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I nearly pissed myself laughing at this one - line of the episode from my perspective. The next best being:

Somewhere, in canon, this was addressed. I can't recall if it's in the book or if Diana said it somewhere. It's pronounced Marsley, like parsley.

OK, that was much, much better. Thank God. I was rapidly losing faith (and frankly, interest) in this show. I don't mind how they snipped the filler here either.

Honey, I don't even remember it, and I've read all the books about 3 times...

In that timeframe you were considered an adult (male) at 14 and an adult (female) at 12 at least for the age of consent, marriage, etc. There were stipulations about being 21 for legal stuff though. I believe it stayed this way in the UK until the early 20th century. It actually makes almost no sense in context to norms of the time, IMHO.

Guys, I'm not going to argue it. My assessment based on body language, they way they talked to/about each other, and the general sense in the room, to me, read that they don't like each other. Feel free to continue the pile on, but please remember this is a thread to have unpopular opinions not gang up on people who might be assaulting your worldviews or something. I'm done here.

Sorry, not a big enough fan of non-story Cait and Sam to really remember. There was one where they were just talking about stuff sitting down on a couch with an interviewer and another where they were supposed to know stuff about each other and failed miserably.

I see Sam and Cait working next to each other in interviews and draw my conclusions from that. I couldn't care less about anything else. I suspect there is on set trouble between them. I do not understand why you persist in making this observation into something weird and creepy. I just watched a few recent interviews (I never cared to watch any in the past) and got the very strong impression that they don't like each other.

The book treatment of this entire episode was far more action-filled, rewarding, and Season 1 like overall. I have no idea why they went out of their way to make this episode so boring! They had a ton of great material to work with and used pretty much none of it. The death of the exciseman, the daring rescue in the fire, Young Ian's first time, and so much more... The choices were just 100% wrong. 0 for 2 now for me. I'm going to see this season through, but if they don't actually make the story shine again (not the characters), then I'm probably out.

Don't know what the purpose of this statement is. I am not involved in any squicky overly infested fan-level BS and not sure why this statement was necessary. I simply do not think Sam and Cait like each other. No more, no less.

I didn't realize we had two threads for this. So I'll repost my unpopular opinion here. Mods can delete the other one if desired. I think Sam and Cait are at the point where they can barely tolerate each other. I don't see some great friendship, I don't see some great chemistry. Don't know what went wrong, but they remind me of Fillion and Katic but are not yet to Willis and Shepherd levels. Their joint appearances are utterly painful to watch.

Fergus telling wee Ian about losing his virginity: Fergus: "I was 15 ..a ménage à trois." Ian: "A what?" Fergus: "Two women...one moi!"

I think Sam and Cait are at the point where they can barely tolerate each other. I don't see some great friendship, I don't see some great chemistry. Don't know what went wrong, but they remind me of Fillion and Katic but are not yet to Willis and Shepherd levels. Their joint appearances are utterly painful to watch.

Agreed. I don't see season 5 happening at this rate. Didn't care for the reunion episode, didn't care for this one. I also think it was a stuntman who did the leap in the printshop - there weren't very many stunts at all and the whatshisface was careful to say 90% surrounding that particular scene. The absolute only episode that I felt was in any way comparable to past seasons was the one where Jamie leaves Helwater. Everything else is very much meh. Which reminds me, I have another unpopular opinion to share over in said thread.

It also explains why the quality of the show is falling quickly.... He'd best come back if he wants to save it, IMHO.

Jamie's hair looks awful, and they didn't age him anywhere near well, or enough. I think it was wood.

I had no trouble. It was a very slow episode. I didn't mind. I didn't love it, but felt like it should be awkward. You know?

I really don't. Like really, really don't. I just always thought Sam was an even better actor than I thought. :P

That makese sense. I was kind of skipping through, saw the answer and went "Ew, no" so not interested in knowing anything about that question. That fact that I DON'T do that is precisely why I was confused. I never get involved with any of that and also didn't go back and sort out the question for precisely the reason that it's squicky, but I could have sworn I saw something to that effect back when Outlander was announced as a series is all. Anyway...judge on Judgy McJudgerson, judge on. :-D Utterly fascinating! Thank you for sharing this!

OK that's odd. I could have sworn I'd seen photos or something to suggest Sam was gay, but there's a girlfriend + sex question in here. Is he trying to pretend to be straight (do people even have to do that anymore?) or am I mistaken?

Of course she does. She goes the library, selects a microfiche of something that clearly existed in the timeframe she needs with the qualities she needed and then she goes to there and places the ad. Of course, she would then have to check the microfiched version to check and see if she made it and then everything goes to hell. The technology was well and available and had been for a century by 1968.

Oh that's a good one. I thought the OP I replied to (I don't know if that was you) meant they would speculate about Geillis, not just the bones in general and I couldn't figure out how they'd get there.

Really? Where? I haven't seen any questions about a woman being murdered that they don't know dies anywhere? Nor have I seen any questions about her being psychic. I'd love to see these discussions as well, they must be pretty funny :)

She was marginally less dreadful this time around. But yes he's going to have to carry it until or if she gets it together. I too have absolutely no idea why they didn't just hire an American. I am certain there was an American actor who would have looked more like Sam and been better than Sophie struggling with the material and accent.

I remember the other guys, but only by name, not details. The whole thing wasn't really very much covered at all beyond "There was a warning and the colonists kicked ass." I think you're right about where you grew up. I grew up in Michigan - I can tell you all kinds of things about the French and Indian war - from the French side - but the specifics of the War for Independence? Notsomuch. Most of the streets and places in my hometown had French or Indian names - no British at all.