‘Outlander’ Season 8 Spoilers: Matt Roberts Interview — Faith Reveal – TVLine
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We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.This post contains spoilers from Outlander‘s Season 7 finale. Proceed accordingly, aye?Hold onto your bannocks, Outlander faithful: We’re heading in uncharted territory.The cliffhanger at the end of Friday’s Season 7 finale likely surprised even the most devoted of Diana Gabaldon’s readers — mainly because it doesn’t happen in the novels on which the Starz series is based. In case you missed the episode, a quick overview: Claire dreamed that Master Raymond, the French apothecary who saved her life after her stillbirth in Season 2, visited her while she was healing from her recent surgery. Of note: He apologized, though Claire wasn’t sure for what, and told her he’d see her again. Before he left, he said, “Have faith.”
Related Stories XO, Kitty Boss Teases ‘Exciting Possibilities’ for Kitty and Min Ho After Finale — But What About Yuri? On Call Finale Bombshells: Troian Bellisario and Brandon Larracuente Weigh In Ahead of Possible Season 2 At the end of the episode, after a series of eerie coincidences (or were they?) led Claire to a stunning conclusion: What if Faith, a premature stillborn baby, somehow had survived and lived to adulthood? (For detail on those coincidences, make sure to read my recap here. Then hear what series star Sam Heughan has to say on the matter here.) While Claire does entertain the idea of Faith’s survival during a passage in Book 9, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, the idea comes up during a conversation full of wishful thinking. And the wistful speculation ends when Jamie lovingly points out that their daughter’s survival is extremely unlikely. Still, Master Raymond’s somewhat spooky nature, as well as his appearance in Gabaldon’s novella The Space Between, lends an otherworldly possibility to the whole affair. In that book, he is revealed as a time-traveler himself, and he speaks of his “sons and daughters.” Actual offspring? Metaphorical family? Who knows? While we’re asking questions: How did we get here? And where are we going, as the show heads into its eighth and final season? For the answers to that (and more), I talked to co-showrunner/executive producer Matthew B. Roberts, who also is showrunner of the upcoming Outlander prequel Blood of My Blood, for the scoop on how everything will play out in Season 8.TVLINE | Tell me how you came to land on the Faith reveal in the season finale.There’s a blurb in Book 9 that gave us the idea of, ‘Hey, what if?’ And we ran with it. You’ll get the answers in Season 8. Obviously it’s a cliffhanger, but hopefully we tie it up in a bow with the answers and the explanations and what happens and the ramifications of all that on Jamie and Claire.
TVLINE | In Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, the Faith discussion is one of those things where Claire’s like, ‘Have you ever thought about it? Wouldn’t it be nice?’ and Jamie gently, but firmly, is like, “But we know that can’t happen,” and they cry about it and move on. Even in this world you’ve built, of time-travel and the like, the idea of Faith’s surviving demands a large suspension of disbelief. You’ll see, visually, how it ties up.TVLINE | Did Diana Gabaldon have any input on how this story wraps up?If we went down this path and she said, “Don’t, I wish you wouldn’t,” we wouldn’t have. That’s happened in the past, where we’ve proposed something to her and she’s like, “I wish you wouldn’t,” and then we don’t.TVLINE | You’re not going to tell me what those things are.[Laughs] No. In my memoir about Outlander, you’ll read that then. But it might be 20 years from now. TVLINE | Master Raymond is back — can you tell me if we’ll see him again in Season 8?I cannot. And I don’t even know if I saw him in Season 7. Who’s to know what happened?TVLINE | Diana’s books get deliciously Byzantine as the series continues. There is a lot going on in Go Tell the Bees. You have 10 episodes. Can you give me an idea of how deeply you’re going into the things that take place in that book?Yeah — the brief was: Nothing that doesn’t affect Jamie and Claire gets in. It’s gotta affect Jamie and Claire. All the main characters do — they’re a part of it — but that’s the drive. There’s so many aspects. I mean, they’re all big books. There’s things where you kind of go over here, and you go over here — that’s what makes the books so readable and fun. But when you have 10 episodes, you have to stay literally on track.Comments are monitored, so don’t forkin’ curse and don’t bore us with how much your coworker’s sister-in-law makes per hour. Talk smart about TV! Comment * Name * Email * Your email address will not be published. We will notify you when someone replies.
ΔHaving not read the books and only learning after the episode that the cliffhanger isn’t from it, I am very interested to see what the series does with the twist. I’m already doing mental math in my head. Lol.What is it with incest in so many of these series? Is that something women dwell on or something? In this case, William banging his half-niece is not a particularly good story lineIt was commonplace back as late as the 1940’s that relatives married. Kept the bloodline pure as it were. Cousins married cousins and uncles married nieces. As gross as we find it, it was a thing done in the aristocracy.Hoping I can just not watch season 8. The books are deep in the Grey family toward the end and there’s no hint of it in the show. Do not like the twist and it’s implications.By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy.
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