juste milieu

this is really just a place for me to obsess.

[humanveil]

H O P E Pedro Pascal for Style Magazine. 

[gravedancer40]

Unpopular Opinion

So…umm…I didn’t expect Outlander to get any Emmy love this year.

It was a weak season. Really weak. The story telling was awful at times, mediocre at best. Yes, the acting the superb, yes Caitriona and Sam both deserved some love, especially Cait…but it’s hard to get that nomination when the show you’re on is less than stellar.

And Outlander was this season. It was way way way too plot driven. It was bad thing after bad thing happening without a chance to breathe. It was heavy and depressing and constantly dramatic. It went from being something special and different to being every other historical story that’s ever existed.

And because it was soooo plot driven, it hardly gave the actors a chance to sink into their characters and really show the depth of the performance. What they did with what they had was brilliant, make no mistake (I firmly believe Sam, Cait, Duncan, Stanley, etc are the only reason this season worked at all) but…what they were given wasn’t exactly great.

I’m glad it didn’t get rewarded. There was nothing special or magic about this season and I desperately want them to do better.

Outlander works best when it’s not afraid to be itself and this season was doing everything it could be to be something else.

I feel bad for Sam and Cait (and happy for Terry and Jon, who did deserve it, even if all attention was paid to them so of course they got the noms) but…the show really needs to do better.

Hopefully next year, they make it stand out as a whole. I know they can do it.

[justemilieu]

I agree about the quality of this season. About half of it wasn’t particularly good and half of it was stellar. Not all the Paris episodes were awful and not all the Scotland episodes were great. Cait was magnificent in Faith. Sam didn’t have the material until the end.

I have one thing to add. And this is MY opinion and only mine. Disagree if you want. 

The fault of a less than stellar season lays squarely with the book it is based on. Dragonfly in Amber is a lumbering mess of overly complicated plots that don’t mean anything to anyone in love with the original love story. The show’s writers had to pick and choose what to use out of the book, knowing that leaving the Comte and Master Raymond out would create a void during the Paris section. So much of what Claire does has to do with them while most of what Jamie does is “off-scene.” Book purists limit how far away from the source material the writers are able to go. Just look at the screaming done when Laoghaire was brought back into the story. (Which I liked, btw.)

Voyager is much better. It’s plot driven in parts and emotion driven in others. It also has lots more Jamie (especially if the show uses the section of what Jamie went through while they were separated.) I have higher hopes for a terrific Season 3. Because, Pirates. 

[justemilieu]

This is exactly how the show should style Sam for older Jamie in season 3. So far, he’s had his hair on his forehead for both seasons. I think THIS is the way to go for 40-something Jamie. Also, WOW.

[team-heughan]

[justemilieu]

Jamie under the archway broke me.

[allsortsofthingsmpov]

[justemilieu]

Sasha and Sam. 

[halosammy]

[justemilieu]

Sam Heughan AND Sasha Roiz? This photo was meant for me. Only thing missing is Ryan Paevey. 

[thelaughingpenguin]

Oh Nathan what are you hiding?

[uzusanageyama]

stuck in the constant limbo between “really excited about my own writing” and “pretty sure I can’t actually write”

[arse-thetic]

#justiceformuslims

[csidesuicide]

I love every single person who reblogged this

[achromatiq]

I don’t think people realize how much of an impact this kind of support can have, I don’t think everyone knows what these little things can mean to us.

It may just be me, I don’t know. But every single time I see this on my dash or on someone’s blog or anywhere else, I kind of just breathe a sigh of relief. That’s one more person who cares. That’s one more person who doesn’t hate me.

Because it means so much, especially when all the media is spewing out is that I’m a terrible person and no one wants people like me near them. It means so much because I’m tired of people who won’t sit next to me in class, or who choose to join the longer line at the grocery store because they don’t want to be beside me and my family. It means so much when I have to lift my head any time someone says the words Islam or Muslim because I’m scared that they’ll say something that’ll hurt, when I have to pay attention to the news because who knows what so and so is saying now, who knows which of my people are being attacked now, who knows what’s going to happen to me now.

It means so much because I’ve been given the idea that the world is against me. And a huge part of it may be, but at least I’ve been reminded that some of it, just a small group of people, acknowledges that I’m a person too. That people like me are just that, people.

Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. But now you do, so thank you for believing that I’m human when so many people don’t.

[talaline]

Reblog if you’re currently writing a novel, even if it’s only in your head or scribbled in the back of a notebook somewhere.

Think about how many books don’t exist yet.

[thelaughingpenguin]

Yes. They are.

[theheartoftv]

[justemilieu]

I just can’t. 

[escapetoportcharles]

[theheartoftv]

Ryan Paevey as Donovan Darcy in Unleashing Mr. Darcy

[sadly-not-a-fictional-character]

u little shit

how dare you

part 1

[justemilieu]

Oh ha ha ha! I love this. Made my morning.

[turnthe-paigee]

real talk, when is ryan done with filming his lifetime movie & his vacation and coming back to gh because i miss nathan so much

[justemilieu]

He was done right after Thanksgiving and back to filming GH December 3rd. I think we see him again this week. Hang in there.

[justemilieu]

Unleashing Mr. Darcy 

airing on the Hallmark Channel January 23rd