Outlander In The Media

[Dust Bunny]

This is a great interview/article of Sam, with some new information that he hasn't shared in the myriad of other interviews he gave at Comic-Con. Head's up for the usual spoiler-esque preview stuff of Season 2. http://entertainment.inquirer.net/174400/outlander-star-stands-out-at-comic-con

 

But this is my absolute favorite part. It makes me so giddy! 

Further down, it’ll be interesting to see a character named Fergus who comes in and becomes like a surrogate son. He’s a French orphan boy. We have a great little actor named Romann Berrux (playing Fergus). He’s 13 years old. I turn into a 5-year-old when we play games together. We talk about silly things and hang out. I’m really enjoying that dynamic. Romann lightens up the mood on the set. When he walks in, everyone enjoys their jobs more.

 

I'm so looking forward to watching those scenes. Some of my favorite parts in DIA, and it sounds like they nailed the casting.

Edited July 17, 2015 by Dust Bunny

[Nidratime]

This is very, very curious:

 

Terry Dresbach, Ron's wife, tweeted this 9 hours ago, and be warned this article does have big spoilers for book 3, so don't read if you're trying to remain spoiler free:

 

Terry Dresbach ‏@draiochta14 9h9 hours ago

SPOILER ALERT
http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Why-You-Should-Excited-Outlander-Season-3-Long-Journey-73030.html

 

 

 

Then she tweeted this 5 hours ago:

 

Terry Dresbach ‏@draiochta14 5h5 hours ago

Cooking and listening to Voyager today.Need to start thinking...

 

Edited July 18, 2015 by Nidratime

[WatchrTina]

Terry had a bad day yesterday when everyone reacted to the tweet above thinking she had inadvertently spilled the beans that season 3 had already been green-lit.  She followed up that tweet with one basically said "Everybody calm down, I'm just re-reading the book and thinking ahead IN CASE it gets green-lit.  Sheesh!"  Then she tweeted this:

 

 

Subjects I will not discuss.
1. too much Frank
2. How Ron has destroyed the show with bad writing
3. Jamie kicked to curb
4. Season 3

 

I understand item 1 (and let's not re-start that discussion).  I didn't know item 2 was a thing but yeah, let's not discuss that either.  Item 4 is clearly a reaction to the kerfuffle about her Voyager tweet above.  But what the heck do you think she means by item 3?  I'm guessing she's just harkening back 2 years to when Sam was first cast and some people weren't happy because they preferred the idea of <<insert actor of your choice>> in the role or thought his 21st century IMDb photos didn't match their mental picture of Jamie (no kidding.)

 

What do y'all think she meant by item 3?  I was going to tweet Terry and ask but that seemed rude since she just said she didn't want to discuss it.

Edited July 19, 2015 by WatchrTina

[cypfan]

WatchrTina posted: What do y'all think she meant by item 3?    

 

IMHO I think item 3 is related to item 1.   I also speculate that she may be referring to the addition of men ,,,handsome young men,,, to Season 2 cast. 

On the Comiccon panel , Sam didn't allay those concerns by joking ( very funny pouting) over being jealous of the French men. 

 

When I read her tweet last night, I cringed.  I thought there are such things as "trolls" on Twitter too.

 

Edited to correct the use of the Bold feature

Edited July 19, 2015 by cypfan

[Nidratime]

Yes, I think it's all about the complaint that there's been a de-emphasis on Jamie in favor of Frank, and also not showing many of the favorite scenes between Jamie and Claire that solidify their relationship.

[Cubisa]

There has also been talk about Ron praising Tobias as Frank and Black Jack, and ignoring Sam.

[Nidratime]

If any of you get your Starz through AT&T:

 

AT&T, Starz distribution talks appear to stall

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-starz-att-distribution-talks-stall-20150717-story.html

[chocolatetruffle]

Thanks Nidratime. This happens every time there are new renewal agreement negotiations.  The last time, we lost The Food Network for several days while they were negotiating w/ AT&T.  I'm sure the two parties will come to an agreement as it benefits no one if they don't.

[jjj]

Don't know if this is old news or new news, but it is a new article quoting Caitriona on the next series; some location spoilers, but no big plot revelations.  Also says that this season is "not a literal adaptation" of the book structure.

