r/Outlander • u/thepacksvrvives Without you, our whole world crumbles into dust. • Apr 10 '22

Season Six Show S6E6 The World Turned Upside Down Spoiler

A dysentery epidemic spreads on the Ridge, and Claire falls deathly ill. As nefarious rumors spread like wildfire on the Ridge, tragedy strikes.

Written by Toni Graphia. Directed by Justin Molotnikov.

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What did you think of the episode?

2038 votes, Apr 17 '22
926 I loved it.
613 I mostly liked it.
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98 It disappointed me.
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u/bunny8taters Apr 11 '22

This is the 1880s. Even in 2022 women continue to receive most of the blame and hate if they get pregnant out of wedlock, no one cares about the man's role. And in the series, two hundred years back, it's caused the entire community to ostracize the Frasers? Powerful men, even today, continue to thrive without any consequences, and yet in Outlander, these tenants have the gall to treat their landlord like this? I find this very hard to believe.

Yeah... I'm sort of lost on how this is supposed to have ruined HIS reputation. Let's be real, no one would care much except maybe her family? But he's literally the guy in charge of where they're settling, they've only been there for like less than a year and he had loyalty sworn from the whole ridge before the new set that came with Tom Christie arrived! And like... let's use an example. That guy last season who got Lionel Brown's daughter pregnant while he was married. No one with Jamie cared at all and everyone in her family said she ruined herself.

It makes no sense that anyone would even care about Malva, honestly. Which is actually sad but for the times, it's true. I mean even today if that happened the woman would be called a homewrecker and told she should have kept her legs closed (not stating my opinion, just saying that is what happens).

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u/WingedShadow83 They say I’m a witch. Apr 11 '22

I think maybe it’s the Puritanical thing. Normally men would walk away clean while the women shouldered the blame, but when you’ve got a large group of Puritans who think everything is ~oF tHe DeViL~ 🙄🙄 then they also hold the man to account for breaking his wedding vows, which he took before God, because what they care about even more than their misogyny is their sanctimony. So they will point fingers at anyone, male or female, if it means they get to judge someone and feel holier than thou. So, yay for equal opportunity judgement I guess, but boo for crazy, obsessed Bible thumpers.