Line #38 YMMV/Outlander


1	!!Books
2	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Anyone really, most especially Frank and Laoghaire.
3	** Geneva Dunsay: Spoilt girl who was used to getting what she wanted, and damn anyone who suffers for it? Or a spirited young woman trapped by circumstances and only wanting her first time to be special?
4	* BaseBreakingCharacter:
5	** Frank. Part of the fandom thinks he's a victim of tragic circumstances and sympathise completely with him; another part hates him and considers him selfish and a {{Jerkass}} for everything he did to Claire during their twenty-year marriage. And then there are the fans who don't feel either way about him and those who like him but acknowledge his flaws.
6	** Claire herself. Most people like her for her qualities, but some find her tendency to act without thinking annoying (especially when she does something which Jamie warns her beforehand not to do).
7	** Jamie, mostly because of the (in)famous strapping scene. Some fans condemn him for beating Claire, while others accept his reasons for it and like him for his personality and his actions/decisions in other book scenes.
8	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Murtagh, one-hundred percent. Fans were devastated when he [[spoiler: was revealed to have died at Culloden]]. Among some of the TV-show watchers on social media, [[spoiler: the hashtag "save Murtagh" is being circulated, and quite a few fans seem to be hoping for him to survive Culloden]] in the STARZ adaptation.
9	** Lord John Grey proved to be so popular that he gained his own spin-off series, the Lord John books.
10	* FriendlyFandoms: With ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''/''Series/GameOfThrones'', thanks to Gabaldon and Creator/GeorgeRRMartin being good friends and fans of each other's work (which is published by the same imprint), plus Martin's outrage at the show's lack of Emmy success even while his own was having its biggest night ever at the awards.
11	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The books are very popular in Germany, for some reason, to the point of new books being published there translated into German on the same day as the English originals.
12	* HilariousInHindsight: The proper Gaelic pronunciation of Laoghaire's name is something like "Lahiri." By the time the TV show made this clear, the name likely brought to mind [[Series/TheMindyProject Mindy Lahiri]].
13	* LoveToHate: Jack Randall, naturally, by most of the fandom.
14	* MoralEventHorizon: In backstory, Jack Randall crosses this when he is revealed to have tortured and raped Alex [=MacGregor=], causing [=MacGregor=] to suicide. During the main plot, readers first see just how twisted he is in the Wentworth scene, when he rapes and tortures Jamie Fraser.
15	** Stephen Bonnet crosses it when he robs Jamie, Claire and their party of everything they own just hours after Jamie saved him from being recaptured and returned to prison.
16	* NightmareFuel: Contains more than a little, no surprise. High points include the lovely medical scenes.
17	* ShockingMoments: The Outlander series has ''a lot'' of these.
18	** ''Voyager'' begins with Jamie being NotQuiteDead, which although it was stated at the end of ''Dragonfly in Amber'' it's still a shock to read as the very first scene of the book. He is forced to hide in an abandoned house with his comrades and later watches as they are taken out and shot by the English for being rebels. Jamie's own life is spared, because of a vow William Grey had made in Carryarick when Jamie spared his life, and so Jamie ends up being sent home to Lallybroch by William Grey's own older brother, Lord Melton. After that, Jamie spends seven years living in a cave while hiding from the English, before finally giving himself up to help his people make it through the famine. He goes to prison, but is later indentured in Helwater (a much nicer option than being sent to the New World). In Helwater, Jamie is blackmailed into sleeping with his master's spoilt daughter (who is getting married soon and doesn't want her first time to be with an elderly man like Ellesmere) and ends up accidentally getting her pregnant and fathers a son, and he is forced to kill Geneva's husband Ellesmere to prevent the baby from being thrown out a window (Geneva's husband was ''not'' a very nice person, especially after he discovered what she had done with Jamie). Jamie, much like the reader, is considerably shocked by it all. Much, much later, when Claire finally comes back to him, we find out that Jamie married ''Laoghaire'', the woman who purposefully plotted to have Claire arrested and sentenced to death by fire as a witch (though in his defense he would never have agreed to wed her if he had known that) and Claire understandably freaks out and runs away and while she is away Laoghaire ''shoots Jamie'' which causes Claire to come back. While they are reconciling and trying to fix up the Laoghaire mess Young Ian is kidnapped by pirates while diving for the seal's gold (which Jamie hoped to use to recompense Laoghaire) and the rest of the novel is Jamie and Claire racing to find and rescue him.
