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There are story-related reasons to keep them in the south. For one thing, they were in the west indies and that's literally where they washed up. Also, going to New England - or anywhere in the northeast - would land them smack in the middle of the Revolutionary War. The thinking was that they would be safe from it in their remote mountain hideaway.

Nifty, thanks!

Are you sure you can't watch it on your television? I thought most TVs these days were connected to the internet.

Dude cleans up well.

My incredibly uninformed guesses are Buck for the first one and one of the Browns for the second. But who the heck knows?

His hairline is super-weird in that first picture.

I don't think it's propaganda. Camilla wasn't suitable because she wasn't a virgin, though she was the one Charles was in love with. So he was pressured to marry Diana, and we see how that turned out. The BRF have since learned their lesson and William and Harry were allowed to marry for love, even if one of wives was a commoner and the other an American.

That woman is quite the tease.

Yes, typically all of their shows are released a season at a time.

The long-term girlfriend is an invention of the TV show. In the books, Claire suspects that he's had a number of affairs but according to D. Gabaldon, it's ambiguous whether or not he did. Regardless of what she says, there's evidence in the text - in the scene where he tells her he's leaving with Bree - that there actually were affairs. The only narrative purposes of the long-term girlfriend, to me, seem to be 1) it makes Frank a little more sympathetic if his relationship is love-based and 2) to tell Claire something that I believe spurs her towards going back to Jamie. She says something about wasted time and opportunity to be with the person that you love. Other than that, I don't see the point of the change.

Dear god, but I hated that scene.

Wasn't he on the verge of raping Claire when Jamie showed up to break her out? Also, he was on the verge of raping Claire when the McKenzies intervened in the first episode.

Randall isn't gay - he's an equal opportunity sadist. The reason he couldn't get it up with Jenny is because she wasn't showing any fear of him. Instead, she was laughing, which is not a turn-on for our BJR.

Amazon doesn't rent the seasons - it sells subscriptions to premium services like Starz & HBO, so you'd have access to everything on Starz for the time that your subscription is active.

The reason that Jamie tracks Claire's menstrual cycle is because he is very young who wants to get laid. Those two go at it like bunnies so he's going to know when she has her period and when she doesn't.

I just figured he was keeping track of them so he'd know when he could and couldn't have sex with her. He's a very young man.

They are friends, not just colleagues, so I think it would be fine - even today.

I will be, but I'm only in it for Elliot and Margo. As for the episode title, IMDB is still showing "The Seam" but the Magicians wiki has the new title and a mention of its original title.

He looks all growed up!

In the second book, they switch up the POV a bit. I know that at least Julia gets her own chapters. If you're at Brakebills South, have you gotten to the part where they change into foxes? Things get a little bit lively there.

I've read a lot of things in the last few years that tell us that Diana was not an unalloyed joy to be around. She was initially immature and unprepared for her new position but she was also mentally and emotionally unstable, throwing regular tantrums and basically freaking people out. She was just clever enough that this was never made obvious while she was alive. There's a reason that William and Harry sponsor mental health charities - they know that their mother needed help she did not get. My take is that she was a human - lots of good, some flaws, but basically a decent person in really difficult series of situations. She was also a pretty good mom, from all indications. Her sons were raised to be less snotty than their father. What I've let go of is my sense that Charles was the bad guy. Charles was a victim, too. He wasn't allowed to marry the love of his life (because she wasn't a virgin, FFS) and was railroaded into marrying someone like Diana. Maybe he should have either not cheated with Camilla or at least been more discreet about it, but he's not the first person ever to be in love with someone other than their spouse. What all of that trauma and heartache has resulted in, however, is younger generations being allowed to marry whomever they choose. Thus William married a commoner (with whom he'd lived in sin!) and Harry married a biracial American divorced woman. Will they both stay married forever? Who knows? But they had a much better start then poor Charles and Diana.

I think the point was that they were supposed to marry virgins so that there would be no question of paternity should she turn up pregnant. It wasn't about morality - it was about succession. At least, that's my reading of it.

To be honest, it was the producers who described that phone call (or meeting or whatever.) It's quite possible that Grossman wasn't as enthusiastic about it as has been reported but can't really say so in public.

My feeling from the actors is that they are also upset and sad, but there is a limit to what they can say in public. As for the producers, to my knowledge, they haven't said anything public that indicates that they think that they made a mistake, though it surely must be clear to them by now that they did. I'm not sure that resurrecting Quentin at this point will get them off the hook and I'm not sure that I'd welcome it. Maybe by the time next season starts I'll have worked through this, but I doubt it.