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Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About The Graphic Male Rape On “Outlander”?

Did anyone catch this?

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by Anonymousreply 144April 12, 2018 6:27 PM

Where's the video

by Anonymousreply 1June 3, 2015 6:25 AM

Because we're not one of its faaaaaaaaaaans!

by Anonymousreply 2June 3, 2015 6:43 AM

This rape is not shocking, disturbing, disgusting, unprecedented or even hot without a video.

by Anonymousreply 3June 3, 2015 6:46 AM

Pics! Lots of pics!

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by Anonymousreply 4June 3, 2015 7:22 AM

Wish they had shows like this when I was a teenager. "Wow! It goes in there?!!"

by Anonymousreply 5June 3, 2015 7:46 AM

New show to watch, thanks

by Anonymousreply 6June 3, 2015 11:31 AM

You kind of have to feel for the show runners. They really thought they'd trumped GAME OF THRONES for once and then GoT fucking unleashes "Hardhome".

by Anonymousreply 7June 3, 2015 11:39 AM

Why is the cute guy's left hand bloody?

by Anonymousreply 8June 3, 2015 11:48 AM

R7, did Jon Snow get raped?

by Anonymousreply 9June 3, 2015 11:51 AM

still no gif or video link?

by Anonymousreply 10June 3, 2015 1:05 PM

...because there's only a Public uproar when it happens to female characters. This is called "male privilege".

by Anonymousreply 11June 3, 2015 1:29 PM

He should have fucked him in the ass in the town square instead of whipping him.

by Anonymousreply 12June 3, 2015 1:43 PM

What r11 said, the victim was male so no one cares.

Because women are normally the victims of rape, a lot of idiots have decided you can't have a women being raped...even though that is the realisitic thing to have happen. It makes ZERO SENSE.

by Anonymousreply 13June 3, 2015 1:50 PM

OP, you have triggered me, and yet you provided no trigger warnings. I am reporting you to the Dean of the Faculty and the President of the College under Title IX. You will get what's coming to you.

by Anonymousreply 14June 3, 2015 1:51 PM

The reason people got so worked up about that GoT rape was because the girl in question was a teenage virgin who had grown up in front of us. If someone had raped a virgin fifteen-year-old boy who'd grown up in front of a TV audience, I think the furor would be greater rather than lesser, as it would have more shock value.

I haven't seen "Outlander", but those pictures are of adults, who definitely aren't virgins. Anyone got a video clip?

by Anonymousreply 15June 3, 2015 3:30 PM

The other reason everyone got worked up over GoT and not this is that people actually watch GoT.

by Anonymousreply 16June 3, 2015 5:21 PM

Rape Schmape!

by Anonymousreply 17June 3, 2015 5:35 PM

I watch Outlander and there was definitely an uproar over Jamie's rape, which was very graphic, violent and drawn out. Generally, the upset feelings come from those who have not read the books and didn't expect it. The book-readers think the non-book readers are pearl-clutchers and the non-book readers think the book readers are into torture porn.

I'm a non-book reader and I doubt I'll be watching next season. It's not just the graphic nature of the rape, but the premise of the story is beginning to seem like bad fanfic.

by Anonymousreply 18June 3, 2015 5:52 PM

lmao @ r17!

by Anonymousreply 19June 3, 2015 5:58 PM

BUTT was it rape-rape?

by Anonymousreply 20June 3, 2015 6:00 PM

Here. FF to 15:10. There's cock at the beginning of this episode too.

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by Anonymousreply 21June 3, 2015 6:07 PM

I've watched Outlander, and I've lost count of the times the female lead has been raped, or attempted raped, or sexually assaulted. It's a one trick pony. Not much happens there, except rape, and it's been so often I've stopped caring.

As for this dude's rape, it was drawn out in a "OMG THIS IS WORSE THAN DEATH JUST WAIT WHILE WE KEEP GOING BACK TO IT THROUGHOUT THE EPISODE". They managed to make it boring, and Jamie's reaction was so weird I just wanted to yell "oh, for Christ's sake, just get over it already".

by Anonymousreply 22June 3, 2015 8:34 PM

...but then he said he rather...liked it.

by Anonymousreply 23June 3, 2015 8:51 PM

Someone asked why his hand was bloody. He'd had a nail pounded through it.

by Anonymousreply 24June 3, 2015 9:22 PM

Oh, dear god, R24. This guy does these horrible things to him, yet he wants to fuck him. Sick, sick place, the closet.

by Anonymousreply 25June 3, 2015 9:24 PM

If I remember well, the GoT rapes uproar were generated by changes from the books. No rape of Cersei by her brother. No rape of Sansa after the weding. And the scriptwriters decided it would a lot mor entertaining for TV to have them being raped.

