Time travelling is freaky enough, but to see your husband's doppelganger that's understandably confusing. Viewers of 'Outlander' see lot of this in Caitriona Balfe's character Claire Randall in the first half of season 1 and that's apparently ends when the show comebacks on April 4. Starz released new posters that both show Claire is holding a dagger. Does this dagger means just a defense from Black Jack (Tobias Menzies) or a stand for her love for Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan)?
Compared to Outlander's initial poster Claire was an image of lost woman and inclined to go back to her first husband Frank Randall in World War II. That's possibly not what we can expect from Claire starting from episode 9 as she looks fighting back to Frank's lookalike ancestor Black Jack in new poster .
On the show last episode entitled 'Both Sides Now,' Claire was almost connecting back to Frank but she's caught and nearly raped by Black Jack. Though her second husband Jamie saved her from him, more or less viewers can expect that Black Jack is set to torment the heroine. In his interview with The Wrap, Menzies shared his thoughts about his characters Frank and Black Jack.
"We do some stuff in Episode 8, where we depart from the book and go back to Frank and see what's been happening in the months since Claire disappeared. We see quite a different person. Somebody who's been crossed by recent events and is sort of losing his control, so we do get a few moments where we do get a bit of Jack in Frank. We've tried to play a bit with the kind of ancestral mirroring down the years, which has been quite fun. Hopefully there will be moments where Jack softens and we'll see a bit of Frank in him," Menzies told The Wrap.
In TCA Press Tour, Heughan and Balfe divulged that Outlander will be intense and darker. Apart from what she went through in the past episodes, it also seems that Claire would also needs to endure Jamie's beating and self-struggle as well.
"In the second part of the season, there is a lot more about Jamie. He's finding his place in the world. He has new responsibilities. He's got to deal with relationships he'd rather not deal with - his sister, his dead father. We start to see his stubborn side, his pride. He's less idealistic. We start to see the chinks in the armor. He's very vulnerable and he learns a lot," Sam said.
Going back to Tobias' interview with The Wrap, the 40-year old actor shared that he's aware that Outlander is being compared to his other famous show 'Game of Thrones.' With this he commented that the edge of his show with Heughan and Balfe' is it strong heroine.
"We're all pretty flattered to be compared to that show, it's obviously a success and a great piece of TV. For my money though, they're very different beasts. It's a little bit apples and oranges. What is interesting about 'Outlander' is that what you do have at the head of it is a very strong female character. The palette of characters in 'Outlander' is much more narrow than 'Game of Thrones,' which has more of a scale of characters and is a significantly more ambitious world," Menzies said.
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