When Jamie is on the run and they for some insane reason become a travelling sideshow to 'draw him out' instead of just going back home and waiting for him to make contact there as he logically would.
I'm liking this show so please tell me this sort of nonsense is a one-off.
There isn't a TV show series that doesn't have cringe worthy gaffes. A movie script produces a film of 90 minutes or so, and the screenplay is written and polished for years (and even those can be screwed up).
Most of the scripts for these shows aren't even finished when shooting starts, so there are always things that happen that make you wonder why.
This stuff is mindless entertainment, so I just kind of turn off the logic and let the story just tell itself, warts and all.
No, I can't think of anything else the show (or book) did that can be compared to Claire & Murtagh's traveling show. I will say, once the events of the season unfold, it becomes a little bit more clear why that particular strategy could work and why your suggestion would not work, at least not in this situation.
This was not one of my favorite parts of the show, but overall, it's still one of my favorite shows (and books).
Painful, wasn’t it!
shareRule 1 of an action-adventure show is that your protagonists are heroes. That's Jamie and Claire in this series. Heroes have agency and constantly, actively work to do heroic things. If you don't have that you don't have a show.
shareNothing they did in that episode was heroic, rather just pointless and completely stupid. When Jamie found out what they had been doing he should have been like "....the f*ck were you thinking woman?"
The episode could have been skipped altogether, just have her return home and later find out that he's been captured trying to get word to her. Turned in by a resentful tenant or something.
Nothing would have been lost, and we wouldn't have had to endure the insulting guff that was this episode.
A different kind of story is refreshing once in a while. Need to mix things up to keep them from being too samey.
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