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For Outlander fans

12 years ago

There is a new television series based on the Outlander books. You have to have access to the Starz network to see it. However, the first episode is available online at this point. Here is the link:

http://www.starz.com/originals/outlander/videos/video/6dd18f29a87b4d3188e9963c7bf68e67?autoplay=true

Enjoy!

Rosefolly

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rouan
12 years ago
I only read the first couple of books but it might be interesting to see how they adapt it for the screen. Thanks Rosefolly!
carolyn_ky
12 years ago
I'm planning to watch it. My husband said he saw an ad for it on one of the cable channels, not Starz. Here's hoping he can remember (or find) which one it was.
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Well, they can change the eyes to blue with colored contact lenses and they can change the hair with dye, but they're going to need someone really tall. And fair-skinned, though I suppose they could change that with makeup, but it would be a pain to carry that throughout the series. Diana Gabaldon has said that Jamie Fraser is built like a basketball player, not a football player. Not that she'll probably get any input into casting. If you like "Outlander" and are interested in people's ideas of casting, go to Youtube and search on "Outlander casting." Tons of stuff, some of them very good. Though the consensus always seems to be that Jamie should be played by Gerard Butler, who is much too old for Jamie in the first couple books, though he *is* tall. I'll be interested to see how they'll handle the sex scenes, which are so amazingly written in the books. It wouldn't be "Outlander" if they made it into a family show, but it also wouldn't be "Outlander" if there were naked women running around in every scene.
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My sister and her daughters, and a couple of my nieces absolutely raved about these books. Sis is reading number 8 right now. I was visiting her these past couple days and they purchased Starz for 10 months just to watch this series. I will say, both she and her daughter weren't crazy about the woman playing Clair, or with Jamie. They said the same as some others, hair is not red, and he doesn't tower over her. I hope I can track down the books among friends and family and read them.
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Romy, yes, we had the same initial reservations about Tom Cruise playing him, but agree that he actually did a good job. FUN: regarding Dorothy Gilman, I fell in love with her young adult books when I was a kid. They were written under her then-married name of Dorothy Gilman Butters. I eventually went on to read her Mrs. Pollifax series and many of her other books. I was totally shocked to find out that she was living in Albuquerque at the same time as we were in the 80's, as one of her sons lived there. I actually got a chance to meet her at a book reading and signing she did. I took along my very favorite of her young adult books, "A Calico Year" for her to sign. She was so surprised to see it and we had a wonderful chat. Lovely lady. She passed in 2008, I believe.
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Funny, I find that I can accept the time travel part...but not the things like clean hair or stem glasses or happily getting on a horse three days after giving birth :-/ Can someone who's read the books (or watched more than I) explain something? The last show of the first season shows them boarding a boat to France and Claire saying she's pregnant. The beginning of the second season shows her back in the forties, pregnant, wearing Scottish dress. Then the show continues in France... Does this get explained further into the series? ETA I haven't read the books...
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Kath
12 years ago
We got pay TV especially to watch this :)
I have been following the filming and it looks like it will be very good. The producer, Ron Moore, says his wife (who is the costume designer for the series) is a huge fan and his main concern is to get it right so he isn't in trouble.
Diana Gabaldon has also had more input than usual for an author.
yoyobon_gw
12 years ago
I read the first of the series and really enjoyed it but couldn't get into comitting to the rest of it.

Yet the HP series was addictive start to finish.

The Maisie Dobbs series was another addictive pleasure.

I would have to say that it's not the idea of a series that put me off....maybe I just got weary of all the burning loins and heaving breasts !!
rouan
12 years ago
I got annoyed with it after a while. The way she started the book with the husband telling his wife about the scotsman looking at her through a window made me think the author was going to cycle back to it, but by the time the third book came along and it was obvious she was going to make this a very long series, I got bored and never went back.

And, yoyobon, I'm with you; I got tired of the burning loins etc. LOL
yoyobon_gw
12 years ago
Rouan,,,,,,It's true !
You want to say:
" Okay Diana, we get the picture, you have your average reader in a proper sweat ( for which her husband will thank you dearly) now let's just move it along ! "

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