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I feel like the reveal will not hit as hard since they decided not to do the fixing of the high place then doesn't show up. It will be like the Buck reveal, a bit of a wet squib that book readers will get but the rest of the show watchers won't understand. Though I think that the Buck reveal could have been better as they knew that Graham wasn't available. I'm also sorry they left out so far, by maybe next season.

Neither have I, but since I don't always know the "celebrities" either I figure it is okay.

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But she gets the audience involved so if past history is to go by then she will be through. And then it will be competition between her and White Tiger on who will go home first next time. Well at least the right one goes home this time.

The T-rex is Sarah Hyland, she was on Lip Sync Battle Shorties with Nick Cannon and did Lego Super Heroes with Arnett as Batgirl.

Jocasta wanted to sign everything over to Jemmy, but I think that Bre and Roger turned it down. I know that Wylie worked with Bonnet as did Forbes. It was all the men that were rejected by the Fraser women banding together.

I wonder if the close ups with Nick is filmed during the week after the release. Or if he does some voiceover that makes sense.

I thought the same, but maybe with it cancelled he was pointing out they were filling in the gap.

Could the Astronaut be Jonathan Taylor Thomas. But Levett is 5'9 so that one is harder to believe unless Nick Cannon is wearing wearing platform shoes to throw us off.

I think that is the big difference between book Claire and TV Claire, and even book Jamie and TV Jamie. Dianna made it a point to show Jamie as devout as he could be given the general dislike of Catholicism in England and the Colonies, remember in the books it was a cloak and dagger operation to get the kiddos baptized Catholic and Jocasta's marriage was postponed during the gathering because of this antagonism. But Claire was more nominally Catholic, drawing closer to her faith during the 20 years that Bre was growing up because it brought her closer to Jamie. However in the show, they have drawn back from the religious sides of all the characters, which will be interesting given Roger's book story line. I wasn't as happy with this episode as the previous block of episodes. I think that the Knox/Jamie conflict was odd and is going to be an issue in the future, If nothing else the messenger that brought the dispatches about Ardsmuir knew that Knox had company when he delivered the dispatches which happened just before the "fire." Adso was so cute, and those poor twins, I too was worried that one of the twins was going to end up having a reaction (that would be one way to side step future issues). Otherwise the episode felt like a lot of exposition, and almost a waste of an episode. Maybe it will be better on re-watch after the season is done and I can see how they end up wrapping it up and I am not so worried about getting to the end of the story I know is coming.

I would assume that means that the Taco goes home tonight then, since I can't imagine if he was the Taco and gave such a wink*nod to the audience then it would risk breaking his NDA or something like that.

I wasn't sure what to expect with this episode given the events that were coming up. I like that they gave the episode time to breath, they really could have rushed through things but instead sufficiently built the story and let it tell itself fairly well. I was looking forward to meeting our second Beardsley twin, and I'm happy that he is here. I did like the suspense that was built up as Jamie and Claire searched the homestead for people and thought that it was just creepy enough. You really felt like there may be ghosts of the previous Beardsley wives hanging around the property. But a lot of the creep factor went away with the discovery of Beardsley upstairs and it felt like that was where the episode began to drag just a bit. The writers did something I wouldn't have expected by keeping the episode contained in the house, I actually felt a lot of sympathy for Fanny Beardsley. She went from being a of a slovenly back woods wife with broken teeth and crazy ghost stories, to a beaten woman. It was much easier to empathize with her and her plight, and i think part of it was because though she abandon's the baby it is in a house, not out in the middle of a the coldest spring. I could have done without the body horror as they focused on with Mr. Beardsley, he was much less sympathetic of a character and the writers did a good job of keeping him less redeemable, it was still a mercy killing on Jamie's part but one death that was well deserved for his past actions if one believes in capital punishment. Other comments for the episode. I'm glad that they showed that Claire doesn't find the penicillin bacteria right away, and they had her using scraps of other food as well, though where they are going to get a cantaloupe is beyond me (per Wikipedia a moldy cantaloupe produced the best penicillin bacteria in the 1940's that allowed for mass production when combined with corn liquor, which could be on the ridge at this point). And as someone in the non-books section noted that Fergus used the back of Claire's notes to write up the notice the militia call up. That could be good or bad depending on where the writers decide to go with things, but I have a feeling it will be important either way., if nothing else it will prevent Marsili from learning something important about doctoring. I also thought it was interesting the continued dichotomy of the way Jamie treats Fergus and Roger. It felt like the writers are highlighting that particularly this episode. As well as having the distance between Jamie and Roger to continue to grow and I have a feeling will also play into events further in the season. I am not surprised that we are getting a full episode of the Brownsville incidents, it is important for set up for further episodes and seasons to allow that storyline to grow as well. I think if they had included it in this episode it would have rushed both story lines too much.

I loved the episode as a whole and felt it did a good job getting through the Gathering without doing an actual Gathering but I had the same questions that you did Tina. So I looked up who was who at imdb and the only one that stuck out at that age range was Isaiah Morton, I don't think it was the same actor who played Beardsley who was much younger. But Isaiah Morton wasn't that major of a character, there were other characters they could have chosen. And he wouldn't have been the first one I would have seen to pledge fealty to Jamie. But then the cast of characters on imdb also included the Bugs and they weren't introduced. As much as I thought the Duncan Innes came from left field I was happy to see that our Murtagh wouldn't be put into the problematic issues that occurred with Innes and Jocasta prior the the Revolutionary War in the book. And I like the idea of using the search for Murtagh as a search for Bonnet. The other thing I was happy about was the lack of conversation about the cross that was set on fire. It was also good that they made it a Celtic cross rather than a Roman one. Hopefully without the conversation from the book no one will make a connection to the Klan that Roger did.

Please, please send the tiger home this week. This is worse than William Hung.

Victor Oladipo was born in Silver Spring, MD and that letter was from MD 😉