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Outlander Blood of my Blood Episode 4

Spoiler warning if you've not seen the episode.

Episode moved along, albeit slowly at times. Again, it tried to fill in gaps trying to explain things in the storyline.

Julia, on the premise of being ill, convinced Lord Lovat to allow her to seek medical attention from an apothecary.

Brian, meanwhile, agrees to accompany her, and they set out together.

Henry, all the while, keeps trying to find Julia but has no success.

The laird of the Grant clan sends him out to collect the rents on Quarter Day but Henry devises a clever way to handle the demanded increase and manages to bring back more than double what the increase would have brought.

The laird begrudgingly agrees to abide by the promise and draw a tenant to receive one year's rent free. Not trusting Henry for this, he tells Mr. Bug to keep a close eye on him.

I can't help but wonder if this is Mr. Bug from the main Outlander series. Hmmm.

Meanwhile, Julia comes face to face with Mrs. Fitz and gives Ellen Mckenzie a message for Brian Fraser.

It all culminates with old Lord Lovat thinking that Julia's baby is his and Brian planning to meet up with Ellen on Beltain.

He promises to keep helping Julia and she tells him that Ellen Mckenzie will be there with Malcolm Grant because she agreed to the marriage alliance with the Grants.

Brian looks a little green around the gills at that announcement.

Henry is still determined to find Julia but seeks comfort from an English woman in a brothel. He refuses relations with her, and she replies,"it's your time bought, spend it as you wish."

The verdict is still out on this series.

A lot of it is background filler to the main series, in my opinon.

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We fixed it!

Much better now!

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"Forgive my boldness, but I had to touch ye. Nothing more than your hands."

Blood of my Blood — 1x01 "Providence"

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"The poet John Donne writes, 'More than kisses, letters mingle souls.' I think you know by now I find in you a kindred spirit. A soulmate. But just to be on the safe side, I'm sealing this letter with a kiss."

Blood of my Blood — 1x01 "S.W.A.K. (Sealed With a Kiss)"

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Outlander Blood of my Blood Episode 3

Spoiler warning if you've not watched the episode.

A great deal of the episode is spent doing background explaining the events that led to the arrangement with Colum as Laird and Dougal as War Chief.

Also expands on just how rash and hot headed Dougal really is.

And the fact that women in this time period have no rights.

Whether you are Ellen Mckenzie or Julia Beecham. Tis the same.

The ending... on Julia's actions kind of parallels what Claire did for Jamie.

Again without knowledge of the other series you will be kind of lost.

Series is ok.

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"Dear Julia, I hardly know where to begin, but you are right. There was profound magic in your words. Some strange alchemy that produced in me a glimmer of hope."

Blood of my Blood — 1x02 "S.W.A.K. (Sealed With a Kiss)"

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Can’t stop, won’t stop with these #Outlander / #BloodOfMyBlood parallels

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Outlander Blood of my Blood Episode 2

I finally watched the second episode.

Again, spoiler warning.

It moves along well, perhaps better than the first episode.

But again, if you have not seen or read anything from the Outlander main series, you may be somewhat puzzled.

This episode backtracks and shows how Henry and Julia meet.

It moves along until finally Julia wakes up among the circle of stones and is confused when she can't find Henry.

Not understanding where she is and the time period gets her into trouble; she finds herself sold into the service of none other than Lord Lovat (ugh, what a character).

Henry looks around the circle of stones but can't find Julia.

Yet he goes back down the hill and looks around, but finally goes back up to the hill.

We don't see it happen, but it soon is apparent that he is in the same time period as Julia... 1714 thereabouts.

He allies himself with the Grants while he goes through the Highlands looking for his wife.

Sheesh! No wonder Claire went through those stones!

My thoughts overall? Not bad, but I somehow find it weird.

The young Ned is kinda cool.

Oh well, we will see how this progresses.

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Article Summary...

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This is a paid article. Thanks to @ for the work 😉

As the Stars of Outlander Begin Their Long Goodbye, the Cast of Outlander: Blood of My Blood Is Just Getting Started

By Reshma Gopaldas

August 4, 2025

Outlander’s Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton, and Richard Rankin with Outlander: Blood of My Blood’s Harriet Slater, Jamie Roy, and Hermione Corfield on Day 2 San Diego Comic-Con. The latter series premieres on August 8.Photo: Joe Scarnici/Getty Images

Jamie Fraser was just a man in a kilt in Diana Gabaldon’s head when she decided, some 35 years ago, to try writing her first novel. That book would become Outlander, its story centered on Claire, a war nurse in 1945, and Jamie, a Highland warrior in the 1700s.

