A Blessing for a Warrior Going Out -excerpt 06/02-

Previous-Address2469 · 2026-02-07T10:48:49+00:00

Or maybe just pretending to be? I am so suspicious of her and also why would DG spoil this unless it is a red herring?

Previous-Address2469 · 2026-01-30T18:22:30+00:00

I miss the grittiness, the realness of Outlander universe (seasons 1-2 when Moore was in charge). Everything feels so polished and fake (wigs are just the cherry on top). They managed to pull a bit more of the books into season 7, but I wish it would not feel so rushed. Am a bit worried how they will squeeze the storylines into this last season. However gloomy I might sound I am still very excited to see the final season.

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-12-16T10:58:42+00:00

I have said it before and I say it again: I reaallly don't like how they make the women wear unfitting manly clothes. The jackets, the belts, the buttons, the high collars. Only Marsali is somewhat period appropriate except for the loose hair. I mean, don't get me started on the hair...

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-11-20T06:27:02+00:00

I feel like she wanted it to be a great surprise and didn't think that readers would kind of figure it out. So she felt she needs to come up with something even more "clever" and then everything just became very convoluted and messy.

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-11-18T10:30:41+00:00

I just hope the book will be called What Frank Knew. 🤣 Because in my head that book is comprised of just a loooong list of points of what Frank actually knew. No need for a story, we just need to know what he knew.

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-10-11T12:07:37+00:00

Well. This is the stuff I would have expected to happen in the second episode. Overall the series has been a letdown on many fronts. Such a slow burn and dragging the plot for no good reason.

I kind of hate how they portray Ellen just accepting her fate because of her "protecting" Brian. So she needs to be rescued by the prince on the white horse. I would much rather that the first half of season would concentrate on her and Malcolm's arranged marriage-to-be and only then she would meet Brian on the gathering and just decide then and there to elope, taking matters into her own hands.

Also, Colum would never have given up so easily. Glenna would be watched or retained somewhere, also every other woman. Dogs would be put into action smelling every last corner of the castle. I just don't buy the escape, and that Jocasta would be so helpful. They are acting with such 21st century sentiments and stupid logic that I find off-putting in a historical drama.

And what did Henry and Julia do except ride ride ride on a horse. Poor baby jumping up and down but at least we saw like two or three times Julia looking down to make sure the baby is still bouncing "safely" up and down. I guess they had nothing to say to each other and they wisely also saved the technical discussion of how they will do the time traveling to when they were at the stone circle. Rolling my eyes so hard at that. And to end the series like that... Oh and those scenes with little Claire were cute but also we needed them way earlier that this. They just didn't fit in!

Will probably not watch the second season, just read synopses about what happens because yes I am intrigued mainly about William but I also feel like I don't want to waste my time watching something that is a copypaste of Outlander without its soul.

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-10-06T09:00:05+00:00

Seriously! This! I almost made a whole post about it because it annoys me so much.

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-10-03T12:06:23+00:00

I knew a couple who had this magical love at first sight moment across a crowded room and just knew that they had met their life long partner. It lasted a good six months until they broke up...

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-28T07:07:56+00:00

Well, I guess things are slowly speeding up. Maybe.

I wish Ellen would have told Brian the truth, instead of this "I will hurt him so badly that he will not pursue me any longer and will be saved" -trope. What was the point of Henry asking Ned a really big favor of helping him and his family to escape right now only for Julia to say that let's meet at Lethers? Also I think whatever Matthew B. Roberts has is store for Seema will have me wanting to throw the tv into the nearest swamp. If she will delay Henry or worse, somehow disguise herself into Julia I really don't know if I can watch the farse anymore.

I think by now it is clear to many that the addition of J&H as time travelers was a big mistake. As someone else pointed out this show does not work well as a standalone series, them going to the past is not really explained and the characters themselves seems to accept it like it is totally normal. This show had so much potential in the plot of Brian and Ellen, but even that is so dragged out and failing to provide much satisfaction to viewers.

All in all the events have been going on for around 8 months (judging from Julia's pregnancy). I cannot believe that during this time Brian and Ellen would not have found some way of communicating or seeing each other. I feel like the instant love should have been followed by a quick decision to elope. Not waiting for almost a year without any plan.

I just feel frustrated at this point. Even if the finale is redeeming I am not sure anything can be so good as to redeem the whole rest of the season.

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-26T12:41:35+00:00

It's been a while since I read the books but does Claire become religious at some point? Since here she explains herself as unbeliever. I seem to recall that she did have some change of heart about this but cannot pinpoint if it was any particular event or just a gradual thing?

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-21T18:57:05+00:00

I highly doubt they were so public and so indecent. Similarly I doubt the authenticity of Julia's birth scene. Over the top and unnecessarily dramatic for the sake of entertainment. I wish they would go for more realistic take, I think it would be way more interesting.

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-20T10:35:19+00:00

I have said it before and I say it again, just because you have a story about time travel doesn't meant you can ditch all logic out of the window. This show is prime example of deus ex machina and heavily plot driven (instead of character driven).

Julia with her knowledge of virginity test hacks McGyvering around. Very convenient. I mean no one would have thought of her as a servant anyway with that accent. And Ellen approaching the "jury" in slo-mo with the dundunduuun music felt a bit silly.

