[Warning: The below and video above contain MAJOR spoilers for Outlander, Season 7, Episode 13, “Hello, Goodbye.”]
Outlander‘s newest episode made approach for one more wedding ceremony as Ian (John Bell) and Rachel (Izzy Meikle-Small) made the leap collectively in “Whats up, Goodbye.”
It was a household affair as Ian’s aunt and uncle Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) helped host the occasion in Philadelphia, the place Rachel’s brother Denzell (Joey Phillips) managed to reach simply in time for the nuptials. Holding a Quaker ceremony, the occasion wasn’t like different weddings viewers have seen on the present as contributors and onlookers waited for the spirit to maneuver them to talk.
Whereas Jamie and Claire’s whispering results in a metaphorical highlight being shined on Jamie to talk, it’s Denzell who steps in subsequent to admit he didn’t think about his sister happening this path, suggesting if he hadn’t led her into harmful battle zones, then maybe she wouldn’t have discovered herself in love with somebody who lives life dangerously. The remark stirs up some drama however is finally settled, leaving Ian and Rachel to alternate vows.
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A lot of the build-up in the direction of their nuptials surrounds Ian’s considerations about being with Rachel, contemplating he has extra romantic expertise than her. His uncle Jamie had some encouraging phrases for him, supporting the younger man on his large day. “Any of the Jamie – Younger Ian scenes, they’re form of a mix of an enormous emotional impediment that Ian often wants to return throughout, and typically even Jamie has to return throughout too,” Bell tells TV Insider. “So filming that scene with Sam… it was sort of surreal as a result of it form of felt like how far we’ve include our characters on their journey.”
No phrases Jamie may have shared with Ian would have ready him for Rachel’s boldness because the pair spent their first night time collectively as a married couple. When issues start taking a steamier flip, Ian is kind of shocked to seek out Rachel taking the lead at occasions and being daring together with her advances.
“I believe it’s fairly an thrilling shock for Ian,” Bell says. “There’s all the time been this fiery high quality to Rachel, which I believe is what’s attracted him from the very starting to her power… We began off that scene imagining it being a gift being unwrapped, and there was an pleasure of what had been they going to see once they had been completely susceptible with one another,” he provides.
Meikle-Small discovered it equally as thrilling, particularly as a performer as a result of, as she places it, “Rachel’s a really religious Quaker, and this will probably be her first time with a person in that approach, usually we see that storyline being a lady could be very nervous and shy and fearful it’s going to harm. And I believe she does have all these fears, however I believe she loves Ian and she or he trusts him and so they’ve had fairly a chronic engagement at this level. And I believe that she has quietly been raring to go.”
That’s definitely felt by the display screen as Rachel operates otherwise than Ian would have anticipated, but it surely provides to the enjoyable and recent feeling their relationship dynamic brings to the display screen. Together with taking their wedding ceremony vows, Ian additionally makes a promise to Rachel that he’ll do his finest to chorus from killing as he is aware of her non secular views are in opposition to it.
See what Bell and Meikle-Small should say about Ian and Rachel’s new marriage, that promise, and hopes for the long run within the full Inside Outlander Aftershow, above, and keep tuned for subsequent week’s aftershow as Outlander Season 7 continues on Starz.
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