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Their facial expressions 🤣
Cait looks like her soul left her body for a second 🤭
Hottest kissing scene ever 🔥🔥🔥
Have you noticed anything here? Check out what Sam and Cait are doing with their hands. She is caressing his shoulder blade with her left hand and what does he do with his right? He has his right arm around her waist and… HE IS CARESSING HER WITH HIS FINGERS! Can you see that? These details are not script notes nor director’s instructions. These little gestures are simply Sam and Cait. Because they feel the happiness, tenderness and love when they are around each other! I rest my case! 😆
Yazzz indeed!
(as someone else observed) She’s standing Between his Legs! His Kilted Commando Legs😲 With Her hand on his Bare knee!! I mean…..this behavior screams “Couple” and Not JC either!
The fullness of her apron is very telling! “Claire” was not supposed to be pregnant here but Caitriona sure looked that way! 👀 Standing between his legs didn’t hide much! SC were in their love bubble in this scene. Loved up newlyweds with a baby on the way! ❤️😍🫶
Sam & Caitriona → Hmmm, that sounds familiar …
“They’re both very strong minded people. They both have an opinion. Unfortunately, sometimes, it’s just the opposite opinion which I think causes a lot of conflict between the two of them.”
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Dang, he was already looking at her when she turns around and they just have knowig smile on their faces 😍😍😍 #sotogether
The non-verbal communication between them is unreal.
They have their own language🔥
Looking at their recent photoshoots and videos, I can't shake this feeling that the dynamic has somehow shifted.
For years, it always seemed like SH was the one completely captivated, the one whose admiration was impossible to miss, who looked at CB as if she hung the moon. That was such a familiar part of their story that I almost took it for granted.
Now, though, I find myself noticing the opposite. The lingering glances, the little touches, the way she gravitates toward him... and for the first time, it feels like CB might be the one wearing her heart a little more openly.
Maybe I'm completely wrong, and of course none of us really knows what goes on behind the scenes. But sometimes I wonder if something changed along the way. If after so many years of waiting, hoping, and living in the in-between, SH simply found a different kind of peace with it all. Not because he stopped caring, but because eventually even the deepest feelings learn how to quiet themselves when they have nowhere to go.
That's what makes it feel bittersweet to me. I've been around since the Jess's blog days, and I remember how utterly enchanted he seemed by her. Seeing that spark look softer now, while she appears more openly drawn to him than ever, gives me this strange sense of nostalgia, like watching the tide turn after years of flowing in the same direction.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it. But lately that's the feeling I can't quite shake.
Hey Anon.
Finally a fun topic to discuss, and I’d really love to hear everyone else’s thoughts on it too.
I’ll start by saying I completely agree. I just don’t think this is new. If anything, it was even more noticeable during the 7B promo than it is now.
For anyone who’s forgotten, in 7B Sam did everything short of sitting on his own hands just to make sure he wouldn’t, God forbid, touch Caitriona. He also made a real effort to avoid any eye contact with her.
Honestly, if we hadn’t gotten the red dress shoot, that entire promo run might have ended on a much more sour note.
And she was the exact opposite extreme. She looked at him like he was the sun. She touched him constantly. Squeezed his bicep more than once. Rested her head on him. Used his thigh as an eraser. And again, the red dress shoot… have we already mentioned how understanding Tony is?
So to me, what we’ve seen in this current promo is actually a softer version of what was happening back then. The difference now is that Sam also has this layer of stress, the blinking, and the general sense that he might not be in a great emotional or mental place.
But the truth always lives in the way they look at each other. It’s a look they don’t give anyone else. It lives in how comfortable they are with each other’s bodies, in the way her hand disappears into his hair like it’s the most natural thing in the world, in the way he watches her when she speaks and the way she bites her lip when he speaks. The truth is in the small things: the little knee squeeze, the way he stares at her lips like they’re the most interesting thing in the universe, the way his hand automatically finds her back, the way he looks back and waits for her. The truth is in the million tiny, authentic moments, not the big picture and not the talking points.
I do feel a shift in the dynamic. Caitriona seems to allow herself to be more open, while Sam has been playing a character any time he’s on camera for the last few years. A character that, if I’m being honest, can be pretty hard to tolerate. But still a character. We only see the real Sam in brief flashes, and in those flashes it’s obvious there’s a lot of love there.
Jess can you post the gifs of Sam and Cait when Ron was talking about how people have sex? I found it very telling.
Sure. So did I ;)
Moaning and arching her back or something and you kind of look at it and you just know, this isn’t how I have sex and I kinda doubt that anybody else does either.
So if this show was going to have a strong sexual component to it I just said, let’s just try to be honest about it. Let’s try to present it in a way how human beings actually behave.
It’s not about trying to film the sexy image. It’s just human sexuality. Let’s just try to be as honest about it as we can.
Oh, their faces, like two cats who swallowed canaries, or each other!🐤🐥🐈
They look like two high school kids trying not to get caught in what they just did….lol
Judging by how uncomfortable they are here, they were about as honest as you can get in their sex scenes……Saahm 👀
The body language between Sam and Cait always speaks for itself. Obviously SC were already a couple off screen with their own sex life. I’m sure it hasn’t been easy for them to share some of that on screen. I would have been fidgety too listening to Ron run his mouth.
