I think we agreed in last week's comment thread that the books are not linked to the show, do not have to be linked to the show, and should not be any longer. We agreed: The stupid old books should be left alone on the shelf, and Moore should go his own way with his fan fiction version of "Outlander." I'm still in…

Yeah Moore! Boo Gabaldon!

Your usual: Yeah Moore! Boo Gabaldon!

Was there ever a serial treatment of Robert Hughes's "The Fatal Shore"?

I am not projecting. It is there for all to see and hear. Rupert is hurt very severely, and Claire should be able to know when to joke around and when to be professional. You are willfully trying to defend indefensible writing.

He might have died: That's why the group had to stop to do the operation. He may not be a "delicate flower," but did you hear Rupert scream? Go back and listen to it and watch the lead-up to the operation. I didn't put those things in the scene, or record the scream myself. Moore did, in the cutting room.

I did not call this "sinister." I called it insensitive to say something like this to Rupert after removing his eye—HIS EYE: Remember his scream? Who can forget it? In my first post, I called Claire's comment "cruel," "out of character," and "patronizing." In the scene, Rupert might well have died. As a warrior,…

"Vile" as in "Why does everything in the entertainment industry have to be about money?" Nothing more. Starz's income generation system is safe from me.

Well, for Pete's sake, Eric, tell your students NOT to recommend the little kiddies watch "Black Sails"! If the students in your class teach high school or college, their budding scholars can go for it. All I know, is that the product placement jumped right out at me, right after I got done saying, "Oh, for pity's…

[AV Club moved this reply so far out of order that it no more makes sense. More of the moderator taking sides.] No.

I have been studying for the last eighteen months, maybe a bit more, what happens to historical fiction when it is adapted for television, not just "Outlander" but "Game of Thrones," "Black Sails," "The Last Kingdom," "War and Peace," and "Poldark," as well as "Vikings" and "The Bastard Executioner," historical…

I'm serious. That is how Starz is hyping "Black Sails," which you would know if you were following the vile PR as studiously as I am: Long John Silver is one of the main characters. Try to work on that short attention span.

Agreed. When Mary kills her attacker, she actually defies the final phrase associated UNIVERSALLY with the title of the episode: “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if…

In a recent article in Variety, Gabaldon discusses her role as part of Moore’s writing team during the design and construction of Episode 11. She makes it
clear that by the time she was involved, the plot and set pieces for Episode 11 were already in place, along with recommended dialog and even lines, from which she…

I agree: So much bad behavior by producers and adaptors has stemmed from "True Blood," though I did love the credits and always will.

I think the principal difference between us is that I do not trust the producers.

What you praise week after week is Moore's fan fiction version of Gabaldon's novels, which is no more but not much less fantastical than the one I am describing. What I propose in my post leaves those who "freaking love her books" unmolested by the way Moore has "practiced upon" them (to use a phrase familiar to you,…

For example, instead of just having Murtagh survive Culloden (as Moore is signaling he will do at the end of Season 2), he could also allow Rupert to survive Culloden—and why not Dougal as well! If Moore were REALLY willing to be creative in his own right, he would ignore Gabaldon's impossible plotline of Claire and…

There’s discerning and there’s discerning, right? “Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are more inclined to accept the first story they hear.” ―Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”

Moore should cut loose and cut loose at the end of Season 2, no matter what fans of the books think. That would give him two whole seasons either to win them over to his way of handling Gabaldon's characters or to replace them with a new and more desirable clientele. An added advantage, is that the controversy will…