In today's episode I'm going to be reviewing season 1 of Outlander you
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I'm watching Outlander series all about scotland the history of the Scottish clans and a woman who goes from the 1900s
Back 200 years to the time of the Scottish clans now. I want to start to this episode by saying
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Let's talk about Scottish Culture accent Outlander. Outlander is Incredible. I have been enjoying it immensely
Right. Outlander season 1 I was recommend it to watch it by you guys on YouTube and I have no completed
season 1 I was in Scotland
my honeymoon in
it took me a little while to get into it in the beginning
But once I go into wow Diana Gabaldon the writer of the books she has created some story
And there's been a lot of people in the comments down below saying to me to read the books because they're excellent I will I
Promise I will get there eventually I just want to get a TV sees out of the way first you guys are already
Waiting for the third season. I'm not a big massive TV series fun to be honest
But I do love Outlander diana Gabaldon the writer has got me next time guys like Hook Line & Sinker
when I found out about the series all about Scotland I
Just had to go there and check it out just in terms of Scottish culture. It is highly highly
Fascinating it immediately just pulls up all these ideas like what was scotland like back
Then it's just something that very few people could have
Absolute insight into it out landlord gives you that kind of imagination
The possibility of the ideas of what things could have been like although historians and stuff might argue that a lot
May not be factually correct
There is a lot of truth to some of it as a lot of you know it took its time actually getting on to scottish
televisions
I think you guys and Mostly North America had it first its watched all around the world Obviously Australia mainland Europe South America
Canada a lot of people have been watching Outlander, but in scotland that has been slow
There's not as big a following in scotland yet
But it is coming be assured since one of the main TV networks has recently picked it up
And that is why I've only just got around to finishing season one emotionally
I have been exhausting it has been terrific like what I write, so in the review of the first season
I want to talk about four main themes that were quite relevant for me the first theme is
Scottish clans now as I have explained to you guys and a lot of people do not believe me when I say this a scottish
Clan the system of clans the history of the clans what they were all about what they meant to scotland has largely been ignored
in Scottish classrooms
I knew very very little basic facts about the Scottish clans
And ideally that would have continued throughout my adult life
It doesn't matter if it wasn't all historically accurate, but what it has done
Is it has sparked an interest in Scottish Clan?
culture history and what it meant for the makeup of the country and the political future of the country so like
That is so so important
If that does that to myself a scottish person who know what's going on my own right on the Scottish clans
That's amazing because that will be replicated throughout a lot of other Scottish people
Albeit that has actually taken a TV show and novels written by an American to actually spike that interest I find that quite interesting
As I've learned as people from all around the world they've got scottish ancestry
There's a lot of people in America Canada Argentina other parts of South America, Australia
People from Europe all with Scottish ancestry, and that's fascinating to me
I want to connect with you guys and know more about you and your scottish culture and history
And it's all been thanks to Outlander Outlander has opened a whole new world for me
And I generally mean that what I say that that is quite a big statement
But this is genuinely true Outlander has changed my perspective and my knowledge of scotland a lot of things I've seen an Outlander
I've done my own research and to the facts
It has made me curious, so I will be eternally for that, but any noise
I gain on Scottish Clan history and culture will have been thanks to that spark of interest from under the cities
And you know a number of things shaun and Outlander have been actually quite true
The way the clans are made up the chiefs how they interact with each other they had fights between them
They had different political loyalties some of the clans obviously supported the stuart crown and others backed the British Monarch
So that was really interesting as well
You know the fights the clans had between themselves and also their cultures, you know
I think it's fascinating when we saw
For example in the episode where they all came together for a big gathering and a party like that would have been such an important
Part of Clan life when they came together had the parties had the big meals
Celebrated because like that's when people would have got together met future partners
And got married and in fact I dare say those types of events would have been the main social event so that was the first
Thing the clans I kind of glimpse of war clan life may have been like the second thing
I want to talk about in my review of the first season is the relationships
That is one of the main things that gets a story just in everybody's hearts
There's a lot of relationships through this series throughout
the story like the relationships between the people in the clans the relationships between the main characters clear clear as a main character of
Outlander she obviously has relationships
Her husband Frank which is a crazy and interesting dynamic with the relationships she has when she goes back in time through the stones
To the time of the Scottish clans and obviously in the first episode we immediately know that her husband Frank's
Ancestor Captain Jack randall is in the series and also the difference between those two characters Frank and Captain John Randall same bloodline
But two very different people one of the things I was thinking throughout was how will she know think of her husband Frank?
