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I really like the extended version of "The Reckoning" as well. I also agree that it was better than the aired version and really showed Jamie's intelligence. I also liked when he stood up to Colum regarding Claire, or was that a deleted scene from another episode?

Episode 5 takes place back in ASZ. Rick is also in the episode so I assume that's when we find out how he escapes.

I spent way too much time on TSDF tumblr site tonight. However, it does seem that they are spot on in what they report. The info they had for the first 3 episodes was correct and they have several pictures of Glenn filming beginning with episode 7. He was reported to be on set today. Both Glenn and Darryl seem to be safe for the MDF. Episode 6 is more than just Darryl's kidnapping it seems. There was a bridge scene filmed with Abraham for the episode.

You beat me to it!

When Glenn is falling, he is almost spooning Nick. When we see him land, it is only from the shoulders up, not his entire body. Burning the walkers doesn't kill them. It only makes them crispy walkers. Remember the ones from the "Look at the flowers" episode? Therefore, building a fire to get rid of them wouldn't work.

I agree with WatchrTina, Jamie was barely holding on. He does have a moment of true joy at the news of the pregnancy but it's brief. We've been told by the actors involved and Ron Moore that Jamie's recovery will continue into season 2. I actually think he actually said that the rape will effect him for the rest of his life. Jamie is not "vacant." He deftly manuavered between his uncles during the gathering, helped broker the peace between them when Colum and Dougal were arguing about the money for Bonnie Prince Charlie and was the first to realize the trap when he went out with the Watch. He also was right about Claire staying away from Gellis. It's been shown that he's clever. Unless you're using a different definition of vacant that I'm used to, I can't see how Jamie fits.

I was sad when Rollo died but he had lived a long life (as was said) plus he died peacefully in his sleep and not from some horrible injury. It was the best I could have hoped for outside of having him live forever.

I really liked the extended episode for "The Reckoning." I liked the scene with Colum and the one with Murtaugh. I even liked the scene with Gellis as the episode includes the very end of the scene (which isn't in the clip I saw online) where Jamie tells her to mind her own business. FWIW when Claire calls him a stable boy Jamie immediately corrects her and states that he is the Laird of Lallybroch. Claire then apologizes. I think that scene also shows Jamie in a position of strength. He corrects Claire when she's wrong and she spologizes. Of course she's just upset because she doesn't want him to go to the duel but he still doesn't just take it.

I've wondered about that too. Prior to Jamie knowing about Claire and what she said about the future, he doesn't seem to be gung-ho for Bonnie Prince Charlie. Colum doesn't either. I think that Jamie would have been more pragmatic, like Colum, and taken whatever side he thought would keep his land and people safe. I think he would have tried to stay out of it as long as possible.

Wasn't Claire given that position because the hospital wanted her to stay away from the patients after that incident? Or at least isn't that what Claire thought?

Years of residency vary upon the specialty with the most common being 4. General surgeons have a total of 5 years of residency. A neurosurgeon requires 7 years of residency. I had to look it up because I didn't remember. I'm assuming Claire was a general surgeon. So if she started med school when Bree was 5, she would have completed her residency when she was 13. FYI, once you graduate from med school, you are considered a doctor.

Doctors go through a rotation of specialities before actually studying the one they choose during residency. That means they will do a rotation in labor and delivery, med/surg, neurology, pediatrics etc. No matter what the specialty, they get a general exposure to all disciplines.

It's exactly 50/50 right now. This time I had to pick out ice cream. Better than cabbage but now I want ice cream!

Not true. I use Firefox and I was just picking out burritos. Cait now has a very small lead, 50.9%.

It had me identify pick-up trucks and skateboards. I did the cabbage one once and found that difficult for some reason. It then gave me another chance with sailboats.

I fast forward the trial as well.

I was the same way but broke down and read all of the books in a month. Maybe it was 6 weeks. I'm hoping that as I've only read them once, I won't be disappointed so much if there is a scene I like in the book that isn't in the show. I don't usually have an issue with actors in a role. There have been exceptions. I had a really hard time with Denzel Washington in the Gray Grantham role in The Pelican Brief as I remember Gray as a middle-aged balding man with a pauch. The race change didn't bother me and I would have been fine if the remaining descriptors were met. Of course I realize that Denzel was a much bigger draw than a balding, chubby man would be. Back to Outlander, I agree about Wentworth and Ransom. I've heard that Diana write scenes as they come to her and then pieces it together later. It's very possible that there was a large chunk of time between writing those 2 scenes you mentioned in your first post above.

Didn't Jamie tell Willie that he had met his sister? I would think that it would cause Willie to wonder who might be his sister. If he then remembers Bree's hair? I gues we'll find out in the next book. Maybe.

It was funny but that combo of bagpipes and Amazing Grace had me in tears. Both make me think of funerals so the combo is deadly.

Babies born in the US also didn't need to get social security numbers at birth either at that time. I know neither me nor my sister received ours until it was time to get our driver's license. Getting one with the birth registration process didn't begin until the late 1980s so the birth certificates from Claire would have been all that was expected.

Yeah, I wouldn't have handled it well either although I was born later than Bree. Some of my friends' parents were this way which always came as a shock to me because my parents had more of a partnership even though they were born in the 1920s and 30s. I guess it was because my dad liked smart women and he figured if he had a smart woman, he should at least listen to her opinion.

Thank you! By the end of the book I wanted to slap Willie for his attitude.

I wonder if Jem tells Jamie about Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and lightsabers and Jamie's reaction to that!

I know. Jamie didn't get to raise either of his children and even his step daughters were teens when he married hosebeast. Fergus was 10 or 12 I think. I loved that he had such a close relationship with his grandchildren. I know he considers Fergus and Marsalis' crew his grandchildren too but Jem looks like Jamie and Jem and Mandy don't have another set of grandparents back in 1980. Plus, I want Jamie to have a relationship with Bree.

I see your point but Jane didn't have to make it so hard for him. It wasn't the trying to save them that I found annoying. I rather liked that about him. It was the fact that Jane kept running from him when he was only trying to help. Even Fanny knew she shouldn't be running. In fact, she decided to stop running and sat down and refuse to run anymore.