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Outlander is a British-American television drama series adapted from Diana Gabaldon's series of novels and airing on Starz. Created by Ronald D. Moore of Battlestar Galactica fame, it stars CaitrÃona Balfe, Sam Heughan and Tobias Menzies. The series premiered on August 9, 2014. The seventh season premiered on June 16, 2023. On January 19, 2023, the show was renewed for an eighth and final season.In 1945, World War II nurse Claire Beauchamp Randall (Balfe) goes on a second honeymoon to Scotland with her husband Frank only to find herself accidentally transported back in time to 1743. There, she finds herself in amidst a time of danger and Civil War, and she encounters both her husband's vicious ancestor "Black Jack" Randall (Menzies) and the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser (Heughan).Same as the books it's based on, the genre of the series is a little hard to classify. While the producing network seems intent on categorizing it mainly as a romance (and marketing it towards women), it does tick off many boxes where Historical Fiction tropes are concerned, and due to the time travel involved can also be of interest to fantasy and sci-fi fans.The series is also notable for casting actual Scots in the main Scottish roles, showcasing Scotland's landscapes as much as possible, and using Gaelic (that isn't subtitled!) in most episodes. | |
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Time-Travel Romance | |
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Time-Travel Romance: Claire is originally from the 20th century and can time travel while her soulmate Jamie was born in and is confined to the 18th century. | |
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A Taste of the Lash | |
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A Taste of the Lash: Jamie has horrific scars on his back from Black Jack Randall's brutal whipping at Fort William. He gets additional lashes in season 2 while training his men for the Scottish Uprising and later while imprisoned at Ardsmuir. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: Every season has at least one rape or attempted rape. Jamie is quite brutally and explicitly raped by Randall in prison. Later, Mary Hawkins is raped by a masked brigand on the streets of Paris. It turns out that Randall also raped Fergus after he found him in his room in Madame Elise's establishment, which led to a duel with Jamie. Then to get Jamie released when he's arrested for the duel, Claire is forced to let King Louis XV have sex with her. In Season 3, Jamie is blackmailed into having sex with Geneva. Also in Season 3, Geillis coerces Young Ian into "unspeakable things", and Jamie comforts him, sharing his own past experiences. In Season 4, Brianna is raped by Stephen Bonnet, the man who had robbed her mother of her wedding ring. This rape is offscreen, made worse when more than six people hear it going on and do nothing (in this case though, it's shown as being less bystander syndrome than them just being indifferent to rape; the producers said that's a mark of the times). In Season 5, Claire is later gang-raped by several men who had kidnapped her. | |
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Scarpia Ultimatum | |
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Scarpia Ultimatum: Jamie and Claire both face this. When Black Jack has both Jamie and Claire captured in Wentworth Prison, this is the only way one of them can free the other. When Jamie is put in the Bastille later, Claire learns the king will free him for this. However, it turns out that the king has more than simply that in mind for her. When Jamie is serving his indenture at Helwater, Geneva blackmails him that he will either sleep with her or she'll alert her mother to his true identity and have his parole violated, endangering his family back at Lallybroch. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: Jamie is a handsome, well-muscled man who has more than his share of shirtless scenes. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Claire realizes that if she had told Jamie it was Bonnet who raped Brianna, it might have saved Roger since Jamie would not have mistaken Roger for the man who raped Brianna, given him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, and Roger wouldn't have been sold to the Mohawk. She reveals that she never thought she could keep something like this from Jamie — until Brianna was born. Before having to reveal the truth to clear Roger, Brianna tells Claire she doesn't want Jamie to know it was Bonnet because she didn't want Jamie to blame himself and feared Jamie would go after a dangerous guy like Bonnet. | |
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Like Father, Like Son | |
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Jamie chooses to stay at Helwater over returning home out of love for his newborn son William and to watch him grow up. Despite wanting to claim William as his own child, Jamie is prevented from doing so because Willie will be outed as illegitimate if he does and the Dunsays — the family of William's mother Geneva — must keep the scandal of William's true parentage under wraps. However, in order to have as much of a hand in raising Willie as possible, Jamie stays at Helwater as a groom, where he and Willie develop a close and loving relationship. When Willie is 6 years old, people begin to notice Willie's growing resemblance to Jamie and Jamie is forced to separate from his son to protect him. Jamie and Willie are heartbroken when Jamie must leave. | |
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Mistaken Identity | |
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In season 4, Jamie gives one to Roger when he mistakes Roger as the man who raped his daughter. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Jamie, when he tries to avoid the Battle of Culloden by pointing out that the area will give the English every advantage. He even draws up a contingency and an alternative strategy. Of course, nobody heeds him. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Frank gives one to one of the robbers in the mid-season 1 finale. In season 4, Jamie gives one to Roger when he mistakes Roger as the man who raped his daughter. | |
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Official Couple Ordeal Syndrome | |