What was the circumstance of this revelation? Know it’s origin is early S1. Is there audio? Who 1st reported. Really key piece of the ship puzzle. Scientific inquiry, of course.
Very telling…early on…
Some recordings from this Outlander Panel Writers Block LA
Very telling indeed …
And don’t forget the secret language shared during this panel too 👀
Calling All Shippers!
Can I have your attention, please! HELP!! I have been down the rabbit hole once again looking for ONE particular photo. The last time I went down this kind of search, I saw it. I don't remember exactly where, but it's there. A photo of ... a little girl running in a beautiful backyard, a place in Ireland. This was a possible location that S/C had been for holiday. Anyone remember this? May or May not show the ocean on the background? Someone out there has this photo and post about it. Could you please share again?!! If not, at least point me in the right direction. It's driving me nuts not being able to find it again!
Is it this one??
I don't know any details about it. Where it came from or anything.
YES!!! Thank you! Anyone remember details?! I lightened it up some to show more details.
Sam Heughan & Caitriona Balfe, ETCanada photoshoot (x)
Reblogging for that middle pic ! Sweet Jesus when Cait leans her head into him and he acknowledges her with that little smile ..
I have watched that middle one over and over a thousand times at least The way she closes her eyes dreamy like, and then he does the same thing. .
THE MIDDLE ONE…..PRICELESS
Reblogging and reiterating others comments…. that middle picture….::sigh::
They are together and will always be .
I’ll never get over this.
There love is so real, they couldn’t fake it if they tried. There heart eyes always.
This Is Them!
Together forever!
💕💕💕
Sam Heughan & Caitriona Balfe, ETCanada photoshoot (x)
Reblogging for that middle pic ! Sweet Jesus when Cait leans her head into him and he acknowledges her with that little smile ..
I have watched that middle one over and over a thousand times at least The way she closes her eyes dreamy like, and then he does the same thing. .
THE MIDDLE ONE…..PRICELESS
Reblogging and reiterating others comments…. that middle picture….::sigh::
They are together and will always be .
I’ll never get over this.
There love is so real, they couldn’t fake it if they tried. There heart eyes always.
This Is Them!
Together forever!
💕💕💕
Palet Cleanser
So done with all the negative shit!! I’m in need of these two in love, sweetness, kisses, hot stuff, smoldering looks and sexy times!! Jamie and Claire, Sam and Cait, Sam, Cait, whatever. Let’s make this place fun again! Let’s do this, @outlandish-blog!!
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I think this is all I need! Lol!
Now this is some intermezzo - very refreshing!! Thanks!
“Nameste” ☉🌡🌞!
Reblogging I LOVE THE PALET CLEANSER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m so torn about this last dress. Every time I see it I am reminded of the IFH. Yet It is one of the prettiest dresses I’ve ever seen on her. She has such gorgeous shoulders. Do I love it or hate it?
I watched some of these gifs for too long. *cough*
Always a reblog 😜
This will never get old!
I love this one. Not the least because "in the altogether" was a new expression for me.
"Little stiff one" 😏
Sam was being his naughtly self, Caitriona's dying inside, and the Anglophile ladies were probably turning bright red. This has to be one of the best interviews in the 12 year history of Outlander's premiere!
What the ladies didn't know was that The Reckoning was filmed first...The Wedding episode, second. What does that tell ya??? OMG, stiff one's were 'plentiful' indeed!!!
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I love this interview 😍😍 and not just for Sam's cheakyness (which is pure gold) but for the fact the he did it solely to get a reaction out of her. His eyebrows and smile in anticipation to see the look on her face is everything.
And I’m supposed to believe she was in a serious relationship with another man while shooting that?
I really didn’t plan to write about her again, but the latest discovery changes the framing too much to ignore.
The new clips that hit Tumblr in the last few hours reveal another layer we didn’t have before, and for me it’s basically the final nail in the coffin.
What they initially tried to sell us was a very specific character: a private woman, age-appropriate, educated, a single mother, a tragic young widow. A compassionate, wholesome animal-therapy girl. Horse reiki. Soft-focus goodness. Someone who doesn’t seek the spotlight and only ended up in this situation “for love.”
And now it turns out… not really.
We all have skeletons in the closet, and I’m sure it’s not fun when people dig through yours and suddenly find an anti snoring ad. But it turns out our Steph didn’t just dabble in the model/singer/jewelry/designer/animal-therapy lanes. She also took a swing at acting, and not even in the distant past. If anything, it looks like it’s still an ambition she’s holding onto.
And that changes the entire question of what does she get out of this business arrangement with Sam.
Until now the benefit was vague. Attention, sure, but toward what? Now it’s obvious. This isn’t someone who accidentally wandered into a camera lens. This is someone who actively chased the lens. For her, this is a career opportunity.
Even if being “the wife of” wasn’t new to her, the truth is that hardly anyone actually knew who she was until last September. And suddenly she’s being searched, analyzed, praised, attacked, followed, and discussed across fandom spaces. And not only does it not scare her off, she seems to lean into it.
