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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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Ellisisland · 26/04/2015 17:42

I loved Jenny she was exactly how I pictured her. Thought Ian was good too.

Definitely over invested in the characters though as I am dreading the next bit! Can't they just be happy !Sad

ThatsNotEvenAWord · 26/04/2015 20:58

Oh wow, just seen episode 12.

Jenny and Ian were totally different from how I pictured them, I thought they lost the playful/humorous side of Jenny but they can't fit it all in I know.

The ending... Shock

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OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 26/04/2015 21:00

I love Jenny, even though she's a bit scary... So is that the end of Lallybroch this season? Sad I did think it would span at least two episodes.

DH has been sitting with me while I watch the second half of the season, pretending not to watch. He thinks Jamie over-acts. And keeps saying he has an annoying habit of 'frown-blinking' every time he says a line. And now I cannot unsee the frown-blinking. He's ruining Jamie for me Sad

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ThatsNotEvenAWord · 26/04/2015 21:31

Noooo, send him away! I watch mine on the iPad with headphones in so I'm not disturbed. Tonight I also had a gin, it was perfection.

Surely Jenny needs to have her baby?! So hard not to be spoiler-y.

confuddledDOTcom · 26/04/2015 22:29

marking my place here. loving the series watched it all this week.

question, would you try to return? Why/why not?

ThatsNotEvenAWord · 26/04/2015 23:03

Interesting question. I don't know if I'd be half as brave or daring as Claire... Also it's set up so she's only got Frank to go back to whereas it's hard for me not to imagine missing everyone from 'my' time. I suppose I'd have to try, couldn't just think 'oh well I best enjoy my life in the 18th C'. Until I met Jamie of course!

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OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 27/04/2015 00:14

I'd definitely return. Not even Jamie Fraser's wonderful buttocks could keep me from my modern freedoms such as trousers and you know, not getting sexually assaulted every time I left my house! I'd miss the kids too I suppose

I'd stay for a few weeks though Wink

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Ellisisland · 27/04/2015 06:14

I always wonder if the writer had Claire coming from the 1940s so as it wasn't a particularly great present to go back too. Sure there was running water etc but also its after the war so rationing would still be in place,she has also just left the army so doesn't have a job or place to go back to.
If it was a choice between my time now or 18thc I would choose now no question! But I can kind of see why Claire stayed.

Sunnymeg · 27/04/2015 07:33

So Douglas Henshall is going to feature in the next episode. I'm really pleased about this. He is one of my favourite actors, and I think he would have been a fantastic Dougal. Alas that was not to be, so it looks like they have invented a character just for him!

Applecross · 27/04/2015 07:56

Hmmm I think I'd miss hot water, plentiful chocolate and modern medicine too much, also that era of history in the highlands being so sad. I'd try and bring Jamie back with me though!

ThatsNotEvenAWord · 27/04/2015 08:55

I think in the book after she makes her choice, she makes a joke that 'hot baths nearly won' Grin

Grantaire · 27/04/2015 10:21

I think the next episode (according to google) is Lallybroch too. I thought from the ending that they were going to move things on faster but they've invented some characters instead and they're going to do Jenny's baby and Jamie and Ian joining the Watch next episode.

I think I can see why Claire stayed and I think I'd do the same in her situation. She had an unconventional upbringing, no schooling, no parents, Uncle Lamb gone, no friendships left really, no childhood friends as she travelled the globe, she's spent years in a field hospital used to no routine. Her life has to restart now but she has a clear choice between the eras. In one she can be the equal of her husband and properly useful. In the other she can have penicillin and hot baths but not be truly needed or understood (she's clear in the books that Frank never truly understands her but Jamie understands her immediately). Ultimately, her decision - her words - comes down to the fact that she can't do without Jamie.

I struggle more with her later decision at the end of book 2/beginning of book 3. I understand it but the choice of what to leave behind is very different.

I can't look at Tobias Menzies the same way anymore. I've seen what cannot be unseen.

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OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 27/04/2015 12:12

I've seen Tobias Menzies do interviews and he has such an air of charm and self confidence about him.

And now I've seen his willy I know why. Bahaha.

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confuddledDOTcom · 27/04/2015 12:19

one thing that struck me about making the decision is that her husband will have grieved and be moving on, they've also spent very little time together in their marriage. If she goes back that's someone else grieving for her. I'd not noticed how little she has in the 20th century to go back to but that's true. everything has been about her not having anything - family, a marriage, a home to put a vase in, an era when women had tasted equality to have it taken away.

Mama1980 · 27/04/2015 12:23

I am loving watching this. Wondering if someone who has read the books can do me a favour, could you pm me what happens in the end of book 1 and book 2. I can't find a clear synopsis online.
I just don't have the time thanks a million Thanks

ThatsNotEvenAWord · 27/04/2015 12:57

Ostentatious Grin

Grantaire · 27/04/2015 13:26

I'll PM you Mama.

VivaLeBeaver · 27/04/2015 13:27

I want to go to Scotland and see all the locations.

Grantaire · 27/04/2015 13:31

Ostentatious, I thought we were supposed to be laughing at Tobias's tiny, flaccid willy. To his credit, I was watching on a smallish screen.

Grantaire · 27/04/2015 13:32

Viva, I am in the middle of planning our 2016 holiday to Scotland. DH keeps handily reminding me we're not going on a tour of Outlander locations. Joyless wazzock.

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OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 27/04/2015 13:37

It did have a meaty swing to it, Grantaire. I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt, aye?

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Grantaire · 27/04/2015 13:39

Verra wise of you, ye ken?

Baddz · 27/04/2015 13:41

I am loving this show :)
Haven't read he books...what am I mssing??

VivaLeBeaver · 27/04/2015 13:50

Grantaire, whats on the itinery?

I recognised Rothimurchess forest in one episode.

SenecaFalls · 27/04/2015 13:57

Have you been to the Highland Folk Museum, Grantaire? Some of the scenes were filmed there and there's a lot to interest everyone I think.