Do No Harm

I will not spoil the details of this episode, but I will share that my reaction was very emotional. I cried and was disgusted by the actions and demands of the townspeople. Although this is fiction, I imagine similarly horrific events occurred during this era of American history. We've come so far, but there's still much more progress to be made.

Even with every river and stream in the America's having a dam and flood controls, there are still Floods. During the 1760s to have a house built on such Flat Flood Plain so near the river... the house would be flooded many times per year and would not actually be able to remain standing. Houses near rivers would have been built on pile driven posts to elevate the house at least 20 feet (6 to 7 metres) above the high water mark. That house would could not have lasted a single torrential rain flood. Do the set makers not have a basic understanding of geography, geology, and architecture??

Claire is officially my least favourite character , the producers killed the last two brain cells she had ... now she wants to end slavery ? im soo irritated with this idealistic, unreal , naive approach..

i cant handle people like this in real life, now u want me to put up with it for a tv show ?

I'll keep the situation generic, not spoiling this episode, just a comment about Claire's intelligence - or occasional lack thereof. Although I'm still a fan of most episodes. It's 1770 in the Southern States and once again Jaimie is at risk of being killed for Claire's insistence on expressing her opinion... this time that she finds slavery abhorrent. Maybe the show's writers are afraid if they have Claire appear to go along with the practice outwardly - even if it's to keep her group from being killed - she will be seen by the viewer as somehow (ridiculously) kind of approving of the practice. She is a character that we're always told is smart, yet she's too dumb to keep from shouting her opinion when lives are on the line. Not just this episode, but several. Last season when she was told it's safest to stay down below deck of a ship when a storm hit, she (of course) did not. She tells the physically stronger nephew to stay below deck, then goes up top where Jamie must abandon steering the ship to help her when she starts to go overboard. I'm still a fan, but I wish Claire would be a little smarter in life-threatening situations.

Claire understood that Culloden battle cannot be stopped, but she tried to. Claire understood that cannot change the events. Why Claire wanted to stop Frank's ancestors to meet? She tried and did not succeed, why would she?? Now Claire witness the slavery in America. Claire wants to change it, wants to change the past, didn't she learn a couple of things by now? She put Jamie at risk, time after time, she goes on with stupid decisions and each time someone has to go and save her. Claire, is a pity you didn't bring a camera to the past and record History as it happened, instead you brought penicillin to cure already dead people. Because you are dealing with dead people, is what it is. These chapters in America and not good enough, the Scotland landscapes are missing here. I didn't like this chapter at all.