In the book, she’s a little bit more passive. We thought she should have something she wants to find out so that can give her an active role in the events that took place. “Probably the biggest change we made from the book for her character is giving her an agenda in Scotland. “It was a lot of ground to cover,” Moore admits.

She discovers not only that her father is not who she thought he was, but also that her mother can time travel-all in the midst of flashbacks to Jamie and Claire grappling with the Battle of Culloden. Ahead, the most intriguing takeaways.īecause the TV series introduced Brianna so late in the season, though, the show-runners had the difficult dual tasks of acquainting audiences with Claire’s adult daughter while subjecting said character to an identity crisis. In celebration of the episode, we phoned Outlander’s executive producer Ronald Moore to answer our questions about how he pulled off the finale’s great twist of introducing adult Brianna why he strayed from the book and what details were the most difficult to pin down with historical consultants. Incredibly, this visual is just the jumping-off point for an incredibly satisfying episode-which tenderly veers away from the novel’s time frame while maintaining its story integrity. As if that were not enough to give viewers time-travel whiplash, Claire-our stoic protagonist, played by Caitriona Balfe-has ascended from nurse to surgeon, collected a few gray wisps in her otherwise perfect bob, and returned to her old Scottish stomping grounds with a suitcase full of chic plaid car coats. If you haven’t read Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber, from the Outlander series-the book that inspired the Starz drama’s second season-then you were in for plenty of surprises during Saturday’s Season 2 finale, also titled “Dragonfly in Amber.”įor one, the episode opens in 1968, with Jamie and Claire’s daughter Brianna ( Sophie Skelton) now a fully-grown Harvard history student-accessorized with her biological father’s glorious reddish curls an American accent no knowledge of the kilted hunk who sired her or her mother’s time-traveling ability and a chip on her shoulder the size of Scotland.

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