A STARZ Original Series From Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore: Outlander

[TheOfficialBren]

It's all good, Ron. I'll buy you a dram of the peaty stuff if we ever meet. Water under the bridge, friend I shouldn't have been so darned sensitive so I apologise.
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This series does intrigue me. I might have to visit my library soon.

[Ron Abbott]

"Then there were the Americans (as well as others) who would tell me that their ancestors had been one of the pilgrim fathers (or similar), yet somehow had also been killed at Culloden. They didn't seem to have spent any time looking at the impossibly factor regarding dates!"


What's so impossible about that? I can trace back to the Pilgrim Fathers (from East Anglia in England), twelve generations on my father's side; and to soldiers named Campbell (who married and had children before getting killed) at Culloden, seven generations back on my mother's side.

The truth can be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make some kind of sense.

.......they were talking about the very same ancestor, and as such he'd have to have been 140+ years of age to have fought at Culloden!

I'm not so sure that 'truth can be stranger than fiction' quite applies in that situation.

[creagdhubh]

Come now, gents. Let's not get this thread, in which yours truly initially started, permanently closed! Please remain tactful, sincere, and on topic.

Cheers,

[TheOfficialBren]

Kyle, I apologise directly to you since it's your thread, for the derail.

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Who is doing the music for "Outlander"? I sure hope that they get the composer who did "Battlestar Galactica"! The music was incredible! Lots of bagpipes on BSG.

[frank_a]

Ya know, I read for enjoyment as well as for knowledge. When I started this series, it was for entertainment, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Now I'm about finished with "Written in my own heart's blood" and realize I have learned a lot about Scotland, it's people and history, as well as the U.S revolution reading this "drivel." For the record, I graduated with my master's degree Phi Kappa Phi many moons ago. To be truthful though, it was the result of hard work, and not brains! Frank

[jhockin]

Granted that everyone has different tastes, this somewhat-more-than-middle-aged ( I think, not sure what is currently considered "middle-aged") male enjoys the "Outlander" series so much that I've re-read it at least four times (except IMOHbee; once, so far), and I'm finding that Ms Gabaldon has "spoiled " me, for many other writers I use to enjoy. I find that she brings her characters ( mostly the main ones) so much "to life", that I now find many other writers too "two-dimensional", to enjoy reading.
As for her historical accuracy, I find she does a pretty good job, but more than that, she has stimulated me to learn even more about the historical periods and settings she writes about.
Finally, as for the TV series: first I haven't had TV for almost 30 years, plus, I am somewhat afraid to watch, for fear of having the novels "spoiled" for me, by the ( admittedly necessary) ' editing', required to reduce a substantial novel into a TV series.
Not sure if I'll succumb to the temptation to watch it ( somehow, not sure how).
Anyway, I find her writing immensely enjoyable; I'm "additicted", and am already Jonesing for the next book , probably 3 or 4 years away

[Steve Ashton]

It is threads like this which make me very glad Dan Brown did not put a kilt in his novel "The DaVinci Code".

[MacGumerait]

Come now, gents. Let's not get this thread, in which yours truly initially started, permanently closed! Please remain tactful, sincere, and on topic.

Cheers,

Agreed indeed .

As others have said , this is fiction with a bit of history thrown in , it's meant to be entertainment not factual .

I'm just glad that you brought it to our attention . I will certainly watch it with my entertainment glasses on .... and save my historical glasses for documentaries .

[creagdhubh]

Agreed indeed .

As others have said , this is fiction with a bit of history thrown in , it's meant to be entertainment not factual .

I'm just glad that you brought it to our attention . I will certainly watch it with my entertainment glasses on .... and save my historical glasses for documentaries .

Precisely! Well said. The series premiere in the US is just around the corner...August 9!

[Carlo]

It is threads like this which make me very glad Dan Brown did not put a kilt in his novel "The DaVinci Code".

I'm sure he actually imagined the people in Rosslyn Chapel in Kilts. Sinclair tartan obviously .