Did you feel the earthquake last night? You surely must have. It was felt worldwide. It was due to Outlander fans jumping up and down and squeeeeing their hearts out.
It all started with a (not so) innocent Tweet from the Starz PR people.
Can I say something here? Someone should award those PR people with a prize. A huge one. They are doing an amazing job. Every single piece of Outlander news spreads like wildfire on the Internet!!! Good job, you guys! But can we please tone it down a bit? My heart ain’t gonna resist it.
As if that wasn’t enough to make my heart skip a beat, they continued to tease us with the following little Tweet:
Ok, fine! I quit my life. I don’t do the dishes, don’t turn on the TV, not even finish reading Allegiant. I’m glued to my Facebook page, Twitter feed and Instagram account (just in case). When suddenly… (not fit for people with heart conditions, pregnant women or desperate Outlander fans):
BAM! That was my wee heart exploding.
In about 20 seconds, my Facebook newsfeed and Twitter feed were drowned in this pic. Out of 100 news, 99.5 were re-posts or comments, one after the other, about our very own First Look Photo of Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser (Note to self: I follow too many Outlander sites). So… what was everyone up to last night?! I’m sure I can guess what MOST of you were doing…
Yeap. That was me too. For like… 10 minutes straight, just staring at the pic (which is now my new wallpaper).
Naturally, I had to flail with someone. Quick text to Gwen:
Ok, not very helpful there. Apparently, Gwen has an actual life and wasn’t hitting her head against her computer screen (good for you, my friend!). After breaking the news to her, we got really worried about my mental health and what this show is going to do to me. If just one wee photo has me at the brink of an anxiety attack, how am I to survive an entire episode?!?! Even worse… A WHOLE SEASON?!?! This isn’t rhetorical. I’m actually asking this. What health plan do you have? Does it include spontaneously combusting from kilt exposure? Does it treat heart ailments caused by constantly hearing the word “sassenach”? Do they have a cute little pink pill to make me stop hyperventilating? No? Ok then… I’m basically screwed.
Do you know what’s even worse? Outlander world is bursting at the seams with fan enthusiasm all over the world and neither Sam nor Diana seem to be online. Damn! Though… if someone happens to find Sam online, can you tell him to stay on that haystack and NEVER LEAVE THERE LIKE EVER?!
Is it wrong to be THIS excited about just one pic? (Not that good a pic either, he has a weird facial expression). I swear I’m trying to keep calm about all this Outlander TV stuff (and miserably failing), but it’s really hard when Starz isn’t helping and does things like this out of the blue. We are only humans after all.
Want to see a bigger version of the photo? Thought so.
Now, lets start squeezing our brains and over-analyzing this photo to figure out which bloody scene is it. Any guesses? At first I thought it was a flashback scene. Wasn’t he working the fields before the scene where Black Jack Randall invades Lallybroch? But then… I noticed the kilt. Fraser tartan has a lot of read in it. And the MacKenzie hunting tartan can be a dull brown. So… this is may be at Leoch? Working at the stables with Old Alec? But should his hair be shorter? Am I making any sense?
Enough flailing for one day. I’m about to have a seizure. So, do you already have Sam/Jamie as your phone’s wallpaper? Can I please ask you not to Photoshop and do manips out of this picture? Too late?
Now is my reader’s wally…
And all this remindsme some movie with actors wearng loincloths, is like a deja vu…
And I’m not going to be able to see it little by little as before…. everything would be suddenly as a kick in my head…