How does Jamie recover?
How would his trauma affect his rapport with Claire?
Are Moore & Co. even interested in these questions?
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Season 2 shows that they might be.
The productions vision of prerevolutionary France is impressive, albeit skewed toward decadence and retrograde attitudes.
Their folly flatters Jamie and Claire, a relationship of equals marked by fidelity and comfort with their humanity.
Thoroughly modern Claire grows bored with her conventional lady of the house days.
Jamie, already toxic with self-loathing, hates himself even more for conspiring against his own people.
Claire might be pregnant, but impotency reigns.
She and Jamie struggle for more meaningand more meaningful connection.
Black Jacks violence has poisoned their intimacy.
An opportunity for vengeance is presented as a fleeting fix.
Jamie, and especially Claire, are more passive this season, perhaps intentionally.
Being dragonflies in amber might reflect their personal and cosmic condition, but it makes for tepid drama.
Im not convinced the show is well served by faithfully following Gabaldons books.
Some of the best choices are deviations, including one that allows Claires present-day predicament to mirror Jamies plight.
But lets get it on already.B