Now, more than a decade after Caitríona Balfe and Sam Heughan first brought Claire and Jamie to life in Starz’s beloved television adaptation of Gabaldon’s historical-fantasy series, fans are preparing for the show’s eighth and final season to air in early 2026. But the Outlander story will continue on with a new prequel series, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, built around Jamie’s parents, Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) and Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), and Claire’s parents, Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine), who are time-travelers just like their daughter. Premiering on August 8, it’s “the love stories that created the love story,” as Outlander showrunner and creator Matthew B. Roberts describes it.

As Vogue rode along with the casts of Outlander and Blood of My Blood for two days at San Diego Comic-Con in late July, the actors got a chance to talk legacy, family, and the Season 8 moments that made them cry.

Day one kicks off with the OG Outlander gang—Heughan, Sophie Skelton (Claire and Jamie’s daughter, Brianna), and Richard Rankin (Brianna’s husband, Roger MacKenzie)—jumping into hair and make-up at 6 a.m., then into cars headed to Hall H, the biggest venue at the San Diego Convention Center, with a capacity of 6,500 guests.

Of course, one crucial member of their group is missing—Balfe, who is in the UK filming Georgia Oakley’s new adaptation of Sense & Sensibility. (She will play Mrs. Dashwood.)

Caitríona Balfe and Heughan at San Diego Comic-Con in 2014 Photo: Getty Images

“The show isn’t the show without Caitríona. She’s such a strong force and such an amazing human being,” Heughan tells me in the green room before their panel. “She’s sorely missed. It’s a nice family reunion. We’ve had these moments, since we finished, where we met up—most recently, at Richard’s wedding. Everyone was dancing. It was wonderful. It was the first time we’d all kind of been together since wrapping properly.” (He adds that he was “delighted” when he learned about Balfe’s Sense & Sensibility casting. “I think we started doing really bad impressions of previous versions of Jane Austen. But she’s brilliant. I know she will bring something very different to that role. But Caitríona’s in a corset again. She’s wished it on herself!”)

“Caitríona and Joey”—as in Phillips, another member of the cast—“were having a great time,” Rankin agrees. “Everybody brought their A-game.” An Outlander wedding with dancing and no drama? Imagine.

Foto: Araya Doheny/Getty Images

Heughan, Skelton, Rankin, executive producer Maril Davis, and Roberts soon gather for a pre-panel group-hug-slash-huddle, which has become something of a ritual. Then, they take the stage for a conversation moderated by comedian Aisha Tyler. It ends with a teaser trailer for Season 8, as well as a live performance of Outlander’s main theme, the 19th-century Scottish ballad “The Skye Boat Song,” by Raya Yarbrough.

What was it like, I ask Heughan later, to watch a trailer with upwards of 6,000 fans? “Probably my favorite trailer I’ve seen, because there’s so much material going back through all the seasons,” he says. “It makes you realize how much we’ve done, how much drama there’s been, how much adventure and romance. It’s pretty epic. It really was one of those pinch-me moments. It’s the beginning—and it’s the end of that chapter.”

Heughan and Matt Roberts’s selfie from the Comic-Con stage Photo: Sam Heughan

Did anything make him emotional? I wonder. “The scene from Season 1, where Jamie first captures Claire, where he has his sword and we’re sort of covered in blood… That was probably one of the first major scenes we did,” Heughan says. “That one, for me, was just sort of iconic. I was like, ‘Oh, we look good. We look young.’”

Skelton and Slater, who plays Brianna‘s paternal grandmother, Ellen, on Blood of My Blood Joe Scarnici/Getty Images

Two weeks into filming, Slater had a “really lovely phone call” with Balfe about joining Outlander’s heady universe. “She chatted to me for an hour on a Sunday, which was so great. It was just so welcoming and supportive. Her main piece of advice was just to enjoy it and really soak it all in. She said, ‘Nobody else is going to know what this is really like on the inside, only you guys are. So, just stick together.’” (This, Skelton tells me, is characteristic of Balfe: “In our industry, it’s sometimes very hard to have women supporting women. It’s talked about quite a lot, but people don’t always put their money where their mouth is. And I will say that Caitríona has been a huge support.”)

Roy shares that he got similar guidance from Heughan, who told him, “It goes by so quickly. There are days where it’s going to be rough, but you just have to step back and appreciate it. Slow down and enjoy it.”

Another Heughan selfie, now with members of the Blood of My Blood cast, including Rory Alexander, Jamie Roy, Richard Rankin, Sam Retford, Harriet Slater, Seam McLean Ross, and Hermione Corfield Photo: Sam Heughan

For the Outlander gang, Comic-Con weekend is bittersweet. “I feel like I could cry now,” Rankin says, thinking back to watching Balfe and Heughan shooting their final scene. “We just felt like we wanted to be there. What we didn’t know is that it was a closed set. There were 100 of us just all standing around, waiting for Sam and Caitríona to wrap because it was the last shot. I definitely welled up.”

