Season 4 Ep 4
Let’s talk about how fairly impoverished settlers should be paying me more taxes in front of a giant rose bouquet the size of a wagon wheel. Jamie makes the deal for his land with the sketchy allegiances and looming conflict laid out very clearly. True Fraser fashion.
Young Ian is off on an expedition to trade with some tribes 😬. ...Well Ian didn’t get kidnapped by natives! Diana Galbadon let that one go!
Claire why don’t you want to stick around for childbirth of wee Marsali? We know you love a good childbirth. Claire gets all emotional thinking about how Brianna doesn’t have her to help birth her babies. Why do you think Brianna is having a child right this minute? She is 22! The show insists this must be the case.
It’s manifest destiny time! Let’s bang some posts into our property boundaries, find some old trees. Better carve our names into this old growth. Confrontation with natives comes very soon
Oh god, I’d rather watch someone get blasted by a Cherokee rifle than check in on how Roger is feeling. Don’t care, don’t care! Finally, a lady historian! And she has done what Roger for all his self interest has not done. Research! The author of Scottish settlers in colonial America or whatever sends Roger the results of her diligence and expertise because she is a dutiful historian.
Let’s discuss our frontier building projects. A wee shed for your doctor habits 🥰
Oh god Brianna, just hang up the phone and hang out with your beautiful friend and cool French bulldog. Live your life! Tell Roger to go fuck himself and go have brunch with your roommates. But Roger has some historical discovery to convey. Brianna! what an idiot, you give Roger a book without reading it first? He gets the historical tidbit. You could have had that tidbit about your mom yourself. You don’t need him! But of course now you will feel you do!
Surprise! The bear terrorizing the American wilderness is just a human in a bear suit. This surprises no one. In a bit of poetic subtlety, Jamie stabs the native bear avatar with his boundary marker like he is staking a vampire. Jamie builds a sledge to carry the bear man carcass back to the village. His absolute dearth of cultural knowledge allows him to make amends with the local tribe.
I’m very torn, they make this Cherokee representative say something like “sometimes the monster is man”in a way that must have felt like wad of peanut butter rolling off the tongue but they also say they banish rapists from their society, so that’s something.
So nice this Cherokee speaks perfect English .... and can understand the abomination that is Scottish English. They give Jamie a nice nickname, bear killer. Very ominous encounter with Cherokee healer grandma for Claire.
Oh, back to Roger. This poor homely friend is too nice to him. But at least she has some history to contribute. Jamie and Claire will be dead! Soon! I’m willing to wager though that they don’t actually die. We all know journalistic standards aren’t what they used to be.
Oh no. Brianna is going to Scotland. She is not prepared for this!