Images from 603 Temperance
Temperance was great. Fergus (Cesar) and Roger (Rik) really shined in this episode. Here are some images from the episode.
Temperance was great. Fergus (Cesar) and Roger (Rik) really shined in this episode. Here are some images from the episode.
Fergus worries about his new son’s quality of life when the baby is bullied by superstitious Protestants. Claire performs surgery on Tom’s hand.
This recap is exactly that… a recap of the episode so do not read it unless you want to be spoiled or have seen the episode.
Overall, fantastic episode. We have some different actors/characters really shining this week. Fergus has a scene that made me weep. Marsali’s reactions to Fergus in this episode are perfection and Roger… I have told other fans this: When you first meet Roger you kind of like him but he gets worse before he gets better.
Major MacDonald arrives with the guns for the Cherokee and news of the Boston Tea Party. It is beginning.
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773 by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. The Sons of Liberty strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights. In response, the Sons of Liberty, some disguised as Indigenous Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British government considered the protest an act of treason and responded harshly. The episode escalated into the American Revolution, becoming an iconic event of American history. Since then other political protests such as the Tea Party movement have referred to themselves as historical successors to the Boston protest of 1773.
500 matches were made by the Prop department for Brianna to light. And with these homemade matches they almost set the set on fire!
Jamie struggles with his first request as Indian Agent. Roger presides over an unusual funeral. Marsali gives birth. However, the joy is short lived when a discovery is made.
How did you all like Allegiance? I thought over all it was a good episode. It did seem a little disjointed to me but as I recap let’s see where I stand. Also, feel free to come by and rate the episode in our poll. The great thing about this episode, from a book readers perspective, is that much of the dialogue is actually from the book.
The cast and crew didn’t want to wait even longer to begin shooting season six so they worked through the winter in the cold.
Jamie’s authority is tested when an old rival from Ardsmuir shows up to settle on the Ridge. Claire finds a new way to cope with the trauma of her assault by Lionel Brown.
We open with a lengthy recap of what has happened previous on Outlander. The best part of this was the quote from A Breath of Snow and Ashes. Great book by the way.
Outlander, the genre busting and wildly entertaining Starz series, adapted from Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling books, has built a true fandom over its past five seasons. While many of the TV series that inspire deep devotion tend to be—we’ll just come out with it— a little nerdy, and more than a little male-oriented, Outlander is as riveting as it is relatable. And while fans painstakingly unpack episodes, trade theories about plot points and obsess over the show’s historical underpinnings, it’s ultimately a character-driven enterprise. The action hinges on time-travel, and there’s no shortage of romance, but the appeal of the drama is its expertly-drawn characters—especially its female protagonists. Never stereotypical, the series shows women as the multi-dimensional forces they are. “You know, it’s funny, my knee jerk reaction is always that we’re not setting out to make a statement about women,” says executive producer Maril Davis. “We’re just trying to show women as they are, in their most natural, amazing state.”
When we last left Outlander at the end of Season 5, the men of Fraser’s Ridge had freed Claire from her abductors and rapists and Marsali had poisoned one of the men behind the attack, while Bree and Roger failed to travel back to the late 1960’s. Season 6 picks up the thread of increased political and social tensions in the colony of North Carolina as the story is now very close to the start of the American Revolution. Jamie has to appear loyal to the Crown because he was granted Fraser’s Ridge but he knows from Claire, Brianna and Roger that the colonists will eventually rebel and win.
According to many news sources online, Starz is going forward with the prequel of Outlander which will focus on Ellen MacKenize (Jamie’s mother) which will be based on a book Gabaldon is writing on Jamie’s matriarch.
Matthew B. Roberts is returning to write and produce and additions to the spin-offs writers room are apparently in the works.
When Outlander returns for its sixth season on Starz beginning Sunday, March 6, fans will finally witness the aftermath of Season 5’s heinous attack on Claire (Caitriona Balfe). What happens next with her and husband Jamie (Sam Heughan) as they deal with the fallout? In a departure from the Diana Gabaldon novel, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, on which Season 6 is based, more focus will be placed on Claire’s struggles to recover and deal with what we would today label PTSD.
“When we read the books, it’s dealt with in little bits and bobs here and there, but she never really deals with it,” Outlander executive producer Maril Davis exclusively tells Parade. “And it felt like such a traumatic experience that it didn’t seem like we could ignore that, and it didn’t seem like we did justice to the character if we did. And so, we really leaned into that. I think the writers did an amazing job with coming up with this coping mechanism for Claire.”
Check out all the names of the 8 episodes of season six. There will be 12 episodes of season 6. Because of Covid and Cait’s pregnancy the rest of the season will be tacked onto season 7.
As a child, Caitríona Balfe never found it strange when a trip to the dentist or to a clothing store involved driving by British soldiers with machine guns, or having the family car inspected for explosives. There were frequent bomb scares too, around where she grew up in Tydavnet, a small Irish village near the Northern Ireland border, and sometimes on the news she’d hear about a nearby community that had been hit. “It’s such a part of the fabric of your life when you live in those areas,” she says. “It’s really not until you get older that you look back and you realize the craziness of it, or the strangeness of it.”
Congratulations to Diana Gabaldon on Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone becoming a New York Times Best Seller at #1 for Combined Print & E-Book Fiction! Of course, we all knew that could happen and as I read (no I’m not finished), it truly is a great book…. which I plan on listening to as well. I hope you are all enjoying it! We should stop by Diana’s Twitter and congratulate her!
Check out Davina’s 5 short videos of Q&A about narrating the Outlander audiobooks and what it is like to narrate loves scenes…