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I recently got a new library card in my hometown, and with the first book in Outlander and the Lord John series, do they go hand in hand in ways, or do I need to read them separately? I can read them through an app called Libby, and I bought the very first Outlander book from a used bookstore for less than buying it online. One big plus is that, if I wanted, I could borrow the first seven Outlander books in a bundle through Libby alone. When's the best way to start reading the Lord John series along with the regular Outlander series?

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I don't know if this was meant to happen in the show, or the books which I haven't read yet, but there are some Shakespearean themes more pronounced either in the titles or the episodes. I was watching an episode of Gilmore Girls, where Rory has to do a part of Romeo and Juliette for a class project with a few other students, and that made me start to think about the episodes that I've noticed very Shakespearean ideas. The episode, "By The Pricking of my Thumbs", Is straight out of the play MacBeth. The other one that I've noticed is in "Dragonfly in Amber" where Jamie murders Dougal, in self defense, but its still a nephew killing his uncle.

I mean, we do have Fergus, his children, young Ian and Emily’s son but that is it for what we have. so here’s the question could we have people from other places and cultures to join the family dynamic? Honestly, for me frankly it’d be nice to have to new blood and ethnicity join the family for example I do see Austin butler as Jeremiah and Adria Arjona as his wife in the future but what do you think? As far as future goes and sequels of the family.

I liked watching the different stories in the different times, but one thing caught my eye in a very strange way. If you've watched Six Degrees with Mike Rowe, then you've probably heard the small story about Ned Kelly. If not, then search him wherever you frequently search things, and then go and watch and look at Dougal when he's younger. There's a strange resemblance there. The stranger part is that Ned Kelly wasn't alive in the early seventeen hundreds. I don't know if that was planned or just how the look for a young Dougal came to be, but it's odd that, to me, he looks like an Australian outlaw. If you've seen part of another show about all kinds of different history, Six Degrees with Mike Rowe, either on HBO Max or Discovery+, then you know more of this story. I also wonder how bad Dougal's reputation already was when this started, because it seems like the clan really respects the older MacKenzie siblings more than Dougal. I did notice that it really doesn't matter how old Dougal is; in the thirty-year difference from when Blood of My Blood starts with Dougal at a younger age, maybe in his twenties, and in the original Outlander, Dougal is just a guy who is extremely violent for no real reason. I also wonder how involved he was with the Jacobite rising in 1715, because it seems like that part of him might be explored again.