Outlander (spoilers)season3 episode 4

this season is extremely slow. I can see that they dont even get back to each other until the final moments of the finale.

Just watched episode 4 last night.

I'm losing my interest in this show. I think my wife is too, but she wants to hang on as much as possible since it's the only show she's enjoyed in a long time.

For one, I've lost all sympathy for Claire. What a terrible, selfish person whose obsession with a particular person is completely unhealthy. The daughter just going along with it and supporting her is unbelievable. They even established that Claire was absent from her life and that Frank felt he could take her to England to get away from Claire. But now she completely believes her mom that she's a time traveler who has been broken away from her true love for 20 years? And that she should help this mentally ill woman find the guy so she can time travel back to him and find true happiness?

Frank was a good guy and Claire's first love. Maybe if the show established something wrong with Frank, I'd be rooting for Claire to get back to Jamie. But Frank and Claire seemed to have a similar amount of passion in episode one (remember the oral sex scene in the castle ruins?) as she and Jamie. But she's so wrapped up in Jamie that it's completely consumed her life.

I'm hoping that Jamie keeps sleeping with other girls (he's up to two now with one kid!) and that when they finally reconvene, Claire will have to question everything about her obsession.

"Jamie! I've been practically celibate since I left you!" "Yeah, uh, well, there was this servant girl...and a princess and we had a kid together...and I tried to get a dude to sleep with me for a favor...and...."

You would feel much differently if you read the books.


The child they casted to play Willie was perfect btw. Seeing the paternal side of Jamie was great as well.


Plenty of “awwwww” moments. Him fighting to not turn back when Willie was running after him crying broke your heart.

I wouldn’t say a-hole...,just that we aren’t very sympathetic to his character in the books.

And that’s exactly what the show is missing - a reason to feel sorry for Claire having to be with Frank. It could have been really easy to do. Have him not believe her or have him be really cold to her despite them reconvening. Instead the show makes Frank a really loyal husband who hasn’t known happiness until his wife’s return. Once he finally realizes she’s completely infatuated with Jamie and will never actually be with him again does he move on. But even then, he stays married to her because it’s best for Claire and best for raising Claire’s daughter.

I suggest everyone read the books.