The handsome laird's rape was in the book. It seems it was very detaied, or so they say. Like R17 and R21 said, independently of the shock value, it was rather boring. The pace ? The way it is written ?

Maybe because I felt it was not about the two men but all about Claire, somehow.

I'm getting bored with this show. Wasn't she supposed to try and return home ? Urgh!

by Anonymousreply 26June 3, 2015 9:26 PM

GOT illicited an uproar because it has a larger more mainstream audience.

The rape on Outlander was far more brutal both physically and emotionally than Sansa's.

And Jaime didn't like it. After prolonged brutality and multiple rapes his rapist plays a total mind fuck on Jaime. Jaime's to the point of delirium and the sick fuck pretends to be Jaime's wife. In his delirium he sees and hears Claire. He passes from pain/rape into pleasure.

I give Starz and the actors props for not wimping out. The last 2 episodes have been harrowing.

by Anonymousreply 27June 3, 2015 9:59 PM

[r27] How many times he was raped? In the episode it was shown only 2

by Anonymousreply 28June 3, 2015 10:09 PM

Elicited, not illicited, r27.

Illicit is something not legal, which graphic male rape isn't, but using words properly is what civilized people do.

by Anonymousreply 29June 3, 2015 10:33 PM

Rape is not "not legal," R29?

by Anonymousreply 30June 3, 2015 10:41 PM

Sorry for the unintentional double negative, r30.

I'll "oh dear" myself for that.

by Anonymousreply 31June 3, 2015 10:49 PM

Found the episode on youtube. The video quality is shitty but it's watchable.

Agree with r27. Jaime didn't like it. But he was delirious by the end. He thought the guy was his wife and he felt pleasure from the act.

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by Anonymousreply 32June 3, 2015 11:00 PM

It was disturbing because it was violent and it went on and on and on. Usually with female rape victims its over and done. But this was revisited many times in the episode. It made me very uncomfortable, It was also not about sex with Black Jack Randall, it was all about power and dominance. Tobias Menzies really creeped me out in this role. But I love Outlander as a whole - better than Game of Thrones in the cinematography category.

by Anonymousreply 33June 3, 2015 11:23 PM

Why do I find Black Jack Randall hot? What is wrong with me?

by Anonymousreply 34June 3, 2015 11:33 PM

R34 Looking for love in all the wrong places, my friend. When a man nails your hand to a table, it's time to let that relationship go.

by Anonymousreply 35June 3, 2015 11:55 PM

Tobias Menzies (Black Jack Randall) can rape me anytime! Gay or straight?

by Anonymousreply 36June 4, 2015 12:07 AM

[R36] unfortunately both are straight

by Anonymousreply 37June 4, 2015 12:14 AM

"What R11 said, the victim was male so no one cares."

Um, no. But bless your heart for getting worked up over nothing. GOT is a hit, Outlander is not. That's the difference. How can people complain about something they haven't seen? The MRA trolls here are so stupid.

by Anonymousreply 38June 4, 2015 12:18 AM

I got curious and watched this.

The guy playing Jamie is very good looking and he gets sexually objectified in this. The bad guy was scary and completely twisted in his need to break and own him.

It was very brutal and while it was interesting to watch I don't know enough of the show in order to tell if this was just pure torture pron or did it actually contribute anything in terms of plot or character development.

The ending seemed so out of place. It did seem like fanfiction.

by Anonymousreply 39June 4, 2015 12:23 AM

I must have missed the rape scene or something.

I watched the whole youtube video, and it looked to me like they were just having regular sex.

by Anonymousreply 40June 4, 2015 12:56 AM

R39

Black Jack is a sadist. I don't believe he enjoys sex per se. It's all about power and dominance.

He's wanted to break Jaime for several years. Black Jack was going to rape Jaime's sister about 4 years ago. Jaime fought him and took a savage whipping. That's why Jaime has all those back scars. Despite that Jaime never capitulated. It became Black Jack's goal to truly break him.

I don't believe he's even gay. He didn't want to fuck Jaime because of lust. It was to crush him.

