Outlander Shot Multiple Season 8 Endings to Avoid Spoilers
The final season of Outlander is trying to keep its secrets safe.
The eighth season of Starz’s popular historical fantasy series Outlander is set to reveal its final secrets next month when it bids farewell to its fans after 12 years on the network. But if anyone is waiting for spoilers to emerge before the season 8 premiere on March 6, they can forget about it – not even stars Sam Heughan and Caitríona Balfe know how Outlander ends.
Executive producer Matthew B. Roberts told Entertainment Weekly that he wrote and shot multiple season 8 endings to prevent spoilers from leaking, which is understandable given there are a few major mysteries left to solve before the long-running series concludes. One of them even goes all the way back to the first season!
Yep, fans are still hoping that season 8 will finally solve the appearance of Jamie’s ghost in the very first episode of Outlander, when Frank Randall seemed to spot the Highlander gazing up at Claire’s window in 1945 Inverness. What was he doing there? Was he real or an apparition? The author of the Outlander book series has confirmed that it was indeed the ghost of Jamie we saw, but since the TV adaptation is wrapping up before the final book is released, there’s a chance that the people behind the show could make different decisions.
“What we tried to do is answer as many questions as we could authentically,” Roberts said coyly. “There’s so many great storylines that get tied up — whether it’s in a tight bow or a very loose bow, that’s for the fans to judge.”
Faith’s fate is another lingering mystery going into season 8. Last season, we discovered that Claire and Jamie’s daughter didn’t die as they first thought. What really happened to her? Roberts insists fans won’t have to wait too long for the answer, but that it also “spawns about a thousand more questions, and those are what gets answered throughout the season.”
A new twist has also been added to the pile fairly recently in the Outlander prequel series, Blood of My Blood, where it was revealed that Claire’s parents were actually time travelers. It’s not yet clear whether the mainline series will acknowledge this or whether the two stories will blend in a new way.
With so much left to unravel, Outlander’s final season is likely to be full of the kind of fantastic storytelling that has continued to delight us over the years – and then some!
Outlander season 8 premieres March 6 on Starz.