Outlander 5x11 & 5x12 Full REACTION (S5 Finale)

Hi Imon, I'm not sure if you know that there is static when we listen to your reactions. It's not bad, but sometimes louder than other times. I do have a request, though. If you don't mind. I can't remember which episode it was, but you had to step away from the camera and paused your copy. If you need to do that again, would you let us know that you are pausing and then do a countdown when starting again. I didn't realized you paused your copy and it took a while to sync my copy back with yours due to the blur and the counter covering most of it. Either that or edit the time you are away so it doesn't look like you stepped away at all. Thank you in advance. Okay, now to ep 12. Yes, this was a difficult one. I have Starz so I watch the episodes there because after each episode, the producers will discuss the episode and it was interesting listening to them prepare for this one and all the discussions they had with Caitriona and Sam. I love how they did it with Claire's "save place." I read the other comments and I think everyone mentioned most of the easter eggs. I did notice a couple of others. Fergus had both of his hands. Jamie wrapped her in the plaid and said "Your shaking so hard, my teeth are starting to rattle" That is one of the first things Jamie said to Claire in the first episode when she first met him and Dougal made her get on his horse after putting his shoulder back into the socket. Jamie was trying to wrap his plaid around them but was having a difficult time with one arm. When Jamie rescued Claire from Brown's men and they stopped by the creek on the way back to the Ridge, she said she thought she saw Roger. She was wrapped in the plaid and her hair was down. There is a scene very similar in The Devil's Mark episode. Claire tells Jamie the truth, they stop at a creek and her hair is down and she's wrapped in plaid just before Jamie takes her to the stones so she can go home, but decides to stay with Jamie. I know someone mentioned the vase, but I just wanted to touch on it again, In on of the first scenes of the first episode, she is looking at a blue and white vase through a store window and the voice over is Claire talking about never having a owned a vase and not having a home for that vase and how much she wanted to have a vase of her own. Well, she did in her safe place. I also love the abstract painting of the big house at Fraser's Ridge that Claire was staring at. I also love how she saw all of her family in the 60's, but Jamie will always look like he does in the 18th century. I remember not liking Marsali at all when we first meet her, but like so many others, I love her now and I loved when she referred to Claire as her Ma. And of course the song "Never My Love"

Tara

I forgot to mention Marsali's line delivery of 'I have made no sich oath' and 'You hurt my family, you hurt my MA' was absolutely terrific acting and it made me tear up. Also seeing Murtagh alive with Jocasta in the 20th century was emotional. So many epic moments in this episode, can't even remember them all.

Bojan Rogic

Water dripping from the ceiling of the modern house symbolizes Claire's delusional fantasy cracking and reality seeping back through (her mind switching back and forth). Young Ian wears a modern uniform which has on it a badge with a Mohawk symbol. The coloring of those scenes is in shades of amber ('Dragonfly in amber' reference). When Jamie says to Claire 'You are alive, you are whole', those are the same words he said to Roger after Roger survived hanging. The dark clouds at the end symbolize the coming Revolution and bloodshed. I agree that putting the a capella version of the intro song at the end, after Claire says he makes her feel safe, is a genius choice and it gave me whole-body goosebumps. That shot of them lying together vulnerably naked, joined both in flesh and spirit, is also beautiful. The recap intro is also more dramatic and cinematic than usual. The 'kill them all' scene also gave me shivers. This whole episode is a poetic and cinematic masterpiece.

Bojan Rogic

While dissociating, Claire sees a rabbit which I believe represents Bree. It was her favorite toy as a child. Jamie had a vision of a rabbit after sending pregnant Claire through the stones and surviving Culloden. When the seer Margaret 'channels' Bree to Jamie in season 3, she said she saw a rabbit. The episode in which Bree travels to the past is called 'Down the rabbit hole'. When the Cherokee wise woman tells Claire her daughter is here, there is a deliberate shot of a rabbit across the stream. Now in the modern house, Claire sees a rabbit after Bree fails to go to the future and returns home.

Bojan Rogic

The kids' toy in the modern house is a dragonfly (Claire and Jamie's wedding gift which ended up in the amber Claire found in the museum about Culloden battle). The second season finale and the second book are called Dragonfly in amber. They're listening to the song 'Never my love' on the radio which is the title of this episode. Roger, Bree and Jemmy are absent from the dinner because Claire misses them, and the police officer tells her they were in a car crash and died. This symbolizes Claire's worry whether they made it safe through the stones (she said in the series pilot that travelling through stones feels like being in a car crash). The officer who tells her the traumatic news has the face of Lionel Brown (he's literally trauma personified).

Bojan Rogic

Claire taking the orange after choosing not to kill Lionel symbolizes her taking the high road and keeping her dignity, just like when she took the orange after willingly giving her body to the king of France. The modern home in her dissociation is the home from the magazine cover she read while working in the hospital (it was in the opening shot of one of earlier episodes this season). The painting which Claise stares at is a drawing of Fraser's ridge. The blue vase is a callback to the very first scene of the whole series and it symbolizes home and belonging.

Bojan Rogic

"Kill them all." "You're a brave wee thing."

Clay F

I love Outlander but episode 12 was hard to watch, to see Claire broken like that. I love that they all fought to save her. I loved your talk at the end. Beautiful <3

There are a lot of Easter eggs in the final episode. In the 60's house, one of the walls has the tapestry from the Lairds Room at Lallybroch. There is a vase to hark back to the first episode where Claire says she'd never had a home long enough to own one. There's a microscope and a painting of the house on the Ridge. The orange harks back tonwhen Claire had to sleep with the King of France in Season 2 to get Jamie released. When she left she took to orange to symbolise her taking her dignity with her. Jamie's outfit is still 18th century despite everyone else being dressed in 60's style. This is likely because he is her constant and is unchanging. There are others but those are the main things.

Chellybeenz