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Official Couple Ordeal Syndrome: Jamie and Claire are put through the wringer every season, fighting to stay alive and together. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Unsubtitled Lowland Scots and Scottish Gaelic abound. | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: Claire believes in this (aside from once practicing euthanasia). She took the Hippocratic Oath as a physician, famously including "Do no harm". This comes up in season 5 when she is viciously attacked. Her loved ones, however, have no such compunction, killing on her behalf (which she mostly doesn't try to stop). | |
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Eternal English | |
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Eternal English: While the English language had reached a form mutually intelligible to modern readers and speakers by the 18th century, its accents were radically different from those we are familiar with today (to give an idea of how different, English-speakers on both sides of the pond once both spoke mostly in a rhotic accent, with the hard Rs similar to those associated with most modern American English accents). It is unlikely that Claire would be recognized as an Englishwoman in the 18th century simply by the sound of her voice, as she is on many occasions. | |
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Hollywood Healing | |
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Hollywood Healing: Averted. Many characters have visible injuries acquired over the course of the books, and not only do the injuries take time to heal, they are often referenced much later and in some cases have a permanent impact. For example, Claire sets Jamie's badly broken hand in 1743, and while she does the best she can, the ring finger in particular does not set properly. Though it's just one finger on his non-dominant hand, the continued stiffness of the finger and it's impact on Jamie's ability to perform certain tasks is often mentioned. Almost forty years later, Jamie is happy for Claire to remove the troublesome finger all together. Similarly, Roger's voice is still altered by his near-hanging, even several years later. | |
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Horrible Honeymoon | |
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Horrible Honeymoon: Combat nurse Claire and Intelligence Officer Frank Randall quickly marry prior to shipping out for World War II. Over five years, they spend a sum total of ten days together. After the war, the pair goes to Scotland for a second honeymoon to get reacquainted only for Claire to touch the rock at Craigh na Dunnh and land 200 years in the past, leaving Frank desperately searching for his missing wife. Three years later, she returns, pregnant and mourning the death of the man she married while she was away. Although she and Frank remain married for the sake of Claire's child, their relationship never truly recovers. | |
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Burn the Witch! | |
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Burn the Witch!: Claire and Geillis are accused of witchcraft, with this as punishment. Accurate, unlike some examples (such as the popular depiction of accused witches being burned in Salem when they were actually hanged), as Scottish law actually had burning at the stake as the punishment (although most condemned were strangled first). | |
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Sex Starts, Story Stops | |
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Sex Starts, Story Stops: Like with many HBO shows, there's a lot of gratuitous sex scenes. While some make sense in the plot, the level of explicitness can't really be called anything except fanservice. This is not only done with the leads either-some of the minor characters get into it too. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: The historical events that the Frasers and [MacKenzies] are witnessing. The Jacobites were doomed to fail and the American colonists are destined to win. The drama is found in the details and what history doesn't remember. | |
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Parental Substitute | |
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Parental Substitute: Claire and Jamie to Fergus. Jamie asks Lord John Grey to be this for his son William when Jamie and John realize Jamie must leave Helwater to protect Willie. Jamie asks Lord John to serve as a father to his son and look after him in his stead. Lord John and his wife Isobel (Willie's maternal aunt) agree to raise Willie, promising Jamie they will look after his son. | |
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Family Relationship Switcheroo | |
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Family Relationship Switcheroo: The series highlights that historical records don't always tell the full story and this includes with bloodlines that are believed to be accurate based on family trees recorded in bibles and other official documents. But in reality, sometimes family ties are bound with little white lies. Colum's son Hamish is his nephew biologically, sired by his younger brother Dougal. Due to Colum's disability, it's likely that he couldn't have children of his own but he still needed an heir. This is foreshadowed when Claire assumes Dougal is Hamish's father when she sees them talking early in Season 1. Jack Randall isn't Frank's direct ancestor for a similar reason. Frank's direct Randall ancestor is Alex Randall, Jack's younger brother, the only person Black Jack actually loves. Alex and Mary Hawkins conceive a child together. Because Alex is fatally ill and too unwell to wed or provide for Mary, he pleads for Jack to wed Mary in his place so that as an officer's wife, Mary will be taken care of after his death; even if Jack dies as well - which he will soon, at Culloden - Mary will receive a widow's pension. Jack agrees to marry her, promising Alex he will protect and provide for Mary. As a result, Mary and Alex's child is recorded as the child of Mary and Jack on the family tree. | |
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In-Universe | |