The actor who plays Jaime is hot as hell and the scenes between Jaime/Claire are quite explicit and sexy. The show is good but even if it wasn't it's worth it just for his nudity.

by Anonymousreply 41June 4, 2015 1:28 AM

Black Jack Randall is straight, R37?

by Anonymousreply 42June 4, 2015 1:42 AM

It's Jamie, R41, not Jaime. He's Scots, not Hispanic.

by Anonymousreply 43June 4, 2015 1:44 AM

Randall is gay.

Sure, it's about power and dominance. But he also found Jamie hot. Because why bother kissing the guy? What's with all those caresses? Why even bother jacking off Jamie?

by Anonymousreply 44June 4, 2015 2:02 AM

I think most of you are missing the point (or points) behind the uproar about the rape on GOT. The rape of women is not a unique thing on tv - in fact, it happens a little too often. It's become almost a 'go to' event for women, a horrible right of passage if the writers need something for the MALE characters to react to. And often, it isn't about the woman, but about the MAN's reaction - which was a major complaint regarding GOT. Also, it's a story that they keep coming back to on the show with different female characters, as if there is nothing else interesting to do with a woman or show a woman doing. AND as pointed out, the rapes on the show aren't being dictated by the books - the show writers are choosing to put the female characters through this - again, as if it's their go to move to put women through so the audience can see how hard it is for the male characters to cope with. Just twisted.

The rape of Jaime, while violent and awful and no less or no more violent an act than it is when it happens to women, it ISN'T something that is seen often on tv or movies. It is something different - there are stories to tell there that haven't been done to death before. It ISN'T a go to move with a male character. It's actually something of a ballsy move to have your male hero raped - and to show the consequences. Now, if this sort of thing started happening to male characters every month, you would start seeing the same angry audience reaction - because it is no longer a new story, there would be nothing left to explore, no originality and it would likely be exploitative.

It wasn't just because a female was raped. Specific to GoT, it was a story point the writers have kept going back to with different female characters for no particular reason than to put the MEN through the emotional wringer. It feels repetitive, pointless and exploitative. Certainly, they can come up with something else to put the characters through.

by Anonymousreply 45June 4, 2015 2:25 AM

Ohhhh, anal RAPE, anal rape, anal rape!

(It's all I ever talked about back on SNL.)

by Anonymousreply 46June 4, 2015 2:34 AM

Because nobody watches this show

by Anonymousreply 47June 4, 2015 2:50 AM

I call bs.

Jamie is so huge and strapping, that he easily could have beaten Jack Randall to a pulp.

There's no way he would have submitted to being raped, especially since he towers over the other guy.

by Anonymousreply 48June 4, 2015 2:56 AM

With a nail driven through his hand, and the infection that was probably growing in it, I'm guessing he was pretty rapeable. Plus he was chained to a wall for at least part of it.

by Anonymousreply 49June 4, 2015 3:02 AM

r48, the workaround for that was Jamie promising he'd do anything without resisting in exchange for Claire going free. The core of Jamie's character is his honor, which Randall is attempting to crush by tormenting him.

by Anonymousreply 50June 4, 2015 3:45 AM

"...and I liked it! I LIKED it!!"

by Anonymousreply 51June 4, 2015 4:02 AM

I'm sorry, but Jamie just looks SO hot here...

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by Anonymousreply 52June 4, 2015 4:42 AM

"Outlander" is pure frau fic.

by Anonymousreply 53June 4, 2015 5:51 AM

"Specific to GoT, it was a story point the writers have kept going back to with different female characters for no particular reason than to put the MEN through the emotional wringer. "

You know, I'm trying to recall other rapes on the show, and if I'm correct there's more talk than actual rape. A gang of men grabbed Sansa in season 2 but the Mountain saves her, Joffrey kept threatening her but never did... Jamie and Cersie had rough sex during Joffrey's wake but that wasn't rape-rape, and Dany did say "yes" on her joyless wedding night so it wasn't technically rape, and Brienne fights back at Harrenhall and also isn't raped... Of course Mirri Maz Duur is gang-raped by the Dothraki and pays them back for it, but I can't say that any men experienced an "emotional wringer" because of it.

If my memory is correct, "GoT" isn't using rape cheaply, it's using the *threat* of rape cheaply! Until two episodes ago, at least.

by Anonymousreply 54June 4, 2015 6:21 AM

If you have STARZ, go to Outlander and it's there, done in flashbacks in the final episode. Not dark like the one on youtube. I didn't watch the second-to-last episode.

