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News e foto dal Comic-Con e nuova clip dal primo episodio. // News and pictures from Comic-Con and a new ep. 1 clip. 
CITAZIONEI'm so delighted to say the premiere didn’t disappoint. The show's gorgeous: it could go toe to toe with Game of Thrones for sheer cinematographic grandeur. Dropping us into the middle of World War II, the episode opens on Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe) with her hands bloody and buried in a soldier's gaping leg wound, barking orders at her fellow nurses. Shortly afterward, when the war's end is announced, she stands back from the celebrating masses, swilling a bottle of champagne with world-weariness.
She's a tough broad – and also happily married to Frank (Tobias Menzies), her academic husband. It's worth noting that the first intimate scene between these two is him going down on her amidst some dusty ruins. Word, Ron Moore.
The plot takes its time working up to the pivotal event, in which Claire and Frank secretly observe a pagan ceremony being conducted at a Stonehenge-like circle by women – "druids, not witches," Claire corrects her husband – and suddenly she's transported back in time when she touches the stones, arriving in the mid-1700s in the midst of a battle between English troops and Scottish Highlanders. She's taken prisoner by the Scots, who bring her back to their home base to decide what to do with her.
So, remember how GoT took some of the consensual sex and relationships from the books and made them more rapey and generally more shitty for women? I feel Outlander has (deliberately?) done the opposite, tonally, playing up Claire's ability to command and her clear intellectual advantage via modern medical knowledge. In this clip, she first meets love interest Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), a wounded Highlander, when she pops his dislocated shoulder back into place, as his fellow soldiers amusingly stand around wincing.
One of the book's central concerns is the idea of just how difficult it was to be a woman in the 18th century, let alone one with a 20th-century education and independence. Claire's medical know-how will, eventually, get her accused of being a witch. But at the outset, anyway, Moore and Dahl's focus is to introduce Claire as a force to be reckoned with, and showing how baffled - and, ultimately, grateful - her male captors are by her ability to heal wounds that would otherwise largely prove fatal.
To be fair, the first novel (and, possibly, the show) is hardly a feminist handbook. There are plenty of ensuing adventures that feature Claire being manhandled, nearly raped, thrown down on beds, and swept up into Jamie’s musclebound arms. One scene in particular between the two features a spanking that wanders into Fifty Shades of Grey territory. But Moore's series is so firmly rooted in Claire's fundamental smarts and survival skills that it seems unlikely to reduce her to some passive receptacle like the hapless Fifty Shades heroine.
Indeed, Moore said as much in the Q&A afterward, when asked about his search to cast the part. His main goal, he said, was to find "an actress who projected intelligence - which informs her adaptability, her sexuality. I needed to find someone you could watch think on camera."
He also added that the reason he got the idea for the show in the first place was the urging of his wife, who is a fan of the books.
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