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Into the Darkness: Finding Personal Light through Outlander

                      I discovered Outlander this spring when my family moved to a new house.  On the day of the move, I went to the house early to wait for the cable installer.  My partner was coming later with the movers. After the cable was installed,…

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The Need to Belong: Outlander’s Jamie and Claire as Outsiders Looking In

The heart of Outlander is Claire and Jamie’s story, but it is also the stories of outsiders — those who find themselves through circumstance, birth, character or social position outside of society. The need and drive to belong — to a family, a home, a place — and to feel loved is a deep-rooted human imperative. We…

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Get To Know Them: 14 Personal Questions With The Making Of Outlander Author Tara D. Bennett

Mary and Blake had the pleasure of speaking with Tara Bennett on Outlander Cast recently. You can find the audio interview here.  But as we’ve done in the past, we wanted to bring you a completely separate post exploring 14 personal questions with Tara that were not included in the original interview.  Click “read more” to…

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Travel Your Way Through Droughtlander and Beyond – A Round-up of Outlander Fan Events

As we are thoroughly into yet another Droughtlander, I am wondering what many of you are doing to get through.  Starz has yet to send any tidbits out to satiate our hunger and thirst for our most beloved series, so I resort to other means.  I begin browsing the internet for anything and everything Outlander….

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Top Ten Musical Moments of Outlander Season 2

  Ah, #Droughtlander. You sap my strength every day when there is not some new tidbit or piece of Outlander news to sink my teeth into.  I search for Outlander joy in the little things like Sam Heughan giving sweet love to Outlander fans on the BAFTA Red Carpet and Caitriona Balfe’s BAFTA Scotland win…

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Surviving Loss and Claire’s Second Chance

Written by: Anne Hawkinson In the Season 2 finale (“Dragonfly in Amber”), Roger asks Claire, “How do you say goodbye to that one person you’ve loved most in the world?” Claire answers, “Whether you want to say goodbye or not, they’re gone and you have to go on living without them.” Roger is referring to…

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Behind the Scenes at the BAFTAs: Outlander Up Close and Personal

Written by: Naomi Booker, Guest Contributor Who knew that on the 21st September 2016, I would meet my BFF Outlander friends on a West End Street in Glasgow.  Andree, Dora, Morag, Ren, Sabrina and I started the day as strangers with a mutual interest (or should I say obsession?) and ended the day as friends, having…

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Outlander: Original Television Soundtrack: Season 2 (Review) Long In Detail – Short on Journey

Every once in a while, there comes along a soundtrack that provides the very definition of how a show can be watched, interpreted and experienced. In other words, this is when a show cannot exist without its soundtrack, and obviously, the tracks wouldn’t be the same without the show.  They define each other simultaneously.  This…

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Outlander Casting News! We Have Geneva, Isobel and Young Jamie!

In the vast sea that is Droughtlander III: Attack of the Obsessenachs (more on that in a later post), we welcome casting news announcements like Kate Winslet clinging to that door . . . as if our very lives depend on them. Perhaps no casting was as nervously anticipated as Geneva Dunsany. Geneva is the…

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Dinner with Ron: Sharing our hopes, dreams and fears with Outlander’s Ronald D. Moore

Written by: Janet Reynolds and Anne Gavin   We’ve all played this game: if you could invite three people to dinner, who would you invite? Usually people cite celebrities or historical figures such as Jesus, Michelangelo or Margaret Thatcher.  The list varies, depending on the kind of dinner party you would like to have.  But…

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