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Post by Kiki on Apr 22, 2015 12:45:27 GMT -5
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Post by napoli on Apr 22, 2015 16:37:56 GMT -5
well there was one scene in last episode that felt different from the books so I though you might like to read how it was described in the books... here we go “It’s still here!” I reared in panic, throwing my arms around Jamie, but he set me firmly away from him, his face white, and turned me once again toward the stone.
“What then?” The keening wind was sharp in my ears, but his voice was sharper still.
“I put my hand on the rock.”
“Do it, then.” He pushed me closer, and when I did not respond, he grasped my wrist and planted my hand firmly against the brindled surface.
Chaos reached out and grabbed me.
The sun stopped whirling behind my eyes at last, and the shriek faded out of my ears. There was another persistent noise, Jamie calling my name.
I felt too sick to sit up or open my eyes, but I flapped my hand weakly, to let him know I was still alive.
“I’m all right,” I said.
“Are ye then? Oh, God, Claire!” He clasped me against his chest then, holding me tightly. “Jesus, Claire. I thought ye were dead, sure. You…you began to…go, somehow. You had the most awful look on your face, like ye were frightened to death.I—I pulled ye back from the stone. I stopped ye, I shouldna have done so—I’m sorry, lassie.
My eyes were open enough now to see his face above me, shocked and frightened.
“It’s all right.” It was still an effort to speak, and I felt heavy and disoriented, but things were coming clearer. I tried to smile, but felt nothing more than a twitch.
“At least…we know…it still works.”
“Oh, God. Aye, it works.” He cast a glance of fearful loathing at the stone.
He left me long enough to wet a kerchief in a puddle of rainwater that stood in one of the stony depressions. He wet my face, still muttering reassurances and apologies. At last I felt well enough to sit up.
“You didn’t believe me after all, did you?” Groggy as I was, I felt somehow vindicated. “It’s true, though.”
“Aye, it’s true.” He sat next to me, staring at the stone for several minutes. I rubbed the wet cloth over my face, feeling still faint and dizzy. Suddenly he sprang to his feet, walked to the rock and slapped his hand against it.
Nothing whatsoever happened, and after a minute his shoulders slumped and he came back to me. “Maybe it’s only women it works on,” I said fuzzily. “It’s always women in the legends. Or maybe it’s only me.”
“Well, it isna me,” he said. “Better make sure, though.”
“Jamie! Be careful!” I shouted, to no avail. He marched to the stone, slapped it again, threw himself against it, walked through the split and back again, but it remained no more than a solid stone monolith.”
I think this is a little different from what we saw in the show. I missed a little CGI here. In the book Jamie was able to really see how Claire disappeared with his own eyes. I think that makes a difference. But maybe not... And in the book Jamie touched the stone, too and it appears he cannot walk through the stones. Something that went missing on TV and I was so happy about the last moment in this episode. It was as good as it was in the book. But since it was such a beautiful scene you might like to see how it was written After she sat infront of the stones all day long thinking of wether to go or not ... As the evening star began to glow among the black pines’ branches, I concluded that in this situation reason was of little use. I would have to rely on something else; just what, I wasn’t sure. I turned toward the split rock and took a step, then another, and another. Pausing, I faced around and tried it in the other direction. A step, then another, and another, and before I even knew that I had decided, I was halfway down the slope, scrabbling wildly at grass clumps, slipping and falling through the patches of granite scree.
When I reached the cottage, breathless with fear lest he had left already, I was reassured to see Donas hobbled and grazing nearby. The horse raised his head and eyed me unpleasantly. Walking softly, I pushed the door open.
He was in the front room, asleep on a narrow oak settle. He slept on his back, as he usually did, hands crossed on his stomach, mouth slightly open. The last rays of daylight from the window behind me limned his face like a metal mask; the silver tracks of dried tears glinted on golden skin, and the copper stubble of his beard gleamed dully.
I stood watching him for a moment, filled with an unutterable tenderness. Moving as quietly as I could, I lay down beside him on the narrow settle and nestled close. He turned to me in sleep as he so often did, gathering me spoon-fashion against his chest and resting his cheek against my hair. Half-conscious, he reached to smooth my hair away from his nose; I felt the sudden jerk as he came awake to realize that I was there, and then we overbalanced and crashed together onto the floor, Jamie on top of me.
I didn’t have the slightest doubt that he was solid flesh. I pushed a knee into his abdomen, grunting.
“Get off! I can’t breathe!”
Instead, he aggravated my breathless condition by kissing me thoroughly. I ignored the lack of oxygen temporarily in order to concentrate on more important things.
