I've watched the whole series now, and I can honestly say I love the wedding episode the best. It's not without flaws but overall they did a wonderful job with the wedding and the wedding night sex scenes between Jamie and Claire. Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe are just perfect for their roles, both are gorgeous to look at and they act just as I would expect Claire and Jamie to act. Sam with his perfectly muscular body, those wonderful expressive eyes and mouth is my male image of a perfectly gorgeous man. Caitriona, besides being exceptionally beautiful, her smile is contagious, and when she looks at Sam, there is this chemistry between them that is electrifying.
The wedding night was some of the most seductive sexually romantic scenes I've seen on TV in a long time. This part was I'm sure very hard to act in front of a camera crew and stage hands, but they both did it like no one was in the room but them. This is a real tribute to their extraordinary acting skills and should keep all those fans very happy rerunning it for the 6 month hiatus the show will be on.
The actual wedding was shown to us in a mired of flashbacks. Perhaps too many flashbacks as others have noted. I would tend to agree here. The actual wedding with Jamie coming out of the church viewing his potential bride who was incrementally lit with sunlight as he describes his feelings seeing her for the first time. Then there is Jamie dressed to the hilt looking the most gorgeous specimen of Scottish manhood. Who could resist, even Claire with her before wedding doubts succumbs to his charm with a big kiss at the end of the ceremony. The speech in Gaelic "Blood of my Blood.. " right from Diana Gabaldon is such a wonderful part of the wedding ceremony.
As good as this segment was it was missing some of the important lines from the book that gave meaning to some of the scenes and might have explained the shortness of the first sexual encounter. When Jamie is talking about what the lads had told him the night before the wedding they left out the most important line – "that they had told him to finish quickly as women generally do not like it" and Claire's response to that "the slower the better for most women". Also there was less of Claire showing Jamie how to please her as the night progresses. In the TV version he seems to learn all this by osmosis.
Scenes I just loved: Jamie and Claire undressing each other, Claire on her toes kissing him, Jamie picking Claire up and carrying her to the bed, Jamie giving Claire his mother's pearls, the sunlight on Claire's wedding dress
Scenes I liked: Murtagh's talk with Jamie, Dougal making a pass at Claire on her wedding night
Scenes I didn't like: the whole priest thing, Claire and Frank in front of the registry office, Angus and Rupert crashing into the wedding chamber, Ned in the brothel.
Overall, however different it was from the book, because of the Jamie and Claire scenes in this episode I thought it was the best of the episodes we've received from the TV series to date. I hope they continue with this romance in future episodes.
The wedding night was some of the most seductive sexually romantic scenes I've seen on TV in a long time. This part was I'm sure very hard to act in front of a camera crew and stage hands, but they both did it like no one was in the room but them. This is a real tribute to their extraordinary acting skills and should keep all those fans very happy rerunning it for the 6 month hiatus the show will be on.
The actual wedding was shown to us in a mired of flashbacks. Perhaps too many flashbacks as others have noted. I would tend to agree here. The actual wedding with Jamie coming out of the church viewing his potential bride who was incrementally lit with sunlight as he describes his feelings seeing her for the first time. Then there is Jamie dressed to the hilt looking the most gorgeous specimen of Scottish manhood. Who could resist, even Claire with her before wedding doubts succumbs to his charm with a big kiss at the end of the ceremony. The speech in Gaelic "Blood of my Blood.. " right from Diana Gabaldon is such a wonderful part of the wedding ceremony.
As good as this segment was it was missing some of the important lines from the book that gave meaning to some of the scenes and might have explained the shortness of the first sexual encounter. When Jamie is talking about what the lads had told him the night before the wedding they left out the most important line – "that they had told him to finish quickly as women generally do not like it" and Claire's response to that "the slower the better for most women". Also there was less of Claire showing Jamie how to please her as the night progresses. In the TV version he seems to learn all this by osmosis.
Scenes I just loved: Jamie and Claire undressing each other, Claire on her toes kissing him, Jamie picking Claire up and carrying her to the bed, Jamie giving Claire his mother's pearls, the sunlight on Claire's wedding dress
Scenes I liked: Murtagh's talk with Jamie, Dougal making a pass at Claire on her wedding night
Scenes I didn't like: the whole priest thing, Claire and Frank in front of the registry office, Angus and Rupert crashing into the wedding chamber, Ned in the brothel.
Overall, however different it was from the book, because of the Jamie and Claire scenes in this episode I thought it was the best of the episodes we've received from the TV series to date. I hope they continue with this romance in future episodes.