Young Ian traumatised?
Jamie should have told Young Ian that hes lucky to be raped by a woman and not a man lol
shareAnd Geillis is extremely hot. If she were ugly okay, but damn, that woman is outstanding
shareIts been a few decades since I was his age. As I recall, I was rather shallow, as most are in that period of life, caring more about looks and "what was in it for me." I don't think I would have objected to having sex with any good looking girl/woman back then.
shareRecall that Ian was abducted in Scotland and taken to Jamaica by Geillis men, and at their first meeting she rose up nude covered in goat blood. He knew she could do whatever she wanted with him (and indeed she tried to sacrifice him later). He would have been jusifiably terrified to death, and then she forced him to acts he probably had never heard of and definitely wasn't comfortable with. His body reacted with lust to some extent, but of course, the whole situation would make him traumatized.
shareRemember, he was a good Catholic boy raised by good Catholic parents (Jenny! Whoa). In those days, sin was a very real thing, & mattered much more to their eternal souls them than it does to us now: life was short then, & you were only a scratch away from tetanus or a cough away from tuberculosis.
In the canon. Geillis was grossly obese: I do get why filmakers chose to not go there.
"In the canon. Geillis was grossly obese: I do get why filmakers chose to not go there."
Glad we had the insanelly beautiful Lotte. Still, i guess it makes the thing hard for us(man) to understand why Ian was so repulsive and affraid.
In the book it probably makes the most sense
Agree! Ian was NOT a virgin, & indeed an eager young man- no shrinking violet, he, when encountering his first pretty young bird of pleasure, but Geillis WAS older, & I'm guessing the blood scared the hard out of him, per filmmaker version.
It was difficult to read that part in the book: I'd some fondness for Geillis, but to read that she'd become obesely evil was tough to take. Plus, Claire suspected that she'd contracted syphilis & that had destroyed her mind.
It might have made an interesting & more logical part of the TV tale, but t'would have confused viewers: not to mention depriving the world of that extremely creepy view of Lotte emerging from the bath. Potent, scary scene.