You don’t get that from horse therapy in Cork.
And this is why Tumblr matters in a way the other platforms don’t. Tumblr is her Simon Cowell. Tumblr is the one place that judges the performance instead of applauding on cue. If she wants the role to land, the criticism here is what she can’t ignore. That’s why it keeps getting answered.
So a sincere thank you to everyone who found those videos. They add a huge piece of context.
This isn’t a private woman dragged into the spotlight, it’s someone who’s been looking for the stage, and finally found the biggest one she’s ever had.
Como dizemos aqui no Brasil, "eu morro e não vejo tudo" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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All right. Enough with the applied dog studies. Let us move on to something nicer. Or rather, let us allow “Honey” to speak.
Have you watched that interview?
. . . Because the message basically boils down to this: “Back in high school we were inseparable best friends, constantly together, emotionally fused at the molecular level — and now that we all have completely separate adult lives, careers, partners, children, and responsibilities, our relationships are somehow even stronger".
Which is, of course, complete nonsense.
Anyone who possesses at least minimal social experience — and more than two brain cells — understands perfectly well that this is not how human relationships work.
Same situation here, I would argue.
And another question for the ladies: how many of you, while having a long-term partner and children (child...), spend substantial amounts of time hanging out with single, childless bachelors?
Exactly. . . .
And watching the Main Heroine stare at the Main Character with visible tension while he constructs these rather implausible narratives produces some extremely specific visual associations in my head.
. . . To be fair, though: after ten years, she does look at him more affectionately than before. But the tension remains. She still looks like someone anxiously monitoring every word in fear that he accidentally reveals too much.
. . .
And finally: that hotel bed with the messy pillows. Does it not evoke certain associations for anyone else?
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I'll stick with the details
A week after the Outlander finale, I must say that two things remain: (1) my absolute satisfaction with the resolution they gave it, and (2) a numbness from the sheer volume of material created around it. Press, influencers, social media users—simply a bunch of people wanting to seize the moment to talk. It doesn't matter what they talk about; they just want to talk about something related to the series. In the age of misinformation, clickbait, underutilized AI, virality and hashtags, the meaningless conversations and content are the order of the day, and I'm truly overwhelmed by the uncontrolled spread of information that adds nothing new, or worse, distorts the facts.
I won't dwell on the opinions regarding the ending, as everyone will have their own, tailored to their personal tastes. Instead, I'll briefly address the fact that I've often wondered, "What series did these people watch?" or "What book did they read?" It's not so much the opinion itself, but rather their lack of understanding of what they saw or read. Their analyses are so outlandish that, well, there's no point even mentioning them. It's also amused me that many people claim that many storylines weren't given proper closure, and when asked which ones, they end up talking about the secondary characters, about whom another group of people complained endlessly that they were given too much screen time. Nobody understands what they expected, but what is clear to me is that what the main actors and producers always warned us about was true: it was going to be impossible to please every audience.
The people around me, with whom I discuss Outlander, were very pleased; to this day, we're still grieving the end of the series, and at the same time, eagerly awaiting book 10. I love acknowledging that it's not because we feel any void regarding the answers the series provided, but because we're now also interested in the answers the book offers. It's like a double joy, because the plot threads multiplied, they didn't overlap, and that keeps the Outlander flame very much alive. Of course, I know this might be more common among book readers, and not so much among series viewers, who certainly wonder, "What happened after Jamie and Claire opened their eyes?" Because yes, they both opened their eyes and breathed again; they're alive on the very ground where they had previously closed their eyes. I appreciate that the producers and actors, in their subsequent interviews (the unedited video ones, since all the written interviews—even those from reputable media outlets—managed to distort some aspect of the story), didn't try to impose their own viewpoints. Instead, they simply stated what they would have preferred, and that was it! They left it to the viewer to form their own interpretation of the ending. Furthermore, they all agreed that no matter how or where, Jamie and Claire would be eternal, their love story was infinite, and what a beautiful message, because yes, that's precisely what they convey. And it's not a forced interpretation of the relationship, one of those you adopt as an alternative to poorly executed or empty things, where your mind tries to make sense of what you witnessed; the eternity of that love feels solid because that interpretation is a product of its very construction. It's having witnessed the entire lives of two people who chose each other time and time again.
Accustomed as I am to Outlander being underestimated, I stopped focusing on the big details and concentrated on the finer points. And this is where I'm grateful I read the books, because I'm fascinated by discovering all those little things and confirming the care they've (almost always) taken with what they present, and the magnificent work Sam and Caitriona do portraying Jamie and Claire, something I've mentioned countless times here. But since what I'm focusing on right now is the ending, I'm going to share something that amazed me, with an excerpt from the book and its corresponding image from the series.
”The blood trickled slowly, dark and veiny. I was on my knees in the bloody mud, and there were large reddish-black stains on my dress. It felt warm against my skin, though that was probably just the heat of the day. “You can’t,” I said desperately. “Jamie… you can’t.” He opened his eyes, and I noticed he was looking beyond and through me, as if he were fixing them on something very, very far away. “Forgive me…” he said, his voice barely a whisper, and I couldn’t tell if he was speaking to me or to God. “Oh, Jesus!” I replied, feeling a cold, metallic taste on my tongue. “Jamie… please. Please don’t go.” His eyelids fluttered. And then they closed".
