'Outlander' Season 3 Spoilers: Jamie "Rapes" Geneva; How Historically Accurate Is It? "Diana Gabaldon" Talks About Scottish History In 'Voyager'
The "Outlander" Season 3 will be airing pretty soon. With a smorgasbord of leaked photos, spoilers, and the book adaptation, it is easy to guess where the show is going. But, in hindsight, what is the inspiration for "Outlander" TV show? The following holds key spoilers of the upcoming "Outlander" season 3 moving forward, and the history of the show.
(Spoilers for "Outlander" Season 3 ahead!) The first episode of "Outlander" Season 3 will showcase Jamie Fraser facing off with Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall. As Jamie and Claire's separation takes a toll on both their lives, Jamie will engage in a one-night stand with Geneva Dunsany, one of the Dunsany twins. In the "Voyager" book, Geneva told Jamie to stop because it's "too big." But, Jamie just placed his hand over her mouth as he said "No," and pushed anyway. While technically that was rape, the show didn't think much of it.
What are the historically accurate scenes in the show? While "Outlander" is depicted from real-life history, Diana Gabaldon deliberately added few historically inaccurate script in the story. She admitted wanting the witch trial in "Outlander" Season 1, but the witch trials in Scotland occurred in 1722 so it doesn't seem to fit the storyline. But with a sensible advice from her husband, she pushed through the witch trials despite it being 20 years behind time - that, and the time-travelling Stonehenge "Craigh Na Dun" in Inverness are both fiction.
Is Jamie Fraser real? The book "Prince In The Heather" by Eric Linklater was one of Gabaldon's inspiration in choosing Jamie Fraser's character. The book recounts what occurred after the Battle of Culloden, the storyline that ended mid-battle in "Outlander" Season 2. According to the book, there were 19 injured Jacobite constables who took shelter in a farmhouse for two days. All of them were shot but one man, the Master of Lovet's unit who was a Fraser.