“It was a seven-and-a-half-minute take, a ton of dialogue, very intimate. And, obviously, you know that all the crew were there—you could feel the tension,” Heughan remembers. “I did my close-up first, and I was just trying to get through it, to be honest. I think I sort of shut down internally. I could see Caitríona getting more emotional. I think it was her eyebrow or her cheek—something was twitching the whole way. Then we wrapped and walked out, and everyone was there. They called a wrap on it and I was crying. There were tears in our eyes. Caitríona was a mess—she was proper, I think she said, ‘ugly crying.’ I was very emotional as well. It was exhausting—but also wonderful.”

Skelton shares that Balfe was there for her own final scene. “I saw that she was behind the camera with the crew, waiting to clap and wrap me out. She was the first person I went over to. I hadn’t had any tears until then. But she was quite teary, and her being teary got me teary. We were just crying off each other’s tears. I took my wig off, she sat with me, we had a little toast in the makeup trailer. Then we went to where Sam was doing his final scene. They said, ‘That is Sam wrapped on Outlander forever.’ Those are very big words to hear. There was just a sea of people clapping, and he just sort of parted a path and found me and Caitríona, and the three of us had a big hug. We all had a little cry.”

Skelton gets choked up. “As we walked back to base, somebody said into the radio—and I’m getting goosebumps now—‘That’s the three of them back at base, for the last time.’ And that made us just break down.”

Even now, Heughan is still processing it all. “Recently, I drove past the studio. I knew that they were there shooting Blood of My Blood, and I felt sad. I thought, Oh, everyone’s at work and I’m not. It does feel quite hard.”

Can we expect him to make a cameo, perhaps as baby Jamie? I ask. “No, I don’t think so,” he replies with a laugh. “I might need a little help with that!”

After more than 11 years together, Heughan says that he and the rest of the Outlander cast are forever bonded. “I think it’s kind of evident, even over this weekend, [how] we just sort of fall back into our silliness a little bit. They really are not just friends. They’re family. I haven’t seen Caitríona as much—we’ve met up a couple of times—but it’s just so nice, because you suddenly realize you know this person extremely well, and you can kind of share anything with them. I know that we’re all going off in our own directions, but that bond will always be there.”

As for what’s next for Heughan, he’ll be on the stage, playing Macbeth at the Other Place—the Royal Shakespeare Company’s intimate theater in Stratford-Upon-Avon—this fall. “It’s a return to my roots,” he says, “and I now need to go learn the lines.” Talk about the start of a new chapter.

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Outlander Blood of My Blood Episode 1

NOTE: spoiler alert if you have not watched or read any of the main Outlander series.

Hmmm.

One comment essentially.

If you haven't seen or read the Outlander series, you may be a bit puzzled by this episode.

It is essentially the Gathering along with the appearance of Julia at the end.

Ellen Mckenzie and Brian Fraser meet, and thanks to her hot head brother (Dougal), may be forced into a troubling situation with a possible marriage with Malcolm Grant.

Ever the hot head Dougal is, his younger version is no different than his older self in the main Outlander series.

Given what we know from the main series, I could not blame her for eventually eloping with the young Brian Fraser.

As for Julia, Claire's mother looks rather like, like mother like daughter.

End of comments.

It is too early for me to decide if I like this yet.

Picked up the Starz app as an add-on through Amazon Prime.

Two episodes there.

Will watch the second one and will comment after.

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So proud of our @outlander_starz family! Congrats to the whole #bloodofmyblood cast and crew, heartwarming evening at the premiere with friends and family. Know you’ll all love the show! ❤️ August 8th on @starz

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No cheque. Grrr. Refund letter says in 30 days. Pure rotten crooks.

Dirty Rotten $^#&$&!

Is there anything more dishonest or crooked than an insurance company?

Had a situation where a credit needs to be issued after canceling a policy.

Automatic withdrawal for another policy, also canceled. Like $30 maximum. But, oh they withdrew that. Coming to them.

But there is no sign of the credit. The Broker is checking on it, they may have issued a cheque, she said.

Unreal

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Dirty Rotten $^#&$&!

Is there anything more dishonest or crooked than an insurance company?

Had a situation where a credit needs to be issued after canceling a policy.

Automatic withdrawal for another policy, also canceled. Like $30 maximum. But, oh they withdrew that. Coming to them.

But there is no sign of the credit. The Broker is checking on it, they may have issued a cheque, she said.

Unreal

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They will get it done !

Against all odds!

The work continues to make Chris's dream a reality.

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In Loving Memory