Oh my God, that look from Jamie! What Sam did was magnificent. In the book, Jamie has a gaze that doesn't just see Claire, but pierces her and goes beyond her, and when he asks for forgiveness, she doesn't know if he's addressing her or God. Since the series established that this was a dialogue between them, his gaze pierces her, but stays with her; in that instant, she is the world, and explicitly, he asks for her forgiveness. What they did with these scenes—keeping them as they are in the book, but giving them the appropriate meaning for what they wanted to convey in the series, and capturing those small details, like the look, the tone of the conversation—I thought it was spectacular. It was the book coming to life, but in its own way. And Sam's performance, OMG, how beautifully he did it. Cait was also outstanding in her part of this story.
"I refused to let go. I couldn't speak anymore; I didn't have the strength for it. But I didn't want to let go or move from there. Ian spoke to me every now and then. Other voices came and went. Alarm, worry, anger, despair. Ian and Roger. I didn't hear. "Blue." "So beautiful." "It's not empty." • • • My face was pressed against his chest, my mouth over the wound in his sternum, the silvery taste of blood and the salt of sweat on my tongue. I thought I could feel the slow—very slow—beats of his heart. Thump-thump, thump-thump... I thought of Brianna's heart, beating rapidly; of the tiny, lively taps of Davy's under my fingers; I tried to feel my own heartbeat in my fingertips, to transfer all that life into his. "Don't let go."
The way Caitriona portrayed the grief and pain of that moment was spectacular. It was exactly the kind of unbearable pain depicted in the book, the kind that pierced her, yet she refused to let it consume her, until she understood, just as the series portrayed, that they needed to rest. In the book, with all the mysticism of this moment, the instant when Claire manages to enter Jamie, becoming one with him, to breathe life into him and heal him from within, is when she surrenders to the inexplicable nature of what she was feeling, when she loses all awareness of what was happening around her. I find it beautiful that they were able to maintain the essence of the book without losing sight of the transcendent nature of the moment. I couldn't fault them for omitting that moment of opening his eyes and breathing, because Claire, in the book, awoke disoriented, and Jamie wasn't even awake—alive, yes, but not conscious. It was a complete respect for what the book wanted to convey, and a respect for its own story, so yes, I'm left with the details, and without any hype, I'm left with the masterful way in which Sam and Cait portrayed that moment. I feel so sorry for the people who couldn't enjoy this series finale, or Season 8, or the characters, or the acting, or anything about Outlander, because it's truly beautiful. The good thing about this is that they won't have to see it anymore, and there are many books and television series left that they can enjoy without feeling frustrated by what they don't like. In this space, Jamie and Claire will be eternal, just as those who brought them to life intended.
Me quedo con los detalles
A una semana del final de Outlander, debo decir que dos cosas persisten: (1) mi satisfacción absoluta por la resolución que le dieron, y (2) un embotamiento por el exceso de material creado en torno a ello. Prensa, influencers, usuarios de redes, simplemente un montón de personas queriendo aprovechar el momento para hablar. No importa de lo que hablen, simplemente quieren hacerlo de algo relacionado a la serie. En la era de la desinformación, el clickbait, la IA subutilizada, la viralidad y los hashtags, las conversaciones y contenidos carentes de sentido, están a la orden del día, y realmente me abruma la difusión descontrolada de información, que no aporta nada nuevo, o peor aún, que tergiversa los eventos.
No me detendré a conversar sobre las opiniones respecto al final, pues cada quien tendrá las suyas, ajustadas a sus gustos personales. En su lugar, me detendré brevemente en el hecho de que más de una vez me he preguntado ¿qué serie vieron estas personas?, ¿o qué libro leyeron?, no tanto por la opinión, sino por la falta de comprensión de lo que vieron o leyeron, porque hacen unos análisis tan descabellados, que bueno, ni para que hablar de ellos. Me ha causado gracia, a su vez, que un montón de personas alegan que no se le dió cierre adecuado a muchas historias, y cuando les preguntan ¿cuáles?, terminan hablando de los personajes secundarios, de los cuales, otro montón de personas se quejó incansablemente, que se les dio demasiado tiempo en pantalla. Nadie entiende qué esperaban, pero lo que sí me quedó claro es que lo que siempre nos advirtieron los actores principales y los productores, era cierto, iba a ser imposible complacer a todas las audiencias.
