Disclaimer: This post contains spoilers related to the Outlander season two finale. If you would prefer to watch the finale without knowing how the book give us clues to the outcome, then please stop reading this post at the point where it heavily warns of spoilers. Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but… I feel…
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The time is nigh, Obsessenachs. It’s what we anticipate eagerly, yet dread at the same time. It’s the agony and the ecstasy, the torture and the rapture, the alpha and the omega. The FINALE of Outlander Season 2 is just days away. The culmination of one of Diana Gabaldon’s most complicated and twisty novels that…
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Written by: Anne Hawkinson Murtagh is alwaysthere. Dependable, stable, loyal. You never have to wonder, you never have to doubt. He doesn’t push to the front or seek the limelight, like Dougal has on more than one occasion. And his reward is that he gets passed over, or passed by. “Prestonpans” proved it once again….
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Leon Tolstoy wrote famously in Anna Karenina “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” We saw this in spades in the Outlander season 2 episode, “The Hail Mary,” where we have the Battle of the Brothers on the eve of the Culloden Moor disaster. In one corner, we have Alex Randall and his…
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Do you find yourself obsessively gabbing on about Outlander to your friends and family? Wishing your Saturday nights included a living room full of people with whom to watch, discuss, comment, cheers, jeers and well, experience alllllll the feels? Dinna fash, Obsessenach – you are not alone. Good news – we can get new family and friends pour ourselves…
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We all knew when we started Season 2 of Outlander that eventually we would have to face #Droughtlander — that long interminable break while Ron D. Moore et al work their magic to create Season 3. What we did not realize was that we were going to have to live through #SexDroughtlander as well. Yes,…
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Written by: Emem Uko Nothing is good about rape. It leaves victims in horrible psychological states. Even when the outward effects, such as bruises are healed, inwardly, only the victim can gauge the level of damage from which he or she suffers continuously . Knowing how deeply traumatizing rape is to people who have experienced…
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Written by: Anne Gavin What I really want to know after viewing Episode 2.11 – “Is there anything that Diana Gabaldon CAN’T do?” Lots of good stuff in this episode, but the news is “Best Selling Novelist Writes TV Script.” So, I’m not going to bury the lead here. Let’s just call it out. The…
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Written by: Anne Hawkinson Wow. I thought I’d seen the last of Laoghaire, that trouble-making, scheming, two-faced —–. Good riddance, and all that. You get my drift. Yet, here she is, in “The Fox’s Lair,” at Castle Beaufort, the home of Jami e’s grandfather, Lord Simon Lovat. How did she manage to get this gig…
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Do you find yourself obsessively gabbing on about Outlander to your friends and family? Wishing your Saturday nights included a living room full of people with whom to watch, discuss, comment, cheers, jeers and well, experience alllllll the feels? Dinna fash, Obsessenach – you are not alone. Good news – we can get new family and friends pour ourselves…
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