It could not be more explicit unless it was pure porn. I was hoping it would be "hot." What might be a turn on - one guy walking right at you, dick flopping and another with the body-and-ass-of-the-millennium rolling around naked on the floor - it wasn't. Very well done though. Got to hand it to a couple of straight actors. You can almost smell the rats, sweat, dirt, cum, blood and shit.

by Anonymousreply 55June 4, 2015 9:01 AM

" If someone had raped a virgin fifteen-year-old boy who'd grown up in front of a TV audience, I think the furor would be greater rather than lesser, as it would have more shock value."

Not if had been Frankie Muniz.

by Anonymousreply 56June 4, 2015 9:49 AM

Hey, dont hate on Frankie. I loved watching Malcolm in the Middle.

I love their mom, reminds me of mine

by Anonymousreply 57June 4, 2015 9:54 AM

Never seen this show before, but that guy is hot. Don't really think I'll ever watch it again.

I know this show is Frau-tastic, how are they taking this??

by Anonymousreply 58June 4, 2015 12:15 PM

The people who are dominant in the media watch GoT but not Outlander, that's why.

by Anonymousreply 59June 4, 2015 1:06 PM

I didn't like it. It was portrayed like the rapist was sexually attracted to his victim, when really most men raping other men is about power and dominance.

by Anonymousreply 60June 4, 2015 2:11 PM

I've neither read the book nor watched 99% of the show, but doesn't Randall do all these things to Jamie because this was a time when "the love that dare not speak its name" really, truly dared not speak its name. I always thought of floggings in movies as subtextual expressions of the desire to touch another man that could not be expressed in any other way.

by Anonymousreply 61June 4, 2015 3:30 PM

Going by r61's post, Randall is the schoolboy pulling Jaime's pigtails?

by Anonymousreply 62June 4, 2015 3:40 PM

Who is Jaime, R62?

by Anonymousreply 63June 4, 2015 3:45 PM

R50 did the rapist let Claire go free like he said he would?

by Anonymousreply 64June 4, 2015 5:16 PM

" this was a time when "the love that dare not speak its name" really, truly dared not speak its name$"

I've read the spinoff "Lord John" mystery books, which I liked, and that's what they're like. Poor Lord John is always worried about discovery and discretion, and even though he doesn't get many opportunities to get laid he has to turn some down because there's not enough privacy or the guy isn't discrete enough (and one army guy who isn't discrete enough is discovered, and is quickly hauled off and executed by his regiment).

Of course the books are written by an authori who seems to like extending the sexual tension through the book, but she's probably right about how things were for gay men.

by Anonymousreply 65June 4, 2015 6:24 PM

Yes, r64, Randall pushes Claire out a door that leads to the exterior of the prison, and locks her out. He then goes back to his business while Claire battles snow and wolves.

by Anonymousreply 66June 4, 2015 6:37 PM

Why even bother to have sex in those days?

As someone earlier pointed out, between the foul odors, the uncomfortable surroundings, the lack of sanitation, lack of heating (who wants to have sex in the cold??!!) and the overall fear of homosexuality in those days, being gay and having sex seems like an awful thing.

Personally, I'd probably be jerking off every day.

by Anonymousreply 67June 4, 2015 6:40 PM

Has Claire really gone back in time, or is she hallucinating the whole thing?

I'm asking because the rapists is played by the same actor who plays her 1940s husband.

by Anonymousreply 68June 4, 2015 6:43 PM

She really does go back in time through a circle of standing stones in Scotland. The rapist is the ancestor of her 1940s husband.

by Anonymousreply 69June 4, 2015 7:15 PM

It is interesting jow they make efforts to avoid being homophobes. At one point, in an earlier episode, Jamie tells Claire that when he was a prisonner 4 years earlier, Randall had offer him a deal: if he wished to prevent a second brutal whipping on an already sore back he should give himself over to him

Jamie said he considered it briefly, but siad no cause he could imagine his proud father's ghost being there watchcing. He adds : " It's not about going with a man. My father would not care one way or another. It's about surrendering, being broken by an English. " or something to that effect.

by Anonymousreply 70June 5, 2015 8:41 PM

I see a new story line for "19 Kids and Counting..." in which Josh dejectedly returns home after resigning his job in DC to an unwelcome surprise in AK...(cue Janna with a strap-on...)

by Anonymousreply 71June 5, 2015 9:06 PM

Their second go at it was kind of sensual and hot.

by Anonymousreply 72June 5, 2015 11:54 PM

OHHH good Lord.