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This is often explored In-Universe since Claire is from the 1940s, finds herself transported back to the very different era of the 1740s, and experiences first-hand that some of the values and standards of the 1740s are... different. Claire's 18th-century husband Jamie is a very sympathetic character — but when Claire disobeys him and puts their group in danger, he feels morally obligated to take a belt to her bottom... It doesn't go well for anyone. Jamie later swears on his knife never to lay a hand on Claire again and she tells him — while they're having sex — that if he ever does, she'll cut his heart out and eat it for breakfast. Said while holding the knife to his throat, no less. | |
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Someone to Remember Him By | |
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Someone to Remember Him By: Claire returns to the 20th century pregnant with her and Jamie's child. | |
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Fish out of Temporal Water | |
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Fish out of Temporal Water: Claire, a twentieth-century woman, ends up in eighteenth-century Scotland. Later, Brianna and Roger join Claire in the 18th century. | |
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Self-Surgery | |
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Self-Surgery: Generally averted. Claire does occasionally treat herself, but the one time she's injured enough to require serious surgery, two other doctors who she worked with the past step in. Claire does have enough fortitude to advise on her own treatment, in between falling in and out of consciousness. | |
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Their First Time | |
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Their First Time: Season 1 features Jamie and Claire's wedding night, which is Jamie's first time. Brianna and Roger, after handfasting (an old Scottish custom in which a couple get temporarily married outside formal proceedings), tenderly have sex in a closed up shop (it's also her first time, period, as she is a virgin before this). | |
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Nobody Poops | |
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Nobody Poops: Averted. When Brianna first approaches Jamie, he's taking a piss in an alley. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: Enough for its own page. | |
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Orphaned Etymology | |
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Orphaned Etymology: Averted, Jamie in one episode asks Claire what the word "fuck" means after hearing her use it. Significantly, Geillis uses "fuck" in a sentence in front of Claire during their witch trial. While Claire is too stressed to notice, this is a subtle foreshadowing of Geillis's reveal. | |
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Beta Couple | |
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Beta Couple: The series spends a decent amount of time developing Brianna and Roger's relationship, but it's always secondary in focus to that of Jamie and Claire. | |
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Time Skip | |
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Time Skip: The Season 2 finale, "Dragonfly in Amber," starts in 1968. | |
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Florence Nightingale Effect | |
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Florence Nightingale Effect: Claire to Jamie. Granted, he was the first one she tended to after her fall through the time rift. | |
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One Dose Fits All | |
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One Dose Fits All: Averted. Claire is very attuned to the differences in how medicine can affect different people, and indeed we see a variety of reactions, including one woman who dies of the very same DIY penicillin that saved others in the community, presumably of an unknown allergy. When using serious sedatives like laudanum and ether, Claire often has an assistant monitoring the patient's breathing as she works, so that she can continually adjust the dosage. She doesn't tend to rely on medicine as a way to escape a situation, such as drugging an antagonist, because she simply can't be sure she'll do just the right amount of harm (e.g., knocking them out without doing permanent damage). | |
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Perfectly Arranged Marriage | |
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Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Claire and Jamie, though Jamie was in love with her before, but he didn't let on until after they are married a while . | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Played straight with Black Jack Randall. He has a sickly younger brother Alex whom he cares for deeply. Averted with the Duke of Sandringham. He didn't seem the least bit fazed that his attack on Claire resulted in his goddaughter Mary being raped. | |
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Variations on a Theme Song | |
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Variations on a Theme Song: When the setting moves to France in Series 2, some verses of the theme song are sung in French. In season 3, the theme shifts from a sad Scottish ballad (marking the end of the Highlander culture) to a "modern" feel and then to an island beat when Claire and Jamie travel to Jamaica. In season 4, as the duo comes to America, the theme is filled with banjo music for an Appalachian sound. The season 5 theme song forgoes all instruments and is rendered in a capella by a choir, reminiscent of gospel music. Season 7 uses a darker and grimmer rendition of the song by Sinéad O'Connor — which wound up being the last song she recorded before her death in July 2023. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Several characters suffer trauma severe enough to drive them to the point of wishing to die. After his rape by Black Jack Randall, Jamie is very vocal about wishing to die and tries several times to coerce those around him into giving him a weapon with which to do so. After his traumatic near-death by hanging, Roger is clearly contemplating suicide there for at least a moment when he looks down over a cliff, as a result of his PTSD. Soon after, he stops Ian from killing himself with the hemlock he's boiling over a woman he lost. After being rejected by his Mohawk wife who'd suffered multiple miscarriages, Young Ian attempts to use hemlock to take his own life. Following the birth of Henri-Christian who is a little person, Fergus sees himself as a liability to his family and believes that they will be better off if he is dead. Fergus attempts to slit his wrists but is found by Jamie in time. | |
