Jayne ,'Safe'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
My knowledge comes from the TV show rather than the books.
But in the show, she was WWII nurse - which meant that she was rather more reliant on what we would consider home care that we are today. More importantly in the TV show, old herb lore was a hobby of hers. Two alone explains the herb lore, with one maybe adding a teeny bit of reinforcement.
Between that, her encyclopedic knowledge of Scottish history and memory of all the important places in Scotland she'd travelled to in her time... it's a bit much for me.
Again, though it is not out of nowhere
Scottish history is her husbands hobby. She has heard about it from him and dragged around to all the historic places by him as well. WWII nurse, knowledge of herb lore, somewhat reluctant extensive acquistion of Scottish history and tours of historical Scottish sites all established before the time travel. Still a bit much, but pre-established with reasons for her knowing what she knows.
I don't see where it's reluctant. It doesn't fail her at any time, and barely does the lack of technology-- she seems more wistful about it than anything else. I know a lot of bright people, but she's hyper competent and has a lovely singing voice and the ability to read microexpressions too.
I got dragged around Scotland too, but it didn't have a remotely similar effect.
ita, if it helps any, in later books she doesn't know as much about other parts of history.
I love most of the Outlander books.
#3 is my fave.And the show has been quite good, I think.
I have acquired S1. Maybe I should take it back home for the holidays.
I'm assuming they all hurt and have miracles, right?
Quick question...do they explain the mechanism of the stones? Just Y/N, no when or how?
I'm assuming you don't have magic awesomeness and have the stuff airing the the spring? I think only 6 eps aired so far (which is like, not even halfway through the first book, maybe?) if you do have magic sources, I am jealous.
And as far as I remember, they do not ever really explain the stones. They're just magic. Or an explanation for someone disappearing to fairyland. Though they do get slightly more into the practical details of how to use them, NSM in the how/why does this work part.
Oh! See--I don't know which book I'm on, and I don't know which TV I have. It was just tagged S01, which usually implies function.
But 6 sounds like how many eps I think were in the bundle.
So far 8 episodes have aired. The series starts back up in April, and there are 8 more to get us to the end of the first book.