I watched the show on the advice of my sister and we made our parents watch it together. I rewatched it with my boyfriend and it’s safe to say we all LOVED it. Apart from S.6 – we didn’t really understand why they had to make Claire’s rape scene worst than what you’ve written already and make her drug herself with ether?? And sadly, we didn’t like this last season either.

Overall we felt the timeline was completely crushed and rushed. The life in the 18c, the scenery, everyday chores, horseback or boat travels and the time they take, the adventures that happen “on the way” were part of the show up until the last season which brought a new power : teleportation. Imagine Jamie and Claire teleporting from the witch trial to Lallybroch’s door in season 1, that would’ve been shitty. The company’s teleportation to Lord John’s house (and everyone popping up 600 miles away every 10 min or so) was bad too. The rhythm of the show felt like we were checking boxes to wrap everything up quickly and thus everything seemed simplistic.

I agree with what you said in an interview: if the idea of Henri-Christian’s death was too much why not just save him like they did and be done with it? Why send Marsali after the Count’s land like that? We don’t even know what happened to her and the children? My opinion : they had to kill no one, no fire at all, and the family could have kept on being printers in Savannah, that would’ve really wrapped their storyline properly. Jamie and Claire didn’t even get the right to be sad? (I really didn’t believe the grave scenes etc.)

Why so many flashback clips ? I know it’s free but it really bothered me. I felt out of it this season, I felt the actors acting and the flashbacks kinda remind you it is “only” a series.
The choice to change the way Jamie is shot is sooo overdone, and honestly kinda sad for the warrior he is, he doesn’t even get to be shot during the battle… And how lazy is the company that they didn’t feel like disarming their prisoner?

I’m okay with the decision to change the faith/fanny line, even though it feels even sadder to me than the simple (but dramatic) loss of one’s child; but to know that she lived (and died an horrible way) and you didn’t get to know her, it must be worst somehow. But in any case, if you create a new story for her, why take so much screen time for it and finally leave it open like that ? I would’ve loved to see less of her and more of Brianna and Jamie reuniting and talking about his father, Claire in her garden and such. This season is turned toward their announced death since min 1 and thus forget all about the life on the ridge.

In the end, I feel that most of us, with no experience at all, could’ve done a better job on the script both to respect your book and the quality of the show. Whilst making cuts needed to fit in 10 episode. Also, the house is so ugly and feels much more like a movie set than the old house. I can’t understand why not one room gets to have paint ? or a rug on the floor in the bedroom ? And the pottery is so out of place I couldn’t take my focus off of it (it maybe a professional deformation since I’m an archaeologist specialised on the matter but …) I understand they were less prosperous with the lost of the whisky trade but they’ve got a stash of gold…

I can’t wait for your book (I read them all in less than a year and i loved how the tv show and the book series complete each others, I find the books are so much richer but I loved the Sam/Caitriona interpretation) and thank you so much for the universe you created !

Carla D.

Yo me quedo con una frase que he leído hace poco en un libro de María Oruña, de la que soy rendida fan, que cita a Arthur Conan Doyle: “Es preferible, cuando se cuenta una historia auténtica, dejarla sin terminar a agregar un apéndice fantástico” Un gran saludo para Diana Gabaldón y enhorabuena por todo lo que ha creado, el Universo Outlander. A pesar del final que le han dado.

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After having read all the published books and some more, and seen all the chapters of the successive seasons of Outlander, I could not feel more disappointed with the ending they gave to the last season in which I expected more answers and the truth is that, after reading the last published book, which raises more questions than answers, giving that ending to the last season seems to me, frankly, to be a tremendous disappointment. And that without having published the last book. I had the feeling that they were in a hurry to close some chapters (how is it possible that they didn’t see the birth of Claire’s last grandson?! ) but the essential thing, the mysteries that the series hides, like Mister Raymond, or the prophecy that Geillys Duncan wanted to find out so insistently, that it was left a bit in the air, why stones can cross, well… all those unknowns are left unanswered and on top of that, as a culmination, watching the last episode of the last season, A new and potential time traveler is revealed to us…I get the feeling that Diana Gabaldón has let outsiders enter the domains of her Outlander books…The interest and curiosity to know what is going to happen in the last book that has not yet been published, for me, has already lost many points, after seeing the end of the season.

I am left with a phrase that I recently read in a book by María Oruña, of whom I am a huge fan, who quotes Arthur Conan Doyle: “It is preferable, when an authentic story is told, to leave it unfinished rather than to add a fantastic appendix.”

A big shout out to Diana Gabaldón and congratulations for everything she has created, the Outlander Universe. Despite the ending they have given it.

https://dianagabaldon.com/2025/01/the-books-are-the-books-and-the-show-is-the-show/

Brenda from Ft. Worth, TX