Aye. Got me, or auto correct, on that one. <g>
I wouldn't go so far as to say "utter" rubbish, but it was very soapy. We
watched the first season mostly because of the accents, which Scots we
talked with told us were good; because of the countryside, mostly close by
studios in Edinburg and Glasgow, all of it in Scotland; and because I used
to be an internet friend of the woman who wrote the books. When we finally
met in person at a signing for her second book, I found her to be a bit
rude and arrogant. She might just have been overcompensating, though. <g>
I don't think I'll go any farther with it. I heard season two is set mostly
in Paris. And then there's a lot of time traveling going on. I do think
they eventually will get to Culloden and the aftermath, and no doubt North
Carolina, where a lot of Highlanders found themselves (including Flora
MacDonald). But there are roughly seven books in the series. I read the
first one and couldn't go any farther. Joan, I think, made it halfway
through the second.
The theme music, which can be found easily on the web. is quite pretty.
On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 7:49 AM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, Bob. I avoided Outlander because I knew it would be utter rubbish
> ;-)
>
> Chris
>
> (‘effect’, by the way)
> > On 19 Mar 2016, at 11:36, Bob Whitmire <fujixbob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Some of it is used as the theme song for the television show Outlander,
> > which is set mostly in Scotland in 1745. They changed the "he" to "she"
> and
> > "lad" to "lass" because the main character is a nurse from WWII who
> > stumbled into the wrong set of standing stones near Inverness and found
> > herself in old Scotland. It's a long and sometimes silly soap opera, but
> > the Scots love it because of its affect on tourism.
> >
> > The poem itself is about Bonny Prince Charlie's escape after Culloden.
>
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