If you’re an Outlander fan who has not read the books, do you sometimes feel like book readers are perhaps speaking a different language? Talking about things like the headstone, Mr. Willoughby, and the famous “print shop scene”? If you’re particularly curious about that last one, we’re here to help with a primer for this heart-stopping moment.
Be warned: there are light book spoilers ahead.In Voyager, the third book in Diana Gabaldon’s series upon which the Starz drama is based, the print shop scene happens about a third of the way through the novel. In it, Claire has traveled back to Scotland (not a spoiler, we all knew that was coming) and is quite nervous about seeing Jamie again after 20 years. In fact, prior to leaving 1968, Claire asks her former medical school classmate and now-colleague Joe Abernathy if she is still sexually attractive.
“I haven’t seen [Jamie] in 20 years. You’re the only person I know who’s known me for a long time; have I changed terribly since we met?” Claire asks Joe.
Joe assures her that it’ll be like going to a high school reunion. “You see they’ve got some gray, and some lines, and maybe they aren’t just the same as they were, but two minutes past that shock, and you don’t see it anymore. They’re just the same people they always were,” he tells Claire.
Actress Caitriona Balfe sat down for a group interview at the 2017 Summer TCA, where she explained that at first she was against Claire being so insecure, but she came to really like that aspect of the character.
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