Las personas que me rodean, con las que hablo de Outlander, quedamos muy complacidas; al día de hoy, estamos pasando por nuestro duelo de la serie, y a su vez, esperando con muchísima ilusión el libro 10. Me encanta reconocer que no es porque sintamos algún vacío respecto a las respuestas que entregó la serie, sino porque ahora también nos interesan las respuestas del libro. Es como una alegría doble, porque los desenlaces se multiplicaron, no se solaparon, y eso mantiene la llama Outlander, muy viva. Claro, sé que esto puede ser más común en los lectores de los libros, y no tanto en los espectador de la serie, quienes ciertamente se preguntan ¿qué pasó luego de que Jamie y Claire abrieron los ojos?, porque sí, ambos abrieron los ojos y respiraron a su vez, están vivos sobre el terreno en el que previamente habían cerrado los ojos. Me gusta que los productores y los actores, en sus entrevistas posteriores (las grabadas en vídeos sin ediciones, pues todas las escritas -así fueran de medios reconocidos- se encargaron de tergiversar algún tema), no intentaron imponer sus propios puntos de vista, sino que dijeron lo qué hubiesen preferido, y ¡hasta allí!, que el espectador se hiciera su propia interpretación del final. A su vez, todos estuvieron de acuerdo en que sin importar cómo o dónde, Jamie y Claire serían eternos, su historia de amor era infinita, y qué belleza de lectura, porque sí, esa es lo que transmiten. Y no es una interpretación forzada de la relación, de esas que adoptas como alternativa a cosas mal hechas o vacías, y en las que tu mente trata de darle cierre a lo que presenciaste; la eternidad de ese amor se siente sólida, porque esa interpretación es producto de la construcción del mismo. Es haber presenciado la vida entera de dos personas que se elegían una y otra vez.
Acostumbrada, como estoy, de que se subestime Outlander, dejé de fijarme en cosas rimbombantes, y me quedé en los detalles. Y es aquí cuando agradezco haber leído los libros, porque me fascina encontrarme con todas esas pequeñas cosas, y corroborar el cuidado que le han tenido (casi siempre) con lo que presentan, y el magnífico trabajo que hacen Sam y Caitriona, interpretando a Jamie y a Claire, y que lo he repetido muchísimas veces en este espacio. Pero como lo que me ocupa justo ahora, es el final, voy a traer algo que me maravilló, con el extracto del libro y su respectiva imagen en la serie.
"La sangre manaba despacio, oscura y venosa. Yo estaba de rodillas sobre el barro sangriento y había grandes manchas en mi vestido, de un tono negro rojizo. Se sentía caliente contra mi piel, aunque eso tal vez se debiera al calor del día. —No puedes —dije desesperada—. Jamie..., no puedes. Abrió los ojos y noté que miraba más allá y a través de mí, como si los estuviera posando en algo muy pero que muy lejano. —Per... dóname... —afirmó con apenas un hilo de voz, y no supe si me hablaba a mí o a Dios. —¡Oh, Jesús! —respondí, sintiendo un sabor metálico y frío en la lengua—. Jamie..., por favor. Por favor, no te vayas. Sus párpados se agitaron. Y se cerraron".
Por Dios Santo, ¡esa mirada de Jamie!. Lo que hizo Sam fue magnífico. En el libro, Jamie tiene una mirada que no sólo ve a Claire, sino que la atraviesa y va más allá de ella, y cuando él pide perdón, ella no sabe si se dirige a ella o a Dios. Como en la serie establecieron que ese era un diálogo entre ellos, su mirada la atraviesa, pero se queda con ella, en ese instante, ella es el mundo, y explícitamente, le pide perdón. Lo que hicieron con estas escenas, de mantenerlas como en el libro, pero darle el sentido apropiado para lo que querían contar en la serie, y captar esos pequeños detalles, como la mirada, el tono de la conversación, me pareció espectacular. Era el libro cobrando vida, pero a su manera. Y lo de Sam, OMG, qué hermoso que lo hizo. Cait no se queda atrás con su parte de esta historia.
"Me negaba a soltarlo. Ya no podía hablar; no me quedaban fuerzas para ello. Pero no quería soltarlo ni moverme de allí. Ian me hablaba cada cierto tiempo. Otras voces iban y venían. Alarma, preocupación, ira, desesperación. Ian y Roger. Yo no escuchaba. «Azul. »Tan hermoso. »No está vacío.» • • • Tenía la cara apretada contra su pecho, la boca sobre la herida del esternón, el sabor plateado de la sangre y la sal del sudor en la lengua. Me pareció percibir los lentos —muy lentos— latidos de su corazón. Bum-bum, bum-bum... Pensé en el corazón de Brianna, que latía a gran velocidad; en los diminutos y animados golpecitos del de Davy bajo mis dedos; intenté sentir los latidos de mi propio corazón en las yemas de los dedos, traspasar toda esa vida al suyo. «No me sueltes.»"
La forma en la que Caitriona representó el duelo y el dolor, de ese momento, fue espectacular, era exactamente el tipo de dolor insoportable que se plasmó en el libro, que la atravesaba, pero que se negaba a dejar que la consumiera, hasta que entendió, tal como lo quería expresar la serie, que debían descansar. En el libro, con todo el misticismo de este momento, el instante en el que Claire logra adentrarse en Jamie, siendo una sola entidad con él, para insuflarle vida, y sanarlo desde adentro, es cuando se rinde a lo inexplicable de lo que estaba sintiendo, cuando pierde toda conciencia de lo que sucedía a su alrededor. Me parece precioso que hayan sido capaces de mantener el sentido del libro, sin dejar de lado lo trascendental del momento. No podría reclamarles que lo hayan dejado en ese momento de abrir ojos y respirar, porque Claire, en el libro, despertó desorientada, y Jamie ni siquiera estaba despierto, vivo sí, consciente no. Fue un respeto total a lo que el libro quería contar, y un respeto a su propia historia, así que sí, me quedo con los detalles, y sin ningún hype, me quedo con la forma magistral en la que Sam y Cait, representaron ese momento. Lo siento mucho por las personas que no pudieron disfrutar este final de serie, ni la T8, ni los personajes, ni las actuaciones, ni nada en torno a Outlander, porque es realmente hermosa. Lo bueno de ésto es que ya no la verán más, y que allí quedan muchos libros e historias televisadas, a las que pueden asistir sin sentir frustración por aquello que no les gusta. En este espacio, Jamie y Claire, serán eternos, tal como lo entendieron quienes los trajeron a la vida.