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The Stoner | |
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The Stoner: Father Fogden, who adapts the habit of smoking a local herb called yupa (scientific name: Anadenanthera peregrina) in a pipe — "quite relaxing". During Flora MacDonald's event, Jocasta’s eyes cause her pain. Claire offers her hemp to soothe her pain and relax her. While Jocasta smokes the hemp from a pipe, Claire and Flora MacDonald drink from a flask. The three women enjoy each other's company while reliving memories from their past. Hal of all people is in the habit of smoking hemp to relax his lungs. After an asthma attack, Claire burns cannabis from her personal supply in a brazier and talks with him as the tent fills with cannabis smoke. They inevitably get high, and Hal has a more emotionally open conversation with Claire than he's ever had with his own brother. | |
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The Plot Reaper | |
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The Plot Reaper: Frank's death is convenient for Jamie and Claire's reunion. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Hugh Monroe in season 2. In the books, he is captured and hanged by the Duke's men. Murtagh survives the Battle of Culloden and becomes a prisoner alongside Jamie. He is last seen being sent with all the prisoners (except for Jamie, who is taken to England) to the American colonies. | |
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Brave Scot | |
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Brave Scot: Everyone with a Scottish accent qualifies. | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: After nearly dying when he's hanged for being mistakenly condemned as a rebel, Roger gets PTSD, with classic symptoms: depression, flashbacks of it and suicidal ideation. It's even discussed explicitly as such (under the names current at the time). | |
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Significant Name Overlap | |
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Significant Name Overlap: The name William/Willie is significant in Jamie's life. Jamie's beloved, deceased older brother was named Willie. When Jamie is being held prisoner, Willie of Clan MacKenzie is the first to volunteer to help break Jamie out. Lord John Grey, Jamie's eventual lifelong friend, is initially introduced as William Grey (Gabaldon says she intended for him to be a minor character but he took on a life of his own, causing her to change his name to John William Grey to distinguish him from all the other Williams in Jamie's life). Lord Dunsany, the English man who agreed to Jamie's parole, allowing his release from prison, has the given name of William. And of course, Jamie's son is named William Ransom. | |
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Love Transcends Spacetime | |
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Love Transcends Space Time: Once Jamie and Claire meet, the fact that they were born two hundred years apart means nothing. They're fated to be together and neither space nor time will keep them apart. Roger travels back in time to follow Brianna. | |
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Convicted by Public Opinion | |
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Convicted by Public Opinion: Both Jamie and Claire experience this multiple times across the series. Jamie is accused of raping and impregnating Malva and warns Claire that people will believe simply because he's Catholic and powerful. Claire is accused more than once of witchcraft and in season 6 is arrested for the murder of Malva because people assume that she was so jealous, she murdered the girl and her baby to keep her from shaming the Fraser family. | |
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Defiled Forever | |
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Defiled Forever: Rape still carries a very crippling stigma. Jamie has to remind both Claire and Brianna of this at several points in the series because their modern attitude rightly blames the perpetrator but that is not how the populace they live with will view the matter. | |
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion | |
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Across the series. None of the women who become pregnant ever have an abortion. They either give birth or have a miscarriage. Geillis, the only character who admits to helping women with abortions, is presented as a morally dark character. Louise de Rohan asks Claire to give her an abortifacient after she becomes pregnant due to her affair with Prince Charles. However, Claire warns her that the herb used is highly toxic and very risky to take. She eventually changes her mind and passes the baby off as her husband's. When her daughter Brianna gets pregnant, possibly from rape, Claire gives Brianna the option of a surgical abortion if that is what Brianna decides. After Brianna thinks it over, she ultimately turns it down and decides to keep the child, regardless of the child's paternity. | |
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The Cassandra | |
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The Cassandra: Claire, for the first season, warning against the outcome of the Jacobite uprising. Of course, no one actually listens to her. | |
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Circle of Standing Stones | |
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Circle of Standing Stones: How time travelers are able to pass back and forth between time periods throughout the series. | |
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Accidental Time Travel | |
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Accidental Time Travel: Claire lands in 1740s Scotland by pure accident after touching the stone at Craigh Na Dunh while collecting a flower she wanted for her botany collection. | |
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Least Is First | |
