While that’s terrible, she’s still one of the worst characters in the series by my account, so I don’t have much sympathy for her.)

(Plus, there was a brief mention of Laoghaire’s own brush with sexual violence at the hands of one of her husbands – so even she wasn’t game for trying to make the marriage work on an intimate level. Yet the marriage was a disaster from the start, as Jamie had no love in his heart for the jealous lassie who pined away for him for more than 20 years. His loneliness for a family was so great that even a life with the twice-widowed Laoghaire, who had two daughters of her own, seemed a better option than spending the rest of his days alone. Of all the Scottish women at Jamie’s fingertips, he had to pick the one girl who burns with such hatred for Claire that she once tried to have her killed at the stake: Laoghaire MacKimmie (née MacKenzie).Įssentially what happened was that Jamie returned home from his Helwater servitude in 1764, in a critically vulnerable state after having left behind his illegitimate son, Willie. It was there Claire learned about her husband’s deep, dark secret of a second wife but it was much worse than anything she could’ve imagined. If you thought the second honeymoon was over for Jamie and Claire last week, it turns out those fights were merely a prelude to the giant throwdown awaiting them at the Fraser ancestral home of Lallybroch.

However, given the news cycle of late, in which scores of women are sharing their stories of alleged sexual assault and harassment from Hollywood heavyweights such as Harvey Weinstein and Dustin Hoffman (not to mention countless tales emerging from other industries), the scene in question was made that more difficult to watch due to its fleeting “No means Yes” subtext.

Tonight’s episode of “Outlander,” titled “First Wife,” contained a sex scene that, like the ones before it, came straight from the pages of Gabaldon’s “Voyager,” with some of the dialogue even lifted word for word. The second reason is the love we have for this epic romance tends to supersede any qualms we may have about the abundance of upsetting sexual encounters. Firstly they are all part of the original source material created by Diana Gabaldon in her long-running book series.

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