My MOTHER told me all about it help me Jesus.

I do not watch this show but she thought i needed to know all about this.

by Anonymousreply 73June 6, 2015 12:34 AM

Men can't be raped. Men are the willing aggressors in society.

by Anonymousreply 74June 6, 2015 12:37 AM

[quote]'Their second go at it was kind of sensual and hot.'

by Anonymousreply 75June 10, 2015 1:45 AM

[quote] Their second go at it was kind of sensual and hot.

I agree. Jamie's expressions looked like he was really enjoying getting it from behind.

The second time was definitely consensual, and he liked it. He even wanted Jack Randall to kiss him, but Randall pulled away.

by Anonymousreply 76June 10, 2015 2:17 AM

Don't be a victim, r11.

by Anonymousreply 77June 10, 2015 2:23 AM

R76

The two actors, Sam and Tobias, look really hot together off screen.

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by Anonymousreply 78June 10, 2015 3:09 AM

Is Jamie's hair red?

by Anonymousreply 79June 10, 2015 3:29 AM

I've read all the books and am watching the series. I think they are doing an excellent job. The ratings are actually really high and I know a lot of people who watch it who haven't read the books. The second book (next season) begins with Claire in the 1960s with a child and without Jamie. So the time travel stuff is revisited and we find out why she went back to the "future" and ended up 20 years past her time.

by Anonymousreply 80June 10, 2015 3:33 AM

R78 thanks for that. I knew Sam was hot, of course, but didn't realize Tobias was pretty good looking himself.

by Anonymousreply 81June 10, 2015 4:09 AM

Everyone I know who watches it, shall we say, skews a bit older than the coveted target demos of TV. TVByTheNumbers confirms this. [quote]I've lost count of the times the female lead has been raped, or attempted raped, or sexually assaulted. It's a one trick pony.

Rape is a shitty plot point almost all of the time. It's rarely used to further a plot that wouldn't have been furthered just as well in some other way.

by Anonymousreply 82June 10, 2015 5:10 AM

R82

Claire has never been raped.

I think rape, attempted rape and violence towards women was common back then. Women were thought of as chattel. They had no rights at all.

by Anonymousreply 83June 10, 2015 7:36 PM

[R81]

Yes, Sam is really hot and beautiful and Tobias is charming, Both have chemistry together.

by Anonymousreply 84June 10, 2015 8:13 PM

I hope that next season, we will see how Jamie deals with this.

And if Black Jack survives......

by Anonymousreply 85June 11, 2015 12:56 AM

[quote] 'Jamie's expressions looked like he was really enjoying getting it from behind. The second time was definitely consensual, and he liked it. He even wanted Jack Randall to kiss him, but Randall pulled away'

Outlander homophobic fraus and fangirls are scared of Jamie turning gay/BI........

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by Anonymousreply 86June 12, 2015 12:47 AM

'Sam Heughan ('Outlander') on being tortured, raped and broken '

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by Anonymousreply 87June 13, 2015 1:08 AM

Sam Heughan in "A-Very-British-Sex-Scandal".

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by Anonymousreply 88June 13, 2015 1:18 AM

It seems he has played mant gay roles, even on stage.

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by Anonymousreply 89June 13, 2015 2:37 AM

He's hot as hell and a very good actor.

Even the 'Outlander' fangirls have heard about the gay rumours... They try to ignore them fabricating a fake romance with his co-star, Twilight style.

by Anonymousreply 90June 13, 2015 8:43 PM

The two actors are hot as hell, r89, but that play is ridiculous.

How can anyone pay attention to the dialogue, whilst the two hot guys are making out and groping each other in the foreground? It's so distracting!

That play looks awful.

by Anonymousreply 91June 14, 2015 2:34 AM

All Sam Heughan scenes in interesting docu-drama 'A Very British Sex Scandal' about the struggle of gay men who were tried for "buggery" in the 1950s.

I think he looks hotter now.