 

http://www.designntrend.com/articles/57707/20150722/outlander-starz-series-season-2-is-beautiful-says-caitriona-balfe.htm

[Summer]

I couldn't get the link to work but I found on Youtube a slow-mo very very rough video of the Season 2 preview that was shown at Comic-Con.  It's super fuzzy but it's slow-mo so you can get a slightly better look at the scenes.  If you go onto You Tube and search "Outlander Season 2 Slow-mo" it will come up.  

 

Also, on Youtube, I watched an Outlander behind the scenes video and there is a cute bit with the actors who play Rupert and Angus talking about Sam, lamenting that he is "far too good looking, devastatingly handsome actually" and Angus says "you feel ok about yourself until he walks in the room" or something to that effect....it was cute...

 

Happy Droughtlander, guys...:(

Edited July 26, 2015 by Summer

[Nidratime]

Do you have a link to the second video?

[Summer]

Here is the link to the behind the scenes (hope it works, I am somewhat technically challenged):

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmKr4tst5Aw

 

And here is the Season 2 Preview (which still freaks me out a bit....)

 

 

 

Happy Viewing!

[GHScorpiosRule]

I remember most of the interviews from the first video before the show started.

 

The second video? I knew about 95% of the scenes just from reading the buik.  The only scene that has me scratching me head is the one where Jamie is all bluidy and appears to be stabbing someone, and he looks like he's in bed.

[cypfan]

Summer, you did a great job of posting the videos correctly.  I am surprised that the Season 2 video is still on the net

since I had read that Sony was busy deleting the links on various sites. 

 

Thank you for the posting. 

[Summer]

You are most welcome!  I hope Sony doesn't hunt me down for reposting the link :)

I realize a lot of you have already seen the BTS video, but I was actually surprised after all the cyber stalking I"ve done looking for anything Outlander, this is one that I hadn't seen.  

[GHScorpiosRule]

What I loved about the first video, was watching Sam learning Gaelic. 'twas hilarious.

[WatchrTina]

 

I was actually surprised after all the cyber stalking I"ve done looking for anything Outlander, this is one that I hadn't seen.

That was my reaction as well.  Thank you so much for posting it!

[Nidratime]

Who knew there was a book inspired by Jamie Fraser ... and Gabaldon doesn't mind!

 

Novelist makes trip to P.G. with comedy

http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/entertainment/local-a-e/novelist-makes-trip-to-p-g-with-comedy-1.2017691

 

For what it's worth to Outlander fans, Gabaldon is well aware of Finding Fraser.

 

"Jamie Fraser would be deeply gratified at having inspired such a charmingly funny, poignant story - and so am I," said Gabaldon.

 

 

 

Here's a link to the actual book:

http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Fraser-kc-dyer/dp/0994081707/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438364969&sr=1-1&keywords=finding+fraser+kc+dyer

Edited July 31, 2015 by Nidratime

[AD55]

Who knew there was a book inspired by Jamie Fraser ... and Gabaldon doesn't mind!

 

Novelist makes trip to P.G. with comedy

http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/entertainment/local-a-e/novelist-makes-trip-to-p-g-with-comedy-1.2017691

 

 

 

Here's a link to the actual book:

http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Fraser-kc-dyer/dp/0994081707/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438364969&sr=1-1&keywords=finding+fraser+kc+dyer

I think she is probably okay with it because it's not fan fiction.

[Nidratime]

Entertainment Weekly included Outlander in this list.

 

9 must-read books for summer beach reading

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/24/summer-books-reading-list?hootPostID=767078dfba43c2c4993c2c2093de545e

[cypfan]

Good news Nidratime.  The more publicity the better.  Wish the "blurb" had included Starz.  

 

This makes me wonder how Starz or Sony should publicize the return of the series.  

 

Maybe I am/was the only obtuse tv viewer out there in the public. I am thinking that I should find a more appropriate thread to post why 

I did not tune in to Outlander until the night of the finale May 30th?? and then fell madly in obsession with the show and now book one. 

[bearcatfan]

I'm was late too cypfan. I saw the mid-season trailer on YouTube and was intrigued. In early April I found a couple of videos on YouTube of the various panels and decided to watch an episode. Then I was hooked, watched all of the episodes up to the current one (episode 10 at the time) and when I realized  that I would have to wait until Sunday morning to find the new episode, I decided to get Starz. I then bought the first book and decided to wait to read it until my vacation because I thought it would interfere with me enjoying the show. I started with the first book on June 26 and am currently about halfway through MOBY. On the one hand I'll get a lot more done when I finish it, but on the other, I now have to wait years to see what comes next!

