Menhir

he's decorated it with all the silver so every piece of stolen silver is like stuck all around Stig's cave making it nice and so there's a happy ending everyone gets their silver back which is nice Next episode, Barney and Lou and Gran are having a nice picnic beside a fairly realistic looking trilithian.

So like three standing stones with a capstone.

It didn't look all

that steady, though, being on the hillside, which is the three.

We see that it's the capstone for the Trilithian.

And they've actually, interestingly, they've created a ramp to get to the top of the other three stones that will fit on there, which I thought was quite cool that they'd paid attention to that.

And then just as the capstones get put in place, Barney and Lou wake up, and they're right next to the standing stones.

They're not sure if it was a dream or what, but Stig's still there.

Which sounds good on paper.

But the fatal flaw there is that the audience's emotional investment in the Outlander universe wasn't actually in the lore of the Scotty Highlands or the mechanics of the Standing Stones.

It was singularly, intensely focused on the undeniable chemistry between Katrina Belf and Sam Heughan.

The actors were the IP.

Mm-hmm.

Right there, you all see a ring of standing stones.

Oh, always a good sign.

Oh.

Well, we gotta go check it out.

Yep.

We gotta check out the ring of standing stones.

Oh, so that would mean traveling into the hill hex, which is, like, that's-

We've had a busy day today.

Went down to Ave Reef to see the Standing Stones.

A good five-mile walk, I thought he would be rinsed.

I thought I'd just be able to crack on with the show without any disturbances.

Julia grounds Henry through severe wartime trauma, and Henry calls her his hope.

Years later, when traveling in Scotland and expecting their second child, Henry and Julia encounter the Standing Stones.

Both travel from their own time into 1714, but they arrive separately.

Julia is abducted, sold as payment for a debt, and taken to Castle Leathers as Lord Lovett's servant.

But among those is that we decided to go and plant some more cameras around the ruins of like a shack in the middle of the woods.

We found another standing, a circle of standing stones that is totally fake and fabricated.

I say that Ted doesn't remember much about that.

He had a real bad headache when he was there.

I

didn't ask them to.

I remember a reverse image search of the standing stones was something I requested because we thought those were fake.

The ones that young Jim showed us.

You discard the combat cards in excess of your strategy, so let's say that's the hand limit.

Um, and then, you know, you're gonna discard the top enemy of any deck that you choose, the, from the face up deck, and you're gonna put it in another area that we're gonna call the Menhir deck.

I hope I pronounce correctly.

Me- I pronounce correctly.

I'm gonna do the description.

M-E-N-H-I-R. Menhir or Menhir deck, whatever.

You're gonna be placing at the end of each round one card there.

Why? Because once there's eight cards there, then you're not gonna fight any of the enemy decks.

Uh, we saw the Clover Cairns and, um, That was pretty special.

I saw that that's actually what the Standing Stones from Outlander, that that specific set of Standing Stones is what inspired the ones in Outlander.

And that was really cool.

We got to see Loch Ness at sunset.

Because a lot of the other ones on the inside just don't they haven't kept it the same you know it's not preserved the way that dune castle is but inside dune castle it is just like those stone rooms and halls and staircases and windows and and it's just like unlike anything else you know

right

so that was probably my that was my favorite um getting to go there and well no they didn't use actual like i said they didn't use clavicharns i i wish that i got to go up to where the standing stones where they place them But, you know, with three kids, it just didn't end up happening.

Kinloch-Rannoch, which is a very weird spot to go to, I think.

There were sort of references in the ancient Irish folk tales and so on to, you know, the game of hurling and stuff like that.

They more or less reinvented these games, just like in the 19th century, the romantic, you know, the Druids were reinvented and the Welsh reinvented with the Assisteddfod and Druids and Standing Stones.

It's a complete reinvention of Celticness and so on, but it became a very important institution.

But in Ireland, they took this idea and they reinvented these games And they turned that into one of the key bastions of their identity, which, as he was told the other day, Justin Barrett, it helped preserve them all that time.