We held each other for a long time without speaking. At last he murmured “Why?”—his mouth muffled in my hair.
I kissed his cheek, damp and salty. I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving, not making love, just breathing the same air.
“I had to,” I said. I laughed, a little shakily. “You don’t know how close it was. The hot baths nearly won.” And I wept then, and shook a little, because the choice was so freshly made, and because my joy for the man I held in my arms was mingled with a tearing grief for the man I would never see again.
Thanks for posting Kiki. I was unclear whether or not the stones actually worked for Claire and worried that she went to Jaime because she couldn't get back to Frank. I was also happy Frank was mentioned. It seemed a little harsh in the show that she would abandon her marriage so easily. Part of me wonders why Gellie didn't go back to 1968. Is life really that much better in 17th century Scotland especially knowing the carnage that is coming? I know I'm being a killjoy because it's about Claire and Jaime's love and not about the political landscape. I suppose this is what makes Claire and Jaime a tragic love story.
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Post by Kiki on Apr 22, 2015 22:31:59 GMT -5
Oh it's a lot about politics, too. Wait and see. Geilis was a Jacobite. She had a plan. We'll get more info about that in season 2
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Post by Kiki on Apr 26, 2015 3:51:21 GMT -5
just saw the latest episode. Not that I minded seeing Jamie naked at the mill but I think the book version was fun, too. So here it is As the miller went back into the millhouse, to try turning the stone from within, Jamie stood a moment, staring into the dark, weedy depths of the millpond. Finally, with a shrug of resignation, he began to strip off his clothes.
“No help for it,” he remarked to me. “Ian’s right; there’s something stuck in the wheel under the sluice. I’ll have to go down and—” Stopped by my gasp, he turned around to where I sat on the bank with my basket.
“And what’s amiss wi’ you?” he demanded. “Have ye no seen a man in his drawers before?”
“Not…not like…that!” I managed to get out, between sputters. Anticipating possible submergence, he had donned beneath his kilt a short garment of incredible elderliness, originally of red flannel, now patched with a dazzling array of colors and textures. Obviously, this pair of drawers had originally belonged to someone who measured several inches more around the middle than Jamie. They hung precariously from his hipbones, the folds drooping in V’s over his flat belly.
“Your grandfather’s?” I guessed, making a highly unsuccessful effort to suppress my giggling. “Or your grandmother’s?”
“My father’s,” he said coldly, looking down his nose at me.
“Ye dinna expect me to be swimming bare as an egg before my wife and my tenants, do ye?”
With considerable dignity, he gathered the excess material up in one hand and waded into the millpond. Treading water near the wheel, he took his bearings, then with a deep breath, upended and submerged, my last sight of him the ballooning bottom of the red flannel drawers.Again the naked version of this scene on TV was an eyecatcher for sure but somehow I would have loved to see these "flannel drawers" ballooning
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Post by Kiki on May 2, 2015 14:32:03 GMT -5
guys this is soooo funny. wednesday you might wanna read this, too since you love OuaT This was going on all day long. I don#t know how to copy the rest though. If you click on Sam's timeline you'll see more. They are so funny EDIT: maybe this will work
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Post by wednesday on May 2, 2015 14:56:15 GMT -5
Kiki I did see that. They are too funny! From the looks of things Colin isn't going to win, but on the plus side we get to see him in a kilt which I'm sure he will pull off beautifully!! They posted this on Eonline which doesn't do him justice!
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Post by Kiki on May 3, 2015 8:06:30 GMT -5
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Post by jennifer on May 3, 2015 10:23:26 GMT -5
Fun one! It's good to see Tobias laughing and acting perfectly nice after so much time watching him as the dastardly Black Jack.
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Post by Kiki on May 3, 2015 14:48:57 GMT -5
wow that's what I call a cliffhanger. Sometimes I wish I could delete the books out of my brain and relive the story all over again
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Post by Kiki on May 6, 2015 14:12:28 GMT -5
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Post by Kiki on May 10, 2015 5:04:06 GMT -5
my heart hurts thinking about next episode... POOOR JAMIE
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Post by Kiki on May 12, 2015 11:59:17 GMT -5
OMG this is sooooooo sad
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Post by Kiki on May 12, 2015 22:53:24 GMT -5
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Post by Kiki on May 17, 2015 4:04:47 GMT -5
Hm, ep 14 was draged on so much and in this ep they rushed through the storyline like crazy. Looks like the worst part will happen in the finale. Wow poor Jamie....
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Post by Kiki on May 17, 2015 5:13:43 GMT -5
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