In a new Fourth season, we complete the series with a new set of exciting events: In a new visit to Aunt Jocasta at her farm there will be a tragedy for Claire and Jimmy where they will be trapped between what is the right and the Land Act and clarifies to Claire Jimmy some American history. On the other hand, Claire and Jamie are in County with Stephen Bonnet.
"Common Ground" makes room for both the optimism and boundless potential of starting fresh in a new land, and for a reminder that the land was only "new" to the white people who took it over.
Common Ground, slows down to take in the beauty of Fraser Ridge and in doing so crafts a beautifully paced episode with little else left to desire by the end.
The episode does seem aware of the friction between framing Jamie as its hero and the fact that he's settling on ancestral Cherokee land, but fleetingly...
I'm no historian and I'm sure there were peaceful interactions between colonialists and natives, but the idea that this conflict was so easily resolved is a little bit hard to swallow.
Writer Joy Blake has expertly weaved the tales of the Cherokee, the Frasers, the relationship and pulls of a mother and a daughter, and a man desperately in love.
A pretty significant piece of information... adds some genuine suspense to the story, and Outlander reveals it fairly late in the episode, making for a solid cliffhanger.
