Outlander. wtf?

[SmallLegsOrSmallEggs]

Just started watching Outlander and I am wondering if they could have made it any more inaccurate.

Ok so picking up on things like referring to Inverness as a city in the 1940s is maybe a bit picky (it didn't become a city until very recently).

But the constant references to the redcoats as the 'English'. FFS. Surely if they had done even a teeny tiny amount of research they would know it wasn't Scots v the English!?!

The Highland Gaels who speak both Gaelic and English.

Or I am too early in and all the inaccuracies turn out to be because it's all on her head?

Anyone else wants to pick holes? Or to try to convince me it is worth sticking with?

I read somewhere that Gabaldon is going to explain the ghost in the next book (so you'll have a long wait to see in the tv series, if they ever get round to it )

I loved the first book, second and third were 'meh', enjoyed the fourth one but couldn't get past the opening chapter/s of the fifth. I'm really interested to see what direction the tv series takes though.

Surely the point of the 'ghost' ie Jamie is that he's from the 18th century, so of course he's dead.

I thought the narrative was going to be more about reincarnation a la Barbara Erskine. She does good past and present love triangles between the same people.

I thought the ghost looked like Jamie same hair etc. But it's been annoying me as well because I can't see how or why. I take it the town square they stayed in was the same town as Claire goes back to when she time travels???

I'm intrigued as to whether Claire will meet anyone else who has timed travelled apart from the woman who was burnt as a witch.

I know twinklestein but I wondered why he was haunting her - if they had lived a long and happy life together why would his ghost be staring up at her in the window?

Funny you should mention Barbara Erskine though, I thought that bit reminded me of one of her novels and totally agree about the love triangles across ages she does so well.

gingerboy I'm not sure it is, it's meant to be Inverness and "Castle Leoch"was a couple of nights' riding away though I'm not sure where the inn that they stayed in after they wed was meant to be.

They are still filming series two, currently just up the road from me. No sign of Sam though.

I figured Jamie was remembering her after his death in a Catherine-Heathcliff kind of way "Haunt me then"...

I don't want leave Scotland - it's large part of the charm and the kilts of course.

So where were the magic stones in relation to the guest house they were staying in?? I know they drove to them but have got in a muddle with all the locations

Fanny. Where are you? Have you seen any filming?

I don't want leave Scotland - it's large part of the charm and the kilts of course

Do you mean the story? If so, me neither.

I don't want to leave Scotland either, if it's the programme we're talking about; I've already left it in real life.

I've loved hearing all the dialect that I haven't heard in ages. It made me laugh when Jamie said "hud yer wheesht!" - I thought, hey, that's my MN name!

fanny if you see Sam in the flesh in his kilt I will be like this:

I'm near the village of Falkland which is where Ghost Jamie is watching Claire through the window.

I love it when they talk Gallic.

What does hud yer wheesht! mean?

A Scottish friend of mine has always called me 'Sassenach' or 'Sass' way before we'd heard of Diana Gabaldon, but y'know it doesn't have the same effect as when Jamie says it.

Who'd having Burns night this year?

I'm doing it for a whole bunch of French people, I've already ordered my vegetarian haggis from England. I really wanted the guys to wear kilts but you can't really hire them in France.

Haud yer wheesht, means hold your tongue/be quiet.

The way Jamie says Sassenach makes me all of a flutter

I'm reading book 8. Terrible but compelling. Loved it on TV, despite the totally shite "history".

Ah I thought it might.

Me too gingerboy, me too.

The ghost IS Jamie & all will be revealed in the final book. Whichever one that may be

ginger the locations in book one are crazy. There's a map in the book - it's laughable where they have things

Oh & Jamies ghost is either 24 or 26 when he sees Claire at the guest house

So was that the end of Captain Randall after the cattle incident??

Don't think I will be able to watch Tobias Mackenzie in anything else after that last episode

Ohhh you've not seen the last of him

Ooh, that's intriguing about Jamie's ghost.

BJR is still alive? After a dozen or so Highland cows trampled over him? Hmm. Don't want to see him ever again after the last episode of S1.

Should I correct the spelling of my MN name then I wonder? I keep meaning to but that's how I would pronounce it in my Edinburgh accent.