Season 4 Ep 7
I thought Brianna’ time travel outfit is bad. Roger! He looks like an 18th Century Milhouse. Corduroy coulouttes??? Stupid little neckerchief. Nothing is tailored. What a Charlie Brown-looking asshole.
Brianna should have packed more pb&j. She is in for a long walk.
Brianna gets to Laoghaire’s house after contracting a near fatal case of ouchy ankle.
Her plan was to hitch hike to the port?? Girl, please think.
Laoghaire replaces Brianna’s sad clothes with her own daughter’s dress, like she doesn’t have another growing daughter at home. People are so free with their garments, just giving them away all the time to these Randall ladies.
Flashback to Brianna in her dad’s office. Frank is absolutely blasted in the nicest university office I have ever seen. He is feeling sorry for himself and thinking he might just find a new life at the bottom of this whiskey glass. Just this actress (Brianna) trying to go toe to toe with Tobias Menzies....Everyone on set must have been embarrassed to watch this. I am embarrassed watching this. Outlander has such uneven casting sometimes. The girl is completely out of her depth.
Back to Brianna’s residence at chez Laoghaire. Some nice little banter about how much each other’s company is enjoyed. Many smiles from the usually sour Loaghaire plus tender moments in the garden. Brianna completely wins over Laoghaire’s young daughter. Is this the start of a Brianna and Laoghaire lesbian escapade?
Roger tries to get hired on a ship going to America. Roger gets told! “You’re hands are better suited to writing letters than sailing.” He winces. It’s true.
-But wait Captain, Look at me I can carry a small barrel.
-Alright get aboard my ship then.
That is a hard no on the Brianna/ Laoghaire lesbian escapade. Laoghaire swallows a toad when she learns she has taken in Claire’s daughter. So she goes for, at first, subtly nuclear emotional warfare i.e. your father doesn’t want you. She starts to gain some traction there, but then goes full crazy mode. Right back to witchcraft.
I wonder if other highlanders also find Laoghaire to be insane or if they think of her as a fairly normal, if excitable lady about town.
Anyways, Laoghaire locks Brianna in the bedroom and threatens some sort of retribution for being a witch. Loaghaire skitters off, presumably to summon whoever is in charge of witch prosecution these days. They kindly inform her offscreen that it is the 1770s madam and we don’t hold witch trials anymore and even if we were doing that, we don’t execute people for merely being daughters of witches.
Joanie comes to the rescue though, unlocking the door and producing a fully hitched horse and cart. Very impressive for an 11 year old!
Roger must touch every child on this boat. This is meant to make us like him again. These pathetic attempts to redeem him do not move me. Look, he’s not afraid to touch a baby. Whoop de do!
Joanie is so nice! She brings Brianna to Lollybroch. Ian, I have brought you a niece! Ian Sr. is so easily convinced. Oh, sure, Jamie’s daughter whom Jamie has never told us about. Here is all our money! And another chest of Claire’s clothes! We’ve got like a dozen of theses in the attic. Claire bought so many dresses in Paris! I have not a single question about this. It’s probably a good thing Jennie wasn’t there. She would have asked A LOT of questions. The first of which would be, why did neither of your parents ever mention your existence to their closest living relatives?
Uncle Ian is far too kind. “You have Jamie’s fire!” Uttered like that’s the lab result from the paternity test. I’ve pissed on fires stronger than whatever is in this girl.
Uncle Ian transports Brianna to the port for a transatlantic voyage. Also why not have your uncle broker your passage for you when he offers? That is an easy yes. Please handle unfamiliar bureaucracy. Also I can’t recognize different denominations of money in this timeline.
Brianna in matter of 20 seconds buys transatlantic passage for an indentured servant whose dad is very concerned about her current gig and its potential for moral calamity. Oh shit. Is Brianna’s servant girl going to become young Ian’s made to order girlfriend ?
