Episodes 509 and 510
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outlander_forumI am very much behind in posting about the episodes. It's been over a week since I last watched episode 509, and I made no notes to myself when I did watch it, and I've watched episode 510 only once thus far.
I don't have much to say about 509 -- aka the one about the snake. It was very close to the source material and the entire cast put in stellar performances. Had I written something a week ago, I'd have more to say, but right now, I just can't really.
I've watched 510 only once. Before the season actually started airing, Maril Davis made a comment during an interview that season 5 was mostly based on book 5, The Fiery Cross, but also with a bit of book 6. I wondered what that would entail, and now we know.
The showrunners decided to complete the Stephen Bonnet storyline a season early, so the episode mixed some elements of what happens with Bonnet in book 5, will pretty much everything that happens with him in book 6. Which was fine, for a couple of reasons. First, there is a lot going on in terms of the main plot going forward, and so they don't really need to keep this constant threat/distraction alive over the course of an entire other season. Second, some of the stuff that happens involving Bonnet in book 6 falls into the "Diana Gabaldon's weird stuff" category, and honestly, we don't really need that.
Man, I don't know... both of these episodes were really good, but at the same time, I am just so not inspired to say anything much about either. Maybe it's just due to external factors -- the current weird times we're living in due to COVID-19. Maybe it's because they've both followed the source material quite closely and thus have felt far more predictable to me, making me less inclined to want to rewatch them. I may be the only person out there who kind of wishes they maybe weren't sticking to the source material quite as much...
I don't have much to say about 509 -- aka the one about the snake. It was very close to the source material and the entire cast put in stellar performances. Had I written something a week ago, I'd have more to say, but right now, I just can't really.
I've watched 510 only once. Before the season actually started airing, Maril Davis made a comment during an interview that season 5 was mostly based on book 5, The Fiery Cross, but also with a bit of book 6. I wondered what that would entail, and now we know.
The showrunners decided to complete the Stephen Bonnet storyline a season early, so the episode mixed some elements of what happens with Bonnet in book 5, will pretty much everything that happens with him in book 6. Which was fine, for a couple of reasons. First, there is a lot going on in terms of the main plot going forward, and so they don't really need to keep this constant threat/distraction alive over the course of an entire other season. Second, some of the stuff that happens involving Bonnet in book 6 falls into the "Diana Gabaldon's weird stuff" category, and honestly, we don't really need that.
Man, I don't know... both of these episodes were really good, but at the same time, I am just so not inspired to say anything much about either. Maybe it's just due to external factors -- the current weird times we're living in due to COVID-19. Maybe it's because they've both followed the source material quite closely and thus have felt far more predictable to me, making me less inclined to want to rewatch them. I may be the only person out there who kind of wishes they maybe weren't sticking to the source material quite as much...
