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Tissues is what your going to need watching the Outlander episode called Faith, lots and lots of tissues!

What a beautiful episode, it is such a powerful emotional part in the book and the writers, producers and especially Caitriona Balfe gave us an amazing episode.

I loved how this episode opened with Claire sitting with a daughter in Boston in the 1950's looking at a picture book of different birds. As Claire looks at the wings of the bird on the pages her mind travels back to Paris. 

Poor Claire we knew when we saw her bleeding in the last episode that it didn't look good and in this episode she loses her precious baby. She goes into compete denial I sobbed as she screams and pleas for her baby. Mother Hildegarde is at Claire's side as she mourns the death of her baby which was a daughter. She tells Claire she baptised her daughter even though she was still born and called her Faith so that she could bury her in the graveyard. These scenes where so emotional Caitriona Balfe's acting was so powerful as the grieving Claire who lost her miracle baby.

Claire is still very sick she knows that it is due to some placenta being left inside her womb but she has lost the will to live, she is blaming Jamie's duel for her losing there baby. He is now locked up in prison for duelling and she doesn't care if she never gets out of that hospital bed. Master Raymond disguised as a Monk sneaks into the hospital (has he is in hiding from the King due to the King wanting to clean the Paris streets of magic)  he knows just by looking at Claire that he needs to remove the placenta. He does so and then has to leave as he knows the French King will have his head if he is caught in the streets. The scene when Claire come back to her French home after weeks of recovering in the hospital was a beautiful one. The young actor playing Fergus deserves an emmy after the heartbreaking scenes when he tells Claire what Black Jack done to him and that's the reason Jamie broke his vow to duel.

Suddenly Claire understands and although she is still very hurt and annoyed with Jamie she forgives him. She knows she is his only chance of getting out of jail. She knows the King will want to sleep with her for him to grant her favour but Jamie sacrificed himself to save her once now she must do the same. The Star Chamber scene was done brilliantly exactly how I imagined it from the books. So we say goodbye to France as Claire tells Jamie to bring her home to Scotland. Before he does though they go to there little Faith's grave such a sad scene as he places one of the silver christening spoons on her grave to watch over her.

So looking forward to seeing Scotland again

After a fairly strong second season The Flash went out with a bang in it's season finale

After witnessing his Father killed by Zoom in the last episode Barry is hell bent on revenge

He doesn't take the advice of his friends and family until it's almost too late. I don't understand the whole science of time travel and different earths as much as my hubby does but I enjoy this show and just go along with all the science jab. In the end Barry beats Zoom with the same trick Zoom used, with a time remnant. The man in the mask who Zoom has been keeping locked up all season weas revealed to us as Jay Garrick from Earth 3 in the form of Barry's recently deceased Father's doppelganger. This was of course a huge nod to the original 1990 Flash series where the actor John Wesley Shipp who plays Barry's Dad was The Flash.

The gang hatch a plan to get him back to Earth 3 Harry and Jesse decide to go back home to Earth 2. Barry unable to come to terms with losing his Mother and Father runs back in time and saves his Mother's life. Thus in doing so he will not become The Flash. I know fans where left scratching there heads! What now for Barry Allen and The Flash?! 

This season of Arrow started off strong with a really good first half season, but for me it really declined when it came back for the second half of season four. The strong villain that was brilliantly acted was dragged out for over twenty hour long episodes. The flash backs now feel stale and add nothing to the show or characters. Viewers and fans loved the whole team Arrow feel to the first half of the season, also Oliver running for mayor storyline was great and it felt like Oliver was seeing the hope not the darkness in the world it was good character development. As the season went on it felt like it was stuck in a rut, with the characters and the storyline moved backwards. 

While Dhark was a good villain his plan to cleanse the world and then destroy the world was stupid and we weren't given any reason or back story why he wanted to do this, instead giving this time to boring flashbacks. When Oliver did kill Dhark it didn't really grip me it was meh! Not a good sigh for a season finale of a show. This episode ended with Oliver as mayor (something that should of happened at the start of the season IMO) and Lance, Thea and Diggle all taking time out from team Arrow and Star city with just Oliver and Felicity left to fight crime.

I am left wondering where the show can go next?

Something that annoys with so called fans of Game of Thrones it that once we have a slower episode reviews and social media say boring!

IMO this was not a boring episode and if you really understand and "get" Thrones you will understand the need to have slower paced subdued episodes. It does say something for this season when a new alliance if formed, a Stark who thought is dead returns, Ayra reclaimed needle, and we saw one huge dragon and the episode is branded boring!!

This episode opens with Meera still dragging Bran away from the White Walkers just when all looks lost a figure on a horse saves them both. He reveals himself to be Benjen Stark, Ned's brother who went missing beyond the wall way back in season one! He tells Bran that the Children of the Forest saved him from death with a shard of dragon glass in his heart.

