Ahead, the most intriguing takeaways.īecause the TV series introduced Brianna so late in the season, though, the show-runners had the difficult dual tasks of acquainting audiences with Claire’s adult daughter while subjecting said character to an identity crisis. In celebration of the episode, we phoned Outlander’s executive producer Ronald Moore to answer our questions about how he pulled off the finale’s great twist of introducing adult Brianna why he strayed from the book and what details were the most difficult to pin down with historical consultants. Incredibly, this visual is just the jumping-off point for an incredibly satisfying episode-which tenderly veers away from the novel’s time frame while maintaining its story integrity. As if that were not enough to give viewers time-travel whiplash, Claire-our stoic protagonist, played by Caitriona Balfe-has ascended from nurse to surgeon, collected a few gray wisps in her otherwise perfect bob, and returned to her old Scottish stomping grounds with a suitcase full of chic plaid car coats. Claire s spellbinding journey continues through the intrigue-ridden French court and the menace of Jacobite plots, to the Highlands of Scotland, through war and death in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves.If you haven’t read Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber, from the Outlander series-the book that inspired the Starz drama’s second season-then you were in for plenty of surprises during Saturday’s Season 2 finale, also titled “Dragonfly in Amber.”įor one, the episode opens in 1968, with Jamie and Claire’s daughter Brianna ( Sophie Skelton) now a fully-grown Harvard history student-accessorized with her biological father’s glorious reddish curls an American accent no knowledge of the kilted hunk who sired her or her mother’s time-traveling ability and a chip on her shoulder the size of Scotland. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as shocking as the events that gave it birth: the secret of an ancient circle of standing stones, the secret of a love that transcends centuries, and the truth of a man named Jamie Fraser a Highland warrior whose gallantry once drew the young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his.

But now she is returning with her grown daughter to the mysteries of Scotland s mist-shrouded Highlands. Now Gabaldon returns to that extraordinary time and place in this vivid, powerful sequel to Outlander.įor twenty years, Claire Randall has kept her secrets.

Diana Gabaldon introduced two unforgettable characters Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser delighting readers with a story of adventure and love that spanned two centuries.

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