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2022 Outlandish Vancouver/Outlandish Adventures – Day 3

Day three and we were off and running!

Jamie caught up with us in the vendor room and held us at gunpoint! We surrendered! 😍

Next panel was the guys! Just the guys! And, only the guys! 🤗

They got settled in and the questions began!

Jody stood at the mic and said she had been a teacher for 36 years and wanted to predict the type of student each had been. She Thought Tim and David were quiet. But, likely, Paul got into trouble. Yep, turns out, she was right.

David was studious. Tim also was quiet in school but did use humor to deal with bullying! 😮

And, Paul……  Weil, Paul got into trouble for talking too much! His punishment was to write many time what it was that he did that was bad!

Tim was asked if it was difficult to play Tryon.  His answer was candid, interesting and enlightening. He replied that it helps to understand that the British always think they are right! He said he put himself in that frame of mind when he played the part of Governor Tryon. He added that Tryon felt justified in all the decisions he made even though they were bad for the settlers. He was so good as a baddie!

Then, questions were interrupted for an surprise auction! An Outlander fan who was not named donated a rug to be auctioned  off to benefit the Wounded Warriors project. Koko explained that she goes by the moniker, “The Happy Hooker.” 😊 She is a disabled vet. The rug was made of wool that was hand dyed, hand carded, hand spun, and hand hooked! It really was a splendid piece of work!

Bidding began at $20. For a moment, Tim took over and did a perfect imitation of a bonafide auctioneer!

Bidding moved to $30, then $40, then higher and higher until it sold at $1600 to the highest bidder: Tina from Texas. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Sadly, time was up and the guys exited. Buh bye, guys! 👋🏻

Then the gals came in. Caitlin and Joanne took their seats and the grilling began anew. People are very curious! 🤔

Asked what male character of Outlander they would like to play, JoAnne wants to play Roger. Caitlin wants to play young Ian! (Psst…..I think she would make a swell young Ian)

Question: “What was filming like?”

Caitlin said, nothing is like what you would expect. Scotland is cold and wet. She was very scared at first. And, most importantly, she made sure she carried Tampons in her purse! 👍🏻

I asked how they liked the corset. Caitlin said not at all! She had trouble getting food through her esophagus into her stomach and it was very hard to use the toilet! They had port-a-potties, which were cramped with dirty floors.

But, JoAnne loved wearing a corset. She said it was the best her figure ever looked!

I have to agree. I wore one while walking the Royal Mile in Edinburg in 2016 and I liked my posture! 😇

Caitlin shared that any stories about how difficult children are on set, are true. She said at the S5 wedding scene , she was supposed to take care of Jemmy, but both twins were terrified of her. She was directed to lay Jem down in the basket but the baby kept standing up! Director, Stephen (Woolfenden), was signing to her to push him down in the basket which she tried to do but after that he screamed whenever she came near him. (moms know this wouldn’t work) 🫣

This is one reason Joanne was given a “plastic” baby to hold for her scenes as Amy.  The camera would cut away to a live baby for close ups. 👍🏻

Asked what was hard for Caitlin to play the role of Lizzy, she was very candid. For her screen test, she was asked to do the bit where she tells Claire about the wee curlies around Jo’s paps! 😜 It was hard to be serious, but then, she took it seriously because she loves Lizzie’s innocence and her wondrous exploration of her sexuality. She also looked forward to playing a polyamorous relationship which is a first for her.

The ladies left and then the whole crew re-emerged for the last panel of the event. And, we were able to posit our final questions.

When you joined Outlander, were you prepared for the fandom?

Caitlin, No!

Paul, No, but he is grateful and appreciative of us!

David, No. These experiences are not available to anyone outside this room (includes entire fandom). He really appreciates hearing and receiving the love of the fans.

Tim, No. At first, he only knew what the director told him. Soon, he learned that the fans know the books forward and backwards. (Of course we do! 😇)

Any fun fan stories?

David said he appreciated the gifts fans give to his son. He is very grateful for their thoughtfulness.

Caitlin was in Glasgow walking down the street with John bell. People would stop them and ask if she would take a pic of them with John! Puir lass! 

Tim said someone gave him a foot spa as a gift! 😁 He wondered if this was OK?

Joanne said someone knitted her a pair of fingerless gloves. One bore a picture of a bear and the other a cluster of grapes. She wondered what that meant! 😉

Last question was did you know about Outlander?

Paul did because he is Scottish and very aware of the influx of tourists. He shared this apocryphal story: Diana was on tour and stopped at a bookstore in a small hamlet. She picked out two books and took them to the counter to pay. The bookstore owner said they were on “the house!” Everyone in Scotland knows about Diana. 🥰

And then it was time to say goodbye for this event! Great time! Great guests! Great fandom!

We exited the event and even said goodbye to our strange security guard. It was asleep at its docking station! 😁


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Outlanderbts Lasses discuss Episode 403, “The False Bride.”

Episode 403 was a bit controversial for us. We have different takes on how it affected us.

This episode showed a while back in the US, but other places in the world are just now getting older episodes. This is also an episode we didn’t do before. 