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by Anonymousreply 92June 14, 2015 3:08 AM

The second time, when it feels good for Jamie and that Jack tells him to imagine he's his wife, and to call him by his name, doesn't Jamie at the end of the scene calls him Jack, just once? And that is when he knows he has been broken. He is ashamed to have taken pleasure with the enemy (and with a man ?), but he couldn't help craving the pleasure after so much misery and physical suffering.

by Anonymousreply 93June 14, 2015 3:52 AM

Claire has been raped a couple times. Once by a pair of soldiers. Her husband showed up and shot the I think

Then she as raped by Black Jack.

It either happened or threatened to happen, so often, I'm finding it boring.

by Anonymousreply 94June 14, 2015 4:20 AM

Claire has never been raped and ofcourse, Black Jack didn't rape her.

Black Jack tried to rape another woman but he couldn't get hard and the woman started to mock him. It seems only Jamie excites him.

by Anonymousreply 95June 14, 2015 5:48 PM

Claire is raped in a later book. She is kidnapped by a group of men and raped. Jamie and a group of men follow the kidnappers and end up killing most of them. Almost all the characters in the books have been raped.

by Anonymousreply 96June 14, 2015 7:23 PM

[quote]The two actors are hot as hell, [R89], but that play is ridiculous. How can anyone pay attention to the dialogue, whilst the two hot guys are making out and groping each other in the foreground? It's so distracting! That play looks awful.

LOL

by Anonymousreply 97June 14, 2015 11:17 PM

WOW...

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by Anonymousreply 98June 15, 2015 11:25 PM

I was surprised that the actor that play jack black is a hottie.

by Anonymousreply 99June 15, 2015 11:50 PM

Jack kissing and licking Jamie's back scars 'It's a masterpiece'......

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by Anonymousreply 100June 16, 2015 12:17 AM

R93 I don't think Jamie called him Jack during the 'broke' scene. Anyone remember?

by Anonymousreply 101June 16, 2015 12:24 AM

Emmy First-Timers Who Better Get Nominations Sam Heughan, Outlander 'In what was perhaps the bravest performance of the year, Heughan's portrayal of strapping leading man-turned-tortured rape victim floored viewers and critics alike. His ability to accurately portray the devastating after-effects of sexual assault, as well as, on the flip side, some intensely romantic scenes (with TV wife Caitriona Balfe) was stunning.'

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by Anonymousreply 102June 16, 2015 2:40 AM

[quote] I was surprised that the actor that play jack black is a hottie.

Yes, he is. And Sam Heghan is hot as hell. The leading female however, is very unlikeable and not a good actress.

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by Anonymousreply 103June 16, 2015 10:07 PM

Damn r98 that looks like an oil painting or something.

How did Jamie get the scars on his back?

Is the Outlander book series finished, or still ongoing?

Jamie is fucking hot

by Anonymousreply 104June 16, 2015 10:57 PM

Sam is gorgeous. I saw that British tv thing yesterday and he's damn attractive. I might have to buy the show on my Apple tv.

He looks so, so different with his hair all curly and wild vs. how he looks in those different interviews.

by Anonymousreply 105June 16, 2015 11:03 PM

The show is geared toward a female audience. Not criticizing, just saying. Jamie is a female fantasy - sexy, virgin, loyal, strong, innocent Scottish man. The female protagonist gets to have great sex with him and mother him when he's hurt. He is the opposite of the "modern" educated man Frank, with whom she has sex in order to avoid their problems without being able to conceive.

I know people say this story is just about time travel, but to me it seems obvious it's a female's fantasy of escaping into a fantasy world where she has more control over things and gender roles are more defined. In the 1940s Frank is the one who has the advantage and Claire is stuck in a marriage she is no longer interested in. In the 1700something she is forced into marrying a gorgeous innocent man she can control and her healing knowledge is highly valued.

Frank raping Jaime is how Claire feels about her situation in the 1940s. Fantasy Jaime represents everything she wants, while Black, who looks like Frank, represents everything she has in modern reality.

by Anonymousreply 106June 16, 2015 11:16 PM

[quote] Damn [R98] that looks like an oil painting or something.

Caravaggio would have loved it.

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by Anonymousreply 107June 16, 2015 11:46 PM

R104

It's a series of eight books written by Diana Gabaldon. This season has just been the first book.

Black Jack made Jamie those scars......

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by Anonymousreply 108June 17, 2015 12:42 AM

Thanks r108. Why does Black Jack have it in for Jamie so bad? B/c he's attracted to him?

I didn't see this season when it aired, but I'll definitely check it out. Will there be a Season 2 later this year?

by Anonymousreply 109June 17, 2015 2:10 AM

They're already filming season 2.