Given that he is of the same bloodline that is an interesting
complex like with the bad genes on one person the bad character with that transfer down the line and obviously the begg relationship of
Outlander is between clare and Jamie the two heros of the show we love them both from the start
I think everybody does but I think you love them even more as a couple and also made us can achieve for their success and
Of course Janie's relationship with clan members is family who do not always like or trust clare
but that's what the story line is about and all basically clear and ge and how they will survive the future together and
that is something that we are obviously left wondering at the end which will continue
Jamie. He is just such a heartthrob around the world
I don't know
maybe it could be the
Ginger rugged Scotsman type of look that quite a few of hours of the Scottish gene possess it might also have something to do her
Charming soft Scottish accent you. Tell me. What is it that you love about Jamie so much? They're talking about characters
I think I should mention my favorites from season one now obviously clear and Jamie are throwing characters
We all love them
So I think it would be right to include them in my favorite characters list first of all would be
Colum a chief of clan Mackenzie the laird of Leoch castle the thing I love about
Colum is
He's just so authoritative when he speaks everybody listens. What about the other money he collected
The money for the barn is Jeweled Prince across the water. Yes. We know his physical state is not good
Let's face it. He could not win a fight with anyone and the way he is conditioned, but yet
Everybody has such respect for column he comes across as so knowledgeable
He is the elder of the clan and everybody looks up to him for guidance
And you can just see that his character is so powerful when he gives orders everybody listens like it's just such a powerful
powerful figure and the series
I really really like column and the interesting to see going forward after season one second character who I have come to
Really enjoy watching is
Angus
Why angus angus is a short Hairy Scotsman actually the actor is it even Scottish, but is a very very good job
Imitating a short Hairy Scotsman, it's the humour. He is a cheeky wee chappie
He makes people laugh, and it's just a paper person that most people want to have around as an ally
seriously
I really like and this is going to surprise you black Jack randall. Why he's just something about I can't figure out
He's just dark mysterious
Evil the villain of the show
I mean the first season of Outlander
and
the whole series would not be what it is without black Jack randall is the bad guy of the shore and bloody hell
He is bad really really bad
Think about a bad bad person that an evil person and then you have to go even beyond that to get anywhere course but listen
That brings me on to the next theme
I want to talk about rape as it's a big part of season 1 of Outlander
and I think the thing is we see a couple of rapes wrote the series, but
the rape in particular of
Jamie by Black Jack Randall in Wentworth Prison was something
I was not expecting
Very very difficult to watch but I think when the reasons a series is so good is the way they have managed to
Emotionally challenged the audience it will not be for everybody that scene in particular
And it just goes to show you how deep dark and depraved
Some people can be because guys this is a fiction series right I think the good thing is well
That scene and other scenes with Jack randall it reminds you of just how bad empires were the British Empire the british
Government Army because things like that happened
And they happened at scale so in order for things like that to come back in our memory for us to
Understand the historical context of the wars that happened in Scotland and elsewhere in the world
We need to see violence war is an ugly ugly business
We need to be challenged and like thing is that scene of the rape and the last episode?
so it's like we're shocked multiple times about what happened to Jamie for me is when?
Like randall put Jamie's hand on the table and battered him with a mallet and also put a nail in his hand like I
Felt that like I was just I was cringing and always hurtin that is the sign
The mark of just how Brilliant the series is and I am assured the novel's
Those details are just as real so outlander has been growing for that
Like let us not forget what this was about and it was about war some ugly things happen in war and if you're not
Brought to that reality if you're not opened to that reality then it cannot ever be anywhere close to being real
We always knew it was going to happen Sooner or later, and that is the funny thing
We just don't know who exactly would happen to and how that brings me nicely on to my final theme for reviewing season 1 which
Is Escape Escape is
played throughout season 1
Whether it is Claire when she's captured in the beginning by the clan Mackenzie and how she might escape she tries several times and fails
Whether is clears escape from the wrong century and back into the 1900s
Jamie actually provides her with that opportunity to make that scape and she also chooses not to do it
But like that has as grip to that story of escape and then the other escape theme a place where?
Outlander season one is Jamie Claire and other clan members
Where's the British Redcoat Army because we know
they're gonna be captured
several times throughout the season which they are we also saw the gory details of how Jamie was flogged by Black Jack randall and then
History of escape from that and how that plays into the theme on the story?
Fort William Castle Claire captured by the British Redcoats and
Subsequently beaten by Black Jack randall she manages to escape, like through episodes
We have just gripped about how that could possibly happen then when it does. It's daring
It's bold and it's brilliant Jamie is obviously captured by the British army and he is condemned. They're like people next to him
We're hung, and we're thinking this is it Jamie is gonna Die right here and right though and yet
he doesn't he escapes and
Right until the last moments of season one were thinking are they going to skip the situation are they going to go to the country?
Because that's basically what needs to happen and we're left with a broken Jamie and claire on a boat where they're leaving Scotland
Leaving troubles behind and going to france. We're thinking yes. Finally they've escaped
Wow, what a journey
We have been on so far season one has just been absolute incredible and other scottish person
I just feel privileged this sure happened because it has opened my eyes
Has made me curious that set my review of season 1
I am from Scotland, and it's cool to get a different perspective on
Series that so many people love and enjoy around the world, and I've got a promise to make to you guys as well
I am not in scotland at the Moment despite my stag sticker
I've got my wall something that makes me feel of home slightly
But I'm going back to scotland very soon in the next couple of weeks actually and I will be doing some really interesting
Cool Outlander content as soon as I get home
I have it lined up already, and I think you guys are going to be thrilled
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