[Archery]

NPR included Outlander in its Swoonworthy List of Romances (at #3):

 

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/29/426731847/happy-ever-after-100-swoon-worthy-romances

Edited August 3, 2015 by Archery

[MsProudSooner]

NPR included Outlander in its Swoonworthy List of Romances (at #3):

 

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/29/426731847/happy-ever-after-100-swoon-worthy-romances

I have a confession,.  If I see a book with a cover similar to the cover of #1, I automatically reject it.  If Outlander had covers like that when it first came out, that's probably why I didn't read it until 2015!

[Nidratime]

NPR included Outlander in its Swoonworthy List of Romances (at #3):

 

 

Keep in mind. Outlander may not have been number three on this list. The list is segmented into subgenres: historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, erotica, young adult, classics, sci-fi/fantasy, etc. So, not a direct list.

 

Plus, readers voted, but the judges also had their input and they said they didn't place them in rank order.

[GHScorpiosRule]

I have a confession,.  If I see a book with a cover similar to the cover of #1, I automatically reject it.  If Outlander had covers like that when it first came out, that's probably why I didn't read it until 2015!

 

Not me. I think I've stated in the Small Talk thread, (and I ken I'm in the minority) that I am an unashamed and proud reader of romance novels. Plus, that cover looks miiiiighty similar to Johanna Lindsay's Tender Rebel, Book 2 of her wonderful Malory series. Of course, the hero's hair is black, and the heroine's is strawberry blondish/red.

 

I looooved those covers on my historical romances during my teen and young adult years. One because I loved the dresses, two, so I could roll my eyes at how many different hair colors they could put on Fabio. It's the tween in me. Plus, what was inside was some pretty good stuff.

[Archery]

Keep in mind. Outlander may not have been number three on this list. The list is segmented into subgenres: historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, erotica, young adult, classics, sci-fi/fantasy, etc. So, not a direct list.

 

Plus, readers voted, but the judges also had their input and they said they didn't place them in rank order.

I didn't say it was. I put the number in there so that one wouldn't have to peruse the whole list looking for the blurb. 

[Nidratime]

Sorry. It's just the list is a little deceptive and when I first looked at it last week, I thought Outlander was number three, in rank order. Only when I looked closer and read the accompanying information did I realize I was mistaken. Didn't want anyone else to make my mistake.

[Summer]

I follow Terry Dresbach on Twitter and there was a bit of a brouhaha yesterday regarding some leaked pictures from Season 2.   I gather based upon Terry's reaction that they were pics of costumes?  

 

Anyone have any additional info regarding this? 

[Nidratime]

I wish I did. I would've loved to have seen them.

 

If anyone's in New Mexico, just saw this on twitter:

 

Outlander TV News ‏@OutlanderTVNews 40s40 seconds ago

Santa Fe, NM: See #Outlander on the big screen with @Writer_DG in attendance! Takes place over three days.  http://www.jeancocteaucinema.com/film/the-outlander-marathon-with-author-diana-gabaldon/

 

 

It says they are showing the entire first season, but what they're actually showing is the entire first half of the season, episodes 1 - 8.

[WatchrTina]

The brouhaha on Twitter had more to do with the fact that the person who took the behind-the-scenes photos of the Outlander cast & crew in action had her photos stolen from her website.  She didn't do anything wrong (she took the photos with a long lens that allowed her to take photos from well outside the area that had been cordoned off for the shooting.)  They were shooting in a public space so they had no expectation of privacy.  But the photographer DID have an expectation that when she put the photos on her website (and watermarked them) that people would respect her copyright.  Someone took the photos and they started turning up on other fan websites. She trying to have them taken down and Terry tweeted asking fans not to post unauthorized photos.

 

At least that's my understanding from reading the tweets back-and-forth between the photographer and various people, including Terry.  And Terry re-tweeted several comments by the photographer, which tells me that Terry doesn't blame the photographer.  I'm sure that any costume that they REALLY want to keep secret (like the red dress) won't see the light of day and will only be worn in the controlled confines of the set.

Edited August 9, 2015 by WatchrTina

[Summer]

Thanks for the info, WatchrTina!