Walder Frey was back and giving his sons a hard time for losing Riverrun to the Tully's

and drags Edmure Tully (Tobais Menzies has been busy) from the cell he has been keeping him in since the Red Wedding!

Sam and Gilly have the most awkward reunion with Sam's family. His Father turns out to be a right nasty piece of work. He reminded me of Tywin Lannister and his hatred of Tyrion. Poor Sam was hoping there was going to be any hunting trips soon! Soon he had enough took Gilly, Baby Sam and the families valyrian steel sword and ran!

Tommen proved he is the puppet to The High Sparrow and at the last minute also Margaery as they stopped the King Guard attacking the Faith Militant as they agreed on a alliance of Gods and Kings.

Ayra couldn't give up her name or her list she couldn't kill her target, she was fond of the actress she was meant to poison. She dug out needle and we know the waif is hot on her heels as the faceless man tells her not to let Ayra suffer!

Finally we see Daenerys as her dragon Drogo comes back to her twice the size as he was when he left her! Her army of Dothraki in awe of her and her dragon agree to sail across the seas and make he Queen.

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I actually enjoyed this episode of the Arrow this week
not including the flashbacks of course which I think are no longer needed in the show
and bring nothing to the story or show
Brie Larson or The Bug Eyed Bandit as Cisco called her in The Flash was back and she wanted Felicity. Well it turned out she wanted the chip in Felicity's spine as Brie has a tumour that will leave her unable to walk. Brie threaten to kill the Board members of  Palmer Tech and set her bees on everyone if she can't get what she wants!
In other news Curtis discovers the Arrow's bunker, that Oliver is the Arrow,
and that Laurel and John are part of the team. He help take down Brie and the bees to help save Felicity but soon realises that it's not a game and decides to stay in Palmer Tech rather than the Arrow's bunker!

What a second episode of this second season! Wow they fitted alot of of the book

into one episode here! Dragonfly in Amber is a much more complicated book than Cross stitch

and it's alot longer. While I was glad the glossed over certain parts of the book I did think the scene where Claire meets Alex Randal lacked a little for me.

I loved the comic moments of this episode which we needed after seen the horrific nightmares Jamie is having after the torture and rape he suffered at the hands of Black Jack in series one. He might be healing physically but mentally he isn't.

So the comic relief was much needed. Moments like Jamie bumping into his former love, Murtagh proclaiming that France smells like assholes and armpits, to the foot kissing French Minister of Finance and of course my favourite waxed honey pot scene!

As a reader of the book the scene with Master Raymond stood out for me. It was everything how I imaged. him, the shop, the vest, the Madonna, and the ladders I love it. 

One thing I really love with this show is so far the casting of each character has been amazing. Each character is how the book describes them and the actors fit into the characters so well.

The production is another thing I love with this show. I loved the grandeur of the French court everything looked so beautiful. But you could feel in a sense that each of our characters felt like an Outlander and are missing home.

At the end of the episode Claire finds out that Black Jack is not as dead as she and Jamie thought!

Finally finally the best show on TV is back!

I love that I get to review two of my favourites Outlander and Thrones!

Season six started with fan favourite Jon Snow lying in a pool of his own blood

after the betrayal of his men The Night's Watch. Davos hears Jon's direwolf Ghost howling

and finds Jon. A handful of loyal men to Jon and Davos carry his body to Davos room they know it's only a matter of time before Thorne will come for them. Davos sends one of the loyal men to find the Wildlings to help to avenge Jon's death. He also sends for Melisandre The Red Woman who might be to help Jon with her magic

In Kings Landing Cersei is mourning the death of yet another of her children as Jamie comes home with the body of Myrcella there daughter. Tommen still seems to be under Cersei's control as his wife and Queen Margaery is still locked up by the High Sparrow.

In Dorne the sand snakes killed the whole royal family what happens next in Dorne is any ones guess? 

Daenerys met a new Khal, Khal Jhaqo he didn't seem very impressed as she listed out her many titles including Mother of Dragons. He called he Queen of Nothing, with her dragons no where to be seen, he unsullied many miles away and her two main men looking for her. It seemed at that moment in time titles where just words and she was Queen of nothing. Jhaqo did seem more interested when she told him she was the dead Khal Drogo wife, he told her there is only one place for widowed wives and that's Vaes Dothrak where he will bring her.

Hooray for Brienne saving the day for Sansa and Theon who some how survived the jump

from Winterfell but had Bolton men on there tracks. She and Pod save them from being dragged back to sadist Ramsay. They make the decision to head north where they know Jon Snow is 

Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.

But we know Jon is laying dead on a table in Castle Black which leads us to the last scene

the beautiful Melisandre is unsure of her magic and herself. She saw Jon fighting at Winterfell in her vision. Is the Lord of Light wrong? She takes of her gown (she loves being naked this one) and looks at her reflection in the mirror. My shock as the reflection changes when she takes off her necklace of red stone we see her truth form a very old crone. She slowly backs away from the mirror and crawls into her bed.

