It’s Not About the Vase and Other Outlander Life Lessons
Outlander is more than a wonderful read and/or fantastic TV series. It’s also full of important life lessons.
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My Journey Through Time: the Outlander-inspired Hartwood Highlander Happening
I’d never been to an Outlander-inspired event. I mean, sitting at home texting your friend about the show while watching it simultaneously for the second…tenth time….um who’s counting anyway…IS social and COULD be considered an event, but an actual outing? That had never been in my cards. That changed when my local Outlander group…
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Black Jack Randall Character Study: Why Outlander Needed Him — And Had To Let Him Go
Full spoilers for Outlander Seasons 1-3, including Wentworth, Faith, Culloden, and Black Jack Randall’s death. Content note: This episode discusses Black Jack Randall’s violence, sexual assault, abuse, and the trauma he causes Jamie and Claire. We discuss those events through the lens of story, character, and adaptation, not to excuse or romanticize them. In this…
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Walking the Way of Outlander: The Great Glencoe Challenge
People have many ways of dealing with Droughtlander. Some obsessively rewatch episodes, others re-read the books for the nth time, others have tiny forays into the world outside Outlander. Some decide to walk. Walk, trudge, march (caper about?) and just generally get moving in a forward direction. It gets the endorphins flowing and relieves some of…
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“I Have to Go Back” – The Scotland Diaries: Part 2
“I have to go back.” – the haunting last line of Episode 13 of Outlander Season 2, uttered by Claire Randall Fraser when she realized that her 18th century soul mate, love of her life, and father of her only child survived the Battle of Culloden. It’s also EXACTLY how I felt shortly after returning…
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Droughtlander TV/Movie Recommendations: What’s on Our Screens?
Earlier this month, the Outlander Cast Blog writers shared their favorite books with you to help ease those terrible symptoms of Droughtlander. We now turn our focus to television shows. Between the reading list and the show recommendations, we hope that this will keep your spirits high until the return of Outlander in September. If…
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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Outlander’s Opening Images
Long lost Outlander title sequences that were never chosen by Ron D. Moore? A never-before-seen Outlander mood board used to inspire the Season One title design ultimately chosen by Moore? A new Season 3 Outlander title sequence envisioned by fan video creator Julia LeBlanc? We’ve got all this and more in this post. It’s the…
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Outlander Cast Blog Exclusive: An Interview with Diana Gabaldon in South Africa
When I made plans to visit Cape Town for my vacation, I was so hopeful I’d be able to meet some of the Outlander cast or crew, as well as area Outlander fans for a South African Outlander Cast Blog meet-up. Sure, Cape Town is a large city, but I was going to go to the…
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In Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, It’s a Matter of Trust
Diana Gabaldon makes reference to “trust” more than 60 times in the first two books of the Outlander series alone. (Trust me, I used Kindle Search to count.) It appears in all manner of references, like this simple-yet-powerful declaration Jamie makes to Claire in Outlander:“I decided to trust you instead.” Considering that trust is defined…
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