[Nidratime]

Speculation over when Season 2 could premiere:

 

‘Outlander’ season 2 debate: When’s the earliest it could premiere?

http://cartermatt.com/175021/outlander-season-2-debate-whats-the-earliest-it-could-premiere/

[Summer]

On Pinterest I stumbled across what I presume to be one of the  leaked Season 2 pictures that caused the twitter storm.  It is picture of Claire and another woman walking across a lawn.  The costumes (dresses) are breathtaking, just beautiful, complete with hat and gloves.  I can't link it because try as I might I can't find it again on Pinterest, it was on someone else's board that I don't follow and can't remember the name of the board.  Sorry....

 

Also, totally random, but I rewatched the Comic Con panel again as I kind of skimmed through it the first time because I was on cringe alert :)   And as much as the pirate thing was pretty lame, I did find it funny when Kristin Dos Santos first brought out the pirate coat and Sam says "What the hell is that??"  Missed that the first time I watched....

[WatchrTina]

It's a clean sweep!  Outlander won all four categories it was nominated in in Entertainment Weekly's contest for shows/actors snubbed by the Emmys  They call them the EWwys.  We not only won -- we got 80% or more of the vote in each category.  It was a landslide!  Way to go Outlander!

 

http://www.ew.com/gallery/2015-ewwy-winners?hootPostID=e0a7b4609381b889b050ca59a71f06a5

 

In other news -- the heated battle between Sam and "Pirate Boy" Colin O'Donoghue over on the RadioTimes website appears to have broken the site (they had to pause voting.)  When I went to bed last night 4.5 million votes had been cast.  Unfortunately, 2.5 million were cast for Colin (you can work the math.)  Shockingly, Cait also fell behind in the wee hours of the morning.  Clearly, somebody woke up the CloneClub because Tatiana Maslany of Orphan Black came out of nowhere to pass our Sassenach.  Here's the link in case they turn the voting back on.

 

http://www.radiotimes.com/scifichampion

 

But given our sweep of the EWwys, I won't be too heart-broken if we lose this one fan-poll on a website I've never heard of.

Edited August 12, 2015 by WatchrTina

[bearcatfan]

It's a clean sweep! Outlander won all four categories it was nominated in in Entertainment Weekly's contest for shows/actors snubbed by the Emmys They call them the EWwys. We not only won -- we got 80% or more of the vote in each category. It was a landslide! Way to go Outlander!

http://www.ew.com/gallery/2015-ewwy-winners?hootPostID=e0a7b4609381b889b050ca59a71f06a5

In other news -- the heated battle between Sam and "Pirate Boy" Colin O'Donoghue over on the RadioTimes website appears to have broken the site (they had to pause voting.) When I went to bed last night 4.5 million votes had been cast. Unfortunately, 2.5 million were cast for Colin (you can work the math.) Shockingly, Cait also fell behind in the wee hours of the morning. Clearly, somebody woke up the CloneClub because Tatiana Maslany of Orphan Black came out of nowhere to pass our Sassenach. Here's the link in case they turn the voting back on.

http://www.radiotimes.com/scifichampion

But given our sweep of the EWwys, I won't be too heart-broken if we lose this one fan-poll on a website I've never heard of.

Before it broke Sam was less than 100,000 votes behind Colin and gaining fast.

Edited August 12, 2015 by bearcatfan

[MsProudSooner]

The website is back up.  Sam leads 51% - 49%.   His lead is about 130K votes.

[bearcatfan]

I don't know how they set up those brackets but Sam vs Colin should have been the final match up, not round 4.

[MsProudSooner]

They made sure it wouldn't be an all Outlander final.  Sam and Cait are against each other in the 5th round.

[WatchrTina]

Sam vs. Cait?  Well that sucks.  I'm rather hoping Sam will send out a tweet telling everyone to vote for Cait.  It would be so verra charming.  Either way the voting is going to fall WAY off. Who is going to want to vote against either one of them?  I'm just going to abstain.

[Nidratime]

Includes Outlander:

 

Currently Watching: Our 10 Favorite TV Shows Based on Books

http://media.bookbub.com/blog/2015/08/25/top-10-books-made-into-tv-shows

[WatchrTina]

Hey everyone, Sam's in the final for another one of those online fan popularity polls.  He already won for the Fantasy SciFi genre.  Now they are matching the genres against one another for an overall champion and Sam beat Aidan Turner of Poldark (the "Drama" winner) in a no-holds-barred knock-down drag-out fight in which over 20 million votes were cast so, yay us!  While that was going on a very strange match-up was taking place  between Ricky Gervaise (the Comedy winner) and David Attenborough (factual champion).  Not a lot of votes were cast and Mr. Attenborough seemed to be winning by a huge margin.  Then, at the very end of the voting period the organizers reported some voting irregularities in that match-up, an adjustment was made, and suddenly the combatants were neck-and-neck. Ultimately Ricky won.  I still can't figure out what happened there because, quite frankly, of all the genres the one where I think the fans would be the least likely to cheat with robot voting would be the "Factual" category.  Maybe it was just a troll who didn't like Ricky or who thought it would be funny to have the "Factual" winner defeat an entertainment personality.

