Diana Gabaldon Holds Court docket at New York Comedian Con – Deadline

The lads of Outlander — Sam Heughan, John Berry and Duncan Lacroix — took heart stage at New York Comedian Con Sunday but it surely was writer Diana Gabaldon who delivered a number of the greatest zingers on the panel.

When reflecting on the drama’s beginnings on Starz, Gabaldon recalled sitting with Heughan and Caitriona Balfe and speaking concerning the individuals who love her books. “I’ve by no means had a foul fan expertise,” she remembered telling the duo. “They’re fantastic, clever and sort. Keep in mind, although, that individuals with actual, psychological derangements don’t have the intelligence to learn one of many books. TV is a distinct factor.”

Gabaldon additionally introduced the home down when explaining how she will monitor the temper on set by watching the dailies from every episode. “I can decide by how issues are going by the variety of instances Sam or Caitriona says f–.”

When Heughan requested her who says it extra, she rapidly responded, “Caitriona.”

Followers acquired an opportunity to lodge inquiries to the panel, which included a question concerning the Outlander characters and who everybody would favor to hang around with in actual life. Gabaldon had a right away reply for that. “I’d get alongside greatest with Jamie,” she stated. “I’ve been residing with him for 50 years and we nonetheless get alongside all proper.”

She says folks typically ask her why she made Lord John Gray (Berry) homosexual. “He simply confirmed up that method,” she stated, merely. And Gray’s love for Jamie would go unrequited as a result of “he already has too many individuals in love with him.” True dat.

However her greatest remark got here when discussions centered on the long term of Lacroix, whose character Murtagh Fraser ought to have died on the Culloden battlefield however as an alternative lasted till season 5. “If we get to a season 8, I’ll see what we are able to do about Murtagh’s ghost.”