Category Archives: MY Writing
My various thoughts/rants depending on the mood I was in when I wrote them!
Outlander – The Birds and The Bees
This week’s episode pulls no punches both literally, after all it is Jamie doing the hitting, and emotionally, when Jamie finally meets his daughter. Contains SPOILERS. At its heart Outlander is all about love. It’s one of the main reasons why the books and TV series are so compelling. There is romantic love as depicted […]
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Full Marks to the Outlander Production Team in Dealing with a Difficult Scene So Well. If Nothing Else, the Wilmington Episode Makes Clear the Stark Difference between Sex and Rape This week’s episode is a tale of two halves – Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) are in Wilmington, summoned by Governor Tryon (Tim […]
Continue readingOutlander – Down the Rabbit Hole
No Jamie or Claire this week, instead the focus is on the trials and tribulations of Brianna (Sophie Skelton) and Roger (Richard Rankin), with the added bonus of a surprise return by one of Outlander’s stalwarts in the form of Brianna’s 20th century father, Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies). Thus this week’s show begins with Brianna, […]
Continue readingOutlander – Blood of My Blood
Surprise Visitors (Again), Secrets and Confessions.Contains SPOILERS For somewhere that is at the back of beyond, Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) don’t half get their fair share of unexpected visitors at Fraser’s Ridge. This time it’s none other than Jamie’s would-be paramour, Lord John Grey (David Berry) who has made a rather considerable […]
Continue readingOutlander – Savages
The Return of a Much Loved Character, Claire’s in Trouble (Again) and Roger is Wearing Even More Wool than Usual. CONTAINS SPOILERS. Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) are in a good place emotionally, as witnessed in a tenderly written scene at the start of this week’s episode. Here Jamie reveals to Claire that […]
Continue readingOutlander – Common Ground
Settling Down, Surprises, Shock Endings – Outlander This Week is Back on Track. CONTAINS SPOILERS This week’s episode opens with Jamie (Sam Heughan) signing a deal with the British government to be the proud owner of 10,000 acres of land. All things considered, it’s a rather generous land grant though it remains to be seen […]
Continue readingOutlander – The False Bride
Brianna and Roger Almost Get Together, Claire Almost Gets Lost and Things Get Weird in the Woods. CONTAINS SPOILERS At the start of this week’s episode we’ve moved forward in time and back across the ocean to 1970s Scotland, where Roger (Richard Rankin) has sold off the house (presumably it’s not the manse then?) and […]
Continue readingOutlaw King
Bloody Battle Scenes and Gutsy Heroes Come Together in a Visual Feast. Medieval Scottish History gets the Hollywood Treatment Yet Again. Outlaw King neatly sums up the adage that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. The eponymous king is Robert the Bruce, a thorn in the side to the English but a hero […]
Continue readingOutlander – Do No Harm
An Uncomfortable Watch, An Impossible Decision & the Pros and Cons of Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth. Contains Spoilers. Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) arrive at River Run and finally get to meet Jamie’s Aunt Jocasta (Maria Doyle Kennedy). River Run turns out to be an impressively wealthy estate but it […]
Continue readingOutlander – America The Beautiful
The moral of this week’s episode would seem to be: no good deed goes unpunished, though saying that, unusually for Outlander, the opening episode of Season 4 is rather a slow burner that’s if you discount the first 10 minutes or so and the last 5, neither of which proves fortunate for either of Jamie’s […]
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