Outlander questions........

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LOVED the first series of Outlander (particularly the, er, fine acting skills of Sam Heughan )

A couple of questions that I need answering ....

1. Series 2 episode 1 started in 1948 then just as Claire was about to set foot on American soil she's taken back to life with Jamie in 17something. Where does that leave her husband in 1948? Has she just disappeared into thin air?

1. Was John Randall ( think that's his name, the villain who raped Jamie) killed at the end of the first series?

Tia

Hoping that Series 2 onwards will be as good as the first!

Am I the only one who didn't like the Paris bit, everything else - fantastic.

But without Paris - no Fergus!

I love Fergus!

I'm sure we could have squished Paris into a couple of episodes, got Fergus killed off what's his face and got back to Scotland by teatime.

Without Paris we wouldn't have Fergus, or the red dress or the black boots!
And Caitriona Balfe was amazing in Faith.
But Scotland was definitely the best bits.

showofhands I'm even more confused now but it doesn't matter!

I'll stay with the show. Hopefully, as many of you have said, it will,soon become clearer.

At the end of season 1, they are sailing to France and we don't know if she will ever go back to Frank in the 40s.

At the beginning of season 2, we see she has returned. But we don't know how or why, just that it's been 3 years and she's pregnant and wants to find out about culloden etc. She then agrees to go to America, and as she gets off the plane there isna voiceover. I think it's something about letting go of the past or whatever, and she's obviously thinking about Jamie. The scene then flashes back to them getting off the boat.

So, we are right back to where season 1 ended. We know that she's only got a couple of years before she returns to Frank, so we're watching what happened to her and how she ends up back in the 40s.

Why are you even more confused?

No longer confused!

Think I've figured it out now........when the action suddenly moves from Claire getting off the plane to their ship arriving in France, it doesn't mean she has literally move from one time to another........it's a flash back.

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Chrisjen thanks for your excellent explanation

Yes OP, that's it.

But be warned S2 has both storylines: the one in the past in Paris with Jamie and the one back in the present with Frank after she returns to him. It will jump between the 2 but you get used to it.

Resurrecting this thread mainly for the question: I don't remember a series at Sea/ Jamaica, was that in the books? (Decades since I read them!)

The series get worse as they go along. I loved season 1, this season 4 is piss poor in my opinion. Gutted

The books are the same, they get increasingly repetitive and boring.