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Least Is First: In "The Search". Despite the extreme danger of attempting to break into Wentworth Prison, Willie, the youngest member of the battle clan, is the only one willing to volunteer. Although it is dangerous, Willie insists that Jamie has always protected him and would do the same for him if the tables were turned. Eventually, his bravery shames Angus and Rupert into joining. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: In "The Devil's Mark," Claire learns that Geillis comes from 1968. This is followed by Claire revealing to Jamie that she comes from the future. Season 2 opens and ends with one. In a flash-forward, Claire returns to her own time and learns that the outcome of the Battle of Culloden remains unchanged — and she's pregnant with her child by Jamie. The season finale, "Dragonfly in Amber," opens on a TV showing an episode of The Avengers (1960s) to show a Time Skip has taken place. In Episode 6.6, Claire almost dies from an illness. Then, Malva claims she and Jamie had consensual sex, and he is the father of her baby. Jamie vehemently denies this, but Malva insists it is true. At the end of the episode, Malva is found murdered outside of the Fraser’s home. | |
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Kissing Cousins | |
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Kissing Cousins: In the 18th century, it is not yet frowned upon to marry a cousin. Jamie's first kiss was with Dougal's daughter, Tabitha. As their parents are siblings, they are first cousins. Young Ian becomes attracted to Brianna after they meet, and when Roger is seemingly lost forever he tries to propose to her to save her honor since she's pregnant, even though they're first cousins. Brianna has to explain to Jamie that such relationships aren't accepted in her time the way they are in the 18th century. Brianna and Roger are second cousins five times removed (as Roger is the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Dougal and Geillis), but that's so distant it hardly counts. | |
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Big Damn Reunion | |
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Big Damn Reunion: The emotional bread and butter of the series: Claire reappearing to Jamie in Edinburgh is so momentous it causes him to faint. Brianna meeting Jamie in person for the first time while at the same time reuniting with Claire is accompanied by swelling, triumphant music, and tears all around. After initially believing that Roger had abandoned her and her child after learning it might not be his, Brianna sprints dramatically across the field to jump into his arms when he returns to her at Riverrun. | |
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Reality Has No Subtitles | |
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Reality Has No Subtitles: When Claire first encounters Clan MacKenzie, they speak almost exclusively in Gaelic. Because Claire does not understand the language, it is not subtitled for the viewer either so that we can experience the situation as she is. | |
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That Old-Time Prescription | |
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That Old-Time Prescription: Played with. While Claire prescribes plenty of these, she herself thinks of them as old timey remedies, generally inferior to modern medicine. Most of her herbal remedies are her attempts to replicate modern medicine, and she herself knows they're inferior compared to their modern equivalents. More than once, she laments having to make due with moldy bread and joint-fir herbal tea rather than real penicillin and epinephrine. In-universe, multiple characters admire Claire's almost supernatural ability to diagnose and divine the right treatment, but the audience knows that while she's a competent healer, she's working with a huge advantage compared to her peers. | |
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Hat Damage | |
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Hat Damage: Jamie does this to William at the Battle of Saratoga. | |
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Artistic License – Religion | |
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Artistic License – Religion: Highlanders are presented as nearly uniformly Catholic across the series. Protestant Scotts are not portrayed until season 6 and they are presented as a small, antagonistic minority. Although Charles Edward Stuart is correctly portrayed as a Catholic, raised in Italy, the Scottish were not still mostly Catholic at this point. Scotland had been majority Reformed Presbyterian all the way back to John Knox in the 1560s. Thus, the talk of the "heretic" Hanoverians is pretty far off. The difference in religion was the least of the Scottish concerns at the time. This series seems to underline that most Scots still are Catholic by faith (Jamie, for instance, is constantly crossing himself). In reality, it was only a small minority of Highland clans in remote regions like the Hebrides archipelago who were still Catholics; while Episcopalians were just as numerous, if not more so, than Catholics in the Jacobite movement. The series doesn't make this clear. | |
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Hollywood Tactics | |
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Hollywood Tactics: Dougal seems to be under the impression that a Highland Charge is just charging madly at the enemy with swords drawn. In reality, a Highland Charge was a quick, organised advance with muskets followed up with a volley and then a charge into melee range. A seasoned commander like Dougal should definitely know better. | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
