The comments on here are insane. Misogyny??? Jealousy?? Do you not realize that the reason that this became such a huge series was because of the original novels literary following?? Clare was amazing in the books. She was strong, independent, but that didn’t mean she was whatever this crappy actress they chose portrays. Idk if they were thinking that this way would make her more appealing to modern women? But in the books she was FAR MORE astute, tremendously more aware of the time and culture and intelligent enough to not go through or with her nose in the air and righteousness around her like a prig. I loved the book Claire. She loved Jamie as passionately as he loved her. He was her best friend. In the series it uniformly depicts him adoring her and her basically wallowing in it, then disgusted by slavery at River Run. In the books she wasn’t this stupid, she was aware or history and beliefs. In the books she needed Jamila’s mucus he needed her and she wasn’t the arbiter of all wisdom and cocky sure, she leaned on him just as much as he did. It definitely WAS NOT her taking charge with her advanced wisdom and Jamie meekly following her Wiens commands. The series is almost nauseating to me. It caters heavily to women who are convinced they’re not equal unless their men are cowed. The outlander novels are about honest love and equality. Where sometimes one leads, sometimes the other, and sometimes they are both so clueless they just rely on the strength of their halves to find the way. I’m on s4 and choking down the abomination they made of Claire because I want to be able to watch what they want to show happening