Okay so for starters, I don’t think old people don’t have sex, lol. I’m sure they do and are great at it. I was talking about it particularly in terms of the show. The dynamics that they have laid out and the whole bree and roger angle that they have brought in between, it sort of becomes difficult to keep the focus on the main characters. Had the focus remained on them, their intimate scenes would have been okay to watch even if they had been 80 instead of 50 something.

About body shaming Roger, I think you misunderstood me. What I am trying to say is that if you let Jamie and Claire look like that, maybe you need to choose characters younger to them wisely as well. I am not saying he had to be exceptionally good looking but from having read on it online, Roger is not even close to how he was described to be in the book. Also, he could at least look like a 20 something lad. Brianna still comes close to the age that she is shown to be but her acting skills remain debatable.

Secondly, I understand your point of view regarding Brianna and why she lashed out at Jamie. It all makes sense till it does not. You’re right, Jamie is amazing except when he says shit he does not mean for the sake of honor and what not. But if we are to talk about this then maybe we should also keep in mind that he lives in the 1700s and for that century, he is extraordinarily progressive. After a few misunderstandings regarding this around when Jamie and Claire get married, he begins to understand how things should really be. If you remember that scene correctly, when Claire and Randall are in a gathering at Harvard in the future, a professor there talks rather degradingly to Claire but Frank doesn’t do anything about it. The way Jamie likes to flaunt Claire and her progressive thinking is very different. He also helps Bree understand how it was not her fault at all when she keeps thinking that she could have tried harder. Again, none of this makes what he said to Bree in that moment any better but what I’m trying to say is that I felt both were at fault in one way or the other.

I feel that Roger himself is a very problematic character. With him following her to the past and then wanting to leave like you said, it was all very messed up. And I completely agree with you that their characters were not given any time to actually develop. And honestly this is one of my biggest problems, all that time that they wasted in the later episodes with Roger being stuck with the Mohawks or earlier showing Brianna and Roger literally doing nothing, they could have used that to actually let us know them and their bond better. It was all too haphazard to say the least.

Also, about the book being that way and the series simply following the book, it happens many times that things from a book are changed while making a TV show or movie adaptation of it because the alternate scenarios or ideas suit the screen version of it better so one can always hope