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Status Quo Is God: Zig-zagged. Although this show and its genre is not the sort the trope is found in too often, there is one thing that seems constant; Claire and Jamie will always end up back together and Claire will always end up time travelling and trying to get back to the stones and then getting stuck in time via Time Travel, despite there being a lot of episodes where the status quo changes dramatically. But in general, the status quo changes far more than it remains static. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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The books include depictions of pregnant women, most notably Claire, drinking. This is especially jarring for modern audiences during Claire's Season 2 pregnancy in Paris. Claire also has a tendency to rely on alcohol in various medical treatments. Even though Claire is an educated and well-versed nurse trained in the 20th century, she is still from the 1940s and even she couldn't have known alcohol use could have been harmful to her baby because it was not well-known before the 1970s. Nor is she fully aware of the effects of alcohol overconsumption in general. This is an especially interesting example of Deliberate Values Dissonance, because while Claire doesn't fully understand the effects of alcohol overconsumption, she does understand basic germ theory and prefers alcohol to unboiled water. Thus, she tends to rely on alcohol 'more' often than her 18th century counterparts. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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And in the next episode ("The Reckoning"), Randall gets his own Oh, Crap! when he fires Jamie's musket at Jamie's head at point-blank range... only to discover that Jamie had been carrying an unloaded musket. | |
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I Choose to Stay | |
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I Choose to Stay: Several times across the series, characters choose to stay in less than optimal environment to be near a loved one. Claire chooses to stay in the 18th century to be with Jamie even knowing that she'd be safer in the 20th century. Jamie chooses to stay at Helwater over returning home out of love for his newborn son William and to watch him grow up. Despite wanting to claim William as his own child, Jamie is prevented from doing so because Willie will be outed as illegitimate if he does and the Dunsays — the family of William's mother Geneva — must keep the scandal of William's true parentage under wraps. However, in order to have as much of a hand in raising Willie as possible, Jamie stays at Helwater as a groom, where he and Willie develop a close and loving relationship. When Willie is 6 years old, people begin to notice Willie's growing resemblance to Jamie and Jamie is forced to separate from his son to protect him. Jamie and Willie are heartbroken when Jamie must leave. Young Ian chooses to stay with the Mohawk to atone for his part in beating Roger and selling him into slavery. | |
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Idealized Sex | |
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Idealized Sex: The sex between Claire and Jamie is a cornerstone of their relationship and is portrayed as not only physically satisfying but mentally and emotionally, as necessary as regular meals. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Claire appears mostly naked (in sex scenes or not) frequently throughout the series. Later her daughter Brianna also gets multiple sex scenes where she's shown mostly naked. | |
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Rape and Revenge | |
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Rape and Revenge: With most of the main characters being rape survivors, sexual violence is taken very seriously. Jamie eventually kills Randall in revenge for raping him. Mary Hawkins murders the man who raped her by stabbing him in his heart. Brianna gets Stephen Bonnet put to death for his other crimes and rape of her. Jamie and co. kill the men who had been involved with Claire's kidnapping (she can't remember which ones raped her, so they simply kill all of them). Marsali kills Lionel Brown for kidnapping and raping Claire. | |
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Retroactive Precognition | |
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Retroactive Precognition: Claire arrives in 1743 with some historical knowledge about how the Jacobite Risings are going to play out. She's not a Scottish history expert, but she knows that an English victory is a Foregone Conclusion and that the Final Battle Of Culloden is three years away in 1746. When she returns 20 years later and they end up in America, she is again vaguely familiar with the impending Revolution which will be in full swing by 1776 and is destined to be won by the American rebels. Brianna tells Young Ian about the injustices Native Americans will face in the United States. Additionally, Brianna tells Jamie how the Cherokee will be forcibly removed from their ancestral land in the Trail of Tears. Later, Jamie tells Chief Bird this information, hoping Chief Bird's future descendants can protect themselves from this tragedy. | |
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Gossipy Hens | |
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Gossipy Hens: Mrs. Bug, the housekeeper on Fraser’s Ridge, becomes one after she overhears how Malva is pregnant and Jamie is the suspected father. The rumor spreads like wildfire, and soon enough, the entirety of Fraser’s Ridge knows of the drama. | |
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Child by Rape | |
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Child by Rape: Several characters are the result of non-consensual sexual intercourse. Brian Fraser, Jamie's father, is a bastard. There is also some question as to whether or not Lord Fraser raped Brian's mother, a maid who worked in his estate. Lord Fraser is not shy about expressing his belief that he has the right to any woman in his domain. Jamie's son William, as Jamie was blackmailed by William's mother Geneva into having sex with her. Brianna realizes she is pregnant two months after the night she was raped by Stephen Bonnet, which occurred hours after her consensual sexual experience with Roger. At first, Brianna believes she is pregnant as the result of the rape by Stephen Bonnet and not from her consensual sexual experience with Roger because, as she confides to her mother, Roger pulled out during sex. However, Brianna later realizes that the withdrawal method to prevent pregnancy is not foolproof and tells Claire she isn't sure if her child was conceived as the result of the rape or the consensual encounter. | |
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Everyone Is Related | |
