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Outlander season 1 episode 3
Outlander season 1 episode 3











However, on principle, everything that happens to Frank in the time between Claire first going through the stones at Craigh na Dun in 1945 and his death in 1966 is seriously messed up. This is a narrative concept I have struggled with as an admirer of both the show and the Diana Gabaldon-penned books “Outlander” is based on: Like most fans, I get that Claire and Jamie are destined to be together – and that Claire never had the kind of preternatural sexual chemistry with Frank that she does with Jamie. But viewers have known that this rekindled relationship was doomed even before Jamie sent his pregnant wife back through the stones, and that’s what makes Frank’s story such a sad one.Īlthough there is no debating Claire’s love for Frank before she was magically swept through time, once she lands back in 1948, her drastic change of heart toward him is acute.

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(To its credit, the TV series has done a good job of keeping Frank’s heartache fresh in viewers’ minds, which is something the “Outlander” novels lack due to the Claire-only point of view.) So when Claire returned to the 20th century early in season two, it seemed at first that Frank’s prayers had finally been answered. Throughout Claire and Jamie Fraser’s 18th century romance-novel adventures, it’s sometimes easy to forget that Claire left behind a loving, grieving husband in 1945, a man who spent the next three years shattered over the loss of his wife.

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Just two episodes after the vicious Redcoat died on Culloden Moor, it was time to bid a second farewell to Menzies’ stellar work on “Outlander” as a car crash claimed the life of the charming Professor Randall. Following the events of tonight’s episode, “All Debts Paid,” it behooves fans of the Starz drama to pay tribute to Frank – and actor Tobias Menzies, who deftly embodied both the cultured academic and his antithesis of an ancestor, Black Jack – because the Randall chapter of the “Outlander” story has officially come to an end.











Outlander season 1 episode 3