Outlander author "not upset" by the show's different ending

Starz dropped a new trailer for the second half of Outlander season 7 the other day at New York Comic Con, which you can watch above. Jamie and Claire Fraser have headed back to Jamie's homeland of Scotland to avoid the horrors of the Revolutionary War, but Claire will be called back to the Colonies because there is great need of her medical skills. Meanwhile, Jamie and Claire's daughter Briana will have her own problems in the future. It'll be another dramatic, romantic cache of Outlander episodes, beginning on Friday, November 22.

“The most talked about episode will be the 11th," executive producer Maril Davis said on the Comic Con panel, per The A.V. Club. "Bring your whiskey and tissues. It will be talked about in many ways.” episode 11, for the record, is titled "A Hundredweight of Stone." If you can dig out any clues from that, have at it.

Outlander season 7 part 2 will wrap up in January, after which fans will undergo one final droughtlander before watching the eighth and final season, which has already filmed. “Not everyone has seen our season 8 finale scripts, but we have it ready. We want to avoid leaks," Davis said. She also hinted that the ending of the series will be different from the ending that author Diana Gabaldon has planned for her Outlander books, which makes sense; the show has roughly adapted one book per season. But there are 10 planned books in Gabaldon's series (the tenth and final one isn't out yet), which the producers won't be able to cover in eight seasons. "We also want to be respectful of Diana because we may not end our show the way she would,” Davis said.

Gabaldon, who was also on the panel, doesn't sound too put out about it. “I was not upset by [the different ending]. It was possible for me to be objective about it because it was well done and will work nicely for the show.”

At the moment, fans don't know how either the show nor the books will end, so it's too early to compare and contrast. Perhaps we'll find out at around the same time. We don't have release dates for either Outlander season 8 nor the tenth and final Outlander book as of yet, but it seems likely they could both come out sometime in 2026-ish.

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