Lord John William Grey is a fictional character created by Diana Gabaldon. Benedicta Grey, Duchess of Pardloe (mother).If you continue reading the book, it’s something you ignore in order for it to make sense. Similarly, Voyager contains an icky scene where a character we’re supposed to be deeply invested in rapes someone and the story treats it like a non-event. As a storyteller, to not recognize when you are depicting rape is downright embarrassing. For Game of Thrones to make sense, we must pretend Jamie never raped Cersei in Season 4, because the writers never intended him to. Some of it is intentional, some of it is Game of Thrones style, “oops, I didn’t realize that was a rape scene!” on the author’s part. By the midpoint of the series, most of the main characters have been raped. The Outlander books are filled with so much rape. Unfortunately, if that bothered you enough to consider rage-quitting, there’s more to come. There are absolutely no circumstances in which we need to see a child get sexually assaulted on-screen. The writers should have left it as implied and trusted the viewer to get it. Season 2’s depiction of Fergus’s rape was the most egregious thing Outlander has ever done. Nobody gets into a story featuring a Highlander in order to see him discard his kilt for pants and doublets. Shifting locations to France made it feel like a different show - and one we’re not keen to watch. The show’s popularity has even had a real impact on tourism in Scotland. Sure, we watch it for Jamie and Claire and Murtagh and Rupert and Angus (RIP), but we also watch it for the sweeping shots of the Scottish countryside: The moors, the patchwork green farmland, the bubbling streams, the stone castles - not to mention the immersion into Scottish culture.
Outlander is more than just a show, it’s an exercise in Scottish Landscape Porn. There’s a host of ways Season 3 can bounce back. This isn’t the end for Outlander as a worthwhile show. After stumbling in the penultimate two episodes, it ended on a strong finale - barring the fact that it didn’t show the battle everyone had spent all season talking about.
The show picked up again when Jamie and Claire returned to Scotland, save for that scene where Alex Randall’s death rattles went on for a good twenty minutes. The first half in France stretched on far too long and made watching it feel like a chore. After a strong first season, Outlander’s second season was an inconsistent and rocky ride.
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