tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2193939705192575193.post5106174733578492565..comments2024-03-27T16:39:57.485-04:00Comments on My OUTLANDER Purgatory: MOP Interviews the Cast of Outlander at the Ziegfeld!Purgatory Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04206226666250028550noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2193939705192575193.post-50385943054234657642015-04-05T16:15:17.247-04:002015-04-05T16:15:17.247-04:00Loved your interviews! It's so refreshing to s...Loved your interviews! It's so refreshing to see you guys ask some new questions! Is swear if I hear someone as Tobias what its like to play 2 characters one more time I'm going to loose it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2193939705192575193.post-90571206274200676472015-04-05T15:24:27.647-04:002015-04-05T15:24:27.647-04:00Guys -
I have been so looking forward to this pos...Guys -<br /><br />I have been so looking forward to this post; and it really lived up to my dreams! The best part was that we could see the thought you put into your questions (they were original and tied into the MOP website name); and you really seemed to be enjoying yourselves with the stars. Good on you!<br /><br />I do want to say something by way of venting about another website. I noticed that you praised the woman form "That's Normal" and said how nice they were to you, which I'm glad about. Who couldn't be nice to you: you're the kindest, most upbeat women -- BUT -- I don't think the "That's Normal" people are "nice." Here's why: First, some context: I have had a form of lymphoma since 1999. I still have it; my docs are fabulous - they have kept me going, and going well, during all that time. I've been able to see my oldest sons graduate college, and I'll be sending my two youngest (twins) off to their gap years next year. Plus, I've gotten to spend time with my own Jamie, my wonderful husband, time which I feared might be lost. Anyway, the "Outlander" book series got me through some really rough times. I remember reading "The Fiery Cross" during an experimental treatment and having total strangers walk up to me and say "You like "Outlander"? Me too!" Imagine my joy when I found out that they were finally going to make a TV series out of it! Then to learn that the man picked to play Jamie had been supporting a leukemia/lymphoma charity for years! It wouldn't have mattered if Sam Heughan had turned out to be a one-eyed Himalayan dwarf, I'd have been solidly on his side, This is NOT fangirling; for that I squee about Duncan Lacroix (Murtagh). Anyway, I adore Sam for reasons that go way beyond they part he plays.<br /><br />Jump forward to "That's Normal." At first it seemed like a lot of fun, but gradually I began to see some major cracks in its façade. I'm uneasy about the fact they have not read all the major books in the series; but I'm REALLY not cool that they are unashamedly PROUD about that fact. (It's actually their overall shamelessness about a lot of things that turned me off on them) Then there's their unapologetic ageism; which has manifested itself in snarky comments about people over age 35 culminating in saying that Diana Gabaldon should stop writing altogether because her main "Outlander" characters were "old."<br /><br />But all of that pales for me behind their relentless, merciless, and unabashed campaign against Sam Heughan. I think it started with their criticism of his hair on the show - it's inconsistent styling (a problem that also vexes me and a lot of others). But their campaign has blossomed into a full-out let's-torture-Sam fest, that has included his IRL dating, his fanfollowing, and even his charity. Much of it seems fueled by an incipient homophobia and a not-so-incipient sadism. And let me repeat: they're proud of it!!! I give Heughan credit for even talking to them at the NYC event. I would have spit in their eye. (I realize he wouldn't do that.) He did express a sort of theatrical reluctance to approach them, kind of an "uh-oh, now I'm in for it" sort of attitude. Then they asked them if he thought Tobias Menzies was a good kisser (I guess based on what they imagine about the Wentworth prison scenes)!!! This betrays such nastiness, such gratuitous cruelty - not to mention a dangerous conflation of sadism and homosexuality which ought to be out of place anywhere (even Indiana) and which any fair-minded person ought to abhor But not these babes: their proud of how they "stick it" to Sam. It just makes me sick. <br /><br />Be grateful they're nice to you. Just keep your hairdos excellent, don't give any women the glad-eye, and don't get old! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02930378216195669306noreply@blogger.com