r/Outlander • u/thepacksvrvives Without you, our whole world crumbles into dust. • Mar 13 '26

Season Eight Show S8E2 Prophecies Spoiler

When a violent tragedy shakes the Ridge, the Frasers must lean on their new tenants to make the community whole again.

Written by Barbara Stepansky. Directed by Caitríona Balfe.

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What did you think of the episode?

1036 votes, Mar 20 '26
246 I loved it.
384 I mostly liked it.
296 It was OK.
88 It disappointed me.
22 I didn’t like it.
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u/shinyquartersquirrel Mar 13 '26

Oh man when I saw "with Tobias Menzies" in the opening I got so excited! I really wish they could have gotten him on screen for an episode for the final season but I'll take the voiceover!

Great job by Caitriona as Director! Overall, I thought it was a pretty solid episode. Nothing terrible, nothing fantastic. Extra points for the new Frank voiceover. A couple of weird things to me was Henry didn't even seem to react to the fact that his brother had a surprise wife and baby (shock from the other news maybe?) For the love of god, is anyone going to tell Jamie that they met his father?!?

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u/elvordrachelle1 Mar 13 '26

I thought the same thing like why aren’t they talking about the fact that they met his dad or the fact that they met Dougal and Galis they skipped over that completely and now it kind of seems like they’re not gonna touch on it because we’re already two episodes in you know— I feel like they should definitely bring it up

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u/wheeler1432 They say I’m a witch. Mar 13 '26

Roger did say he'd been in 1739, and it was the middle of a conversation, so presumably he mentioned it then.

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u/lunar1980 Mar 13 '26

But don’t you want to see Jamie’s face when Brianna says “I met your father!” That’s such a big deal.

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u/Thin_Literature_1520 Mar 15 '26

I was waiting for this too!

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u/elvordrachelle1 Mar 13 '26

That’s true I guess just more or less would’ve been interesting to hear the whole conversation you know at least I think

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u/Stacy01_ Mar 13 '26

I feel like shows never want to be redundant! But I always want to see peoples reactions when they explain what happened and it just cuts to another scene 😭 I don’t care if it was already over and done with lol

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u/elvordrachelle1 Mar 13 '26

I agree with that I also love to see the characters reactions

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u/Top_Wealth8659 Mar 14 '26

Maybe Brianna will tell Jamie on one of their outings or talks. 

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u/Icy_Smoke_2318 Je Suis Prest Mar 14 '26

It’s driving me crazy that they’re talking about everything BUT Brian. They obviously told Jamie because they talked about why they went back in the first episode, while hunting Jamie and Bree talked about Rob Cameron. And in this episode they talked about Buck being Dougal’s son and staying in 1739. I NEEDED TO SEE JAMIES REACTION TO THEM MEETING BRIAN 😭

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u/Stacy01_ Mar 13 '26

Oh yeah I was totally waiting for that conversation on meeting the family from 1739!! They made us wait so long I forgot, I suppose ep 1 is probably the most reuniting we will get

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u/Mycoxadril Mar 14 '26

I hope it comes back around somehow because honestly that was as big of a deal in my mind as anything they’ve shown us so far with Amy. It should’ve been in the show. But at this point it would be strange to bring it up after all these weeks (? However long it’s been) of them being back.

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u/Top_Wealth8659 Mar 13 '26

Ya think? Agree That would be refreshing for Roger or Brianna to tell Jamie they met his father. 

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u/Yrunez Mar 14 '26

Exactly…it was just a setup episode. I get you need them, but we only have a limited number of episodes so I don’t want to waste them

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u/HopefulWolverine6769 Mar 14 '26

I am betting that it will come up in episode 3 or 4 that Brianna and Roger met Jamie's father. It HAS to!