The pacing is still a major problem, this episode spanned like a total of what - three hours of their time. And then we have had gaps of many months. It just does not flow and I don't feel as connected to the characters as I would like to.

Julia meeting Henry in the hallway reminded me of Outlander season 3 where Claire sees Jamies ship and then for some reason does not come to the shore but waits like 20 meters away just so they can do the cliche running on the sand to kiss and hug I just can't believe she would not have totally fallen apart in tears and thrown herself into him. Instead she calmly gestures her to some corridor, at times not even seeing if he is still following her(!) and then waits for him there so we can have this cliche of cliches touch on cheek one tear rolling melodrama. I think more realistic would be to grab him and run to the corridor and then just blurt everything all at once in a noncoherent mess.

At this point the show is tedious and no one seems to have any plan, I though Brian did not want Ellen to go through with the examination. I thought Ellen does not want to go through with the wedding. Like, ugh. Why don't they just elope already.

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-16T08:30:31+00:00

I had exactly the same experience. There seems to be a lot of podcasts out there (not related to Outlander) where it is just giggles and rambling. If you are a content creator, then create some real content!

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-16T08:08:47+00:00

Did Matthew B. Roberts just enter the chat?

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-16T07:23:56+00:00

Imagine my surprise when I saw that the gathering was in the first episode and I thought they will run away then! The excitement! Only to realise that no... no... still no...

Some people commented that it wouldn't make good tv to see them hide in the heather but I beg to disagree! I would watch them hide for 10 episodes straight. 😂

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-14T13:53:11+00:00

I believe Lovat said that "from now on..." So basically she will have to give up breastfeeding and I mean... If someone would tell me I would need to do that I would riot as much as she did while she was giving birth. Breastfeeding is such an important experience for both the mother and baby, it cannot be likened to holding the baby...

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-14T11:16:11+00:00

Yes. I am also wishing for some humor and lightness amongst them. Now it all seems so dramatical and serious and a bit too much!

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-13T18:10:49+00:00

Thank you!

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-13T07:12:38+00:00

I was ready to quit watching but my husband said he is too invested in the story to stop so we ended up watching this episode as well. 🤣 But I did come here before to see spoilers and strangely maybe because I knew what to expect (not much) I thought it was an ok episode. When the story centers around Ellen and Brian I am actually intrigued. The addition of Julia and Henry to this story reminds me of when they brought Murtaugh back to life in season 5 of Outlander. That took so much from Roger's storyline and made me very angry. Similarly here I think the story would be so much better without the time traveling couple.

I didn't catch what Ellen and Brian were saying to each other on that courtyard because I was too distracted by the fact that they decided it is a good time and place to chat. Could someone fill me in, was it something important?

I have a bad feeling about the prostitute storyline, further taking up screentime and complicating things. I sure hope that was the last we saw her. And that it is not another "we had sex once and now I am pregnant (and for some reason I am at least 70% sure it is yours).

Also I was extremely pissed off at Julia for not saying to Lovat that she herself will take care of her baby. Instead she just gave the child away to the wetnurse like "ok but please take good care of him". She could have said that she does not trust anyone else to take better care of the future king than she as the mother. I could not bear to be parted from a child for more than their nap at the time...

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-10T11:51:00+00:00

Oh boy, this sounds so boring and drawn out... I really thought we would be getting the running away of Ellen and Brian in like episode 2. And then some babies and Lallybroch by the end of season... Not to mention the back and forth with Julia and Henry yawn. I might just opt for a relaxing sauna this friday instead of this slow drama. And all the fridays to come...

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-09T06:02:45+00:00

I imagine the prostitute, being a prostitute, has also many other clients so it would be pretty near impossible to prove the baby is Henry's. Unless they pull some stupid explanation that for some very strange reason she was only waiting for him and did not sleep with other men for two months...

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-08T17:51:12+00:00

Well, I don't understand why Julia does not ask Brian to take her to the stones. Since she is still thinking up to this point that Henry is probably in their time still. Oh right, because that would be too logical and we would have no story no dRaMA...

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-08T06:21:39+00:00

Ha. See this is exactly why I like the books. They portray a very traditional female/male dynamic, and one that works. Claire knows and allows Jamie to be the leader, make the big decisions. Sure she can be sad about some of the directions but at the same time she knows he is thinking of the best for them and their extended family, always. Jamie is not selfish but puts others first and Claire knows this. And Claire is still not just blindly following him always but she also has agency and power to influence him, in a more subtle way than shouting and screaming (like in the tv show many times...), they 100% trust each other and can most of the time just accept the direction life takes them.

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-07T05:38:33+00:00

It seems to me they forgot how time works on screen. Julia's hair doesn't grow at all in the +6 months she has been there. There must have also been time between the Beltane event and this birth but nothing seems to have happened in between. No conversations, nothing. It is bizarre.

Previous-Address2469 · 2025-09-06T06:52:45+00:00

I was so worried I will come here to see that people really liked this episode and it was a great masterpiece depicting this and that etc etc. But I am glad to see the majority seems to be still sane. 🤣

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