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Episode 511 - "Journeycake"
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joAt last! An episode that I felt inclined to rewatch at least once!
We have an interesting mix of books 5 and 6 in this episode. It opened with -- if I recall correctly as it's been ages since I've read book 6 -- the opening of book 6, Jamie and Claire coming across a burned out home. And then word of the Browns' Committee of Safety. But in between those two scenes, we have something that came at the very end of book 5 -- the realization that Jemmy can indeed travel through the stones.
Which sets in motion something else that occurs in book 6 -- but much later in book 6 -- Roger and Brianna's decision to go back to their own time. Of course book readers know that the reason they leave in book 6 follows the birth of their 2nd child, Mandy. Mandy has a heart condition that can only be corrected by surgery, which Claire is able to do, but won't do on an infant sans anesthetic (and other modern surgical aides). The only hope for Mandy is for the family to pack up and head back to the future.
In the series of course, they've not had Mandy. The decision to leave is because they'd decided to do so once they knew Jemmy could go through the stones. They don't belong in the past, had never planned to live there -- it's the right thing to do.
So the MacKenzies, witnessed by Ian, disappear through the stones, and this is the most intriguing part of the episode for me. When they wake up on the other side, we don't see where they've ended up. The look on their faces, however, suggests that maybe the trip didn't end up as planned? Jemmy seems quite pleased by... something? I've seen comments online positing that their will to leave wasn't strong enough and the stones spit them back out to where they'd left from, and Jemmy was simply seeing Young Ian. Possible.... However, Ian did see them go through, and if they'd popped out the other side, he would have noticed them? Of course, I am not certain how long the actual travel takes -- maybe there's a delay before the traveller emerges on the other side? In book 4, Roger's first attempt to go through doesn't work and the stones "eject" him -- he has to use Fiona's engagement ring to try a 2nd time. But the "ejection" seemed almost instantaneous.
In book 8, Roger goes through the stones trying to track down Jemmy, who has been kidnapped by someone and Bree and Roger mistakenly think this individual forced Jemmy to go through the stones with him. And Roger overshoots and ends up in Scotland just prior to when Claire would have arrived -- Jamie is still in France. Long story short, but Bree and the kids have to travel back that far to find him. But this can't be that -- they wouldn't have jumped ahead to book 8. Plus, they're not in Scotland so if they have travelled somewhere, they're still in the Americas. We just don't know when they are in the Americas.
The rest of the episode is more book 6 unpleasantness involving the Browns, setting up for the finale, with Jamie and men from the Ridge going off to rescue Claire. Roger was very much a part of that, so fingers crossed that Roger and Bree are still in the same time period?
Other notes:
We have an interesting mix of books 5 and 6 in this episode. It opened with -- if I recall correctly as it's been ages since I've read book 6 -- the opening of book 6, Jamie and Claire coming across a burned out home. And then word of the Browns' Committee of Safety. But in between those two scenes, we have something that came at the very end of book 5 -- the realization that Jemmy can indeed travel through the stones.
Which sets in motion something else that occurs in book 6 -- but much later in book 6 -- Roger and Brianna's decision to go back to their own time. Of course book readers know that the reason they leave in book 6 follows the birth of their 2nd child, Mandy. Mandy has a heart condition that can only be corrected by surgery, which Claire is able to do, but won't do on an infant sans anesthetic (and other modern surgical aides). The only hope for Mandy is for the family to pack up and head back to the future.
In the series of course, they've not had Mandy. The decision to leave is because they'd decided to do so once they knew Jemmy could go through the stones. They don't belong in the past, had never planned to live there -- it's the right thing to do.
So the MacKenzies, witnessed by Ian, disappear through the stones, and this is the most intriguing part of the episode for me. When they wake up on the other side, we don't see where they've ended up. The look on their faces, however, suggests that maybe the trip didn't end up as planned? Jemmy seems quite pleased by... something? I've seen comments online positing that their will to leave wasn't strong enough and the stones spit them back out to where they'd left from, and Jemmy was simply seeing Young Ian. Possible.... However, Ian did see them go through, and if they'd popped out the other side, he would have noticed them? Of course, I am not certain how long the actual travel takes -- maybe there's a delay before the traveller emerges on the other side? In book 4, Roger's first attempt to go through doesn't work and the stones "eject" him -- he has to use Fiona's engagement ring to try a 2nd time. But the "ejection" seemed almost instantaneous.
In book 8, Roger goes through the stones trying to track down Jemmy, who has been kidnapped by someone and Bree and Roger mistakenly think this individual forced Jemmy to go through the stones with him. And Roger overshoots and ends up in Scotland just prior to when Claire would have arrived -- Jamie is still in France. Long story short, but Bree and the kids have to travel back that far to find him. But this can't be that -- they wouldn't have jumped ahead to book 8. Plus, they're not in Scotland so if they have travelled somewhere, they're still in the Americas. We just don't know when they are in the Americas.
The rest of the episode is more book 6 unpleasantness involving the Browns, setting up for the finale, with Jamie and men from the Ridge going off to rescue Claire. Roger was very much a part of that, so fingers crossed that Roger and Bree are still in the same time period?
Other notes:
- good to see that Ulysses will be safe -- headed off to England with Lord John;
- Jamie telling Bree about William was a nice, not from the book, moment;
- Jame and Claire finally telling Ian about the whole time travelling thing
- but we still don't know Ian's back story with the Mohawks (unless you've read the books)
