OUTLANDER on the cover of Entertainment Weekly!
OUTLANDER is on the cover of this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine! The special issue features a look at OUTLANDER Season 4, including a photo shoot with Sam and Cait.
My reactions, in no particular order:
"Some like it Scot" -- really, is that the best they could do? Recycling a tagline from STARZ's Season 1 advertising from 2015? How unoriginal. <sigh>
From their clothing and the background in some of the shots, this seems to be Jamie and Claire at Jocasta Cameron's plantation, River Run. Talk about giving a misleading impression of what Season 4 will be all about!
Of the three covers shown above, I like the first one (with the two of them together) the best. On the other hand, I was really struck by the lifeless expressions on Sam and Cait's faces in many of these photos, as if to say, "We've spent the entire day posing for this ridiculous photo shoot, we're tired and bored, and we want to go home!"
I'm kind of underwhelmed, but that's all right. I don't think the diehard fans are the target audience for these covers. The EW people who put this photo shoot together are trying to sell magazines and/or get clicks for their website, and to that end, they'll do whatever they think will appeal to casual readers/viewers, whether it bears the slightest relationship to the actual contents of Season 4 or not.
At least they got to keep their clothes on for these pics, unlike the very controversial EW cover which some of you may remember from 2016.
I usually try not to say anything unless it's positive, but this issue (pun intended) has prompted me to temporarily abandon that principle.
I concur completely, Karen. Garish, unimaginative, misleading come to mind. The vibe is also of male supplicant, not equal pairing. If I wasn't already invested in the saga (books, both the "great big" ones and the side stories, print and audio, tv series, DVDs) and I came across that cover in a store I'd never be drawn to it.
What gets me is that after all this time, and all the interviews, blogs, SM posts which are accurate, it's not as if the knowledge isn't out there and obtainable. I find it hard to guess the reasoning behind this type of publicity, which must cost an arm and a leg. How can the EW team get it so spectacularly wrong?