Which is not to say Claire no longer has any problems. She runs into one about 3/4s into the erotic night, when Jamie is sleeping and Dougal comes in the room to tell Claire that he broke the news of her marriage to Black Jack, and then makes a move of his own. Fortunately for Claire, the Scots never shared the Inuit custom of wife lending.
But if the coming attractions to next week's midseason finale are an indication, Claire has far more serious problems awaiting her in the future - or its interaction with her present in the past. She has now two husbands, both of whom she loves, separated by 200 years. In that sense, Outlander gives serial polygamy a new kind of meaning. Or maybe we need a new name for it - intertemporal polygamy.
Claire symbolizes this situation when she holds up her two hands to herself at the end of this episode. Each hand as a wedding ring. Which hand will prevail in this Big Love across time?
Hard to say, but the episode that got us to this place will surely go down as one of the best, tenderly sensual and beautifully filmed marriage-night stories ever seen on television.
See also Outlander 1.1-3: The Hope of Time Travel ... Outlander 1.6: Outstanding
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