'Outlander' Series News: Season Two Opens Differently from Story's Original Version
After a long wait, fans of the "Outlander" series finally witnessed the return of the fictional history-drama-adventure series as it returned with a bang on Saturday for its second season run. However, amidst the excitement, many avid viewers of the show and the novel where the series is based on can't help but point out that the season two of the show starts differently from how it begins in the novel, "Dragonfly in Amber."
Those who have read the novel in reference know too well that season two opens in an entirely different time period as the story opens with the character of Catriona Balfe, Claire, in the year 1968, or 20 years after she returned to the period she is part of. In the novel, the story picks up after Frank has already died, and Claire tells her already adult daughter Brianna (Sophie Skelton) that her real father is Jamie.
However, the first episode for "Oulander" season two begins with events following Claire's return to her own time, giving the series the chance to showcase more moments between her and her husband Frank(Tobias Menzies). Claire tells Frank everything that happened to her in the era that she and Jamie(Sam Hueghan) shared. As she reveals that she is pregnant with Jamie's child, Frank assures her that he will raise the child as if it were his own. From there, the story shifts back to the time when Claire and Jamie arrive in France, where they will carry out a plan to sabotage the Jacobite rebellion.
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Nonetheless, for "Outlander" executive producer Ron D. Moore, the move to begin the maiden episode of the series season two with a modern times setting is a way for him to capture the viewers' attention immediately. And from how the fans reacted, it seems that he made the right move.
"You're expecting that we're going to open in France and start that story, so to suddenly go to the 20th century and to say that Claire left Jamie behind, her daughter Brianna was born here and raised here, Frank's dead, that's a huge amount to suddenly jar the audience. But to also make it a 20-year jump to the '60s where Brianna's grown and Frank's dead, it was too much," explained Moore to The Hollywood Reporter.
"Outlander" airs on Starz at 9 p.m.every Saturday.