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Everyone Is Related: Fittingly for a show about family, most of the main and recurring characters are related to Jamie or Claire by blood, marriage, or adoption. | |
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Take Me Instead | |
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Take Me Instead: Jamie uses this gambit quite often. in season 1 to Jack Randall to protect Claire in season 3 to Lord John to ensure William has a father in season 4 to the Cherokee to keep William from being scalped for crossing the land boundaries and later to the Mohawk in an attempt to get Roger back in season 7, he's preparing to offer himself to Governor Martin to secure Claire's freedom, although in the end he doesn't have to as Tom Christie does so instead. | |
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Mistaken for Prostitute | |
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Mistaken for Prostitute: Because of how incautious they are around men, Claire and Brianna's casual behavior towards the opposite sex is often seen as sexually forward. In the very first episode, Black Jack and the Highlanders all think Claire might be a prostitute because her (quite modest) 1940s white dress looks like underwear to them-and because she's brash and unafraid to swear. Claire is later mistaken for a prostitute by actual prostitutes in a brothel, though it's understandable as she came down from the upstairs room, which Jamie rents, after having had sex with him. When Brianna first approaches Jamie, he mistakes her intentions as a proposition, telling her that he's married. | |
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Bystander Syndrome | |
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In Season 4, Brianna is raped by Stephen Bonnet, the man who had robbed her mother of her wedding ring. This rape is offscreen, made worse when more than six people hear it going on and do nothing (in this case though, it's shown as being less bystander syndrome than them just being indifferent to rape; the producers said that's a mark of the times). | |
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Artistic License – Pharmacology | |
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Artistic License – Pharmacology: Claire says monk's hood (aconite) has no known medicinal uses. In reality, it has several, well known since ancient times, though since it's highly toxic in larger doses other medications are used now. This might be excused as ignorance, except she is a trained nurse and highly knowledgeable of herbs so you'd expect she'd know this. | |
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Temporal Mutability | |
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Temporal Mutability: There are several discussions about the extent to which time travelers are actually able to change the past. The general consensus amongst the Frasers is that they can influence things that only effect a small number of people such as Claire saving people's lives or having children that otherwise would not have been born, but they don't have the ability to change large scale events such as the Battle of Culloden or the outcome of the American Revolution that initially effect thousands of people and have a time ripple effect out to millions if not billions of people. This seems to be born out by the multiple Native Americans who have traveled back in time to warn the indigenous peoples of the threat of European immigration only to find themselves unable to change the trajectory of their peoples. | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
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Killed Off for Real: Characters who die do not come back. | |
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No Periods, Period | |
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No Periods, Period: Averted, Jamie knows Claire is pregnant because her period was late and he knows she's usually extremely regular. | |
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After-Action Patch-Up | |
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After Action Patch Up: Claire does this for Jamie all the time. | |
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Writers Cannot Do Math | |
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Writers Cannot Do Math: While the distance and time from North Carolina to Upstate New York is correct, Brianna’s pregnancy does not add up to the time it should take for Jamie, Claire, and Young Ian to get to Upstate New York. In "The Birds and The Bees," the maturity of Brianna's pregnancy is established when she tells her mother she is 2 months pregnant and was raped. At the end of the episode, Roger comes to Fraser's Ridge, Jamie beats him, and Young Ian sells him to the Mohawk. In "The Deep Heart's Core," Roger tells Caleb it has been a week since he was sold to the Mohawk, and they walk at least 10 miles a day. Claire tells Brianna the Mohawk live in Upstate New York, 700 miles away. If Roger walks 10 miles a day and Upstate NY is 700 miles away, it should take 70 days (approximately 2 months and 10 days) to get to Upstate NY. Jamie tells Claire, Brianna, Young Ian, and Murtagh the New York trip will take 4 months there and back (round trip). In "If Not For Hope," Rollo, Claire, Jamie, and Young Ian find Caleb's skeleton. Claire says he's been dead for at least a month, indicating that Jamie, Claire, and Young Ian are about a month behind the Mohawk. Brianna gives birth, but her parents should have made it in time. She should have only been 7 months pregnant by the time they returned to North Carolina ( 2 months pregnant when she revealed her pregnancy, 1 extra month before departure, and the approximate 4 months to travel to NY and back, would put her at 7 months. Instead, when Jamie and Claire do get to River Run, Jemmy is already two months old. Roger is understandably late as he had to decide whether or not he wanted to return, but Jamie and Claire should have known how to make it back since Jemmy was not said to have been born early. | |
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Memento MacGuffin | |
