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It can not be easy to turn a series of thick books into a TV series. A book becomes a season. Still, lots of stuff disappears. I noticed it a little extra clearly when I actually finished watching the fifth season of Outlander, a series of books written by Diana Gabaldon.
I do not remember how old I was when I started reading about Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser. Teenager, if I remember correctly. The number of books has risen since then, and I'm actually not sure I've read them all. Gabaldon has also written a spinoff (which I have not read) about one of the characters in the Outlander series.
What bothers me most on in the TV series Outlander is that not a single one of the characters is even close to matching how I imagined them. That does not mean it is bad – on the contrary, the series is very good. It is incredibly beautiful, it's good acting, everything is fine with it. But it is not at all as I imagined what the characters look like, how they sound, how they behave, and so on. This makes it difficult for me to see the series as the same thing as the books.
Plus, that it of course, an incredible number of things are missing. Plus some things have been rewritten. For those of you who have read the books and seen the series – just such a thing as Murtagh. Just that, as well as. Although I like the way the story unfolds, so it is not consistent with the books and I have a hard time disconnecting it.
But despite I do not think the books and the TV series are the same thing, am I still fond of the series. As I said, it was ruggedly good-looking, it contains amounts of violence, sex, passion, Love, strong family ties, loyalty and so on. It also contains rapes on several occasions – rapes of both women and men.
Due the series is at times difficult and difficult to watch, but well worth it. The positive outweighs the father father the negative – and there are many positives. The love, the passion and loyalty to the family and the clan is probably what attracts me the most.
Is it by the way anyone else who thinks of David Berry (Lord John Grey) would be absolutely perfect as a vampire, as he looks in the series? He's actually a bit like Brad Pitt in Confessions of a vampire. This is something I enjoyed thinking about, especially in season 5.
For those who do not know either the books or the TV series, I can tell you that everything is about a woman, Claire Randall, who after World War II is reunited with her husband, Frank Randall. They go to Scotland to get to know each other again – and there Claire happens to step through a portal that leads her 200 years back in time. There she falls in love with a man she also marries, Jamie Fraser. All this takes place in the first book, and the rest of the books are about what happened next. I will not tell you much more than that, so as not to ruin for you who might want to read or so. And whether you choose to read the books or watch the TV series – you have something really good in front of you.
Probably, dock, is it a story that certainly attracts more women than men. While on the one hand it's not just sex, is it written from a female perspective in a way that makes men perhaps think it is “for” tjejjig. But on the other hand – what do I know? Maybe there are a lot of men who love both books and series.
I who have read the series many, many times over, however, has a clear picture of how everyone looks and behaves. My experience of the series is therefore somewhat divided. On the one hand, I really think the series is fantastic, on the other hand, it interferes with my own reading experience. Especially since it's been several years since I last read about the series. I would like to keep my own pictures of how all the characters are, and it will show how it goes the next time I take out the books.
Regarding that is so much in the TV series that is lost if you compare with the books; I really understand that it will be so. The books are quite thick and detailed (and, sex is also described in detail), and for it to work in serial format, you have to shorten it a lot. But sometimes it feels a little sad when the content is redesigned the way it is.
But on that big whole, I can still say that the creators of the TV series Outlander have succeeded well. Really good.