Outlander: Blood of My Blood hit the 2025 TV schedule lately, and simply in its double-episode opening has managed to carry followers plenty of what makes Outlander so nice. We’re already knee deep within the love tales of Ellen and Brian (Jamie’s eventual dad and mom) and Julia and Henry (Claire’s dad and mom), and have been handled to males in kilts, harrowing scenes of conflict, and political machinations. Nevertheless, with the prequel maintaining a significant a part of its father or mother present, I’m now tremendous involved about one of many {couples}.
Which Half Of Outlander Will Blood Of My Blood Proceed?
The premiere of Outlander: Blood of My Blood not solely delivered gorgeous opening credit that function a model new banger of a theme tune that completely suits within the present’s universe, but additionally managed to each alter franchise canon in a cool approach and provides followers extra Outlander time journey by exhibiting us that Claire’s dad and mom didn’t die when she was younger, however have been thrown again in time through those self same pesky stones at Craigh na Dun.
When talking with Paste Journal in regards to the resolution to have a two-episode opening (the primary focuses on Jamie’s dad and mom, whereas the second gave backstory for Claire’s of us), showrunner Matthew B. Roberts opened up in regards to the collection persevering with to go to Julia and Henry’s WWI-era time interval through flashbacks, and mentioned:
With Henry and Julia, we see them assembly, however we leap via their time interval fairly rapidly. I do know I need to maintain going again to that. Nevertheless it additionally retains within the Outlander universe that point journey is necessary. All via Outlander, via each season, we had some type of time journey, or not less than the query of it. We want that on this present as properly, so these flashbacks with Henry and Julia will assist maintain that a part of it alive.
With the twentieth century couple (who have been already married and about to have a second little one after they disappeared via the stones) now being firmly ensconced within the early 1700s and turning into acquainted with assorted MacKenzies, Frasers, Grants and different big-time Scottish gamers, the one option to have a time journey side to the present is to have the displaced duo remembering their time collectively from the long run…Sooner or later? You understand what I imply; remembering their time interval of the early 1900s. Based on Roberts, the views of their timeline will proceed:
All through the present, and we maintain this up, you need to present that love story previously, of their timeline. We’ll proceed to do this since you need to see them develop collectively, and what makes their love so robust and so bonded, and why they should get again to one another. That’s actually necessary to their characters and to the viewers, to know what bonds them.
OK. Sounds pretty on the floor, proper? We’ll get extra of their early married life, a few of them having fun with household time with little Claire, and possibly even what straight led to their journey to Scotland. Nevertheless, with Roberts noting that the romantic drama will “maintain this up” and achieve this “all through the present,” I now have some worries about Julia and Henry as a pair.
What May The Flashbacks Imply For Julia And Henry Going Ahead?
I’ve already theorized that Julia will find yourself having her child previously, which means that the little woman we noticed Claire and Jamie absorb on the finish of Outlander Season 7 is Claire’s niece as a substitute of her granddaughter, as she at the moment thinks. Whereas that might be pretty, what if these flashbacks sign that the Beauchamps truly don’t reunite quickly…or in any respect, within the 1700s?
As we noticed on the finish of the two-part premiere, with Julia and Henry not but having the ability to discover each other previously, they each take to writing to their partner (which was how they received to know one another through the conflict) to attempt to stay near them. These flashbacks have been tied to every of them remembering their lives BTT (earlier than time journey).
If these seems on the 1900s keep (and the showrunner feels that they have to remain so we get some side of time journey within the collection as a complete), does that imply that Mr. and Mrs. Beauchamp gained’t be capable of reunite previously?! Will the entire “managed uncomfortableness” of those actor’s intercourse scenes should happen in flashback?!?!
Hopefully, I’ve the mistaken thought about all this, particularly as a result of I’d like to see them discover one another earlier than Julia provides beginning, versus the reunion coming, oh, I don’t know, at the tip of the collection. I suppose we’ll all simply should maintain watching to see how lengthy the twosome shall be saved aside.