![]() ![]() It’s an act that has fundamentally changed Jamie, and not something he can easily put behind him. Outlander at least addressed the aftermath of the event, and concluded (such as it was) with Claire having to bring Jamie back from the abyss by assuring him that there is no shame, and that her love is unconditional. Further, the show doesn’t have the margins to dedicate the necessary time to the character’s handling the abuse. Elsewhere on the dial, Game of Throneshas been criticized a lot of for its depiction of rape, and it’s largely because it’s an act used as a plot point, not as an emotional watershed. The level of emotional devastation wrecked upon him left him at first catatonic, then violent and delirious, and ultimately suicidal. A good portion of “To Ransom a Man’s Soul” was dedicated to giving Jamie’s trauma its due. To Outlander’s credit, though, it did not just end things with the crime itself. The finale’s depiction of rape in its many forms was incredibly brutal, and surely would not have been shown with that same amount of prolonged brutality had it been a man and a woman. That is what tormented Jamie the most, because it was a scene of drugged, twisted, confused emotions and more sexual torment. As Jamie says to Claire, it wasn’t just that Randall raped him, which he did. What made all of this even darker and more difficult to bear was that it went beyond a forced sexual assault. He also made Jamie brand himself with Randall's initials as a final, dehumanizing blow. ![]() But Randall had done several things to torture Jamie beyond the physical, like “bringing Claire” into the proceedings, and then using that to shame Jamie over what had transpired between him and Randall.
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