Yeah. Though this may be unofficial it came across my feed today, a deleted (and much anticipated) scene. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k5VFirTK9xwjeIaiR0C
The new Outlandish Companion was released on March 31st. I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek at episode 9 last night. Our local Time Warner held a premiere. The episode was great!
^^^Lucky! I literally just got home and turned on the TV and there was a commercial on for it. Unfortunately, we have company coming in for Easter, so we probably wonāt get to watch it until Monday.
I was lucky. I am going out of town this weekend, so I would have had to wait until Sunday night.
Canāt wait!
I donāt have the channel so canāt watch the show but I did read the books. I just wanted to note that every time I sign onto AOL, it shows me a preview, starting with someone leaning down to kiss someone else. I finally decided she was on top and he was on bottom, since the one on bottom was shirtless.
Iāll look for the streaming Amazon episodes. If theyāre free with Prime.
Did the do the Jamie voiceover in the first part of the season? I canāt remember it. Anyway I like that aspect of it. First episode was okay. Everything seems to be moving in slow motion though, perhaps because the book itself is such a page turner.
No, Ep 9 was the first Jamie POV, and the first voiceover. It was a cool idea to do that one from his perspective, I thought, took some of the sting out of the events of that particular episode when you see them from his point of view.
Well, what did you think? I liked it because itās my favorite story. DH, who likes the series and has not read the book, thought it was really slow. I totally understood why. I told him it would really pick up from here. Sometimes, I think they waste too much precious air time on silly stuff like Geillis dancing. I would rather have seen the funny scene at the dining table at Castle Leoch when Jamie was talking about his encounter with the duke when he was 16. I really am feeling the love between Jamie and Claire though. She has done a good job of showing her love for these two men. It will make her excruciating decision more real on the screen. I hope itās next week!
I havenāt seen the second episode yet, but my reaction to the first was that they are going overboard on graphic sex. I was beginning to feel like a voyeur.
I know that the books have a lot of graphic sex, and sometimes I think DG overdoes it also. It if one thing to write in a way that makes clear the deep sexual connection between characters. I thought she did that well at first.
@Consolation, the second episode opens with graphic sex. I thought the Geillis dancing scene was completely gratuitous, and I agree that the scene with Jamie talking about his past exposure to the Duke at the table would have been more enjoyable.
I donāt remember the whole Duke of Sandringham duel being in the book, nor the part where Dougal gets violent and drunk after hearing about his wife.
I donāt remember any of that plotting either and I agree the sex was graphic - probably the most graphic Iāve ever seen on TV. (BTW, did women in that era shave their underarms? I would have thought not. Realism has its limits I guess!)
I do love the graphic sex in the book and the series! @Consolation ā¦Iād say youāll be in for a bit of a shocker with this episode. The whole Dougal thing getting mad was made up. There is so much in the books, not sure why they feel they have to make up complete scenes. I understand the need to twist some things here or there, but no need to deviate to this extent. It wouldnāt bother me if I didnāt think good stuff was deleted.
@Snowdog there is actually a whole scene in one of the sequels about underarm depilation, so supposedly Claire should have hairy underarms by now.
I am really enjoying the return though itās different this time, since when I saw the first 8 episodes I hadnāt read the books and now I have read them all. Some more than once 
The sex is fine for me though I thought ep 9ās was a bit rushed. Re: the additions - the duel, the angry sceneā¦I think those are going to be used to get us to the same place but in a faster different way. I think the MacDonalds are on the Watch, for example, and this gives them a personal reason to turn Jamie inā¦the Dougal thing I donāt quite get but they seem to be developing his relationship with Geillis a lot more than the Diana did. Weāll see, I suppose.
The gratuitous Geillis dancing scene reminded me of all the gratuitous Melisandre scenes in Game of Thrones, especially all the breast baring.
I loved The Devilās Mark episode. Covered a lot of ground, but in a sense this is actually where Claire and Jamieās love story really begins. They have made a choice for each other rather than being together out of necessity.
In last nights episode I really missed the part where Jamie pulls Claire back from the stone while she was starting her travels to the present. That seemed to be the act that convinced Jamie that Claire was telling the truth, where as now Jamie is so in love with Claire that he just accepts her word for it.
I loved the episode, especially the second half. So happy the honesty part got worked in and glad it did where it did. I saw the wedding outtake and it didnāt work there at all. But some of geillisā lines in the first were fabulous, and newā¦ like " I guess Iām going to a f-ing barbeque!" Well done.
Mamomā¦I was thinking the same thing. Although he pulled her back because " he wasnāt ready to let her go yet", I felt they didnāt do it right by Jamie not seeing for his on eyes that she was telling the truth. They could have had her just disappearing faintly and him snatching her back with fear. That was such a pivotal point in the book and their relationship. Now, heās just taking her word, and thatās what they are leaving us with. I was bummed that this entire scene that was so emotional for me to read, was reduced to just 15 minutes on the show. I wanted to hear her thoughts as she was making that decision, perhaps showing clips of her and Frank. I wanted to see her flying down the mountain to him.
The trial was done well, but needed to be 1/2 the hour, and J&C the other half.
Iām surprised when Geillis said Fā¦ing, That didnāt raise Claireās attention. Also, I think they needed to zero in on her vaccination scar. I think if I hadnāt read the books, I might have missed what Vlaire was saying and not caught that crucial moment.