Yes, he's attracted/obsessed/in love with Jamie in his twisted way .

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by Anonymousreply 110June 17, 2015 2:26 AM

R106

I haven't read the books so I can just judge the series.

In the series Claire wasn't shown to be unhappy with Frank. They seemed very happy.

I also disagree about gender roles. In the '40s she had autonomy, a career, respect. In the 1700's she's viewed as chattel.

by Anonymousreply 111June 17, 2015 9:06 AM

I haven't read the books either, I watched the show after this thread came around.

In the show, Claire says that after not seeing each other for 5 years they were pretending like nothing was wrong and had sex to avoid talking about their problems. She was clearly unhappy with the marriage.

Also in the first episode she is shown getting pushed over by a male doctor when we expect to see a heroic moment of Claire saving a soldier. In her marriage post war she is following Frank's academic career, we never hear about what she wants to do with hers. In the 1700whatever she gets to turn the tables and be in commend when it comes to medicine, like with the priest.

Her conflict about being a bad wife if she wants something different than following Frank is resolved in the 1700. Jaime is the loyal manly protector and she is the healer and the one with the knowledge of things to come.

Of course, we are all free to read things differently. What I found interesting was that in a show aimed at women there is such a detailed male rape scene.

by Anonymousreply 112June 17, 2015 10:52 AM

If someone hasn't watched yet the male on male sex scenes from Outlander, here are a lot of caps. You can tell that the second time was consensual and that Jamie enjoyed it.

Anyone has the whole vid?

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by Anonymousreply 113June 17, 2015 7:39 PM

R113

The whole video is linked in this thread as well as the original thread about Outlander.

I don't believe Jamie enjoyed Jack fucking him. If you watch the scene by the end he's delirious and Jack tells him he's his wife.

Jamie's been tortured, beaten and raped more than once by this point. In his eyes he sees Claire and that's where his pleasure comes from.

And Black Jack got what he wanted. He wanted to break Jamie. That has been his goal for several years.

Black Jack is a sadist. I don't believe he fucks men or women for pleasure. He does it to hurt and destroy them

by Anonymousreply 114June 17, 2015 11:28 PM

I need to put closed-captioning on to get through those accents. That's due to a dozen years of clubbing, and bad hearing-related genes.

by Anonymousreply 115June 17, 2015 11:51 PM

R114 His wife with a penis........??? Jamie admitted to Claire that Black Jack made love to him and he enjoyed it.

Yes, Jack Randall is a sadist but also has preference for men and especially, for Jamie. He couldn't get hard when he tried to rape Jamie's sister. With Jamie, he didn't have that problem.

by Anonymousreply 116June 18, 2015 12:51 AM

So, of the seven books, how many is Black Jack in? He doesn't seem like a character that would make it until the end...

by Anonymousreply 117June 18, 2015 3:22 AM

I think Black Jack is in the second book too.

I don't like Sam Heughan new look., he looks too femme and delicate. He's hot as hell whith darker, shorter hair and stubble.

With his mother at Edimburgh Film Festival yesterday.

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by Anonymousreply 118June 18, 2015 7:30 PM

Watched the whole first season and those last three episodes were stomach-turning. Those rape scenes went on forever and were so unnecessarily graphic and brutal and added little if anything to the story. Brief flashbacks with Jamie talking about it would have sufficed. I don't love that their only gay character is a psychopathic rapist.

by Anonymousreply 119June 18, 2015 8:42 PM

R113 he doesn't enjoy it and it's not consensual. It's an awful scene, he bursts into anguished sobs right after and has panic attacks about it for the rest of the episode and in the books it severely fucks him up for decades.

Unless you too are a sadist, it's not hot and it's not gay positive.

by Anonymousreply 120June 18, 2015 8:49 PM

SPOILERS:

There's a very popular gay character who turns up in book 2 and becomes a very good friend of Jamie: Lord John. He even gets his own book series he's that popular. I'm excited who they will cast for this. The character is only 16 years old when he meets Jamie, I think. Interestingly his introduction is the same as the one with the young British soldier (I forgot his rank) who thought Claire needed help when he saw her with the Scots. The actor was really cute.

by Anonymousreply 121June 18, 2015 9:01 PM

No one here is defending rape and I don't think anyone is a sadist.. We're analyzing some scenes portrayed in a TV show.

