Wilmington

By bringing emotions to the highest, the film took me to the end of silence!

Very slow and non important episode in the middle of a season that so far has been the best of the 4

Taxes taxes taxes... I have heard this mentioned since their arrival in the colonies. The War of Independence was NOT about taxes. The War was fought as a work-around to circumvent the Treaty of 1761 and the Royal Proclamation of 1763. These were to prevent the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Watershed the European powers had to prevent the westward hoe as per agreements/treaties with the First Nations Peoples. Everyone wanted western expansion as a manifest destiny, so the ONLY way to get colonists to the west without being stopped by the European Powerhouses was to have a faux war... have it last 6 to 7 years - to socially nudge the mindset of the colonists, then to all of a sudden have the British Military loose. Voila = a New Country is created and it is neither tied nor bound by the treaties and agreements made by others. This new country was the solution to the 'Indian Problem' as it was viewed. The country was created and the colonists... well went all the way to the Pacific Ocean slaughtering the First Nations Peoples with each advancement westward. To present the story as needing taxes to be raised/paid to build grand homes, is FALSE. They had slave labour and Indentured Servants, so the cost of buildings were just man-hours which the land owners already possessed. Over 80% of Europeans arrived as Indentured Servants and 100% of Africans were sold to the slave traders. Slave / Indentured Servant... treated the same with the exception the IS's would be released at age 21 or 25 (if they had not married nor any pregnancies - if so tied to the landowner for life) and would be granted 40 acres and a mules for their years of servitude typically from the age of 8 or 9. If you were 10 or 11, you were sold into IS as a 8 or 9yo. Stop glazing over the real historical facts and stop perpetrating the myth of taxation as the cause of the faux war of 1776.

*The Proclamation of 1763 angered the British colonists because it prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountain range. Furthermore, those who had already settled in the region were required to relocate to the eastern side of the Appalachians.

Contrary to claim by "AquaumanUK" review here, in fact the US revolution was about 1) lack of representation to and ignoring of right of colonists to petition the G. British Government; and b) TAXES.

The claim by "AquamanUK" that the motive for the US Revolution was so the colonists could abrogate treaties is spurious. The Brits were already breaking virtually every treaty with native people around the world, as were the French, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese.There is a context for the US Revolution. There was the development of an entire new school of philosophy about liberty, and anyone who any .education in the history knows this is also the time of Thomas Paine, Locke and for that matter the French Revolution.

We know it was about taxes because British Historians even acknowledge this. The British were in a huge financial hole from wars they promoted on the European continent and also fought all over the world to expand their empire. Culloden occurred slightly before the Seven Years War(in the North American Theater called the French and Indian War) but was part of this general warfare. US colonists had more than paid their fair share in that British war in tax and lives, yet Britain was taxing all classes of colonists at increasing rates and in every type of transaction. Britain WAS massively breaking treaties and seizing native land in the 1740's in order to place colonists on those lands and collect huge taxes and rents to be sent back to Britain. Britain was also MASSIVELY increasing slaves sent to and working in the new world, mostly in the Caribbean at this time. The slave business was an integral part of British economy, more than it ever was in the US economy. In fact of the 12 million African slaves sent to the new World, only about 6%, about 700,000 ever went to all of North America between 1500 and 1850.

Now about the episode: This was one of the best Outlander episodes to date. Yes it deals with sexual assault and that can be painful. But the rape by the British ship captain, just like the rape in an earlier season by the British Army officers, is about the reality women faced.

This is not just some episode you can happily just watch. Heart-breaking. The other events and 'what could have been' contrast with the intimate scenes and seem out of place, or disturbingly poignant. But this is outlander after all... drama and romance. And the story threads must unfold...