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Memento MacGuffin: Ellen MacKenzie Fraser's pearls really get around. They are given to her by a suitor. Following her death, they are giving to Jamie for his eventual wife. He gives them to Claire shortly after they marry. Claire offers them to MacRannoch as payment for helping free Jamie, only to discover he was the original suitor. He tells her to keep them. After being forced to leave Jamie and return to the 20th century, Claire gives the pearls to Mrs. Graham to thank her for being a confidante. Mrs. Graham gives them to her granddaughter Fiona as an heirloom. When Claire returns to get help researching Jamie, Fiona returns the pearls. When Claire decides to go back to Jamie, she gives Brianna the pearls as a keepsake from her parents. When Brianna marries, she wears the pearls as a reminder of the original MacKenzie Fraser. | |
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Who's Your Daddy? | |
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Who's Your Daddy?: Brianna isn't sure whether her baby is fathered by Roger or her rapist since the rape took place on the same day as her having consensual sex with Roger. However, they later realize that he's Roger's son, as he grows the same mole. Lizzie reveals she is pregnant, but she doesn't know if Josiah or Keziah is the father. It does not bother her as she is in love with both of them and is happy if either of them is the father. | |
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The Dung Ages | |
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The Dung Ages: Everyone is muddy and grimy, with the sole exception of the wealthiest nobles, and even then, that is only when dressing up. The first thing Claire notes about her erstwhile savior is that he reeks to high heaven. | |
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Torches and Pitchforks | |
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Torches and Pitchforks: In Season 4, an angry mob storms River Run to lynch Rufus. In Season 6, the Committee of Safety and townsfolk of Fraser’s Ridge come to arrest Jamie and Claire for their alleged crimes of adultery and murder, respectively. | |
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Gorn | |
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Gorn: The camera doesn't shy away from the serious injuries Claire treats, but Black Jack's savage scourging of Jamie might be one of the goriest sequences ever televised. | |
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Title Montage | |
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Title Montage: The opening credits are a series of aesthetically-pleasing shots from the show. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Once or twice a season, especially in the early seasons where characters being kidnapped or arrested is fairly common. Jamie arrives at the witch trial just in time to interrupt Claire's whipping and rescue her from being burned at the stake, using his broadsword and dagger to hold off the entire room of men single-handedly. In "Episode 1.16", Murtaugh, Angus, Rupert, and 19 cows, whisk Jamie right from under the Redcoats' noses from Wentworth Prison. In "Episode 5.12", Jamie gathers his men to find and dispatch the group of men who kidnapped and raped Claire. After the Committee of Safety take Jamie and threaten to return him to Scotland, the Cherokee, John Quincy Myers, and Young Ian rescue him. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The Frasers and [MacKensie]'s attempts to being kind or make thing betters have an unfortunate tendency to cause unforeseeable future difficulties. | |
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Spotting the Thread | |
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Spotting the Thread: A significant portion of season 3 is spent trying to find out what happened to Jamie after Culloden. Roger believes he's found a clue to Jamie's whereabouts in 1765 by showing a printer making quotes Claire told Jamie. One is by Robert Burns and when Claire says that could have come from anywhere, Roger points out Burns was only 6 years old at the time and wouldn't write the poem for another two decades. | |
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Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male | |
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Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male: Several male characters are raped or sexually assault across the course of the series. While the show depicts rape of all kinds as serious, horrible, and traumatizing, this trope still comes into effect with how rape is shown onscreen. Instances of men raping women are quick with little detail shown, often involving lots of clothes in the way or happening in darkness or offscreen. The single instance of heterosexual rape where the female is the rapist occurs almost entirely offscreen (and is not given nearly so much story attention in the aftermath as the other instances). However, the male-on-male rape sequence takes up at least half an episode and is extremely graphic, occurring largely center of screen and with clear lighting, indicating that the creative staff felt it was far more acceptable to show the graphic horrors of rape as long as all participants were male. Alternatively, it could be that they chose to show it to show exactly how traumatizing it is whereas everyone knows male on female is traumatizing. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
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Mercy Kill: Claire euthanizes a slave named Rufus with poisoned tea when he's about to be torturously killed for cutting an overseer's ear off after he whipped him. Roger comes back when he's escaping the Mohawk to save Father Alexandre Ferigault from torture by tossing a barrel of alcohol onto the stake where he's burning, which then consumes him. Brianna shoots Bonnet before he's slowly drowned. Roger asks if it was mercy, or to make sure that he's dead. She doesn't answer. Roger smothers a girl dying slowly due to being horribly burned in a fire. | |
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Fanservice Extra | |
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Fanservice Extra: A number of minor female characters are shown nude (at least topless) in sex scenes or otherwise. On the male side, there are also plenty of good-looking guys in shirtless scenes. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: Claire is nearly raped several times in the first half-season alone. | |
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