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I'll stick with the details
A week after the Outlander finale, I must say that two things remain: (1) my absolute satisfaction with the resolution they gave it, and (2) a numbness from the sheer volume of material created around it. Press, influencers, social media users—simply a bunch of people wanting to seize the moment to talk. It doesn't matter what they talk about; they just want to talk about something related to the series. In the age of misinformation, clickbait, underutilized AI, virality and hashtags, the meaningless conversations and content are the order of the day, and I'm truly overwhelmed by the uncontrolled spread of information that adds nothing new, or worse, distorts the facts.
I won't dwell on the opinions regarding the ending, as everyone will have their own, tailored to their personal tastes. Instead, I'll briefly address the fact that I've often wondered, "What series did these people watch?" or "What book did they read?" It's not so much the opinion itself, but rather their lack of understanding of what they saw or read. Their analyses are so outlandish that, well, there's no point even mentioning them. It's also amused me that many people claim that many storylines weren't given proper closure, and when asked which ones, they end up talking about the secondary characters, about whom another group of people complained endlessly that they were given too much screen time. Nobody understands what they expected, but what is clear to me is that what the main actors and producers always warned us about was true: it was going to be impossible to please every audience.
The people around me, with whom I discuss Outlander, were very pleased; to this day, we're still grieving the end of the series, and at the same time, eagerly awaiting book 10. I love acknowledging that it's not because we feel any void regarding the answers the series provided, but because we're now also interested in the answers the book offers. It's like a double joy, because the plot threads multiplied, they didn't overlap, and that keeps the Outlander flame very much alive. Of course, I know this might be more common among book readers, and not so much among series viewers, who certainly wonder, "What happened after Jamie and Claire opened their eyes?" Because yes, they both opened their eyes and breathed again; they're alive on the very ground where they had previously closed their eyes. I appreciate that the producers and actors, in their subsequent interviews (the unedited video ones, since all the written interviews—even those from reputable media outlets—managed to distort some aspect of the story), didn't try to impose their own viewpoints. Instead, they simply stated what they would have preferred, and that was it! They left it to the viewer to form their own interpretation of the ending. Furthermore, they all agreed that no matter how or where, Jamie and Claire would be eternal, their love story was infinite, and what a beautiful message, because yes, that's precisely what they convey. And it's not a forced interpretation of the relationship, one of those you adopt as an alternative to poorly executed or empty things, where your mind tries to make sense of what you witnessed; the eternity of that love feels solid because that interpretation is a product of its very construction. It's having witnessed the entire lives of two people who chose each other time and time again.
Accustomed as I am to Outlander being underestimated, I stopped focusing on the big details and concentrated on the finer points. And this is where I'm grateful I read the books, because I'm fascinated by discovering all those little things and confirming the care they've (almost always) taken with what they present, and the magnificent work Sam and Caitriona do portraying Jamie and Claire, something I've mentioned countless times here. But since what I'm focusing on right now is the ending, I'm going to share something that amazed me, with an excerpt from the book and its corresponding image from the series.
”The blood trickled slowly, dark and veiny. I was on my knees in the bloody mud, and there were large reddish-black stains on my dress. It felt warm against my skin, though that was probably just the heat of the day. “You can’t,” I said desperately. “Jamie… you can’t.” He opened his eyes, and I noticed he was looking beyond and through me, as if he were fixing them on something very, very far away. “Forgive me…” he said, his voice barely a whisper, and I couldn’t tell if he was speaking to me or to God. “Oh, Jesus!” I replied, feeling a cold, metallic taste on my tongue. “Jamie… please. Please don’t go.” His eyelids fluttered. And then they closed".
Oh my God, that look from Jamie! What Sam did was magnificent. In the book, Jamie has a gaze that doesn't just see Claire, but pierces her and goes beyond her, and when he asks for forgiveness, she doesn't know if he's addressing her or God. Since the series established that this was a dialogue between them, his gaze pierces her, but stays with her; in that instant, she is the world, and explicitly, he asks for her forgiveness. What they did with these scenes—keeping them as they are in the book, but giving them the appropriate meaning for what they wanted to convey in the series, and capturing those small details, like the look, the tone of the conversation—I thought it was spectacular. It was the book coming to life, but in its own way. And Sam's performance, OMG, how beautifully he did it. Cait was also outstanding in her part of this story.
