With the definitive end of ‘Outlander‘, Claire and Jamie Fraser say goodbye to us, and with them it also comes to an end one of the most intense, excessive and unforgettable love stories on television. After eight seasons, time travel, wars, losses, impossible separations and epic reunions, ‘Outlander’ closes its story by betting on the bond between two people capable of choosing each other again and again even when fate seemed determined to separate them.

The end of the series recovers the romantic, tragic and melodramatic essence that turned fiction into a global phenomenon from that first episode in which Claire Randall crossed the stones of Craigh na Dun. And although for years ‘Outlander’ was accumulating delirious moments, impossible twists and increasingly excessive plots, The chemistry between Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan continued to hold absolutely everythingeither. Because beyond historical battles, politics or time travel, the series was always about Jamie and Claire choosing each other over any era, any life and any tragedy.

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An end marked by tragedy

The last episode begins with Jamie and Claire preparing for the battle of Kings Mountain, aware that it could be the last time they are together. The threat to Jamie has been hovering over the series for years thanks to the book written by Frank Randall, where it is stated that Fraser will die in combat. And ‘Outlander’ constantly plays with that tension as the couple says goodbye to their family, to Fraser’s Ridge and also, in some way, to the entire life they have built together.

In one of the most emotional scenes of the episode, Claire remembers that blue vase she saw during her honeymoon with Frank. at the beginning of the series. He never bought it because, shortly after, he crossed the stones and met Jamie. “I still don’t have the blue vase, but I have everything I never knew I wanted.”he tells her. A phrase that works as a perfect summary for the entire story. Because Claire never found the quiet life she imagined, but she did find a love that ended up being able to change everything.

The battle finally arrives and, when it seems that Jamie has survived the fate that Frank predicted, ‘Outlander’ hits us again. Patrick Ferguson shoots him in the chest right after the fight and Jamie dies in Claire’s arms. The scene is devastating not only because of the death itself, but because the series understands that the real horror for Claire was always losing Jamie. That’s why he decides to stay next to his body to die with him.

Goodbye to a great romance

But ‘Outlander’ has never been a realistic series, and the ending was not going to be either. After the death of both, the fiction returns to the very first episode to finally reveal one of its greatest mysteries: The ghost that Frank saw watching Claire from the window was Jamie.. The circle closes literally, connecting the end with the beginning of the entire story.

The final sequence leaves open the possibility of Jamie and Claire surviving once againemphasizing the idea that the series sustained for eight seasons: their love transcends time, death and any possible logic. ‘Outlander’ may have been excessive, absurd or out of control at times, but it has also managed to maintain for many years that a love story only works when we continue to believe in it until the end. That is why we will remember her beyond this outcome.

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