r/Outlander

I know there have been a few posts about the finale but seriously. Did I miss M. Night Shyamalan being listed as a consultant? We've been invested in this show since 2014. I've loved the storyline and storytelling. There are so many rich characters. How on earth could anyone involved at a high level in the production of this series think that this was an acceptable way to end this story? It felt like the end of a book report that a student hurried and wrote in the five minutes before class started. I was completely expecting a grand funeral, a mention of where the rest of the characters end up, something. But no, we get *that.* It feels like a slap in the face to everything the cast have worked on for more than a decade and to the fans who have stayed throughout. I just needed to vent, what a GD letdown.

My husband and I are from Georgia in the US and have done 2 roadtrips around Scotland in the last 3 years, so I wanted to share every location we went to! Between both trips we spent 14 days and drove over 1,500 miles. First trip was early March 2024 and second trip was early June 2026. The most recent trip was for the Outlander concert 🥹 Feel free to ask any questions you might have. We are so fortunate to have the opportunities to do this and it was truly life-changing 🥰

***We made sure that we adhered to the Scottish Outdoor Access Code at every location.

Filming/notable locations we visited:

• ⁠Culloden Battlefield

• ⁠Culross "Cranesmuir"

• ⁠Clava Cairns standing stones -inspiration for Craigh na Dun

• ⁠Midhope Castle - "Lallybroch"

• ⁠Doune Castle "Castle Leoch"

• ⁠Falkland "Inverness"

• ⁠Craigh na Dun (The road was closed for Lambing Season in June, so couldn't get any closer than the gate)

• ⁠Blood of My Blood bridge

• ⁠Bakehouse Close - Jamie and Claire reunion

my opinion on when Jamie beat Roger in season 4.

First of all i felt really bad for Roger, poor guy really went through horror and it was very unfair to him.

I don't really consider that Jamie's fault not entirely anyway, my opinion us that they all played a part in what happened to Roger.

I do think Jamie should have talked to Roger to find out who he was before beating him but he also had no reason not to believe Lizzy since she was Bree's traveling companion at the time. If Claire and Bree hadn't kept it secret from Jamie that Bonnet was the one who assaulted Bree Jamie wouldn't have beaten Roger. I didn't like how Bree just blamed them without acknowledging how she and Claire kept secrets from Jamie. The whole thing was horrible misunderstanding but Jamie didn't know he was beating up Roger, he thought he was beating his daughter's rapist. If they hadn't kept secrets from each other that situation never would have happened.

thoughts?

the question its in the title

I haven't read the books, just finished the last season, and have questions about Fanny!

Are we meant to think she stumbled on a magic rock like the stones and when it pinched/cut her hand it imbued her with time travel ability? But only if she touches *the* stones or some new way?

Why could she hear the stones buzzing after touching the green rock - was it just because that tiny rock was enough to hear the sound of time travel but not enough to transport her?

Is there a connection between the bees being able to travel to spirits (or was it that they can transport spirits?) and the hive sound of time travel?

Was any if this discussed in the books in more detail?

Thanks!

It’s bothered me since I first heard the line and I’m in my second watch of the series. Jamie says something like “I’m not sure if a woman of your good breeding would know what a soixante neuf is…”. There is NO way that these two absolute horn-dogs have not 69’d a million times. And in what world is Jamie more sexually experienced than Claire? I understand he’s been hanging a the brothel quite a bit but come on.

I'm re-reading bees and I'm in chapter 119.
The Sachem just told Claire that Frank's ghost often follows her and Jamie. Claire goes to Jamie's study and picks up the book, contemplating about his motives in relation to his letter to Brianna.
I remember Jamie told Ian about his possibly imminent death in the Battle of Kings Mountain, but I'm confused: Did Jamie told Claire by this point?
I don't know if it is the show that confused me and it happened differently in the book, I accidently skipped this section of the book or just can't remember when it happened.
Thanks in advance!

Currently watching s5 e9, and I gotta wonder, knowing what spoilers I do, did Claire accidentally use her healing aura to save Jaime in their bed, albeit not fully, but enough to last for Brianna to make the syringe? It felt very much like he was actually dying in that scene, only to gasp like his heart restsrted after Claire hit a high level of desperation to keep him alive. Not that she could fully fix him at the time, but maybe it was enough to buy him that little more time and let him be able to turn back from the corridor he saw?

Lord Lovat is an absolute menace, same as was shown in Outlander and known from the background information, but I can’t help but find his character hilarious in some aspects in BOMB.

