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Since this is the book thread, I think it's safe to say that the book killed Frank first!

I hope you didn’t stop watching- I will miss your haikus 😁

This would be true of every man I know who watches/likes it. To be clear I am not defending his comments, just saying he is right about this aspect.

Sign me up ! Not enough shirtless Jamie is my season 4 complaint!

This is obviously a convo from several years ago ( 3?), but I wanted to weigh in that I think bingeing is better than waiting a week, it makes the season smoother & you don’t forget about what happened 5 episodes ago but is now back in play. I did the first 2 seasons within 3-4 weeks. ( I read the books after that). I also never questioned a lack of intimacy in season 2 ( although I think there was much less sex shown), & their parting at the end was of that season was gut wrenching. I also think that those of us that watched it more than once paid more attention to every detail of their relationship than those viewers who only watch once. The quote below was supposed to be added to this post! I think everyone involved with the show ( producers, writers, actors, etc)pays attention to the viewer complaints as season 3 had many more sex scenes than season 2. And the big complaint of season 4 was Jamie’s wig bangs, & I note that in our first pics from season 5 those bangs are MIA!

I know it will be very hard to not spoil yourself but I suggest you don`t do that. (I would run out & buy the dvd`s for season 3 & 4 right now, I bought season 3 on iTunes because I was in no mood to wait for Netflix.) I can`t believe people like to spoil themselves or read ahead, then there are no surprises. Of course I do know how obsessive this show makes us, why am I here during Droughtlander re-reading what people thought about the episodes??

In this episode Jamie & Claire talked about how they couldn’t not fight now that Prince Charles put Jamie’s name as his supporter so Jamie would be a traitor to the crown & arrested even if he didn’t fight, so they decided the new tactic was to fight & win!

That oldest boy is Rabbie, who they took in in season 1. Jenny has 3 children now- Jamie, who was born before Jamie & Claire arrived in season 1, Maggie, who Claire helped deliver, & this new baby, Kitty, who Jamie was sitting with ( swoon). Obviously there was a time jump from the time Jamie & Claire returned from France to when the episode picked up the next sping/ summer.

Pegasaurus, there is a thread called “Ask the bookreaders” where someone will answer your question.

Jamie was smoking hot the whole episode!

Jamie talking to the baby bump was the best thing ever, so inevitably it is followed by the worst!

The problem with borrowing the dvds from the library is that when you are done you will want to watch it all again! (and again)

At first I laughed at that but then I realized how much Jamie wants a child, & it doesn’t seem so weird!

It's kind of a rotten spoiler!

Wasn’t that a shock & such a season spoiler that Claire had to go back? I love reading your predictions!

(Poor Jamie!) I always assumed she told Jamie that in episode 1-11, when she told him she was from the future. And then when she thought Jack died when they rescued Jamie she thought she had changed the future by being there. It was when she met Mary Hawkins in Paris that she remembered her name as Jack's wife on Frank's lineage line, & trouble began.

They are indeed the boots she wore back, & they must have survived that hurricane!

The library might be a good idea for the books too, or the used book store-that's where I found some of them!

Keep watching & you will be rewarded, although we never see her debate going or staying, but we do see where she feels she belongs. Do you think she is in love with Jamie now? I saw you introduce yourself, & my suggestion is to read the first 2 books after you watch these 2 seasons, but don’t read ahead of the show. I find it’s better to be surprised by the show events than to have book expectations. When you read them after the fact, it fills in some things, & you find out some events happened differently, but you are already in love with Jamie, so it won’t matter!

Good luck with not bingeing it all in a week, which is what I did when I discovered it, I could not stop, until I got through 2 seasons. Then I watched it all again. And told all my friends & family!

Thanks Scarlett45 for sharing your pics! Glad you had a great tour/day!

Thank you for the link, book marking for when I get to go to Scotland!

I'll take Jamie Fraser at any age! I love hotheaded young Jamie, but most of my friends love older Jamie, I think because he is more romantic. Just watching the Crown now, on epi 2 of the second season, must agree the acting is superb, & the costumes as well!

I think it's fair to have a few criticisms of the show, that doesn't mean we don't love it- I do love it, more than any show in forever. Giving this season an A-. I did do a poll at work and the season did come up as the least favorite season for everyone!