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Yes, I totally loved that. The cold open was absolutely perfect and by far my favorite part of the episode. All of the little bits of resonance - like him touching the sign causually, with familiarity, in the same place Claire would later touch with such hesitant reverence.

This episode reminded me a bit of the first half of S1, where I found on-screen Jaime a bit inscrutable and hard to connect with. Even thought this ep was from his POV I didn’t really *feel* the reunion from him as much as I did from Claire (Cait did an amazing job with the hope/fear/trepidation/uncertainty combo she rocked for most of the ep.) Also, whoa did some of Jaime’s direct-from-the-book lines to Claire about her body, her breast, her hair come off WAY cheesier out loud than on the page. I cringed a bit a few times. OTOH, I’m glad my favorite random line from the brothel girl (stick a finger up his bum/I’ll save you a bannock) made the cut. I laughed just as much here as in the book.

Yeah, I've re-read the first half (up to the reunion and then skipping to some of the Lallybroch scenes) umpty dozen times, but only read the second half once. I can't quite bring myself to wade through all of that again. It should make the second half of this season more surprising to me!

Episode 4: In which we confirm that Cole is a fucking moron.

As excited as I am for the upcoming reunion scenes I am, like, anti-excited for the introduction of Mr. Willoughby, which must follow shortly after. I really hated that part of Voyager (well, I didn't like a lot of the second half of Voyager, but the writing of Willoughby in particular.) I'm holding out hopes that the show will handle the character better, but I'm still really nervous.

How big of a jerk did Mr. "I-speak-many-Arabics" seem to be? Reminds me of all the annoying guys in my grad program.

"Obediah?" "Obediah Masterson, that's my real name." /Guys and Dolls Aaaand that's all I know about Obediah. That was a toughie!

No spoilers yet? Does no one know what the teased Big Cheating Drama of next week is?

It was definitely up there, but I'm still not over Season 4 when Carmen Webber sent her poor male model out with a literal swatch of fabric draped around his neck in lieu of a shirt. #neverforget

The editors hate the twins. I love how everyone whose looks they dragged in talking heads (Kenya, Brandon) get praised to high heavens by the judges.

I got too clever and went Scipio Africanus for FJ. Why must I always complicate things?

I was legitimately hiding my face in a blanket from second hand embarrassment when she sang. So. Cringey. I thought Braised's idea of small take-away bags of rub with their social media info on them was actually pretty genius. People like a take-away item.

It's baaaaack! Normally I'm really good with author FJs, but I could not come up with Lawrence to save my LIFE. It's always a little face saving when none of the contestants get it either....

Heidi was really, really, REALLY excited about them sleeping at the Empire State Building. Did she come up with that idea? Does she secretly maintain an Empire State Building fan blog? Usually she barely musters herself to the level of faux peppy.

Could anyone tell if they gave the designers dress dummies that at least approximated their models' proportions? It would be hard to draw for a more busty gal, for example, on a standard model sized dummy.

Lots of gender-fluid designers this year which could be an interesting vibe. The judges tend to want to only crown one designer of a certain style per season, so I suspect one of them will do quite well and the rest will be early fodder.

Sooo...Jenna wants to bone Kevin, is what I got from this episode.

Noooo! That was a sad way for a champ to go down, but Justin has often been an odd FJ wager-er. That was was a super hard FJ, to me, but then the movie categories are some of my worst. I just don't remember actors' names that well and "Who is, that guy who was in the thing with the other lady?" Probably wouldn't go over well.

Me too! I would kick BUTT at a Jeopardy board comprised entirely of Broadway lyric, vocabulary, and history questions. It's them damn geography and science questions that get me.

I love learning new things from Jeopardy, but I did NOT need to know that somewhere out there is an ant whose bite can kill me.

Me too! And my response was basically like Justin's: "Why not?" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean, if any President were to have had a sloth in the White House TR would have my vote.

Perhaps it's because I share his profession, but I'm really digging Justin. I was sad to see him in a hole and glad he dug his way out. Hopefully he can keep his win streak up a little longer. Those wacky ties don't come cheap, you know... My lol moment of the evening was my husband turning to me during FJ answer reveals and dead panning, "Ah yes, MIT and its world famous gunnery department." That seemed like an instaget to me.

Oh yes, all of that cured marmalade we are all so fond of, lol.

JIMMY HOFFA???? (So he could get buried there, later?)

I had to laugh at poor Shannon trying to describe her anime cosplaying hobby, to which Trebek was just like "... moving along."