Bad Blood Brothers – Outlander: Blood of My Blood Ep 3 Review
You know, I honestly feel really bad for Julia, but I also have a lot of respect for her at the same time. She’s doing all of this for the sake of her unborn baby, and honestly she doesn’t have many other options right now.
Even if Lord Lovat is an absolutely slimy creep.
Outlander: Blood of My Blood Episode 3 Review
Claire’s mother going to bed with Jamie’s grandfather was not on my bingo list, yet here we are.
As I pointed out last week, Julia isn’t used to such strenuous work, and she fully acknowledges that she could lose the baby if she suffered any of the draconian medieval punishments found in the Highlands.
Although she didn’t have many options, I think using Brian as a “cover” for the bairn would have worked out, since Brian doesn’t seem to have any qualms with helping her out. Then again, it may have caused Brian some trouble, and Lord Lovat is highly unpredictable.
I saw many people online likening Julia going to bed with Lord Lovat as a parallel to Claire and King Louis in Outlander Season 2. If I remember correctly, Jamie was in jail and sleeping with the king would help his pardon go along a little smoother.
The only difference in that situation was that the king wasn’t interested in banging Claire, he merely viewed it as a contractual obligation. Whereas here, we had Lord Lovat actually stalking Julia around the castle – waiting to find her alone or without help from Brian or his maid mother.
To be quite honest, I was afraid Julia would be raped by the Lord based on how he was acting. I’m not sure how Lord Lovat will react now once he believes he’s fathered another bastard bairn with a servant woman.
Will he fly off the handle? Will he treat Julia a bit kindlier? Only time will tell.
Pivoting away from one trash situation to the next, let’s talk about poor Ellen Mackenzie.
I cannot believe both of her brothers screwed her over, and thought nothing of it. I mean I can, but the blatant and unrepentant betrayal really startled me.
Also, Colum’s leg injury story seems to have changed.
In Outlander, Claire diagnosed Colum with a rare disease from birth that would not “exist” for another few centuries. I believe this disease was the reason Colum had Dougal father his son, Hamish. Here in Blood of My Blood, Colum fell off his horse in a raid on the MacDonalds’ (at Dougal’s request) gone wrong, and further injured his legs beyond repair after chasing his father through the dark castle and falling down the stairs – splitting the bone through the skin.
Had Colum simply rested as Ellen had suggested, he probably wouldn’t be a cripple today. Also, nobody but Ned, (the late Red Jacob), and Jocasta gave Ellen credit for her cleverness and in this episode, saving the family’s station and lairdship.
And how do her (canonically useless) brothers thank her? Ellen gets McKinney to bend the knee, and Colum tries to sell Ellen off to Malcolm Grant. All while Dougal tries to use Ellen as a Jacobite bargaining chip with Marcus MacRannoch.
It’s interesting that even back then, Dougal put the Jacobite cause above all else while Colum put the clan first. And the Jacobite cause is what (indirectly) killed Dougal and Geillis decades later, so it all comes full circle.
But, tell me your thoughts: did you also expect Murtagh had never even spoken to Ellen before, despite being completely “in love” with her? How will MacRannoch gift Ellen the pearls?
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