I have so many questions like how old actually is she? Does her power come from her red stone necklace? Has she been tricking us all and that the sacrifices she was making wasn't for the Lord of Light but to keep her young and beautiful? Will she give the necklace to Jon to revive him?

Guess we might get some answers when she wakes from her beauty sleep!!   

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I am  hoping that something picks up soon with this season of Arrow

it is really lacking IMO this season. The Oliver/Felicity story line is being dragged

out and now Felicity has a miracle cure so she can walk again. She has found out about Oliver's secret son and called off there engagement. Either let these two have there happy ending or move on from this couple. I know of course the writers will drag this story line out just like the annoying flashbacks!

Cupid is back in Star City and killing couples who are about to get married. The team have to work quickly, staging a secret wedding for Oliver and Felicity to trick her. Laurel is in court working on getting Damien Darhk into prison. Her father decides to give evidence against Darhk although he knows his police career will be over if he does so and Felicity decides to leave the group for good.

What a beautiful first episode of season two!
It was stunning right down to the touch of the title song being sung in French!
I have read the books so know the plot twists but it was good to see the look on hubby's face because he didn't! Major spoilers here so you have been warned!
At the start of the episode we knew something bad has happened as Claire screams and cries
She is back in the 1940's but we don't know why, she meets her husband Frank in hospital
Poor Frank he has lost his wife for two years and now she is back in 18th century clothes, talking about a new Scottish husband, how all she sees is Black Jack when she looks at him and she's pregnant!
Yes pregnant with a dead man's baby! A lot to take in the first 30 minutes of the show!
This is done slightly different than the books but the shock is still there for the viewer. I loved how differently from the books we get to see Frank's reaction at having Claire home and pregnant. I really enjoyed the interaction between Frank and Reverend Wakefield and Claire and Mrs Graham
The acting was outstanding Caitriona Balfe and Tobias Menzies deserve Emmy nominations for this episode alone!
Franks decides to take Clare back who he loves more than life, he believes her story about time travelling he doesn't know how or why but he believes her and will raise the child as his own.
But she has to agree to no more research on the Jacobite war and how Jamie died. She knows she has to let the pass go and agrees to go to Boston with Frank where he has been offered a job.
As she steps of the plane in American she has flash backs to 18th century France
and arriving in France with Jamie to set about stopping the Jacobite war.
I can't wait for the next episode!

On The Box This Week

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After binge watching the Arrow box sets over Christmas

we where finally ready to watch the mid season premier 

and find out what is Felicity's fate. 

While the hubby enjoys The Flash more I find that show a little too cheesy for me

I am drawn to this show I like that it's a little darker and not afraid to kill of it's

main characters!
This episode was a little slow for the mid season premier
we found out that Felicity has not been killed but paralysed
Oliver was now on a vendetta to get the man and group who done this to her
We got the graveyard scene again but this time we know it's
not Felicity that is killed as she is in the waiting car
So maybe it might be her Mother who is killed at the end of the season?

The final episode of season five had it all, 

weddings, births, mystery illness explained

and sadly the funeral of a much loved character

Sister Evangelina came back to popular in last week's episode

but sadly past away in Sunday night's episode after a stroke in her sleep

The other big story line was the medical sandal that a drug given to 

women to help them sleep was being took of the market as it was linked to

babies being born with deformities. Doctor Turner was very upset and

was putting the blame on himself as he so often does. He was pictured smoking

again after the stress of trying to get the tablets back from lots of different women.

This was the most watched programme of the year for the BBC 

so the public's love for Call The Midwife hasn't faded

But with it now the early 60's in the series and another original cast member left

how much longer can we actually Call The Midwife?

In nine months time as it will be back for a Christmas special and series six!

This week we finally got to see some of Carol who has

been missing the last few episodes. We see her perfect housekeeper act she 

has still kept going, sometime I wonder if Carol actually knows who she is anymore

Any way she is making beet cookies for her neighbours and leaves one on Sam's grave

you know the kid who she kind of frightened to death!

We also see that killing people is taking a toll on her as she is keeping a list/diary of who she has killed. She also seems to be having a little thing with Tobin lots of sparks and a kiss!

Rick and the gang are back and telling everyone about Negan and his Saviours

For me I fee like the show is ruining the character of Morgan he was such a fan

favourite now he seems to be sitting around, not in any of the action cause he doesn't want to kill

I think maybe he may be one of the casualties of the season finale and no one will mind much!

So of Rick and the gang went to kill the saviours in their sleep! A line was drawn here and for me killing men in there sleep makes our once hero's just the same as The Governor, The Wolves and maybe The Saviours

Rick has now morphed into a scarier version of Shane, Daryl is now Merle and it's hard to watch! 

This is one of my favourite episodes of the season so far, the action, watching Glen make his first human kill and then see pictures of Negan's victims! Then when the gang thought they had there victory a voice came over the walkie talkie to say Maggie and Carol where caught by the Saviours!

Roll on next week!