Outlander season 7 wrapped up a thrilling story, and it’s something of precisely this flavor that needs to be embraced for the series ending. The upcoming season 8 will serve as the definitive close for Jamie and Claire’s romantacy adventure, but it’s currently unclear how everything will be tied up. It’s essential that Outlander delivers an impactful ending that is full of romance, adventure, and some good old-fashioned time travel. This may not be an easy thing to achieve, especially given the fact that the source book series is still unfinished. However, Outlander season 7 serves as a key example.
A lot happened in Outlander season 7, with each of the primary characters pulled in a variety of directions. One of the more thrilling arcs revolved around Roger MacKenzie, who went on an adventure through time in Outlander season 7, part 3, to find his son, Jemmy. What Roger didn’t realize was that Jemmy’s kidnapper, Rob Cameron, hadn’t actually taken the boy through the stones. Roger instead wandered the Scottish highlands in the year 1739—but this journey was far from a waste. It quickly became apparent in Outlander that Roger was always meant to travel to this time in history.
Roger MacKenzie’s Outlander Season 7 Story Represents Everything That Is Great About The Show
It’s a Time Travel Adventure Full Of Paradoxes
Outlander is great for a variety of reasons. We love the romance and historical fiction aspect, and the characters are easy to love and cheer on. However, it’s the magical mystery of time travel that really makes Outlander unique. There is something thrilling about seeing these characters travel through time and somehow end up precisely where they need to be. This is the very foundation of Roger’s adventure in Outlander season 7, part 3. His trip to 1739 may have been an accident, but his very presence there wound up key in Roger’s own birth ever taking place.
While in 1739, Roger and Buck MacKenzie (Roger’s own ancestor) were unknowingly responsible for introducing Geillis Duncan and Dougal MacKenzie—Buck’s parents. Had they never traveled to this point in history, Buck would never have been born, which means Roger and his children wouldn’t exist. This isn’t the end of the delicious time paradox, however. Roger was also shocked to meet his own father, Jerry MacKenzie, in 1739. The man had accidentally come through the stones during World War II, and it was only because of Roger that Jerry made it back to his own time.
Jerry successfully returns to his own time, where he gets to London just in time to save the 5-year-old Roger’s life during the London Blitz.
Though the Outlander TV show has yet to reveal what happened to Jerry after Roger sent him back, Diana Gabaldon’s books provide an explanation. Jerry successfully returns to his own time, where he gets to London just in time to save the 5-year-old Roger’s life during the London Blitz. Roger never knew the identity of the soldier who sacrificed his life to save his, and he may never fully learn the truth. However, it’s clear through the bigger picture that if Roger hadn’t traveled back to 1739 and saved his father, he himself would have died as a child in 1940.
Roger’s Big Time Paradox Brought His Entire Outlander Story Full Circle
Roger’s Adventure In 1739 Saved His Own Life In 1940
Time paradoxes are always fun in fantasy stories, especially when they bring a character’s arc full circle. Roger wouldn’t have been born if he hadn’t gone back in time to introduce Geillis and Dougall, and he wouldn’t have lived past five if he hadn’t saved his father in the 18th century. Of course, had Roger not been born or had he died in the London Blitz, he would never have gone back in time to make these events happen. It’s a neverending paradox, and in the context of Outlander, it’s evident that the magic of destiny is entirely responsible for every step of the way.
Roger was first introduced in Outlander as a young orphan but has become a key member of Jamie and Claire’s family. Claire couldn’t have known when she met her future son-in-law the role he would play in the past and future, and this is precisely what makes Roger’s story so fantastic. By bringing him to the past and making him wholly responsible for the events of his own life, Outlander brought Roger’s story full circle and brought a satisfying, magical resolution to his arc. This is precisely the sort of thing that Outlander’s overall ending in season 8 needs.
Claire’s Outlander Season 8 Story Must Be Just As Meaningful
Claire’s Time Traveling Must Have A Deeper Purpose
Outlander season 7 successfully demonstrated the overarching reason that Roger ever traveled through time to begin with. Now, it’s essential that Outlander season 8 do the same with Claire. It has been subtly evident that it was always Claire’s destiny to travel through the stones to meet Jamie. Had she not, Brianna would never exist, and this carries on to her children as well. However, there has yet to be the same sort of poetic paradox within Claire’s time-travel story as there was in Roger’s season 7 adventure. Outlander season 8 skipping over this would be a significant mistake.
Gabaldon’s Outlander books will almost certainly end in a way that brings Claire’s time travel adventures full circle. The author has promised answers to some big, magical mysteries, such as why Jamie’s ghost was seen in the 20th century, or who planted the forget-me-nots at Craigh na Dun (which drew Claire to the stones to begin with). However, since the final Outlander book won’t release until after the TV show comes to a close, season 8 will have to get creative with how it handles Claire’s ending. The big answer to why Claire was destined to travel in time must be entirely unique.
How Faith’s Story Can Bring Outlander Full Circle
Claire’s First Daughter May Be The Answer
While Outlander season 7 wrapped up Roger’s time traveling adventure, it introduced a brand new mystery to carry Claire into season 8. She and Jamie were faced with some vague evidence that their first daughter, Faith, might have survived infancy. This has not happened in the Outlander books, so such a reveal further indicates that the series has left Gabaldon’s canon story behind. However, Faith’s survival and the clear role that time travel plays here can serve as the TV show’s version of how Claire’s story will come full circle.
Faith’s survival and the clear role that time travel plays here can serve as the TV show’s version of how Claire’s story will come full circle.
The fact that Faith Pocock, Fanny, knew the 20th century song “I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside” hints that the woman had some involvement with time travel—whether she is Jamie and Claire’s daughter or not. This implies that it is no accident that Fanny fell into the Fraser’s lives. The magical character of Master Raymond surely has something to do with it all, and a greater plan may yet be revealed by Outlander season 8. A single golden string must tie this fantasy story together, and Faith may be the perfect answer. Regardless, the sort of magic that drove Roger’s story must make a return for the series’ ending.