Outlander‘s eighth and remaining season could not arrive for fairly a while however amid the continuing Droughtlander, showrunner Matthew B. Roberts is providing a small and obscure glimpse into the longer term with a bit of tease for TV Insider.
Once we caught up with Roberts following Season 7’s finale, he shared a couple of phrases to set the temper for Outlander‘s remaining chapter, noting first, “I’m not huge on spoilers.”
Roberts acknowledges that Season 7’s finale was fairly emotional, contemplating the Religion revelation, which hinted Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie’s (Sam Heughan) first daughter who was stillborn in France by some means survived. Whereas viewers must look ahead to solutions till Season 8, Roberts enjoys that the followers have robust emotions surrounding these huge story moments.
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“I believe these characters and these tales imply one thing to folks, and we had been very cautious in crafting a season that brings these feels to the [surface],” Roberts teases. “And we needed to make it possible for that journey that you just absorb Season 8 offers you all the normal feels of Outlander.”
In different phrases, anticipate the emotional moments to proceed as Season 8 is bound to comprise extra satisfying payoffs. Whereas Roberts teases that Season 8 will present these “conventional feels,” he says there’ll “hopefully [be] some that you just’ve by no means skilled earlier than” as effectively.
Whereas followers look ahead to these emotions that they may not have ever skilled with Outlander earlier than, they will gear up for the arrival of the present’s prequel spinoff Outlander: Blood of My Blood which is formally set to premiere this summer season.
The present follows the parallel love tales of Jamie’s mother and father Ellen (Harriet Slater) and Brian (Jamie Roy) in 18th-century Scotland, and Claire’s mother and father Julia (Hermione Corfield) and Henry (Jeremy Irvine) in WWI England. For these much less acquainted with the flagship sequence, Outlander follows the time-traversing romance of WWII nurse Claire and 18th-century Highlander warrior Jamie who meet when she unexpectedly travels by means of the standing stones of Craigh Na Dun.
Keep tuned for extra on Outlander‘s remaining season, which has already wrapped filming, at Starz, and maintain an eye fixed out for the thrilling spinoff arriving within the months forward.
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