Outlander viewers are questioning the storyline
Outlander season seven ended on a bombshell after it was confirmed that Faith Fraser had somehow survived.
Jamie (played by Sam Heughan) and Claire Fraser (Caitríona Balfe) were left heartbroken after their first child was stillborn in season two.
Master Raymond (Dominique Pinon) helped to heal Claire, who was on the verge of death amid the baby loss.
However, season seven seemed to turn the plot line on its head when Master Raymond came to Claire in a fevered vision and apologised to her.
The Outlander producers and indeed author Diana Gabaldon have confirmed the show will be diverging from the source material now.
The narrative will follow an alternate timeline where Master Raymond was able to save the child and bring her back to life, taking Faith away to grow up to be an adult in a different time.
But Outlander fans aren’t convinced by the direction of the story and many have taken to social media to discuss it.
One person posted on Reddit: “I feel incredibly let down by the ending of the current season.
“I feel that the stillbirth of Faith was such beautiful acting and incredibly poignant and to suddenly retcon it as if she didn’t die is unbelievably infuriating.
“If by some miracle Faith did survive there is absolutely no possible way she would know a song from the future as she wouldn’t have been brought up with it.
“There are numerous time travellers in the show so it would make more sense that Fanny and Jane’s mother was from the future and sang the song to them.
“I know there’s magic and so on and anything can happen in Outlander but this idea of Faith being alive is ridiculous and completely undermines the whole beautiful storyline they did with her death.”
A second answered: “It makes no sense for Fanny to know the song, unless someone from the future sang it too her. Even if Faith lived, she would have only been hours old when Claire sang the song to her.
“Faith would have had to dead for hours, before being brought back to life. Wouldn’t that make her a zombie baby? Then zombie baby would have had to travel from France to the colonies, and then had two children to cross path with Claire. Lame story arc.
“Time travel makes more sense, since there is a 50//50 chance Claire inherited her ability to time travel from her mother [sic].”
A third agreed: “In the books, the baby had been dead for five days before Raymond showed up.”
Another person wrote on the forum: “Quite agree with you. The idea of baby Faith being alive, growing up, having children, teaching them a 20th century song,and then those children ending up on the other side of the world, in exactly the same time and place as Claire. Totally ridiculous!”
There have also been theories that Claire’s mother could have been the one to have taught the song to others in the past and she accidentally time travelled.
Outlander writer Gabaldon previously indicated the use of the song I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside will come into play in the prequel series Blood of My Blood.
The ditty is a dancehall tune from Julia Moriston’s (Hermione Corfield) era, and this further compounds theories that Claire’s mother travelled through time instead of dying in a car crash as previously thought.