5 thoughts while rewatching the Outlander Season 1 finale
During my rewatch of Outlander Season 1, Episode 16, there were moments that stood out that didn’t in the past. Here are my five top thoughts.
Outlander Season 1, Episode 16 is certainly not the easiest episode to rewatch. However, I sit through it because of the excellent acting on the screen. This is a story that needs to be told and a part of Jamie’s tale that we need to relive now and then—although probably not every rewatch!
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I admit that I’ve been putting this rewatch off for a while. You’ll be able to tell since it’s taken so long to write up this post. Just look at the gap between Outlander Season 1, Episode 15 posts and this one!
This is an episode I watched last night after sitting through The CW’s twisted Two Sentence Horror Stories. I guess the horror got me in the right frame of mind to cope with what was to come in this episode of Outlander. Here are the five thoughts I had during this rewatch.
5. Seeing the Gaelic would have been nice but it wasn’t needed
When we first started Outlander, the lack of Gaelic subtitles was to throw us into this world that Claire had found herself in. She didn’t understand the Gaelic and that meant we didn’t, either. However, things start to change as the season progresses.
In one scene, we only have Jamie and Murtagh. They spend a good few minutes conversing in Gaelic. There are absolutely no subtitles. Since they know what they’re saying to each other and Claire isn’t part of this, it would have been nice to get the Gaelic captions, but I understand why that didn’t happen. In fact, the subtitles weren’t necessary to understand what Jamie and Murtagh were saying to each other.