Outlander 6x06 - "The World Turned Upside Down" FULL REACTION
Added 2023-04-17 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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OH MY GOD
9,2/10! this was crazy!!
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Absolutely. A well written character that has a solid emotional impact on viewers, and that is relatable, is not by making it black and white, or good or bad, but making it human, not always perfect, and most of all to be reactive to the psychological traumas going through, making it a real life journey, where your experiences change you. Being human and sometimes letting yourself being less "perfect", doesn't mean going weak or bad, means that sometimes when life is way too much at the brink of serious mental issues, we could react in a way we didn't aspect, allowing ourself to get some mental relief, one way or another. That doesn't make us bad, make us human, fragile sometimes, negotiating between taking unwise actions and getting unhinged, incapable of coping with the amount of pain and anguish life make us face, and Claire faced an insane amount of pain, she clearly needs help. That is what make very good character writing, giving it real depth and making her life journey interesting and unexpected but most of all changeable, psychologically reactive to what they make her go through.
Patpet
2023-04-21 09:23:39 +0000 UTCClaire always had a coping mechanism to get through the trauma that she endured. But for some reason, the writers decided to lesson the impact and influence of that mechanism. Instead, the writers went a different direction from what she would normally have relied on and introduced self-medication with ether. This is completely out of character for Claire: Both book Claire and show Claire. I understand how you could feel that she had reached her breaking point, and there is little doubt that she had, but instead of turning to self-medication, she would have turned to Jamie. Jamie is her rock, the person she turns to for strength ever since she came back. Yet, if you notice, the writers put Jamie on a back burner to play out the self-medicating and Lionel Brown's ghost story line (God knows why). And as you eluded to, they brought Jamie out of the shadows in episode 7 when he should have been there all along. I suppose you could call it creative license on the part of the writers, but with 1,439 pages of original source material ("A Breath of Snow and Ashes" paperback edition) I just don't understand why they went this way unless they decided to make season 6 extremely dark.
Doozer
2023-04-18 21:21:20 +0000 UTCI see what you're saying Terry but to me a "hero" isn't this perfect being and definitely isn't "too strong". Everything you mentioned that she has been through is trauma incredibly heavy for anyone to bear! I've just watched 6x07 today and to me, her last scene with Jamie where she explains to him what has been going on with her is the explanation that is meant to quell all dissatisfaction with her actions this season. She talks about compartmentalization and how she's been using that as a defense mechanism pretty much since the start of this whole adventure, and now the reason why she's been struggling is that like any person, not lessor, just human, she has a breaking point and it's been reached. Now every little box of trauma is opened and her guilt about every impact she had on this life in this century is coming to the surface as a bonus. It also explains how she's faced every disaster with such strength, it's actually because she hasn't truly been facing it. I see her using ether almost as an attempt at shoving everything back in the boxes. We saw how dark it got in her mind, we've also explored darkness amongst so many other characters to whom we've given understanding and grace, why not Claire? She did the thing that is often the most difficult thing to do in times like these: she reached out for help because she isn't immune to darkness. To me, this storyline made her even more amazing in my eyes, nothing could ever make her less of a hero!
Marie-Ève Vignon
2023-04-18 01:22:46 +0000 UTC@Kimberly Graham - You're absolutely right about smart, strong people being as susceptible as any other lessor persons to substance abuse. But a single person who could be described as having survived a five-year marital estrangement, in the horrific life-and-death medical trenches of Britian and France in WWII, an unexplainable time travel 200 years into 18th century barbarism of highlands Scotland, three near sexual assaults in Scotland on you first trip, the loss of a still born child, that forfeiture of oneself in a sexual transaction to free your spouse. enduring a 20-year absence from the love of your life, near drowning, the trauma of murdering a once trusted friend. repeatedly standing against racist social norms, being separated from your child for years, and seeing your spouse tortured, nearly killed and endure mental anguish... all over a collective 27/28 years... then my assumption would be that that person is too strong for the let-down we are seeing for Clare in this season. For me, Clare is a hero... not some lessor person. Anything less would not be true to her 28 year, forged-in-steel character.
Terry Yelmene
2023-04-17 23:23:58 +0000 UTCI agree. I totally didn't understand people saying "Claire would never do that!!!" Like hell! Plenty of super smart, super strong people turn to substances like alcohol or drugs to escape traumatic things.
Kimberly Graham
2023-04-17 20:28:08 +0000 UTCEvie, I actually agree with you about Claire & how she's been dealing with her trauma... the ether. When this season aired, many fans had the opinion that Claire would never use a substance as escapism but I could see it. Yes she's an extremely strong & capable woman but every person has a breaking point, even the strongest of people. I guess I can relate... I look at myself as strong, can get thru anything, have had a ridiculous amount of obstacles & hard times I had to overcome & I always have...with the exception of one thing that was just too terrible to handle so I turned to a form of escapism that I'm not proud of... Even 25yrs later I still haven't properly dealt with that terrible thing. So, my point is I have to agree that even someone so amazing as Claire can have a trauma that lingers like none before. I'm so happy your almost caught up with the rest of us...but sad for you that you will soon experience what a true "Droughtlander" is.
Ashley Hartsel
2023-04-17 16:27:15 +0000 UTCQuite the episode. Did you know Caitriona was pregnant while filming this. Can you imagine the trauma she must have gone through filming the baby scene? She continues to amaze me. Sam is so perfect as Jamie, a lot of the dialogue this season is straight from the book, perhaps because they were trying to get it all done during the pandemic, him telling Claire that if she wasn't there the sun would no longer come up or go down was direct from the book and delivered perfectly. If Malva was sleeping with Ian and Henderson, how many others was she with??
Chellybeenz
2023-04-17 15:32:04 +0000 UTCMalva is DEAD! Who killed Malva? Why oh why did the Chritsties ever come to the Ridge? They're so despicable... so evil. Now Malva is dead. Who killed Malva? And Evie is 'officially' scared!
Terry Yelmene
2023-04-17 14:41:16 +0000 UTC