Like a seer tells him a cryptic message of his son being king and he fully eats it up. Like to the point where, despite being Catholic, he baptizes the baby at a Protestant church because by law a Catholic or one married to a Catholic cannot inherit the throne🤣

Then, even though he is disgraced, living basically banished from society and excommunicated by the clans, with everyone hating him, he’s surprised by having such a small turn out at the baptism of a child had with a random unknown English servant with no proof of marriage. Like even going to say they couldn’t start the service yet because everyone wasn’t there, and then asking where everyone was because it was a “meager congregation.”
Brian saying “what did ye expect, an audience fit for a king?” killed me.

Once again, he’s such a menace. But, he’s kinda hilarious

Editing to add that Julia and Brian manipulating him to bring the baby to a festival because it would “gain influence” as he was the future king was also so so funny. They both manipulated the heck out of him!

I'm currently reading the books (on Dragonfly in Amber) so I realize that the books cover this topic but I'm wondering in the show exclusively if there are indicators that Master Raymond can time travel and that Claire descends from him? I've watched it several times and never got the impression that he is a time traveler so I was surprised to come across this info when referencing the books. Are there any moments during the show that make this obvious or hint at it?

Wouldn't it be funny if Claire turned into an old woman after saving Jamie, and then Jamie loses interest in her and starts cheating on her with a young hottie?

Season 2
First time watcher, and I do not understand why he violently attacks his brother’s (Alex) corpse when he told Claire a scene ago he never hurt his brother. He is a madman with dark tendencies but why would he do that? Was he angry he made him wed Mary? Or was it the fact he was angry at his death?

Rewatching S3:E4 and I had one of those “hey wait a minute” moments when I noticed the flag on the wall when Claire hangs up the phone with Joe. “No one provokes me with impunity” Then the scene switches to Geneva and how she will be a fitting bride. The foreshadowing is subtle, but dang!

Be gentle - I am not as close a viewer as most of you here. Also, I have not read the books. This theory is based on show only.

>!Okay, it has been prophesied that Claire would come into her full power when her hair is fully white - when she is an old lady. It seems her powers will have something to do with bringing the dead back to life, right? Did she not do this with a newborn, and even with Jamie when he was at death’s door?!<

>!Faith died in her arms as a premature child, but at the end of season 7, it appears she might have somehow lived. Master Raymond, another time traveller, had something to do with this.!<

>!So, how?!<

>!What if, when Faith died, Master Raymond took faith’s body to the future... to very old Claire, who has white has now, and full powers? She revives her dead child and refuses to part with her. Claire raises Faith in the last years of her life, and teaches her the song, and dies when Faith is a teen? Her mother gone, Faith decides to return to her own time, as a way to sort of be true to herself. Hopefully, she adopts Jane and is the biological mother to Fanny only, before her death.!<

Hello everyone,

After finishing the TV series I was very eager to continue to explore the Outlander universe in depth and I'm proud to say that I just completed the first book.

However, the conversation towards the end of the book between Claire and father Anselm at the abbacy in France left me with a bitter taste and I wanted to see if there's others that thought the same.

I feel like Anselm dismissed too easily Claire's distress in regards to cheating on Frank and staying with Jamie. Almost like the whole conversation took place just so Diana could justify Claire's actions in a definite way, because the opinion is coming from a religious figure. The whole time Claire was trying to explain that she feels uncomfortable having two marriages, Anselm hurriedly reassured her that it was the right thing to do, because hey, it's been a year since her disappearance and Frank surely moved on, and Claire loves Jamie after all.

I'm not saying he should have condemned her, but I expected a bit of... Scolding maybe...? After all, if your consciousness tells you that what you did was wrong, even if Frank is 200 years in the future, it's still cheating. And it's ok to admit it for what it is, even if Claire's destiny ultimately was with Jamie.

And don't get me started on Anselm argument when Claire admitted to killing a man. He said something like "well maybe God's plan was to take him". Like... It's still killing, it's not so simple as that.

That being said, I am quite disappointed that a priest from all people would dismiss so readily the act of cheating and maybe Diana should have tackled that conversation a little different.

Tbh I don't understand what's Jamie's problem with the Bugs was.

Yes, they stole the gold from Jocasta's husband, but it's not that he got it lawfully.

They did serve Frasers with loyalty for all those years.

And moreover, neither Jamie nor Claire was not the saints they thought of themselves in that moment.

I am so annoyed at it!

I am re-watching right now and I just finished episode 10 of season one.

And I must say: Am I the only one who is so irritated that Claire completely disobeys Jamie, who has just warned her stay away from Geillis Duncan?

He gives her very good advice, and explains the rationale behind his advice. And what does she do? She gets a note and she immediately runs off to do the exact thing he asked her not to do. Knowing that the last time she didn't listen to him, she got taken to Black Jack.

And yes, I can imagine that she was thinking oh no my friend is all by herself with no one to save her so I must go off and help her. And of course we live in a time when women don't have to obey their husbands. But she doesn't, and she previously promised him she would.

I am just so annoyed with her. 😂