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James McArney's character name has been listed somewhere. I can't find it right now, but it wasn't Duncan Innes. I think he'll be one of the smugglers probably. As long as we don't get an announcement for Duncan Innes, I'm hopeful they will save Murtagh and I would be delighted. Duncan Lacroix has made the character so much better than the book character and he's my favorite after Jamie and Claire. I would be very sad if we lost him. A clue might be: Duncan's beard comes and goes lately. He had it until after the Ardsmuir scenes were filmed, but then shaved. Right now it is growing back and could be in the right length at the end of the current block in SA. So maybe there's hope? I won't give up on it until the opposite is proven!

IMO it's trolling. So many of the posters have never ever commented on the show before and now they're spamming the Outlander boards with exact the same postings (word for word btw), and provoking reactions of the viewers. I think it's way over the top. Brianna is supposed to be a brat and I thought Sophie did a good job portraying her as one. I thought her accent was great, but I'm not an American, so maybe I can't hear it? And I also thinks she looks very much like Jamie. My daughter, who is an unspoiled non book reader took one look at her and said "that's Jamie's daughter!". Also she (who is 14) thought Bree was really "cool", so maybe daughters see Teenage Brats differently than their mothers.

Actually she denied being of Mexican ancestry recently on twitter (about a month ago). She says that is one of the wrong things that reappear all the time in Wikipedia no matter how often she deletes it. She is actually of Spanish ancestry.

Ron Moore told some fans at a football game last week, that

Duncan shaved back in May. We haven't seen a newer picture since. Maybe he'll let it grow back. It's a long time till September! And remember he could be gone for a while, without Jamie knowing what happened to him so it could also be, that he will start much later than Sam/Cait..

He wrote: Season 1: The Garrison Commander (1.06) By the pricking of my thumb (1.10) Wentworth Prison (1.15) Season 2: Not in Scotland anymore (2.02) Prestonpans (2.10) Hail Mary (2.12) I liked Prestonpans and I thought Wentworth Prison was okay, too, even though for me it was harder to bear than "To ransom a man's soul" and I don't rewatch it. The Garrison Commander was blatant fan wanking over BJR though and the most boring episode of season 1, next to the whole invented storyline with the duel of the Duke of Sandringham, which was awfully boring, too. In Episode 2.02 he gave us 10 minutes of a farting King which I thought as completely unnecessary and silly and I hated Hail Mary, because it only had about 5 seconds of Jamie and Claire, but 10 added minutes of BJR instead. Prestonpans was a great episode though, I'll give him that.

Not cast, but the writers for S3 are known: https://twitter.com/TheMattBRoberts/status/748035654873980929 No Ira Stephen Behr any more! Sorry, to be happy about it, but I really didn't like any of his episodes. IMO it showed that he wasn't a fan of the books.

Here's the scene in Episode 1, taken from the script. You can read it here: http://www.outlandercommunity.com/

I'm sorry, I'm probably getting in trouble for posting in this thread, but I have to: she says she doesn't know the "strategy". She knows of course, what every English subject knows, because they learn it in school. Which would be the date when Bonni Prince Charles came over from France, she would know that the Jacobites won Prestonpans and when Culloden happened. That doesn't mean though she knows how the war was lead and what caused the outcome.

I was very disappointed by this episode. It left me completely cold. For me the most disappointing episode of the season. I was expecting pent up emotion, agony and I got one boring subplot after the next blown up unnecessarily. All the changes in the story seemed unnecessary. Why not leave it as it was? What I hated: Why wasn't Jamie with Claire at Alex and BJRs wedding? Why did BJR have to be persuaded by Claire to marry Mary? Why was it Claire's idea to press BJR for inofrmation and not the other way round? Where was Jamie in all that time? Why were Jamie and Claire seperated all the episode? When we only have one episode left? We have to feel the agony and the heartache, but it feels as if they're seperated for the whole season now. Again no intimacy. One 5 second scene between Jamie and Claire where Sam and Cait made the most out of what they're given, but they're the MAIN part of the show! It's THEIR story that is told in the books, not one side plot after the next! What I liked: The idea of surprising the English. Even though I know what is going to happen, I found myself hoping against better knowledge that they might somehow be successful. Murtagh. Duncan Lacroix is a gem. Please #saveMurtagh. He has proven to be the one real character that got his own story only in the show. In the book he was not of much importance to me. He was a good man, no doubt, but here in the show he is so much more important and so much more interesting. To lose him would be a complete loss for the show! When he proposed to marry Mary, I was genuinely touched. It was the only real emotional moment of the episode for me. Column Mackenzie. Gary Lewis is playing him wonderfully. I loved the scenes with him. Loved that he chose Jamie as the guardian for Hamish and the relationship between Column and Dougal is so complicated and deep. Very interesting. What was meh: All the rest. I couldn't care much for the Mary/Alex/BJR story. It frankly bored me. Maybe if I wasn't a book reader, I would have liked the storyline and there would have been at least a little element of surprise, but since I knew what was coming, it was just taking valuable screentime away from Jamie and Claire who barely interacted the whole episode.