"I refused to let go. I couldn't speak anymore; I didn't have the strength for it. But I didn't want to let go or move from there. Ian spoke to me every now and then. Other voices came and went. Alarm, worry, anger, despair. Ian and Roger. I didn't hear. "Blue." "So beautiful." "It's not empty." • • • My face was pressed against his chest, my mouth over the wound in his sternum, the silvery taste of blood and the salt of sweat on my tongue. I thought I could feel the slow—very slow—beats of his heart. Thump-thump, thump-thump... I thought of Brianna's heart, beating rapidly; of the tiny, lively taps of Davy's under my fingers; I tried to feel my own heartbeat in my fingertips, to transfer all that life into his. "Don't let go."
The way Caitriona portrayed the grief and pain of that moment was spectacular. It was exactly the kind of unbearable pain depicted in the book, the kind that pierced her, yet she refused to let it consume her, until she understood, just as the series portrayed, that they needed to rest. In the book, with all the mysticism of this moment, the instant when Claire manages to enter Jamie, becoming one with him, to breathe life into him and heal him from within, is when she surrenders to the inexplicable nature of what she was feeling, when she loses all awareness of what was happening around her. I find it beautiful that they were able to maintain the essence of the book without losing sight of the transcendent nature of the moment. I couldn't fault them for omitting that moment of opening his eyes and breathing, because Claire, in the book, awoke disoriented, and Jamie wasn't even awake—alive, yes, but not conscious. It was a complete respect for what the book wanted to convey, and a respect for its own story, so yes, I'm left with the details, and without any hype, I'm left with the masterful way in which Sam and Cait portrayed that moment. I feel so sorry for the people who couldn't enjoy this series finale, or Season 8, or the characters, or the acting, or anything about Outlander, because it's truly beautiful. The good thing about this is that they won't have to see it anymore, and there are many books and television series left that they can enjoy without feeling frustrated by what they don't like. In this space, Jamie and Claire will be eternal, just as those who brought them to life intended.
Me quedo con los detalles
A una semana del final de Outlander, debo decir que dos cosas persisten: (1) mi satisfacción absoluta por la resolución que le dieron, y (2) un embotamiento por el exceso de material creado en torno a ello. Prensa, influencers, usuarios de redes, simplemente un montón de personas queriendo aprovechar el momento para hablar. No importa de lo que hablen, simplemente quieren hacerlo de algo relacionado a la serie. En la era de la desinformación, el clickbait, la IA subutilizada, la viralidad y los hashtags, las conversaciones y contenidos carentes de sentido, están a la orden del día, y realmente me abruma la difusión descontrolada de información, que no aporta nada nuevo, o peor aún, que tergiversa los eventos.
No me detendré a conversar sobre las opiniones respecto al final, pues cada quien tendrá las suyas, ajustadas a sus gustos personales. En su lugar, me detendré brevemente en el hecho de que más de una vez me he preguntado ¿qué serie vieron estas personas?, ¿o qué libro leyeron?, no tanto por la opinión, sino por la falta de comprensión de lo que vieron o leyeron, porque hacen unos análisis tan descabellados, que bueno, ni para que hablar de ellos. Me ha causado gracia, a su vez, que un montón de personas alegan que no se le dió cierre adecuado a muchas historias, y cuando les preguntan ¿cuáles?, terminan hablando de los personajes secundarios, de los cuales, otro montón de personas se quejó incansablemente, que se les dio demasiado tiempo en pantalla. Nadie entiende qué esperaban, pero lo que sí me quedó claro es que lo que siempre nos advirtieron los actores principales y los productores, era cierto, iba a ser imposible complacer a todas las audiencias.
Las personas que me rodean, con las que hablo de Outlander, quedamos muy complacidas; al día de hoy, estamos pasando por nuestro duelo de la serie, y a su vez, esperando con muchísima ilusión el libro 10. Me encanta reconocer que no es porque sintamos algún vacío respecto a las respuestas que entregó la serie, sino porque ahora también nos interesan las respuestas del libro. Es como una alegría doble, porque los desenlaces se multiplicaron, no se solaparon, y eso mantiene la llama Outlander, muy viva. Claro, sé que esto puede ser más común en los lectores de los libros, y no tanto en los espectador de la serie, quienes ciertamente se preguntan ¿qué pasó luego de que Jamie y Claire abrieron los ojos?, porque sí, ambos abrieron los ojos y respiraron a su vez, están vivos sobre el terreno en el que previamente habían cerrado los ojos. Me gusta que los productores y los actores, en sus entrevistas posteriores (las grabadas en vídeos sin ediciones, pues todas las escritas -así fueran de medios reconocidos- se encargaron de tergiversar algún tema), no intentaron imponer sus propios puntos de vista, sino que dijeron lo qué hubiesen preferido, y ¡hasta allí!, que el espectador se hiciera su propia interpretación del final. A su vez, todos estuvieron de acuerdo en que sin importar cómo o dónde, Jamie y Claire serían eternos, su historia de amor era infinita, y qué belleza de lectura, porque sí, esa es lo que transmiten. Y no es una interpretación forzada de la relación, de esas que adoptas como alternativa a cosas mal hechas o vacías, y en las que tu mente trata de darle cierre a lo que presenciaste; la eternidad de ese amor se siente sólida, porque esa interpretación es producto de la construcción del mismo. Es haber presenciado la vida entera de dos personas que se elegían una y otra vez.