 

So anyway, that's the back story.  Now it's the final -- Sam vs. Ricky.  And when I went to bed last night Sam was winning at a walk -- he had 81% of the votes.  This morning he only has 57%!  WTF?  Over 5 million votes have been cast and the only thing I can think of is that while the USA was asleep all those fans of the The Office (UK version) and Extras woke up in the UK and went to bat for Ricky.  So I'm here to rally the troops.  The fandoms of Sam and Outlander have proven time and time again that they are a force to be reckoned with when it comes to social media.  We win almost every fan-poll that is put up.  It shows we are engaged and active in the world of social media and I think that's good for the show and the actors.  It helps to ensure that the "buzz" around the show continues during #DroughtlanderDeux, which I think is good for all of us.

 

So . . . here's the link.  You can vote as many times as you like (no annoying I-am-not-a-robot captcha codes to enter.)  Vote!  Vote!  Vote!

 

http://www.radiotimes.com/tvchampion2015

 

Click on the "Vote Now" button to get to the match-up.

Edited August 29, 2015 by WatchrTina

[Laurie]

Cait's in one of those can vote things through E Online but it is one of those annoying voting systems....hence, she's behind.

http://m.eonline.com/news/690374/girl-on-top-2015-vote-in-the-elite-8-now

[WatchrTina]

The E!Online poll above will let you vote about 10 times before it starts demanding that you identify pictures of waffles and cabbage and kayaks to prove you are not a robot.  So let's all give Cait at least that many votes (more if your tolerance for clicking on photos of cruciferous vegetables is high.)

Edited August 29, 2015 by WatchrTina

[bearcatfan]

The E!Online poll above will let you vote about 10 times before it starts demanding that you identify pictures of waffles and cabbage and kayaks to prove you are not a robot.  So let's all give Cait at least that many votes (more if your tolerance for clicking on photos of cruciferous vegetables is high.)

It had me identify pick-up trucks and skateboards. I did the cabbage one once and found that difficult for some reason. It then gave me another chance with sailboats.

[Laurie]

Don't know if it's true but supposedly you don't have to do the captcha if you have Firefox.

[cypfan]

I wondered if I knew any other nuts who were voting............I have been clicking for days from 6 AM to midnight when the computer goes to bed.  

I almost stop the Radio Time a week ago because, it seemed to be endless and I had never heard of it.

 Someone posted somewhere that RT is very big in Europe. So for Sam, I have continued clicking.

 

E Online....is a pain in the @#$.  I never want to see a waffle again. I keep reading that Cait is does not care about these fan votes.  I may join her disdain.  

 

So, not being a quitter I will get back to clicking with the comfort that WatchrTina, bearcatfan, Laurie, are clicking too.  

[bearcatfan]

Don't know if it's true but supposedly you don't have to do the captcha if you have Firefox.

Not true. I use Firefox and I was just picking out burritos.

 

Cait now has a very small lead, 50.9%.

[WatchrTina]

Her lead just advanced to 51% even.  Whoo hoo!  A whole extra one-tenth of a percent.  This poll is very annoying.

 

I know it doesn't really matter.  But Sam won the men's contest so I just think it would be nice if Cait got equal recognition.  

 

Meanwhile, Sam is kicking Ricky's ass but it ain't over 'til it's over.

[onthebrink03]

Her lead just advanced to 51% even.  Whoo hoo!  A whole extra one-tenth of a percent.  This poll is very annoying.

 

I know it doesn't really matter.  But Sam won the men's contest so I just think it would be nice if Cait got equal recognition.  

 

Meanwhile, Sam is kicking Ricky's ass but it ain't over 'til it's over.

 

Ricky (or should I really say his fans) came back strong, and I mean STRONG, in the final hours of his last race so no one can rest easy cause until we see Sam's gorgeous ass cross that finish line first.  Right up until the final second, it's still game on!

 

Sending Cait some love as well.