Outlander Season 3, Episode 10: Revisiting and reassessing the episode
Outlander Season 3, Episode 10 saw Claire and Jamie separated again. This time there was the risk of mutiny and Claire had to take a leap of faith.
Thursdays have been “recap days,” as I got Claire and Jamie up to date. I like to make sure you have all the recaps in one place. Outlander Season 3, Episode 10 was the first episode I recapped for the site! I’d taken it over as the Site Expert, falling in love with the love story and the time-traveling story.
Rather than just end the recaps abruptly, I thought I’d continue in a slightly different way. After all, the last recaps have been with updated views after rewatching the episodes and gaining new viewpoints. I thought this would be the perfect chance to revisit and reassess my thoughts from the straight-after-watching recap.
Here’s the original recap for “Heaven & Earth.” I gave it a B- and I think I’ll stick with that grading now. Why? Here’s a look at my thoughts revisiting the episode.
Jamie acted out of fear and love
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I know there were many people angry at the way the Outlander writers developed Jamie’s character for this episode. The whole scene was created just for the series and didn’t fit Book Jamie’s character. However, it fits Show Jamie’s character.
We may want him to be, but Jamie isn’t perfect. He’s human and that means human feelings and emotions. Sometimes his morals and thoughts of others can go out of the window. I still love that Jamie reacted the way he did when finding out Claire was still on the ship the Porpoise.
He’d been separated from her for 20 years. Believing he’d never see her again, he’d let her go and did some drastic things when he thought she was back for him. Now that he had her back, he wasn’t going to let her go and he feared that something would happen to her. His actions onboard were exactly the type of reaction I would expect from a man so passionately in love.
At no point would he have been thinking clearly. The time in the cell would have been torturous and he wanted anyway out to save Claire, even if it meant mutiny and the risk of death himself.