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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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OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 19/01/2016 20:23

I'm here! I'm getting more obsessed, not less, as time goes on Grin

Can't wait for season 2. Have you seen the proper trailer yet?

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hudyerwheesht · 20/01/2016 06:26

Yay, hello OP!

Glad to hear the obsession isn't waning. My friend who suggested it to me was breathless with excitement when she told me about it but now that I've caught up and need to discuss it all she's all " oh yeah,did you watch it, it was ages ago I finished it..."

I've seen 2 slightly different trailers. I think both are on the official website and YouTube - get googling!

hudyerwheesht · 20/01/2016 16:25
TheTravellingLemon · 22/01/2016 20:29

Exciting. I think I'll miss Scotland though!

hudyerwheesht · 23/01/2016 08:07

Me too but it's only going to be for the first half of the season, they're actually filming the second half in Scotland right now. There's pics on the other outlander thread.

gingerboy1912 · 23/01/2016 20:33

Found the other outlander thread. Waves at hud Grin

TheTravellingLemon · 23/01/2016 20:41

Off to hunt down the other thread Smile

hudyerwheesht · 24/01/2016 08:05
prettyusefulsometimes · 24/01/2016 20:49

Hello! Bought myself the boxset at Christmas, thinking it would last me until The Walking Dead returns in Feb. Ha! Totally bingewatched over a couple of evenings and am about to finish Dragonfly in Amber.
Totally beguiled by JAMMF, the costumes, the landscape. Would pay good money for a continuous 'live feed' of Jamie, Murtagh et al galloping about The Highlands all blood splattered and kilty. Can someone get on that please?
Was a big fan-fic reader before children etc, and often wondered what my favourite fic would look like on TV!! Outlander often feels like the filmed version of a fic of another TV programme / film / novel (if that makes sense?) Trying not to look at too much fandom stuff online until I've read the next book but would like to chat about Season 1 and look forward to Season 2!
Would love to read a Jamie POV Grin

gingerboy1912 · 24/01/2016 21:02

Ok I've given in and got the Amazon prime basic membership so that I can watch it all over again. GrinBlush

CrayonShavings · 26/01/2016 11:01

Oh christ, watching the last episode now, very uncomfortable viewing. I'm looking away more than not.

gingerboy1912 · 26/01/2016 15:07

It's horrible isn't it. Upset me for days. Seemed far more graphic than it needed to be. Imo

gingerboy1912 · 26/01/2016 15:15

Apparently there is organised, small coach tours around the outlander filming locations. Goes off to google when where and how much. We could do a collective Mumsnet outlander tour. GrinGrin

hudyerwheesht · 26/01/2016 15:35

Ooh that's right gingerboy I read that on the Visit Scotland website, I think.

hudyerwheesht · 26/01/2016 15:42

God yeah the last episode. So awful on several levels. Sad

I had been saying to my DH, who doesn't watch it, how harrowing the last episode was and he kept replying how it couldn't be as bad as some of the Game of Thrones scenes he's watched. So I ended up describing it - including what Jack does to him mentally to break him and the resulting scene(s) and he was like this: Shock and saying 'what the hell are you watching?!'

TheTravellingLemon · 26/01/2016 18:59

I thought it was a difficult watch too. It had been such a gentle programme until then, it really took me by surprise.

gingerboy1912 · 26/01/2016 19:14

That's what I thought it seemed to be more fitting for GOT or SOA

CrayonShavings · 27/01/2016 10:42

It was up there with Reek/Theon from GoT for sheer brutality. There I was enjoying a romantical time-travelling adventure and then ... Shock

I thought it was slightly badly done in that you didn't see enough of Frank being a good person, so you don't really feel her longing to go back to him before she decided not to. Especially as Black Jack is the same actor. Or maybe that was intentional, and their marriage wasn't all that great anyway.

MyVisionsComeFromSoup · 27/01/2016 11:05

they'd spent so little time together (because of the war) that neither we nor Claire really had any idea whether she had a good marriage or not tbh.

There's a lot more detail in Book 2 which does explain things more, but I'm not sure how much of that is covered in series 2 - it's going to be really hard discussing things like this, if the series doesn't follow the book structure.

gingerboy1912 · 27/01/2016 11:09

Not sure I could go back to frank after having such run ins with Jack Randall it would be too much of a reminder. How long is it in time by the end of series one that she has been missing from franks life?

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OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 29/01/2016 07:24

That's a good question ginger. I wanted to say three years but it's not that long by the time they go to France.

Ooh that's going to bug me until I can get on my kindle!

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girlinacoma · 29/01/2016 07:56

They have now cast Brianna - eek!!!

OohMavis · 29/01/2016 12:13

Yay, finally!!

Sophie Skelton hmm? She's very beautiful, but she's from London... Another put-on accent? They mustn't have had much luck casting for American actresses.

gingerboy1912 · 11/02/2016 17:54

There is a new trailer out for series 2 and it looks bloody brilliant.

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