Lassies of Lallybroch - SPOILERS

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New thread to discuss both the TV series of Outlander and the books by Diana Gabaldon. Discussion of spoilers allowed, if not positively encouraged.

Holy smokes less you are totally on to something with the TFT. I never made that connection before. So interesting now that you've spelled it out. I get a bit burned out with all the things this family endures and survives. I know there's gotta be conflict and resolve for a storyline but it's getting on to be almost like "Grey's Anatomy" with how far-fetched things happen and somehow C and J survive them. Gunshots, getting struck by lightening, shipwreck, voodoo, Native American ghost, someone joining the NA tribe, snakes, robbery, kidnapping it just goes on and on and on.

I'm worried about what happens when C uses up all her penicillin injections

As with all doctors of the 50/60s, Claire is a bit too generous with the penicillin

Don't worry dry Claire rustles up some more from experiments in her surgery. She's a medical marvel, that one

Claire grows more and Brianna makes rattlesnake syringes! She even tells folk it's penicillin and trains her apprentice, and who knows who else in how to make and use it. Goodness knows what Alexander Fleming is going to do in the 1920s, he has been usurped.

Right I've finished my book.........its DoA next......I'm going in Lassies

Good luck dry!

Ooh. It's exciting starting a new one. I'm still working my way through TFC. Got about 500 pages to go.
Reading these is messing with my target to read 30 books this year though. They're 3 or 4 times bigger than books I usually read.

I'm pondering on whether to re read Voyager when I go on holiday. I skimmed a lot of the first bit, to get the reunion. Can't decide whether it will enhance S3 when it comes round or not.

Not sure I can face Claire breastfeeding Frank again though (thanks again to whoever pointed that out earlier in the thread )

Enjoy DoA, dry.
I would read Voyager again, Hiphop, except maybe the creepy Frank bit (vom). Lots of good Jamie bits and a lot of madness to lighten the dark bits. There's a lot of very emotional stuff on Voyager.

I think I will less. I'll be back here in a couple of weeks to report my findings slag it off and also with a list of people who I think should be cast in S3

See you soon Hip

One thing I'll say for DG is that Jamie is a fab character. Love. The way she gives him that lovely humour, what a lovely guy. SH does him v well. Think young Ian is a lot like him, same turn of phrase. And I really love how C and J are so much into each other in their 40s, how often do we see that? Great to see a woman feeling sexy and being portrayed as such at her age, and later I'm sure.

They are still very !much in love and desperate for each other when she is in her 60s and he is approaching 60. It's lovely. He still tells her she is beautiful and he means it. I think it is fab to see an mature couple still acting like that, fiction tends only to deal with young people, older folk don't have a sex life and aren't seen as attractive normally.

His humour is one of the best things about Jamie and young Ian has much of that dry wit, too. I think it's why he is such a good character. I wonder who will play him. It needs to be someone who is a good match for Sam/Jamie.

How exciting is this :
Friends for dinner last night including 2 Scots.
By midnight, and after plenty of I asked if they were Highlanders
One said "I'm a Highlander, he's a Sassernach (sp)"!!!!!!!!
I nearly passed out did not realise it was used now, and how amazing!!!!!!

Wow! I'd have gone very giggly and girly.
Did you confess your Outlander obsession to them?
I think I need to move to Scotland and encourage them say Sassenach. Would make my day.

Sassenach is a lowland Scot as well as an English person, so I am one, too!

Lol, yes sassenach is used...it's an insult though.

It also is not used to ever mean outlander or foreigner, it means English and it's from Saxon as in English people are Saxons.

But then DG's Gaelic is about as good as her geography

Aye, you only call someone a Sassenach if you don't like them, or in jest. I would call English folk sassenachs, highlanders would expand that to include me as well. Agree about DG's Gaelic, it's about as good as her French!

I've never paid attention to the French...because I dropped it in S2 for Gaelic, lol.

I can literally say I'm looking for a church or horse riding in French - in fact my DP did that exact face when we went to France and realised I didn't even remember how to say things like please.

But the Gaelic made me wince and a quick look at a map could have told her that Inverness and fort William are very far apart...

Still, that's not why I read them

Well it really made my evening, and, no I didn't own up although I could see DH .....the Sassernach is from Glasgow I think.

I can't understand why DG or her editors didn't get the French checked

I only did Gaelic for a couple of years as an elective at uni and that was 25+ years ago. I have tried many times to pick it back up but there is literally no one here to speak to. Gaelic doesn't exist here. I did French up to SYS level, so still school girl but mine is still about a million times better than DGs, I can still read French novels for instance. She really should have got someone competent to check her work.

As for the geography, in one of the books she tells us that Duncan is a Highland fisherman from ARDROSSAN! That's only about 10 miles from here and I'm about 30 miles south of Glasgow

I have not RTFT as I'm trying to dodge Spoilers

I'm on a first watch and I'm addicted. He's just punished her for Fort William.

I'm confused as to how it will play out and how they will fit the modern day element in. I'm basically placemarking for when I'm done as I'm officially a lassie.

Oh Every you have so much fun ahead, S1 is brilliant !

Am I right not to trust that witch one Gillys?

And Laughaire can do one as well

Yes I am right not to trust Gillys she sold Laughaire the "ill wish"

I don't know about you all but I think Claire is functioning way too well for someone who has fallen nearly 300 years through time!

I LOVE IT though