‘Outlander Podcast’
Outlander is a multi-media experience. Hypable and That’s Normal team up for post episode Google Hangout called Hangoutlander. There’s also a terrific, regular podcast entitled simply, Outlander Podcast. You can catch episodes, 83 and counting, on iTunes and right on their website which is run by co-owners Summer and Ginger. Both rate the Starz’s adaptation as over a 10 on the one to 10 scale.
Theirs was an interesting road to podcasting. Summer writes, “I accidentally started the series at book 4, Drums of Autumn. Though I quickly realized it wasn’t the first book in the series, I couldn’t put it down. After I finished, I had to find all the other books and start from the beginning.”
Ginger, on the other hand, took a more traditional route. She says,”Summer introduced me to the Outlander series in the 90’s. But I’d had the first book (in German) on my shelf for at least a few years. Embarrassing, really. When we heard that the series was finally, for real for real going to be adapted, we knew we wanted to be part of something. I thought a podcast would be fun, and original, and, with a little trepidation, approached Summer.”
As for favorite scenes, both recognize that the series is an adaption. Ginger states, “…completely separate from the book series, and though my reader’s heart recognizes what may be changed or left out, ‘adaptation’ means change. The two media are very different.” Summer added, “There have been more additions than subtractions in the course of the series, but everything they’ve added has served the source material, and has taken nothing away from the experience.”
As for their favorite parts, Ginger loves the scene openers, but especially, “Episode six, ‘The Garrison Commander,’ all scenes between Caitriona Balfe and Tobias Menzies. Simultaneously beautiful and appalling.” Summer, not unlike many fans, said, “The wedding night… take from that what you will.”
As for what they would change, they both agree, that it wouldn’t be much. Summer cheekily suggested, “They would have cast me as Claire. Just kidding. I probably wouldn’t have had a six-month hiatus.”
Je Suis Prest
Rounding out our superfans is @JeSuisPrestNow who hails from Scotland, right near where they are filming the series. Sinéad, who runs the account named after the Fraser family motto, has been a fan for about a decade and rates the series highly.
Her Twitter account’s number of followers came as something as a surprise to her. She currently has almost 11K followers. She writes, “When Sam was announced on 9 July 2014 he only had a Twitter page, and was so interactive with all his new followers, fans couldn’t believe that were actually interacting with Jamie Fraser. I came up with the idea of setting up an Outlander twitter account where I could tweet Outlander all I wanted and wouldn’t bother anyone else. Je Suis Prest, I thought, was a good name to pick as only Outlander fans would get the reference. Sam and Diana were having fun tweeting each other. It was named by fans ‘The Sam and Diana Show’. Some fans were new to Twitter and found it hard to follow. I started re-tweeting all the main interesting tweets that were sent out so if someone just looked at my twitter feed they would find news of that day.”
#jesuisprest #LondonPremier #Outlander pic.twitter.com/9UQVSInE7T
— Je Suis Prest (@JeSuisPrestNow) March 23, 2015
As for why her Twitter is so popular she says, “I don’t blog, and I don’t do fanart, but I’m happy to share another fans hard work with a retweet. I think this is how I have so many followers, it’s all about sharing Outlander news. I’m also very lucky as I live in Inverness, Scotland where the books are set. Because of the online community I met other fans who live in Inverness. We meet up for a coffee and an Outlander chat every few weeks. We set up an Inverness twitter account, @inverOutlanders, where we share news and photos from Inverness.”
As for her favorite parts so far, she’s seen the series in Ireland where she also resides, “I have a few but it’s probably the scene with Dougal and Claire at St. Ninian’s Spring, love this scene, I love Graham MacTavish playing Dougal.”
As for changing things, she’s pretty happy, but she would love the U.K. fans to get the series on par with other countries in the future.
Outlander returns on Starz on April 4 at 9:00pm ET/PT.
Come back tomorrow when our superfans sound off on what they are most looking forward to when Outlander returns.
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