Outlander Season 3 Spoilers: Next Season Will Still Follow Events In The Book Series; Jamie And Claire To Meet After Two Decades
Outlander Season 3 Rumors: Why The Battle Of Culloden Will Be The Show’s “Red Wedding”
Just because we’re in the middle of #Droughtlander, doesn’t mean there aren’t tons of Outlander Season 3 rumors floating around, specifically dealing with the Battle of Culloden, the definitive battle that, in Scottish history, killed the clan culture as Scotland knew it, and, in Outlander world, kills our favorite characters and is the end of Outlander as we know it thus far. (Note: to be clear, I’m saying that this is the end of Outlander as we’ve known it for the past 2 seasons). And while this definitive battle will certainly be tragic, it’s also completely necessary, and will be to Outlander what the Red Wedding was to Game of Thrones.
Let’s first go over what we know about Outlander Season 3 rumors thus far, specifically as it relates to this definitive battle: according to Cinema Blend, a bunch of people on both sides of the aisle will perish in the Battle of Culloden. If the books are anything to go by — and as we know, the show has been pretty faithful to the book series by Diana Galbadon — Outlander Season 3 will see Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies) perish on the battlefield, but will also see our favorite Scottish clansmen take their final bow, as well. Whether we’re talking about Rupert (Grant O’Rourke), or Horrocks, or even our beloved Murtagh, Duncan Lacroix (who has his own online fan group, Murtagh’s Maidens), the Frasers and the MacKenzies and everyone else we’ve come to know and love in Scotland is going to die (except, of course, for Jamie Fraser). And yes, it’s going to be sad — and yes, we’ll probably all have and weep like we’re at the wake of one of our own dearly beloved relatives — and yes, Twitter will be ablaze with fan theories, but what’s most important about all of this is, the mass deaths of these characters in the Battle of Culloden is absolutely necessary if Outlander wishes to continue being successful. Take a moment to let this all sink in and process, and maybe even shed a tear for what is coming of some of our fave characters (Murtagh can’t die… ).
Additional Outlander Season 3 rumors confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter indicate that Frank Randall — who is, at this point in the story, dead — may be featured in upcoming episodes in flashback form, raising Jamie’s daughter Brianna as his own despite him knowing of her true parentage. Fans seem to be alright with the death of Frank, at this point in the story, because it’s implied — and understood — that his death was/is necessary in order to keep the ballad of Jamie and Claire going. It would have been a very different story if Frank was still blundering about, getting in Claire’s way, even though she was trying desperately to get back to her one true love. In fact, it would be less Outlander and more Jerry Springer, and who wants that headache?
When we watch a show, we seem to be “OK” with one death, of one major character, and we’re really okay with it if the death happens “off-screen.” (Think of how much more gut-wrenching the story would be if we had to watch Frank die slowly by the horrendous heart attack that ultimately claimed his life.) We also understand deep down, whether implicitly or explicitly, that a character in a book or a movie or a TV show has to die when his or her contributions to the story has run out.
But, as Hall of Fame Magazine points out in its own confirmed Outlander Season 3 rumors story, the death of characters happen en masse, it rocks us to the core, and it changes the way we view the show forever. To put it in Outlander terms, we’re okay with Frank dying, but when we have to take into account Frank and Black Jack and Murtagh and Rupert and Angus and Hamish and so on and so forth…we’re so not okay.
And yet, when we see the story in hindsight after these mass deaths, we know that not only will we be okay, but the story will be much better for these mass deaths.
To give an example of how mass deaths worked out well in another show, let’s take the so-called “Red Wedding” in Game of Thrones. This was a mass execution arranged by Walder Frey — with the blessings of the Lannister house and Roose Bolton — to take revenge on Robb Stark, and the entire Stark family, because Robb backed out on the arranged marriage between House Stark and House Frey. Robb Stark, his wife, his mother, and most of his banner-men and men-at-arms were killed over the course of about 10 minutes. When we picked our jaws up off the floor, we realized that most of the Stark house was completely obliterated, and while we’d grown to love Robb Stark and his banner-men — and of course, his mother, Lady Catelyn — we realized that these deaths needed to happen in order to clear the way for the stories of Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, and Cersei Lannister to take center stage. If the other characters had stayed on, they would have done nothing but clutter the story and distract us from the main focus.
And the same, goes for Outlander: ultimately, the story of Outlander is the story of Jamie and Claire, and their respective evolutions as characters and people. At the conclusion of Dragonfly in Amber, Claire was middle-aged, and wore the signs of a life hard lived in her face and eyes — but Jamie was still the fresh-faced, somewhat sheltered, red hair tousled young lion cub that he’d been for two whole years. At this point, there’s an imbalance in perception…so the only way we’re going to be able to accept, and appreciate, Jamie as a man is if we no longer see him in the context of the clan that raised him. Therefore, the Battle of Culloden — and the mass, “Red Wedding”-like death of most of the men in Jamie’s clan — must happen in all its bloody, ignoble glory.
He can no longer be the boy Claire was forced to marry. In Outlander Season 3, James Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser must become the man that Claire was meant to love.
Though the coming together of Claire and Jamie will be a significant event in the upcoming season, there may be unpleasant situations since Claire will realize that there have been a lot of changes in Jamie since she met him last.
Note: We’re about to get into really basic Book 3 spoilers, so if you want to avoid any specific book knowledge, now’s a great time to exit this article. In the new season, Claire will be hurt when she finds out that Jamie has wedded Laoghaire. He is also seen getting entangled into illegal activities.
Claire will be speculating the nature of relationship shared between Lord John Grey and Jamie.
There will be a lot of actions involving the main protagonists onboard a ship in the new season.
Outlander Online reported that the premiere episode may commence with the Battle of Culloden and Black Jack Randall is seen lying lifeless.
Even Jamie will be severely wounded and almost dead. However, though Lord Melton, a British Major, declares to execute all “traitors”, Jamie somehow manages to survive.
But other Highlanders announce their names and are taken to be executed.
Thus, it appears that Jamie will come out of danger in Outlander Season 3’s premiere episode.
So many twist and turns and what-ifs are possible in this upcoming Outlander season. What are you thoughts and ideas of what can happen? Are you ok, with a “Red Wedding” like scene or scenes? We want to hear from all you lads and lassies in the comments below.
