Oh, and apparently Ron Moore wants to make Outlander into a television show.

... he does know it's basically just sex with costume porn, right?

... perhaps I'm being too hard on it, but I had to stop reading them when the plot began to be driven by The Stupidity Engine and the characters we were supposed to like began acting in deeply horrible ways. Also, I was skimming the increasingly-frequent sex scenes, which were getting boring.

Anyway: Outlander: the TV Series by Ron Moore. Discuss.

Diana Gabaldon's Outlander? I could see it, especially after what's been done with Game of Thrones, but it would also be big budget.

I stopped after the third book, but I loved all three. I think the fourth wasn't out yet, and by the time it was I had forgotten a lot of prior details and I didn't feel like refreshing myself. And that was that, although I look at them now and think that if I ever have a year to devote to something, I could read them all at one go. I did love Claire and Jamie, especially in the first three books.

I think she's up to six books now, plus some spin-offs about Lord John (isn't he a rapist? I forget).

Yeah, Lord John got a mystery series. Is he a rapist? Uh, I don't remember that, but it could be. I used to conflate him with the guy who was Frank's ancestor and abused Jamie in prison, though.

Who's Ron Moore?

Ron Moore's the guy behind the recent Battlestar Galactica. He also produced ST: Deep Space 9.

I like the Outlander books, as long as i can skim over the Claire and Jamie's daughter subplots.

I would like Kate Winslet to play younger Claire and Emma Thompson to play older Claire, please. No idea for Jamie.

Lord John wasn't a rapist, but rather hopelessly in the Big Gay Lurve with Jamie -- impossible, as Jamie was raped by Claire's modern husband's ancestor, and rather desperately in love with Claire.

Lord John is gay. The rapist you are thinking of is Black Jack Randall, Claire's husband's ancestor. Lord John was the warden or governor or whatevs of the prison Jamie was in for years. I believe they played chess. John had an unrequited crush on Jamie, and eventually they developed a kind of friendship. John ends up raising Jamie's son. Don't ask me exactly how that happened, don't remember.

Yeah, I'd check out a tv show of Outlander. I've read all of the ones out, I think. Not sure.

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ah, thanks for the corrections! It's been a long time since I read them.

I haven't read the last two. I had already lost interest when there were multiple chances to deal with the Villian (whose name I'm forgetting, but he ends up being a bit of a stalker.

The last one I read was before the Revolutionary War started. It honestly felt like an ending to the series. And then I meant to read the others, but kept losing interest. Then Gabaldon was very vocally against fanfiction and then I just decided I wasn't going to put more effort into finishing the series.

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