I think that's not a fair description. I'm one of those, who think that there isn't enough sex scenes this season. I'm not a "perv" though and I don't see the story as a "background" or a way for them to "have sex at various places". Sex is an essential part of Jamie's and Claire's relationship in the books. A way to connect and to be really intimate with each other. It's like a special kind of language between them and some of the most beautiful scenes in the books are actually sex scenes. They left out so many of those beautiful, heartwarming and funny moments this season, because they're skipping all the sex scenes. I'm sad about it and I absolutely hate their lame excuses for it. "Jamie and Claire are not newlyweds anymore"? They're married for 18 months, what stupid argument is that? Or: "We don't need to see it, to know that it happens"? We didn't need to see the rapes either, but they had time enough to show them! 7 It's sad, that we have more rapes this season, than consential sex scenes between Jamie and Claire. It will be even worse in season 3. I'm gonna puke if they're going to make us endure Frank-nursery sex, Geneva and probably Laoghaire and we won't see Jamie and Claire, because "they're not newlyweds any more" and "we know that it happens so we don't need to see it". What happened to "when it's in the book it will be in the show" and "we're not shying away from it"? Direct quotes from Ron D Moore last season. IMO they are very much shying away from it now, for what reason? If Sam and Cait hadn't fought for the scene with the baby bump, wouldn't there have been any scenes at all? About the episode: I liked it, but didn't love it. I liked the scene with Prince Charles, where Jamie was the only one standing by him. I think for the first time the prince didn't seem like an idiot. Even though again no sex scene, at least there was this very sweet scene where Jamie is praying for Claire. That brought tears to this sappy soul's eyes, sniff. The English officer is Evelyn Napier!! (Little Downton Abbey reference) Overall a lot of humor and a lot of action in the episode though. Loved the scene where Jamie and Murtagh tried to read Claire's Gaelic, that was a hoot LOL. Also loved the Duke of Sandringham. He's OTT, but so funny. Yay for Mary! And then Murtagh!!! OMG. The last scene was just shockingly hilarious. My favorite line: "I think we better go", LOL, that was so English!

They did film Falkirk. At least the church scene, because it's in next week's preview, so all the talk about chosing Angus over Rupert IMO is just trying to confuse us. I think Rupert is going to die next week.

I wonder if Rupert will survive next week and then be the witness? I meant to have spotted him with a bandage around his head in the background of the kirk scene? Diana wrote the episode, so I'm really curious if she will do changes from the book!

I thought this episode was brilliant. And I say that as someone who isn't too much a fan of Ira Behr. I thought it was all so emotional. I cried through the whole battle, I think I actually cried more than I did in the "Faith" episode. Graham McTavish was great in this episode. Dougal really is an intriguing mix of a hot headed and a cold blooded bastard, in a good and in a very bad way. First the scene where he tried to ride into the moor? I cheered for him along with all the men. But then the scene with the English officer? I was disgusted!! I was sad about Angus and I was actually fooled into believing it would be Rupert, already chiding the writers in my head for straying from the book. Murtagh was wonderful again. I so love Duncan Lacroix in this role! He has made Murtagh his own and is so much better than the book character. Just amazing. His talk with Jamie and his short,emotional exchange with Claire. I really need Murtagh to remain in the show! And finally Sam was amazing. What a wonderful Jamie he is.Smart, strong, heroic. I see JAMMF come to life and I can't see anyone else ever replacing Sam in my vision of Jamie.

My choice for Lord John is Allen Leech. I think he looks a lot like Oscar Kennedy, who played young Lord John. Also Allen Leech has remarkable blue eyes, which are his best feature and I always imagined Lord John not being overly pretty, but with very pretty eyes. He's 5'10 which is pretty much Cait's height and (as I've seen in recent pictures) back to his old shape of season 1-3 of Downton (he got chubby in the last two seasons of Downton) which IMO would match Lord John's description in the book.