Season 8 news!
We got some unexpected news about OUTLANDER Season 8 from Maril Davis in a TV Guide interview published yesterday.
Davis also confirms the eighth and final season will focus almost exclusively on Gabaldon's ninth and newest book, "Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone."
"Season 8 will be all Book 9 pretty much," she says. "We might bring in some stuff that we didn't do in Books 7 and 8. But it will mostly be us doing Book 9."
Wow. I didn't expect that at all, but to be honest, I'm feeling pretty calm about it. Not indifferent, but open-minded, willing to give them a chance, see what they come up with. What choice do we have, after all? This is the direction they've chosen to go, and at least this way we will see BEES on screen.
What do the rest of you think about this development?
I love Bees! I've read it three times. It turns the story around in that we now are seeing them at the micro level with small intimate moments rather than the macro sweeping level, though there is still plenty of action. It's a set up for the end of the story, I think. I'm glad they're going to bring it to life for the last season. I don't know how they'll adjust the ending but no doubt they'll find a way.
I adore the books. But it's a different world now than when Diana began writing. I also understand that a tv show is a completely different animal on a number of levels. I'm pleased with what the writers have done, even controversial S6. I think they take their responsibilities to the viewing audience as seriously as they take DG's books. They try to balance the two though they skew more toward's the books whenever they can. Rightly so.
As for S6, seeing images in front of you rather than in your mind can be more brutal than your mind will let you imagine. What Claire experienced (yes, they ramped it up) cost her. She's human. Even in the books she struggled with the memory of the man that violated her. I don't know why the writers chose to make it a gang rape. But in doing so they had a vehicle to make Claire more accessible. For us to see her frailties. And to see her overcome. That is a hopeful message in a violent world.
I want Diana to take her time on book 10. She owe's the readers her best without having some internal deadline. All this to say that I'm ready with an open mind for what they bring us. I know they will do their best to give the Frasers a proper send off - for now.
I am more concern the show is going to finish the series with some made up ending … king of like GOT.