![]() ![]() While Claire and Jamie returned to Scotland this weekend, last week’s episode mostly focused on Claire and the loss of her child via miscarriage early on. ![]() The event needed to happen to explain why Claire would forgive Jamie for his behavior against Black Jack Randall and why Claire would also trade her body for an audience with the king in order to save Jamie from the Bastille. Regardless, child rape isn't a subject that TV often delves into. Violent shows like Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead and others have been showing us the darker side of human nature for years. ![]() The instance of Fergus’ rape was not as graphic as it could have been in the retelling, but while the episode spared us a prolonged shot of the act, it didn’t spare us much else. This scene was tragic and horrific in ways most shows do not manage to be. We had a lot of conversations about it with the cast and the director and then in editorial, and I went with what I thought was enough to convey the horror of it without lingering in it and making it too gratuitous. I thought that what we showed in the show was actually the minimum required to convey the horror of what had happened and to understand from Claire's point of view why she would change her mind about Jamie and about getting him out of the Bastille and come to an understanding about what made him break his promise to her and to really viscerally put her and the viewer in the point of realizing what had happened to Fergus. ![]()
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