Wentworth Prison

The worst villain I’ve ever seen in a book adaption on TV is Black Jack Randell (BJD). The episode starts with very ominous music as the credits show the episode title. This is when Jamie Fraser goes through his darkest moments. As he speaks to McQuarrie about last thoughts. As I watch this episode the fear in Jamie’s eyes shakes me to my core. As he struggles to fight off the redcoats you can see the fear he has for the hanging. Instead his fears turn into terrified when he sees Black Jack looking at him. Clearly he is having a panic attack while looking at the very man who flocked his back raw.

Sam Heughan is a great actor to make it look like in this part how terrified, how he could portray a broken man? I’ve never seen anything like this other than when I saw First Knight, the late Sean Connery portrayed King Arthur of Camelot when he learns of his wife’s affair with Lancelot. His crying out the pain, the betrayal, only few actors can pull this kind of act off.

The prison scene of BJD mocking Jamie and presenting his petition of complaint telling him how he would win the case. Then he does the unthinkable to Jamie burning the document in front of him. That was the first step to breaking him.

Black Jamie is the villain you love to hate because he is wicked not for any reason. He does these things because he can.

He shows Jamie that you’re hopes are shot there is no way of getting your reputation back.

As Claire and Murtagh are trying to rescue Jamie the hardest thing of all is to come for him.

Jamie is tortured and raped by Black Jack.

As a survival he stops fighting the villain giving into Black Jack’s desires for him. This is a way of surviving in this instance, you retreat in the back of your mind going your mind a happy place of sorts.

The villain broke this as well for the protagonist as well, once all walls are broken and hopes are lost it’s very hard for anyone to come back from.

I felt like in this instance in the episode it was rushed because for man to lose his will to live, all of his hopes, and being broken to boot that's decades if not years heal from. And even then somehow you're not the same.

Someone told me in the books Jamie still has nightmares of what happened to him.

The TV adaption, yes Jamie is never the same, but producers should have gone into more details of his traumatic event how he heals. Or if he heals at all.

In the scenes of what happened in the ceil with Black Jack and Jamie a viewer can see how broken he is. He is in a state of shock about what happened to him.

When he begs for mercy, the damn villain takes pleasure in this. Like most rapists they take something from their victim. I think Black Jack took the protagonist's hopes, and pride when he branded him on his side. To make things worse, this bastard tells Jamie to do this himself which is worse than anything for a victim to do.

Ronald D. Moore, the screenwriter for Outlander, is brilliant. I wish that Sony Pictures would have made each season twenty-two episodes instead of twelve or fourteen. There had to have been a way to make this within the budget. But alas, not so much. Which is understandable in my eyes, in the TV industry there is a certain budget.

So, to all of the Outlander fans as productions have started for season six you can binge watch the show on the Starz app, read the books, or listen to them on audio.