Outlander (TV Series) Uncharted (2017) User Reviews

Uncharted - Weird, funny and sweet!

[CeeBee86 · 9/10 · 26 November 2017]

This episode was filled with all the elements I didn't expect they would keep in the show, compared to the book. Starting with the whole Priest thing. But it was a nice surprise. I loved how the first part of the show was about Claire and her survival on the island. To see her struggle and all.

I have to say, the whole coconut thing reminded me a bit too much about Tom Hanks in Castaway (even though I haven't seen that movie in ages!).

What I love most about this episode was the reunion from Jamie and Claire. It was sweet, it was filled with love, it was perfect! The scene right after, with Willoughby taking care of her wounded arm and Jamie and Claire talking, it was a good scene!

Same with Fergus and Marsali's wedding. The last name moment was just perfect! I still love Marsali's character. She's great.

The only thing that did disappoint a tiny bit was the Turtle soup part. Cait was great as being a drunk and the penicillin scene was executed perfectly! Yet, the sex scene could have been a bit more passionate, or longer. A bit like some scenes from season 1. It was good. But as the scene in the book is a pretty big deal, the part in the show wasn't. Which is a bummer. Not saying it's bad, but it could have been more.

But overall, I really liked this episode and might even be one of my favorites of this season, so far.

Uncharted: A Hidden Gem

[jmansmannstjohnslrev · 9/10 · 27 March 2021]

I have to start out by saying, this was always a bit of a weird part in the story for me. Claire finds herself shipwrecked and then is taken in by the eccentric Father Fogden. It was so strange because it was so tonally out of sorts with the rest of the story. The tv series is no different. After Heaven and Earth was laden with desperation by all of our main characters, and after the start of the episode which is literally Claire trying to survive being marooned on an island, the last 3/4 of the episode is a kind of wacky and wild ride.

But, it is a credit to the cast and to the writers that this episode just works. It's not great, it's not an all-time episode, it's just fun and moving when it has to be. You see the beginnings of Claire and Marsali's relationship, Fergus officially being adopted as a Fraser, Claire and Jaime being reunited, and of course, the turtle soup scene, which is actually one of my personal favorites from the book.

I guess part of the reason it works is that Outlander tends to be a very dour show. Most of our time is spent with our heroes struggling, suffering, broken, or apart. Sometimes with all this show throws at you, it is nice to have an episode that is just fun, where Jaime and Claire are just able to be together, and enjoy each other's company without one being raped, or beaten, or kidnapped, or diseased, you get the idea.

I also think Season 3 as a whole does a good job of developing Marsali and Fergus as supporting characters. Mind, you don't get all that much in the way of character development, but you do get to see their story and they are a couple that you do grow to care about during the course of the show. Each one has grown and shown a modicum of independence. Fergus stood up to his surrogate father and refused his efforts in Heaven and Earth. Here, you see Marsali take a big step by asking Claire for her advice and regarding her as something less than the devil.

All in all, it ends up being a fun and rather sweet episode that you wouldn't expect from the first twenty minutes of the episode.

Good and bad

[sja-awesome · 8/10 · 6 January 2024]

All the people putting reviews leaving the horrible sexist remarks about Claire and her girl scouts is just horrible. She came from a time when that would have been a lot more common knowledge and she was in the army and she was a nurse.. They teach you survival skills because you have to know it to survive lmao... Plus she was naturally interested in that sort of thing and she had a different upbringing. If this was a man in the show doing the same thing people wouldn't question it at all urg.. most of this episode isn't bad if you take it for what it is of course the circumstances how she got there is just ridiculous but the main storyline is pretty good but the forced exposition of the characters once they're on the beach is just bad. Also it makes zero sense how somehow they reached that island before the other ship and then somehow have time to stay there well the tar for the mast hardens and then somehow beat other ship to Jamaica? What? Then during the wedding they speak openly about sexual stuff,that kind of thing wouldn't be blurted out and they would never do that in public..They tried to make relatable to a younger audience or men watching or perverts? I don't get it.. The reunion between Claire and Jamie on the ship is funny and cute tho. Over all it's a 7-8.

Superb

[lluca-47748 · 10/10 · 21 May 2020]

Very well executed all along. Great storyline, marvelous acting. Cait's acting at its best in all instances. The turtle soup part is the most entertaining love scene one can imagine, however still filled with emotions - and Bolt The Door could be a brand of this show (same as Sassenach, Honeypot). To watch Claire's (Cait's) 1-second facial expression and non-verbal language in her movement and in her eyes when she says "bolt the door" - I watched is repeatedly in total awe - that was outstanding acting, and it is not the first time she does that.

Uncharted

[bobcobb301 · 6/10 · 17 May 2018]

The episode started off fine: Claire was stranded and we got a glimpse of just how tough and dangerous that can be.

Unfortunately, it got too weird and even bordered on supernatural (well, behind the whole time travel thing supernatural).

Claire and Jamie were separated for barely over half an episode and they acted the same as they did when they reunited after decades earlier in the year.

Okay episode if it cut off after the first 30 minutes.

Nonsense

[si_ross · 2/10 · 8 June 2021]

What a load of rubbish. She floats to some random island, uses all of her Girl Scout skills to trek miles across the jungle almost getting eaten by ants, finds some wacko priest, (pretending to be Tom Hanks in Castaway but with a coconut instead of a volleyball), gets saved and then gets reunited with Jamie and the crew on a different part of the beach, who had lost their way in a storm even though it was clearly a drought where she was. Outlander has completely lost the plot.

Least favourite of all

[sysgoddess · 5/10 · 11 August 2022]

This season has been my least favourite but I've found enjoyable or entertaining elements in most. Whole others have pointed out the clear references or influence towards Castaway, the whole victimisation of the lovestruck pair is tiresome.

In the first 10 minutes of this episode we see Claire jumping from a disabled ship with her trunk to wash up on an unknown, unpopulated island, discovering a pressure sore on her foot, using her best Girl Scout skills to find some water on the leaves of clearly human planted bananas, trekking to the middle of the island, handily locating a piece of flint and a rock with which to make a fire before laying down to sleep, awakening with a large constrictor snake on her and in an active ant bed which bite her lower legs (only? Really?!), etc ad nauseum. Well, at least her pale milky skin hasn't suffered from any pesky sunburn. Insert eyeroll here.

When she awakens she bound to a bed in a human abode and tended by what appears to be an indigenous woman after a dog finds her passed out at the edge of a settlement. Thus, we see that the island is clearly populated by humans.

This entire episode feels very forced and disjointed.

Outlandish

[jreeders518 · 2/10 · 22 February 2018]

This has really become ludicrous. I am afraid when season 4 sets sail, it will be one passenger short.