Lassies at the Print Shop **Spoiler Alert - title edited by MNHQ**

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New thread for all things Jamie and Claire. But mostly Jamie

I was the Same! Took me until around episode 4 before I as hooked

I too found it as Amazon Prime kept on "beacause you watched..." it. I got the detail and big budget bit from the first ten minutes, knew nothing about the story at all. Watched the first series in 2 days

Then I found you lot on here, watched the second series and started reading the books.

I tried to watch series 2 of Poldark, I thought that was good. It's still languishing unwatched on my sky box. Didn't even record series 3. I loved the first series, but it's mechanical once you've been outlandered.

Hey it's nearly friday, just 3 days to go and ep7 will be waiting when I get up. Back to school for the dc, so I'll have to wait until mid morning

This is starting to sound like a support group. Outlanders Anonymous

Anyone else got any confessions they think they can’t say anywhere else? All are welcome

My name is GreatWhites and I am an Outlander addict.

Called DD the dog's name earlier on yet can remember random, insignificant details about a series of novels which will probably never be described as classical literature

Do we need to print t-shirts with “I’ve been Outlandered” on them

So many similar stories!

Do many of you know anyone who watched it in your actual day to day non Internet forum life? I discovered an old friend of my brothers watching when trying to recommend it to my SIL, but don’t know anyone else who watches it.

My SIL was like ‘oh no, it’s rubbish, X (friend) tried to get me into it but I thought it was shite’ (think she only watched one ep)

I’ve not been this obsessed with a tv show since I was a teenager!

I know no one in real life who watches it.
So nice to chat about my obsession on here instead though.

@Whatthefoxgoingon

Do we need to print t-shirts with “I’ve been Outlandered” on them

I need a t-shirt with that on it. In the middle of a ring of standing stones.

I mean standing stones on the t-shirt, rather than some OTT moment, where I'm spinning around wearing an Outlander t-shirt in the middle of StoneHenge.

Apparently there are hordes of middle aged women hugging standing stones across Scotland.

I tried to get my friend watching it but she wasn’t having it. I have no-one in real life to obsess with but probably best to keep it anonymous online anyway

I couldn't sleep after watching this episode, I basically just laid awake all night replaying it in my mind and my brain wouldn't stop! Same happened after they got together in the first series.

Do many of you know anyone who watched it in your actual day to day non Internet forum life?

Lots of people. I belong to a Scottish American society in my city and it's always a topic of conversation at events. DH likes it, so do my brother and sister-in-law who are our closest friends. My daughter watches, so do most of my nieces. I have several friends at work who watch and waste gobs of time and discuss each episode on Monday mornings (shown on Sunday night in the US.)

But this forum is my favorite way to discuss it.

The only people I know in real life are the ones that I have turned onto it. My bestie is almost as bad as me now, but hasn't read the books. So, this is the main place that I talk about it.

I so need an Outlandered t-shirt or maybe an "I've been JAMMFed" one,

The friends I first read the books with back in th 90s watch it and recommended it to me. I initially didn't think it would be good.

One of my sister's watches it but hasn't seen any of series 3 yet.

And I watched an episode of series two in an Aer Lingus flight to Boston today!

Omg I need an Outlandered tshirt!

I was brought in by an old school friend. And I have found 2 mums at school who watch, plus got a 3rd into it.

Tempted to order one of Caitriona's charity tops actually

Nodding at everything. The mechanical feeling of Poldark after Outlander, having previously loved it. Having no one in RL to share the joy of JAMMF with. The sheer obsession, despite the frankly terrible writing of the books.
I'm also slightly bricking it that I may be neighbours with Snozzlemaid after your comment about living close to where Poldark is filmed (S.J?!)

Severed The clue is in my username

But no, not very near to where you're meaning. Nice to know there's another Outlander fan in Cornwall though. Closest I've come to meeting anyone IRL who watches it.

Bit late to the party but thought this was interesting
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/10/outlander-a-malcolm-print-ship-jamie-fall-to-pieces-sam-heughan-outlander-writers

Crumbs I think I thought it was a shame they hadn't put it in, but they can't put everything in, so it's no big deal. There was so much to fit in that episode (all the episodes!) DG puts in so much that it has to be streamlined somewhere. I think in the book that there was more in the tavern with Claire's dress getting ripped/Claire with nothing to wear, the whole Old Ian/Young Ian thing... the books pull you from one event to another very quickly, but a tv episode needs to have structure within each episode as a whole. Some fans seem to think it's sacrilege to adapt change anything from the book .

Surely the director had some input in the interpretation of that scene too? Can't have been just SH decision how to play it

I have been a huge fan of Poldark since I watched the first series and read all the books as a girl. Love the new adaptation but the writing is not great, it's too fast, at times a bit too pantomime and D and R don't have much chemistry. Outlander has totally spoiled it.

I binge watche Outlander S1 early last year after a couple of people mentioned it. Few episodes a day and I was hooked. Was delighted that S2 started almost immediately but hate waiting a week for the next episode. Then I binge read all of the books over the summer 2016.

It's been interesting watching S1 and about half of S2 blind, then now watching events I've read in the books and meeting new characters I already "know". I'm really impressed, actually, at how well the to writers adapt the books, staying true to the texts but taking out unnecessary stuff. I really like the casting on the whole.

I've stopped recommending it to people because it's a bit love it/hate it and when you describe it it sounds wacky. DH can't get his head round the Time travel but can take Got and I'm too prudish to watch the sex with anyone anyway.

I agree Dry I cant imagine watching the sex scenes with anyone else present Apart from that I’d love my husband to watch it but he refuses, I think perhaps because he thinks I mostly watch it for the male lead . A shame because while I do find Jamie very appealing, there’s so much more to it than that. And my husband’s a Scot, I think he might find the history of it (Culloden etc) interesting ...

My sister and BIL started to watch series 1, I was embarrassingly excited when I found out - but they got to Wentworth and were so traumatised they wouldn’t watch any further. I think I could persuade my sister to try again, but on the other hand I only want her to watch it if she’s going to be as obsessed as me, because otherwise I’d have to be restrained in conversation about it, and there’s no fun in that