Acostumbrada, como estoy, de que se subestime Outlander, dejé de fijarme en cosas rimbombantes, y me quedé en los detalles. Y es aquí cuando agradezco haber leído los libros, porque me fascina encontrarme con todas esas pequeñas cosas, y corroborar el cuidado que le han tenido (casi siempre) con lo que presentan, y el magnífico trabajo que hacen Sam y Caitriona, interpretando a Jamie y a Claire, y que lo he repetido muchísimas veces en este espacio. Pero como lo que me ocupa justo ahora, es el final, voy a traer algo que me maravilló, con el extracto del libro y su respectiva imagen en la serie.
"La sangre manaba despacio, oscura y venosa. Yo estaba de rodillas sobre el barro sangriento y había grandes manchas en mi vestido, de un tono negro rojizo. Se sentía caliente contra mi piel, aunque eso tal vez se debiera al calor del día. —No puedes —dije desesperada—. Jamie..., no puedes. Abrió los ojos y noté que miraba más allá y a través de mí, como si los estuviera posando en algo muy pero que muy lejano. —Per... dóname... —afirmó con apenas un hilo de voz, y no supe si me hablaba a mí o a Dios. —¡Oh, Jesús! —respondí, sintiendo un sabor metálico y frío en la lengua—. Jamie..., por favor. Por favor, no te vayas. Sus párpados se agitaron. Y se cerraron".
Por Dios Santo, ¡esa mirada de Jamie!. Lo que hizo Sam fue magnífico. En el libro, Jamie tiene una mirada que no sólo ve a Claire, sino que la atraviesa y va más allá de ella, y cuando él pide perdón, ella no sabe si se dirige a ella o a Dios. Como en la serie establecieron que ese era un diálogo entre ellos, su mirada la atraviesa, pero se queda con ella, en ese instante, ella es el mundo, y explícitamente, le pide perdón. Lo que hicieron con estas escenas, de mantenerlas como en el libro, pero darle el sentido apropiado para lo que querían contar en la serie, y captar esos pequeños detalles, como la mirada, el tono de la conversación, me pareció espectacular. Era el libro cobrando vida, pero a su manera. Y lo de Sam, OMG, qué hermoso que lo hizo. Cait no se queda atrás con su parte de esta historia.
"Me negaba a soltarlo. Ya no podía hablar; no me quedaban fuerzas para ello. Pero no quería soltarlo ni moverme de allí. Ian me hablaba cada cierto tiempo. Otras voces iban y venían. Alarma, preocupación, ira, desesperación. Ian y Roger. Yo no escuchaba. «Azul. »Tan hermoso. »No está vacío.» • • • Tenía la cara apretada contra su pecho, la boca sobre la herida del esternón, el sabor plateado de la sangre y la sal del sudor en la lengua. Me pareció percibir los lentos —muy lentos— latidos de su corazón. Bum-bum, bum-bum... Pensé en el corazón de Brianna, que latía a gran velocidad; en los diminutos y animados golpecitos del de Davy bajo mis dedos; intenté sentir los latidos de mi propio corazón en las yemas de los dedos, traspasar toda esa vida al suyo. «No me sueltes.»"
La forma en la que Caitriona representó el duelo y el dolor, de ese momento, fue espectacular, era exactamente el tipo de dolor insoportable que se plasmó en el libro, que la atravesaba, pero que se negaba a dejar que la consumiera, hasta que entendió, tal como lo quería expresar la serie, que debían descansar. En el libro, con todo el misticismo de este momento, el instante en el que Claire logra adentrarse en Jamie, siendo una sola entidad con él, para insuflarle vida, y sanarlo desde adentro, es cuando se rinde a lo inexplicable de lo que estaba sintiendo, cuando pierde toda conciencia de lo que sucedía a su alrededor. Me parece precioso que hayan sido capaces de mantener el sentido del libro, sin dejar de lado lo trascendental del momento. No podría reclamarles que lo hayan dejado en ese momento de abrir ojos y respirar, porque Claire, en el libro, despertó desorientada, y Jamie ni siquiera estaba despierto, vivo sí, consciente no. Fue un respeto total a lo que el libro quería contar, y un respeto a su propia historia, así que sí, me quedo con los detalles, y sin ningún hype, me quedo con la forma magistral en la que Sam y Cait, representaron ese momento. Lo siento mucho por las personas que no pudieron disfrutar este final de serie, ni la T8, ni los personajes, ni las actuaciones, ni nada en torno a Outlander, porque es realmente hermosa. Lo bueno de ésto es que ya no la verán más, y que allí quedan muchos libros e historias televisadas, a las que pueden asistir sin sentir frustración por aquello que no les gusta. En este espacio, Jamie y Claire, serán eternos, tal como lo entendieron quienes los trajeron a la vida.
And they were a bit liquored up so their guards were down…🤭
Maril and Caitriona being all cozy with their hubbies!! 😍❤️🫶🥰
*Thanks to Jessica Radloff for video and photos and @audramh for assistance with selecting a good title for this post! ❤️
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