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  1. Speaking as a writer, that is normal. And hard to avoid. Plots come to you whether you're looking for them or not, and you have to write them down. Your characters have conversations with each other inside your head, unprompted by you. The only way to avoid that would be to turn your brain off. And then you wouldn't be able to write the one book either. The bigger the world, the more potential there is for side stories, not to mention new settings altogether coming to you. That said, Diana Galbadon and George Martin could probably use editors (and I am also an editor; https://fantasy-faction.com/2016/what-a-difference-an-editor-makes) who are willing to help them shave their books down and get to the essentials (and have the hard but necessary conversations with them about what the essentials are). But you have to get the initial, overly detailed paragraph onto the page before it can be shaved down.
  2. Claire's parents. The prequel show Outlander: Blood of My Blood is about both sets of parents. The ninth book in the main series came out only 4 years ago and there's only one more left; I'd be surprised if she didn't finish it.
  3. Oh, I didn't notice that surfgirl said 7 instead of 8. The coming season is Season 8 (10 episodes). The one we just finished watching was Season 7 (16 episodes divided into two halves). The prequel IS based on a book Diana Galbadon is working on. The difference is that the book version has only Brian and Ellen's story, and the showrunners added Julia and Henry's to it.
  4. They don't need to have; he's sneaky enough to be there without them knowing or seeing.
  5. Master Raymond could have heard Claire singing it to Faith and continued to sing it to her.
  6. You're welcome. Yes, Fergus had a whole thing where he was depressed that he wasn't there to protect pregnant Marsali during the Brown attack and thought that was responsible for Henri-Christian being born a dwarf until Claire told him it doesn't work that way, and Fergus remembered the grim fate of the dwarf children used as exotic "mushrooms" at the brothel where he grew up.
  7. I miss them, but on the other hand I wouldn't mind it if Henri-Christian didn't die in the show. I expect that there will be no time travel in the prequel and that anyone expecting it have to time travel will be disappointed, so it couldn't walk this back anyway, as it all takes place before Faith's birth. Yes, Germaine exists in the show. He was born the same time as in the books. He's been around in Fraser's Ridge. He's played with Jemmy. He was part of the group of kids who put Henri-Christian in the water. He and his siblings were mentioned when Jamie visited Laoghaire. Etc.
  8. Psychic powers do exist in Outlander, but I think it's more likely that they'll say Raymond overheard Claire singing it to Faith and he continued singing it to her. To be fair, the show said that Faith lived, not that she's currently alive. If her daughters ended up in a brothel, she probably died in the interim, unless she accidentally got separated from them through the stones. The Gabaldon interview quoted on the previous page of this thread where she mentions the graphic novel she didn't write has her saying that it would have shown that Raymond resuscitated the baby (presumably after she was already buried) but didn't have time to get Faith to Claire and Jamie before they left France. So the intention there wasn't that it was a switch. Hopefully not in the show, either. Because she only started using that power in the latest book. Yes, they altered the picture from Season 1 so the face would resemble Harriet Slater's. The hair still doesn't look red like it should, though. And somehow the picture has lost the pearl necklace that was given to Claire. If we're only talking about the main series, there's only one planned left and she's only 73, so I'll sure she'll get it out before she's 100. Side books are another matter, but people are less anxious about them anyway.
  9. Apparently Diana has said that she didn't want to spend time showing Claire and Jamie raising a child because she finds that boring, hence Claire going back through the stones and the time skip.
  10. Yes, exactly. My Mom for one. There should be a trigger warning for animal death or animal injury.
  11. He still seemed affected by it when he was packing.
  12. No, it was only implied by some of the things in his shop and being able to see auras.
  13. Right. And a short story revealed that Raymond faked the Comte's death because he sensed the Comte was one of his descendants, like Claire and Geillis. My assumption is they got him back because he's going to be in the next season.
  14. It's not just the book, though. There was a preview chapter on the website from Fanny's perspective that ended on the revelation her mother's name was Faith (it was the last word of the preview). So that would have gotten people talking before the book was released. "Killed"?
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