And it's very obvious that the last scene is purposedly filmed in a very sensual way, almost like a 'seduction' and yes, Jamie is pushing back -look at his arm holding back BJB- and yes, he has an orgasm. Later, he admitted to Claire that BJB MADE LOVE to him....and he's ashamed of his reaction. That's why he sobs.

It's a very ambiguous scene.

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by Anonymousreply 122June 18, 2015 9:04 PM

It's only ambiguous if you don't understand that it's common for rape victims, especially men, to react to stimulus against their will and also don't understand that's not consent.

Jamie is written as not understanding those nuances, being from his time. This is why he believes he cheated on Claire despite also saying that the only reason he went along with it was because it was such a relief to feel something other than pain. And this is why the episode had Claire explicitly telling him it wasn't his fault and he only did it to survive.

I've heard they're going to age up that character slightly for the show, R121.

by Anonymousreply 123June 18, 2015 9:09 PM

Thanks for the info, R123. Can't wait.

by Anonymousreply 124June 18, 2015 9:12 PM

R121

Earlier in the week EW.com announced the casting of a role for Season 2 that must be that character. The actor looks approximately 20-21.

They also announced an older character. The guy looked in his 30s.

I've not read the books so I had no idea who the characters were.

by Anonymousreply 125June 18, 2015 9:15 PM

[quote] It's only ambiguous if you don't understand that it's common for rape victims, especially men, to react to stimulus against their will and also don't understand that's not consent.

That's Outlander fangirls mantra. They don't like 'the man of the dreams' Jamie, looking gay......... Once again, it's a very ambiguous scene and everybody is entitled to their own opinion.

R125 , They have cast BJB's brother. It may be that guy who looks in his 30.

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by Anonymousreply 126June 18, 2015 9:39 PM

It's not Outlander fangirl mantra that people experiencing response to stimulus isn't the same as consent during rape. It's just basic biology.

It'd be great and groundbreaking for Jamie to have actual same-sex love interests and lots of hot gay sex, but that wasn't it. And portraying their only gay male character so far as a predatory mentally ill rapist is fucking tired.

by Anonymousreply 127June 18, 2015 9:42 PM

It watched it on demand and, while disturbing, it was also totally hot. Sam Heughan (?) is a hot piece.

by Anonymousreply 128June 19, 2015 6:07 PM

R128, you are totally right.

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by Anonymousreply 129June 19, 2015 11:22 PM

The thread about Sam Heughan has just been disappeared........

Can anyone start a new thread about this hot Scottish and his gayness?

by Anonymousreply 130July 3, 2015 7:20 PM

r130 The thread is still kicking.

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by Anonymousreply 131July 3, 2015 7:59 PM

You know, in Europe we have plenty of movies about or with sex that is graphic. Interestingly, violence is not a favorite association. I see that in the US, sex is often associated with violent behavior.

by Anonymousreply 132July 3, 2015 8:48 PM

R138 You think that narcissistic man would shut down a thread about himself? That would so not be like him.

by Anonymousreply 133December 13, 2015 10:34 PM

I have no idea why R133 was posted on this thread. Is DL glitching ?

by Anonymousreply 134December 13, 2015 10:36 PM

Outlander fangirls are up in arms.

There's a new interview with Diana where she talks about the last episodes and says that the first take on that was that Blak Jack would come in, profess his love [as in romantic love] for Jamie and urge him to elope with Jack . They'd flee Britain and live as lovers in the Continent. Jamie's rejection would then ignite the rough stuff.

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by Anonymousreply 135February 9, 2016 10:18 PM

Are you serious, OP? For a while, no one would shut up about it.

by Anonymousreply 136February 9, 2016 11:51 PM

Any other shows with male rape ?

by Anonymousreply 137February 16, 2016 12:16 AM

bump

by Anonymousreply 138July 28, 2017 8:02 PM

Have they scrubbed the rape scene off the net ? I cant find it anywhere! link somebody ?

by Anonymousreply 139July 28, 2017 9:04 PM

r 139 is right.

by Anonymousreply 140July 29, 2017 12:29 AM

R139 Here:

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by Anonymousreply 141July 29, 2017 1:35 AM

With a cock that small it's less a rape than an ass scratch.

by Anonymousreply 142July 29, 2017 2:29 AM

Thank you R141 !

by Anonymousreply 143July 29, 2017 4:15 AM

bump

by Anonymousreply 144April 12, 2018 6:27 PM
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