Not sure how I missed this interview and the important information in it but here are something about season seven and eight.
“Season 7 is actually a melding of Books 6, 7 and 8,” Davis says. “It is unbelievably supersized, and we did have to change some stuff. We had these four episodes that really close out last season and Book 6. But when you are opening a new season, the energy is different and our trajectory is different. So we kind of had to alter them. Then we worked our way into the next two books.”
Davis also confirms the eighth and final season will focus almost exclusively on Gabaldon’s ninth and newest book, “Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone.”
“Season 8 will be all Book 9 pretty much,” she says. “We might bring in some stuff that we didn’t do in Books 7 and 8. But it will mostly be us doing Book 9.”
But the ninth book isn’t the conclusion of Gabaldon’s novels, so the show will have to put its own period on the story. Even though work has only recently started on Season 8, Davis isn’t dismissing the possibility they could return someday to properly adapt whatever happens in Gabaldon’s subsequent books.
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I find the idea that they could, “return someday to properly adapt whatever happens,” very intriguing. I mean I don’t know why they are cancelling the show other than that they don’t have anymore source materials so is it a cancellation just so they can do that now popular thing of bringing back a previously cancelled show? Maybe. Maybe not. I’m just glad they aren’t taking liberties and doing whatever they want.
