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Is there an Outlander thread?

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OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 28/03/2015 14:27

Started watching it on Amazon Prime last night, I'm hooked already.

Haven't read the books it's based off, which makes a nice change for me!

Anyone else?

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slalomsuki · 29/04/2015 10:24

Still just slightly ahead of the TV series by reading the book. Will need to speed up though.

gincamelbak · 29/04/2015 11:42

I went to culloden last summer at the end of our holiday. I'd just read most of the outlander series and on our walk around the moor, I overheard an American (or Canadian) woman talk about a story to do with Jacobites. It was vaguely familiar and then I realised she was telling her male companion the entire storyline of Outlander. As if it was actual true fact. Astonishing.

I'm watching on a free prime trial and glad it runs out after next episode as then I can watch DOUGLAS HENSHALL. I love him. He favourited one of my tweets which is clearly tantamount to flirting. even though it was about me having a baby but we will ignore that

SenecaFalls · 29/04/2015 13:26

And they sell the books in the Culloden gift shop, or at least they did when I was there four years ago.

confuddledDOTcom · 29/04/2015 13:57

If you're running out of trial, have a look for Show Box.

Mama1980 · 29/04/2015 14:08

Thanks Grantaire

gincamelbak · 29/04/2015 17:36

confuddled thank you! Will shove that on my phone and watch from there. Wooo!

confuddledDOTcom · 29/04/2015 18:08

no problemGrin I'm a total addict to the app. who needs tv?

slalomsuki · 01/05/2015 10:16

Just got to the end of book 1 and without giving the ending away it was a bit of a disappointment and rather rambling. Does the TV series end at the same point?

Redglitter · 01/05/2015 12:21

I expect it will. I thought the ending was ok. Bare in mind it was written as a stand alone book it wasn't written as the start of a series

Grantaire · 03/05/2015 10:04

I've added the Highland Folk Museum to my list of places to go next year. It looks brilliant.

I'm not sure exactly where we'll go yet. Definitely Highlands and islands. I want to start at Glencoe, then to Fort William and then to Skye and go from there. DH and I like different areas and while he wants to live near Inverness, I prefer the idea of island life. This will be a good recce.

I liked Douglas Henshall and the way they did this week's episode made for a nice dramatic segue into what's coming but it seemed a lot of effort for very little plot advancement. I might have preferred a bit more of Lallybroch life and Jamie and Claire being truly happy (before what's to come) instead of all that imagined misery with Horrocks. Love Ian and Jenny too.

slalom, can you say why you found the ending disappointing? I very much like the bit in France. I think in isolation, the very ending can be read as a bit too, well anyway after aaaaaalllllll of that, here's the loose ends all tied up, THE END. Read in the context of what is to come, it's a good natural stopping point. In my head, I read it as a trilogy and then the later books as 'and if you like the trilogy and still want more...' Book three is definitely the peak of them imo. I could read the Edinburgh bit referred to above over and over again.

slalomsuki · 03/05/2015 12:07

I've started book 2 and it has me hooked a bit wanting to know what happened.

For book 1 I just thought the ending rambled a bit and was over long before the final conclusion. I guess it will be curtailed a bit when it's on TV.

Not saying I don't like it just that it's not been as compulsive a read as I had hoped it would be.

ThatsNotEvenAWord · 03/05/2015 15:47

Right that's it I'm starting the books again tonight. Might start from the wedding chapter though Wink

Redglitter · 07/05/2015 22:54

watching episode 13

Can't believe there's only 3 more to go

Filming season 2 started today Smile

DidgeDoolittle · 10/05/2015 13:35

Just watched episode 14. I did miss Jamie. A good episode though.
I can't stop thinking about his future ( trying not to give anything away), and feel unutterably sad all the time. It's pathetic really and getting very annoying.

cardoon · 10/05/2015 16:23

Oh, I did miss him too! Just a view of him lying on the floor of Wentworth

ThatsNotEvenAWord · 10/05/2015 17:20

Watching tonight. Can't believe how little of the series is left Sad although they're filming season 2 now

Sansarya · 10/05/2015 20:43

I want to know how they did the scene where Jenny expresses breast milk! It didn't look like a prosthetic boob and I doubt the actress has only recently given birth.

Jane054848 · 10/05/2015 21:51

The breast milk expressing looked very realistic unless you've ever actually expressed breast milk. That would have taken about half an hour with a breast pump. Love this series hugely and have read books 1-6 since seeing episode 1, but that episode was incredibly boring. No Jamie! What is the bleeding point?!

SenecaFalls · 10/05/2015 22:15

I loved it. Jenny needs her own series.

DidgeDoolittle · 11/05/2015 07:54

Jane, when I breast fed my kids my milk came out just like that. My boobs were huge and I could have fed the whole ward.

Grantaire · 11/05/2015 13:01

I could express loads of milk by hand and in a couple of minutes. It didn't come out in a single stream like that though, it came out in several jets, going in weird directions. Plus, away from my baby that long and I would have had very lumpy breasts, not the smooth, non-engorged, vein-free offerings of the lovely Jenny. It's a fair version of reality in a lot of respects. It made me wince in sympathy.

I really didn't enjoy the latest episode. Not because of the lack of Jamie although this is a problem in terms of the fact that I think since Claire made her decision at the stones, their intimacy and love hasn't really been explored. I don't really recognise the belligerence and snippiness of the Lallybroch episodes and it left their relationship lacking. I thought last night was too much filler and not enough grit. I like Murtagh but they got him slightly wrong and I didn't need to see Claire singing and dancing that many times. I got the message. I'd have preferred more of Dougal and his (quite important actually) discussion of Geillis and what he is doing in that location in the first place.

I wanted them to get on with it and move on to Wentworth. I know that it took time to find out what had happened to Jamie (though Murtagh and Claire actually worked together on their 'act' didn't they and the gypsies were differently involved) but Jamie and Claire also spent a lot of time at Lallybroch and they whizzed through that quick enough. The balance seems off somehow.

Jane054848 · 11/05/2015 15:11

Grantaire, I agree that the balance was off - they changed the book a lot in the previous episode, the Watch, to make it more exciting, and it worked really well. In this one they were weirdly faithful to the slightly boring & pointless "let Jamie come to us" plan and the changes they made didn't make it any more interesting. Fascinated to hear about other people's experience of expressing though! But I agree with part 2 of why it wasn't realistic - her boobs were waaay too nice. I did like Jenny in the episode, she is great, but it went downhill after she and her squirty breast milk headed back to Lallybroch.

Grantaire · 11/05/2015 16:26

I could not agree more. From the point Jenny galloped home, I was bored. I am not a purist. I think when you make a television series, you have to acknowledge that it's always an adaptation. To make it watchable, you have to tinker. I liked the watch and I think it was a good way of transitioning from Lallybroch to Wentworth. Nearly a whole episode of a bawdy song and Murtagh out of character did nothing to advance the plot or characters. Murtagh and his 'I love that boy like a son' rhetoric was silly. Claire is also poorly imagined in the most recent episode. What I like about her is her sheer determination. She is committed, strong, logical etc. She isn't whiny and petulant. Her quiet, committed resolve is one of the most important parts of her character. Especially given the way the whole thing develops in the next books.

Twinklestein · 12/05/2015 12:10

Tobias Menzies dangling frankfurter will stay with me for life. Shock

I remember in an interview he said he wasn't sure if he should take the series. Now I know why.

The actress who plays Jenny is really good.