Honestly, Jamie and Claire Are Clueless

I'm doing my first full rewatch of Outlander, and having reached Season 4 "Do No Harm," I have to say that Jaime and Claire (in the show version) really can be the most clueless pair. They drift onto a slave plantation, are justifiably indignant, and blithely announce that they're going to free all the slaves instantly, having done zero research into how and whether that can be done. Jaime is gobsmacked when Farquard Campbell explains why that is impossible. Their actions, however well-meant, make the death of a slave even more traumatic and dangerous for all the other slaves, as Ulysses points out to Claire. The show changes often annoy me, but making Jamie and Claire look gormless is particularly unnecessary.