I LOVE SAM AND CAIT

Yesterday was Outlander Day, and Starz took the opportunity to release the new teaser for season 2. Honestly, I didn't even notice, and today, checking the sites, it's been a pretty lackluster announcement. There are hardly any fan reviews, only from the specialized press, and the view and reblog numbers haven't been spectacular either. There's hardly any hype, and the fandom is still dealing with the end of the original series.

And the way they're trying to involve the fandom with this new show doesn't help.

One apt comment was that BoMB is the Temu version of Outlander, and it couldn't have been more cruel and, at the same time, more accurate: all the elements we loved in the first seasons, but they end up being a sad copy/paste job, trying to recreate something unique.

@ peekaboo_jen

They're even trying to push the Jamie-Harriet pairing… but chemistry is what it is.

Anyway, the new season premieres on September 18th.

Sam wearing a wedding band on his wedding finger while running a marathon is a BIG deal and one of the biggest receipts for me. He doesn’t have to sell a fake engagement and wear a phony ring like Caitriona does. There isn’t a logical reason for a single, unmarried bachelor to be wearing a gold wedding band. Infact I don’t know of any single man (never before married) who wears a wedding ring for the sake of it. Unless Sam is married; I am struggling to find a logical explanation for it……

@senasleyla

While this past year has shown us fan unity in a surprising way, there are still things unchanged. For some of us, a little shocking. We've sat back with our popcorn watching decisions made by the big man himself, and rolled our eyes at every turn we saw as a mistake. We've cringed at what we foreseen as his future. Whoa doggie! Wait a minute. All is not as some imagined. Here is a current fact: S has 6 big events coming in June and July. So far, another 1 in September. There are 5 out of those 7 that are ticketed events. 4 out of the 5 are sold out. The only one not is the MPC Gala. All 4 of those sold out are very different kinds of venues. Recent events he's appeared at were still packed with fans. I'm not going to say as many as there used to be, I don't know. What I can say is the crowd of his fans was still plentiful. So what does that really tell us? Couldn't say! Many here have voiced over the past year that he is taking advantage while the iron is still hot. Truth. But does it tell us something else? Are we still seeing the stubborn, determined man who will fight tooth and nail to stay relevant? Trying hard to keep his career alive? Or is it more a sense that consequences haven't quite made it's rounds yet?

Whatever these events show us, IF it shows us anything, we see mistakes, ridiculous behavior, frustrates fans, but devotion doesn't fail. Something about SRH keeps the masses hanging on. We've seen it in the past and seeing now even more. A "power" like that just keeps on keeping on. The circus, narrative, manipulation, gaslighting, be damned. It's S frickin' RH.

What do you think it all means??