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 few of the finest zingers on the now annual panel.

When reflecting on the drama’s beginnings on Starz, Gabaldon recalled sitting with Heughan and Caitriona Balfe and speaking in regards to the individuals who love her books. “I’ve by no means had a nasty fan expertise,” she remembered telling the duo. “They’re fantastic, clever and type. Keep in mind, although, that folks 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 be able to monitor the temper on set by watching the dailies from every episode. “I can decide by how issues are going by the variety of occasions 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 in regards to 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 finest with Jamie,” she stated. “I’ve been residing with him for 50 years and we nonetheless get alongside all proper.”

She says folks usually ask her why she made Lord John Gray (Berry) homosexual. “He simply confirmed up that means,” 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 finest 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 a substitute lasted till season 5. “If we get to a season 8, I’ll see what we will do about Murtagh’s ghost.”