I like it so much that I sought out the third book in the series to read ahead of the third season. I can not wait.
I have heard this new 13-episode season will actually cover the 3rd and 4th book. Awesome. I felt the third book dragged a ton after about the midway point. I’m glad it will be sped up a bit.
Anyway, it airs next Sunday, just in time with Game of Thrones and Twin Peaks ending.
The third book was definitely a rush job to fulfill a contract, but the fourth book is the best in the series. I feel it’ll be done a disservice by being lumped in with book 3.
Beat me to it! I’ve got my whisky ready and I’ve been spamming my Facebook page with links to the trailers.
Season 3 will just cover Voyager.* Ron Moore isn’t stupid. His wife, Terry Dresbach (the costume designer) and his producing partner Maril Davis are huge fans and will not allow too much mucking up of the books.
*The reason I know this is because they’ve cast Rollo and will be spending the next year or so training the pups.
I haven’t read the books but I really liked the first series. I thought the second series suffered from the French setting because I realised what I liked about the show was the clan drama. And then Colum and Dougal met their fates so we’ll see.
My wife and I watched the S2 finale last night. It was incredible. Can’t wait.
The lady who plays Claire deserves the Emmy every single year. Bear McCreary deserves the best score Emmy ever year as well, just as he did on Battlestar.
FYI, there’s an official Outlander cookbook (I have not found a bad recipe yet) and Ron Moore’s podcasts on the show are available free from iTunes. Fascinating behind the scenes look at the whys and wherefores of the show. Bear’s soundtracks are also on iTunes.
Not at all. It’s not a Scottish cookbook. It’s a cookbook based on the meals in Outlander. She started a blog with Diana’s permission to use quotes from the book and it just took off from there. She’s got everything from main dishes to desserts to vegetarian meals (the bridies are delicious, but I’m not very good at rolling out pastry dough) to adult beverages. I made an entire meal out of it, from roast beef to Fergus’s roasted potatoes to banoffee trifle. I plan to make Jemmy’s molasses cookies (not in the published cookbook, but on her blog) this weekend.
So pissed. I snoozed and lost the chance to get Entertainment Weekly with Outlander on the cover. Well, I can still read it at the library. And hopefully I can snag their copy when they discard it.
Scratch my earlier post. My superawesomeamazing husband was in Books-A-Million yesterday and got me two copies! One with Jamie, one with Claire. Hearts hearts hearts. For Mr. Rilch, of course!
First episode was really good. I’m glad they showed the big battle instead of just referencing it, as I think it was in the book. The big moment between Jamie and Black Jack was worth it. Brief, aggressive, and very final.
I don’t remember any of the birth stuff with Claire. Was that in the book?
The attitudes of men in Massachusetts, postwar, didn’t seem much different from those of men in (what is now) Great Britain of the mid 1700’s. I kept picturing Elizabeth Warren in Claire’s chair during the interview with a man who seemed to be Randall’s boss, wondering how fast he would do the backstroke when she erupted from that chair and stuck her finger under his nose.
I enjoyed seeing the old Packard they drove. My dad got his hands on one early in WWII years, I suspect because the previous owner couldn’t afford to, or obtain through rationing, enough gasoline to run it to work and back, since it got barely 10mpg. Dad got rid of it shortly after the war’s end in favor of a 30’s Chevy, then, when you could finally get some color other than black, a new Chevy in 1947.
I found the problems they had with utilities and kitchen equipment a bit overplayed, perhaps.
I suspect the way the Brits found and killed supporters of their enemy after Culloden is a shock to some apologists of the English. They didn’t confine their atrocities to men who had fought, and assumed that women and children and men who didn’t support the Bonnie Prince were just as much to be slaughtered as those who did, simply because they were Scot and were in the wrong place and time. Since many of my roots are Scot and Irish, I’ve not had much good to say about the Bloody English, though I suppose such feelings are not particularly logical.
36 hours without power. I did catch the premier, but power was flickering and I missed part of it. Thanks Starz, for replaying it 50 squintillion times!
Dean Jackson can bite me (I wonder if that’s who will show up to the house for the infamous roast chicken dinner?) and I like how they’re playing Frank to be a sympathetic character. He loved Claire, was willing to raise her child by another man, but she’d found her soulmate elsewhere. No one’s fault, it just happened. I thought they did the battle of Culloden extremely well. No word on Murtagh…maybe leaving it open for the character to return?