19	* TheWoobie: Jamie, full stop. Every book introduces some new torment that he has to go through. [[spoiler: In the first three books alone, he is raped by Black Jack Randall, accused of treason and murder and is hunted because of it, almost dies from fever and serious injuries, and is almost killed at Culloden and find himself separated from Claire and is completely miserable for twenty years.]]
20	** Roger, to an unimaginable degree. The 18th century must really hate him-- from the moment he steps through the stones he is [[spoiler: mistaken as a rapist, beaten to a pulp and sold as a slave to Indians, and later hanged and almost killed mistakenly just because he chastely kissed another (very vindictive) man's wife]].
21	** Brianna in ''Drums of Autumn'', though YMMV. Her mother abandoned her to go back to her one true love in the eighteenth century, leaving her an orphan. She'd also been told that she's not who she thought she was, and that Frank, who she adored, was not her biological father, thus causing her inner conflict between accepting her real heritage or denying it (as accepting Jamie as her father would feel like a betrayal to Frank). Then once she finally decides to travel back in time to the 1700s to warn Jamie and Claire about the death-notice and finally chooses to embrace her Scottish heritage she ends up raped and pregnant and unable to return to her own time like she originally planned.
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24	!!Series
25	* ActorShipping: A lot of fans have openly admitted to wanting Creator/SamHeughan and Creator/CaitrionaBalfe, who played OfficialCouple Jamie/Claire, to become a couple in real life. There is a lot of fanfiction and cute moments edits for the two around the internet as well. This is mainly due to their famous chemistry and off-screen friendship. Unfortunately, the two are dating other people in real life (in fact, Balfe is married), but this does little if anything to stop their shippers.
26	* AwardSnub: It only received one nomination (best soundtrack) at the 2015 Emmys. Even Creator/GeorgeRRMartin [[http://zap2it.com/2015/07/george-rr-martin-outlander-justified-emmy-snubs/ is appalled for the lack of nominations]].
27	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/07/26/outlander-opening-credits/ The main title theme.]]
28	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Claire's character in the TV adaptation has become subject to this, as one section of fans complain about her attitude and her personality, which is portrayed differently from that of Book Claire. It doesn't help that she's 'mothering' Jamie and telling him what to do half the time in the STARZ series, either. However, there are other fans who accept Claire as she is in the TV series and don't pass judgement on her behaviour.
29	* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The amount of sex scenes in this series is quite infamous.
30	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Le Comte St. Germain, the Duke of Sandringham, Mother Hildegarde, Mary Hawkins and Louise de Rohan.
31	* LesYay: Geillis and Claire have a bit of this, [[spoiler: certainly evident during their witch trial, when both Claire and Geillis are willing to die for one another. Claire even has a way out if she just claims Geillis corrupted her, but she can't bring herself to do it. Geillis [[HeroicSacrifice then saves Claire by confessing to witchcraft and corrupting Claire]]. While the angry mob carries her away Jamie is able to run away with Claire.]]
32	* RetroactiveRecognition: Father Bain (Creator/TimMcInnerny). It might be a little distressing to recognize [[Series/{{Blackadder}} Captain Darling]] as a SinisterMinister of the worst possible kind.
33	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: A fairly large body of TV fans considered Claire to be this when she returns to Frank. This is in large part because Frank is given a major case of AdaptationalHeroism in the show, while in the books he demonstrates sexist and racist views.
34	* TheWoobie: As of season 2? Frank. He has lost the wife he deeply loves for two year, refusing to believe that she left him for another man. When she gets back, she is firmly out of love with him, treats him coldly and Frank has to learn she's been another man's wife (and is pregnant by him). As a result, he stumbles out of the room and destroys everything in another room in clear grief and emotional anguish. It's very, very hard not to feel bad for the guy whose only crime seems to be not being a hunky Scotsman from the past.
35	** Some FridgeLogic here: If Claire is cold against Frank upon her return, it is because she has a number of bad experiences with his strikingly similar forfather. To return to the affection of a spitting image of the man who has tried to rape her and worse, might be hard for her. Not that this is easy to explain, though.
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Context YMMV / Outlander