#jane pocock

Okay, first your crush is in love with someone else. Then you find out your real father is a Scottish Jacobite traitor. Then you get kidnapped, and your adoptive father and cousins have to rescue you. Then you find out your situationship committed suicide after being accused of murder. Then you’re told your cousin is dead, and you get involved with his widow… only to find out he’s actually alive, faked his death, and is a traitor. And when you tell him about you and his wife, he beats you and locks you up in a Continental camp until your friend helps you escape. Then you find out your cousin's wife knew all along. And finally, you catch your adoptive father kissing another man and realize he hasn’t told you the whole truth about his relationship with your biological father.

I’ve seen the theory that the reason Claire feels so instinctively at home in the 18th century—more so than in her own time—is because she was actually born there and traveled through the stones as a child. And while I understand why some might find that an appealing idea, the timeline just doesn’t add up. By the time Julia and Henry go through the stones, Claire is already a child living with Uncle Lamb. If she had been born in the 18th century, the sequence would require Julia (and possibly Henry) to go through, have her, return to the 20th century, and then go back again—which clashes with the genuine confusion and disorientation both Julia and Henry show during their first crossing.

Thinking about how William and Jane’s relationship doesn’t really feel romantic in the books. Even less than in the show I think, where it’s not much of a thing either. He’s very attracted to her and has compassion for her, but she’s a whore he’s taken under his protection and he mostly keeps his distance.

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