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There are some additional call backs in the 60s disassociation scene that are mentioned in the inside the world post episode segment, which made it even more interesting. Sam and Caitlin had a lot of imput on that story arc, apparently. There’s a reason for the house, the title card of episode five has a magazine with that house on the cover. The Orange was a callback to one of the episodes in France, for another. I thought the episode was well done all the way around The one thing we’re overlooking is that Claire told Marsali to brew and prepare the syringe before leaving the kitchen. Marsali wasn’t doing this on her own, she was doing what Claire was sworn not to do. Personally, I’ve would have finished him off at the campsite. The uncertainty would have unnerved the Browns far more.

One follow up to the Easter egg spoiler Darren Criss tweeted that a link is posted to in the episode five thread. Early in this episode, we finally get to see twin baby daddy Anderson, and he’s wearing a bow tie. All of that cannot be an accident. Have to love the shout out!

In her post White House career, Eleanor Roosevelt served as the first United States ambassador to the United Nations, was one of the US delegates to the San Francisco conference that created the United Nations, and helped write the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. She also had a radio program during this time and was deemed highly influential as First Lady and thereafter. The was she is portrayed here is quite consistent with the real thing.

About Jack and his wife’s pregnancy, Darren Criss tweeted out this little Glee Easter egg: https://twitter.com/darrencriss/status/1258563456065662978?s=21

Diana mentioned in her weekly Parade piece that 80 percent of her script was used as written. The remainder were changes made to prior and subsequent episodes. The flashback about Claire’s peanut butter and jelly sandwich when she returned to the 18th century was Diana’s doing, she wanted to fix that omission from season three.

When Claire returned to her own time at Culloden, she went forward 202 years.

In the books, it actually goes back to Young Ian’s kidnapping from Scotland when Jamie was taking som gems for something or other after Jamie was freed from Helwater. Aunt Jocasta was one of the three MacKenzie sibling who share the gold shipment after Culloden. It came up again after we met Jocasta at River Run, and Ulysses was involved, and the Bugs, and at some point Jamie takes what’s left and hides it at the cave in the Southern Appalachians the cave was called Spanish something or other. But that was how the books were dealing with it. That’s the best I can do without rereading the Companion volumes at a minimum.

I think a couple of storylines will still need to be addressed that have been mentioned this season, and I think I see the chess moves necessary to bring them about in season six. First, the Fraser Gold mentioned very early this season that involved Aunt Jocasta, and Ulysses and a river Run. spSecond, it’s possible Bree, Roger and Jemmy ended up in Scotland in 1772 or 3 or 4. That would tie in to Brianna first arriving there and going to Lallyboch lat season, and now that Ulysses, Lord John, and William are all there, that might have that meeting take place in England rather than Fayetteville. And then the MacKenzies go forward to the 20th Century. That may also set the stage for Claire and Jamie to travel back to Scotland for the Murrays and that printing press.

I’m pleased that Diana wrote this episode. She has that deft touch with family interactions. And the ones with Jemmy, Lizzie and Ian were heartwarming. And entrusting Ian with the land grant given to Roger will help Ian feel more attached to Fraser’s Ridge. It’s interesting the Browns didn’t say one word about Mohawk Ian in this episode.

I know from his social media that Brian J Smith decided to wait out the quarantine and production hiatus in Berlin. (Still haven’t sen anything about whether Threadstone got an order for a second series, but that would be an added reason he’d stay in Europe.)

Re the Doctor and his musician friend in Paris. Given the timeline of real events in the first year of the war, things in Paris got a later start, so it makes sense to me that the story arc comes along later. I’m sure that story will start to develop in the latter half of the first series. I have the dvd set now, but I’m planning to watch an episode a week until I get an overdue manuscript finished in the next two weeks. ( And with Outlander’s season over after next weekend, as well as some other shows ending early this season, I’ll be down to World on Fire, Upload, and Hollywood to watch soon enough.)

This episode was written by Diana Galbadon, her second of the series.

This episode was written by Diana Galbadon, her second of the series.

I’ve had this online persona for about 25 years. My avatar is of my current mini schnauzer, a black and silver female, who will be three next week. But schnauzers have been in my family coming on 50 years next year.

Darren is the most multifaceted entertainer of his generation. The closest comparison I can think of who covered drama, comedy, and musical performance in his career is Frank Sinatra.

Now that this story arc’s been finished a whole novel early, which still makes my head spin, now we’ll have to see which of the Fiery Cross storylines are saved for season six and which have been dropped altogether. Likewise I, could only speculate what comes out of A Breath of Snow and Ashes, for season 6. We’ll have to see what the last two episodes are like, because, right now, after this episode, I haven’t a clue.

I think they had started moving westward, as they encountered Russian solders first, then ran into German solders, In episode four they again encountered German troops, and then encountered British troops either in Belgium or northern France. It wasn’t stated where they were for any particular encounter or when, so the obvious implication is that they traveled for a long enough period outside of cities and towns to make their way across.

I am letting the show tell it’s story. I have no presumptions concerning the characters and its storylines, since season one is only the first year. And it’s already been renewed for a second by the BBC.

BJR was a psychopath, Bonnet was a sociopath (like Andrew Cunanan) which is what was intended for the background on him.

I don’t have the link handy, but RL NASA appointed its first ever female flight director this past week.

Something to keep in mind with the CW and it’s shows. It’s less concerned about Live or Live Plus 7 ratings, than Live Plus 30 and streaming and international viewing, all of which they use to calculate profits. Roswell is not the lowest rated CW show, dynasty is, but it seems to survive because of international markets. Whether it gets past season three depends on things that are unknowable right now and how much of a delay the entire 2020-21 season has because of the production shutdown due to COVID19 and whether there is a writer’s strike on top of that.

No, these last three episodes are set in 1771.

I had been aware of this since John Bell was originally cast as Young Ian, but John did an Instagram Live chat on the Outlander page a couple of days back and the question of when he got his first role acting came up. Turns out he gives us another Doctor Who connection to Outlander. John’s first role was in the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) episode Utopia, which was the only appearance of Sir Derek Jacobi, and the first appearance of John Simm, as The Master, and marked the first return of John Barrowman to that series. John Bell was the young munchkin whose responsible for a key plot point in the episode. That’s one heck of a casting lineup for one’s first acting gig!

I’ll post more coherently after I get time to rewatched, but I’ll point out how Ian gave Jamie a piece of his mind that was long in coming, and how Ian is an adult who loves his family just as much as Jamie. Old Ian wouldn’t have been able to do it any better. The episode itself makes it three for three. I don’t know what happened in the writers room, but dang, these three episodes, separately or together has been among the best of the series.

This is the first mention of Sarah Jane’s passing, so for canonical purposes that means Sarah Jane lived until 2020. Ever since Lis Sladen passed, I wondered how it would ultimately be handled, and I’m glad RTD was the one who found a way to do it.