So, grab a cuppa whatever you love and join us to see if you agree with our varied POV! ☕️

Here it is:

OutlanderBTS The Discussion, Episode 403 ~ The False Bride

What did you think of Roger in this episode?

In my experience, book readers tend to have a more negative response to him than show only viewers.

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Mini Anatomy Lesson: Corrugator Supercilii

 

Anatomy Def: Paired muscles of facial expression.

Outlander Def: Ian’s worry lines when he learns he must leave his beloved Emily! 😢

Don’t know about you, but for me, John Bell’s performance in Outlander episode 604, Hour of the Wolf was flawless. His facial expressions perfectly mirrored the stress roiling in his personal life.

Facial Expression: Humans enjoy 22 pair of muscles controlling facial expression, more than any other animal, blessing us with an amazing range of emotional aspects. 

As Ian hears the Mohawk’s decision about his and Emily’s fates, the skin wrinkles between his eyebrows. How does this happen?

Corrugator Supercilii: Well, his facial expression is caused by contraction of corrugator supercilii (CS) muscles, just one of the 22 pair! 😲

Super silly, huh? 😜

Meaning: Actually, this pair of muscles is so named because of their action and also by their placement in the face: 

    • Latin, con meaning “together” + rugare “wrinkle”
    • Latin, super meaning “over” + cilium ”eyebrow” 

Ergo, corrugator supercilii wrinkle the skin between the eyebrows.

Violà! 🤗

Anatomy: The figure below is a computer generated image of the paired CS shown as green slashes. CS originate from the forehead (frontal bone) about midway along each eyebrow and insert into the skin at the top of the nose (nasion). 

Function: As CS contract, the eyebrows are drawn together and downward, producing vertical wrinkles of the forehead skin.

Emotional Signal: CS belong to a group of frowning muscles, used to convey suffering! And, who does that better than our beloved Ian? 😢 

Frontalis: Just to complicate matters, let’s throw in a second pair of facial expression muscles – the frontalis. In the image below, frontalis fibers (dark green patches) run vertically through the forehead. They originate from the top of forehead (frontal) bone and insert into the skin above the eyebrows. 

Frontalis muscles raise the eyebrows and wrinkle the forehead skin but this time, the creases run horizontally. Consider Jamie in Outlander episode 606, The World Turned Upside Down. Here, a “worrit” Jamie attends to Malva’s chatter and seductive overtures.

So what happens if CS and frontalis muscles contract simultaneously? Let’s look again at Ian for the answer. Deeply concerned for the wee soul of his stillborn daughter, Iseabaìl, he confides in his beloved uncle! 

Ian contracts CS (red arrow), hence the vertical wrinkles between the brows, and frontalis (blue arrow) producing horizontal wrinkles in his forehead skin. Working together, both sets of muscles truly convey worry, anguish, and despair.   

Learn much more about the muscles of facial expression in my big Anatomy Lesson #11, Jamie’s Face or Ye do it Face to Face?

Lest you think that humans are the only creatures with muscles of facial expression, meet my year-old Vizsla puppy, Finnegan. Check out the wrinkles between his “brows”? 

Studies suggest dogs lack CS muscles but other facial muscles perform a similar function. Such muscles give them what is known as pedomorphic facial features (infant-like). Humans apparently prefer such features in domesticated dogs. 🥰

See Ian’s worry muscles in Outlander Episode 604, Hour of the Wolf.

Read about Ian’s distress in Diana Gabaldon’s sixth big book, A Breath of Snow and Ashes wherein, it is Brianna that comforts Ian:

“Aye, maybe. But …” He closed his eyes, hands clenched hard into fists on his thighs. “Where is she, then?” he whispered, and she could see tears trembling on his lashes. “The others—they were never born; God will have them in His hand. But wee Iseabaìl—she’ll not be in heaven, will she? I canna bear the thought that she—that she might be … lost, somewhere. Wandering.”

“Ian …”

“I hear her, greeting. In the night.” His breath was coming in deep, sobbing gasps. “I canna help, I canna find her!”

“Ian!” The tears were running down her own cheeks. She gripped his wrists fiercely, squeezed as hard as she could. “Ian, listen to me!”

He drew a deep, trembling breath, head bent. Then he nodded, very slightly.

She rose onto her knees and gathered him tight against her, his head cradled on her breasts. Her cheek pressed against the top of his head, his hair warm and springy against her mouth.

“Listen to me,” she said softly. “I had another father. The man who raised me. He’s dead now.” For a long time now, the sense of desolation at his loss had been muted, softened by new love, distracted by new obligations. Now it swept over her, newly fresh, and sharp as a stab wound in its agony. “I know—I know he’s in heaven.”

Was he? Could he be dead and in heaven, if not yet born? And yet he was dead to her, and surely heaven took no heed of time.

She lifted her face toward the cliff, but spoke to neither bones nor God.

“Daddy,” she said, and her voice broke on the word, but she held her cousin hard. “Daddy, I need you.” Her voice sounded small, and pathetically unsure. But there was no other help to be had.

“I need you to find Ian’s little girl,” she said, as firmly as she could, trying to summon her father’s face, to see him there among the shifting leaves at the clifftop. “Find her, please. Hold her in your arms, and make sure that she’s safe. Take—please take care of her.” 

Deep stuff!

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