Interesting discovery. The cowards at AV Club took down this post once already today, and previously removed my post and several others on this comment thread (yours too, re: picaresque novels) silently (=secretly) with no notification appearing on my Disqus account: That is, I can still see it on my Disqus account…

This is the first post that AV Club removed and then put back up: AV Club took down my post and several others on this comment thread (re: picaresque novels) silently (=secretly) with no notification appearing on my Disqus account: That is, I can still see it on my Disqus account as if it were posted as before.

AV Club removed the above post and put it down here after I reposted it. They obviously want to criticize everything on television and other media but cannot take it themselves. That is a very weak position on their part.

It's worth a lot! Thanks.

Thanks. My bad. I was able to fix my post. I'm glad to have the Crashaw. I could tell Episode 13 used a different translation/version than the one I found online, but the Crashaw didn't turn up in my quick search. In the novel, Jamie and Hugh Munro refer by name only to the famous Latin version, which is inscribed on…

4. Some authors retain theatrical rights to their content, which is not the case for Gabaldon. Moore has taken a fan fiction approach to her material and will continue to do so, whether she approves or not. My guess is that she goes along with it because she makes some money from the thing, what with consulting…

3. Let me first stipulate that I'm not talking about all men. I'm just talking about the men who are in control of the entertainment industry worldwide. They are the ones who like the genre of epic narrative because it makes them money.

2. I came across this in The Bitbag 6/27/2016 in a piece by Shazadi Reyra:

1. Let's go one step at a time.

I'm not talking about all men. I'm talking about the men who do deals and control the finances in the entertainment industry worldwide, the men who run Lionsgate and paid $4.4 billion for Starz, and Starz CEO Chris Albrecht and the men in his group, who approve every script of "Outlander," and who renewed the series…

Now you don't have to complain about the coincidences: Under one interpretation, they are part and parcel of the genre.

Full disclosure: I’m easy on actors in film and television but tough on writers and producers. That’s because I know how writers design a scene and what goes into editing a scene. In between, actors do what they are told, with maybe a little latitude. The final “look” and “sound” of an actor’s performance is…

Here’s how I might have expanded the characterization of women who are one-dimensional in Moore’s “Outlander”: the prostitutes in eighteenth-century Paris.

Thanks, Shannon. It's far easier to complain on a comment thread than it is to express meaningful praise. I ought to know: I've done enough of both in my brief time at this. This is indeed a compliment coming from you, judging from your other posts throughout. I'll also say that if there were letters after my name…

BSA, end of chapter 31: It comes to Jamie in a dream. In principle, Moore could draw on any one of Gabaldon's books for any season, especially in reconstructing the Battle of Culloden that Jamie only remembers over time. The entire Lord John series takes place before Claire returns to Jamie in 1766, so scenes from…

Speaking of "cheesy and overdone," the Starz version in the U.S. that I watched had problems with the soundtrack volume throughout AND I hated the amount of "moron music" in this episode. That's music that tells you how to feel during a scene. My husband and I followed a daytime soap for a few years, and that's how…

Your point is beautifully expressed, that intimacy has to be cut or eliminated to meet industry standards. Why don't television programs have "the time, space and leisure" to show long discussions pre- and post-coitus? Such things are shown on daytime and prime-time soap operas in the U.S. Maybe Moore just doesn't…

Then there is the "Hair" camp. I've been trying to put my finger on the genre of Gabaldon's novels for over a year. Your post discusses some of the problems I've been trying to solve. I've come up with one way to explain the popularity of the novels while accounting for some of the weaknesses attributed to them. …

Thanks for the link, for sharing your point of view. I see how Moore's "Outlander" turned out the way it did, but I don't see how things will or can change in the future. I am happy so many on the cast and crew have gainful employment. It's a shame they cannot be working on a better product.

I get your point. But we have to remember that Moore insists he can change things up from the book if he likes: He has his little surprises for book readers and all of his improvements over the original. This could have been one of them, to do a bang up job showing the Battle of Culloden after the wrenching…