Whereas we aren’t (apparently) particularly near getting that long-hoped for Lord John spinoff that each Sassenach price their salt has been praying for, our watch for the closing Outlander season can be slightly bit simpler when the upcoming Outlander: Blood of My Blood arrives in August on the 2025 TV schedule. We’ve identified for some time now that the prequel goes to carry us the lives of some authentic sequence characters from after they had been a lot youthful, however now that I’m excited about one OG character particularly, I’m each excited and nervous to see how this performs out.
What Do We Know About The Returning Outlander Characters In Blood Of My Blood?
It’s onerous to not root for a sequence that guarantees as a lot as Outlander: Blood of My Blood does. First off, whereas Claire and Jamie gained’t be any a part of it (so far as we all know), the present will ship extra backstory for the characters, which is one thing that followers have been wanting for a very long time. It’s been mentioned that the “conventional really feel” of Outlander Season 8 can be well worth the wait, however followers may also get a few of that with BOMB, as teases from the EP and creator say audiences will see “two nice amorous affairs” and “superb rollicking journey.”
The brand new present will comply with Claire’s and Jamie’s mother and father as they fall in love in the course of the powerful occasions of WWI and the Scottish clan conflicts of the early 1700s (respectively). So, which means that we’ll see younger variations of characters like Mrs. Fitz, Dougal MacKenzie, Jamie’s grandfather Lord Lovat, and others, together with dearly departed fan favourite, Jamie’s protecting godfather, Murtagh. And, we must always all get able to see a really completely different model of the gruff however loving Mr. Fitzgibbons Fraser, as present creator Matthew B. Roberts advised EW:
We all know and love Murtagh as being this fixed companion, however he wasn’t born that manner. He wasn’t born simply to comply with Jamie round. How did he get that manner? Who was he previous to being this very stoic, closed-hearted man? As a result of he’s very, very closed off. However the Murtagh you meet in Blood of My Blood is not that manner.
Now, I’ve to be sincere, as a result of as quickly as we came upon that we’d get to see extra of Murtagh (and doubtlessly a happier model of him) I used to be stoked past perception. I miss that man! Plus, he had lastly discovered love (and one in every of Outlander’s sexiest romantic moments) with Jocasta when he was ripped away from us all, although he was round on the drama for much longer than in Diana Gabaldon’s books.
Certain, I’m glad to get a special model of Murtagh in BOMB, however after seeing what EP Maril Davis needed to say in regards to the character and the brand new actor enjoying him, Rory Alexander, I’m getting a bit apprehensive, as effectively.
What Outlander: Blood Of My Blood’s EP Stated About Younger Murtagh That Has Me Nervous
As you’ll be able to think about, with OG Murtagh actor Duncan LaCroix not in a position to reprise the position, the character’s new (or “previous,” because it had been) perspective performed into who they selected to take up the mantle. EP Maril Davis added:
You robotically assume, ‘Oh, you are in search of a youthful model of Duncan LaCroix?’ And we’re like, ‘Oh, no, no.’ The enjoyable is seeing that trajectory. Rory is such a light-weight. He is a lot enjoyable to look at and it makes it all of the extra heartbreaking when you understand the place that character’s going to go.
Sure, at first look this remark appears completely innocent. However if you happen to’re like me, you’ll get caught on the “heartbreaking” a part of her quote. Guys? I don’t wish to be heartbroken about Murtagh once more! And for doubtlessly model new causes!
All this time I’d been pondering that what turned him into the steadfast and no-nonsense man we noticed by Jamie’s facet all these years was not touchdown Ellen MacKenzie, the love of his life, who went on to marry Brian Fraser and grow to be Jamie’s mom. What if there was much more that went mistaken for the younger man and made him retreat into himself increasingly more to grow to be the “stoic, close-hearted” man we knew?
Man, alive…simply STOP HURTING MURTAGH!!
Sigh…alright, I have to calm myself. No matter what does or doesn’t occur to the in all probability actually candy younger Murtagh, I’ll be there to look at his complete “trajectory” and have as a lot enjoyable with it as they’ll permit.