear the buzzing of the stones. As the dawn breaks and the trio in shock look on at the stones, Roger breaks the news to Claire that he has been looking through documents and that Jamie didn't die at Culloden like he was meant to, still in shock Claire looks at the stone as the sun rises and says "I have to go back"
The camera whizzes around the stones and then fades to black!
What an ending to a brilliant season....hurry up season three...I hate Droughtlander!
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We have caught up on the first season and are three episodes in to the second season
While I enjoyed seeing how the virus started, and the fall of society
I am find this show very slow I gave it the first season to pick up and get the action started
but now into the second season and it's still quite slow
Don't get me wrong I do enjoy most of the slow episodes in TWD because they mostly
serve a porpoise but this show just seems to be taking forever to pick up
None of the characters a very likable, I get that TWD also do this but even in the pilot of that show you had Rick and Morgan who where likable from the start.
I will watch Fear but if it hasn't picked up by the end of the season I think I'll be giving the third season a miss!
This Walking Dead spin off aired last year with season two airing earlier this year in the States
We have caught up on the first season and are three episodes in to the second season
While I enjoyed seeing how the virus started, and the fall of society
I am find this show very slow I gave it the first season to pick up and get the action started
but now into the second season and it's still quite slow
Don't get me wrong I do enjoy most of the slow episodes in TWD because they mostly
serve a porpoise but this show just seems to be taking forever to pick up
None of the characters a very likable, I get that TWD also do this but even in the pilot of that show you had Rick and Morgan who where likable from the start.
I will watch Fear but if it hasn't picked up by the end of the season I think I'll be giving the third season a miss!
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