I want wine with that cheese! Ok, I'm up to book number 6 and at the end of Season 3 and I have to say there's a crapload of material in the books that should easily make the show interesting. So why, oh why, do we keep getting these 2 in the ridiculously drawn out gratuitous soft garbage, literally every single episode. I don't want to see Claire's fried egg boobs or Jaime's fake scars anymore I can take it every once in a while but damn, I'm starting to feel like some pervy voyeur. And though Jaime's got a nice body, he doesn't leave me all weak in the knees. I'm not down with the wife-beating, either.
Unlike many here, I didn't get all bent out of shape about the male rape scene, & tbh, I do believe there's actually a better love story going on between Jamie and John Grey, but here comes Claire's saggy bosom again. If I want to watch bad, I'll watch it, please stop cramming it down our throats because in this soft format, it's BORING. Every single damn episode, it drags on. The honeymoon's over, time to move forward. As I mentioned, the books are massive, they are hardly going to run out of material.
Whoever's playing Roger, is horrible. I'm supposed to take this nerdy milquetoast seriously as the tall, raven haired, manly guy in the book?? Not looking forward to the Brianna/Roger season (4), the actress playing Brianna is just as horrible as "Roger".
I wanted to like it, it's gorgeously shot, if entirely out of touch with life in the 1700's, with the crisply pressed, snow white shirts and impeccable hair and makeup, even while spending weeks in a rough boat, stuck in the middle of a windless sea. The premise is very interesting and has much potential. It sucks you in with the first couple of episodes, especially the scenes with the druids & stones that we never see again, but then it goes all cheap romance novel for the duration.