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Fnkema2·7/26/2019 in General

What elements of the books should S5 include?

***Potential spoilers if you haven’t read beyond book 4****

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I’m pretty sure that I read somewhere recently that Ron Moore had said that they wouldn’t necessarily limit themselves to just including in S5 what was in the next book (The Fiery Cross). This got me to thinking about what elements of the stories I would include in the next series..Here are my first thoughts…

Roger & Bree’s wedding
maybe something at Jocasta’s (her wedding?) to include something about the Frenchman’s gold
the Battle of Alamance - to factor in Roger’s throat and introduce William Buccleigh MacKenzie for later...
Jamie and the snake - surely they’ve got have the scenes between him and Roger; Claire making love to him to stop him dying; and Jamie finally breaking down when everyone leaves and once he realises he’s going to survive, leg intact.
End series with Claire’s kidnap and rape from Book 6!! This could then echo the end of S1 and Jamie’s tape at the of BJR...

it it might just be my impatience to see subsequent books filmed but I’d love to see this.

I’m sure there are lots of scenes and necessary bits of information that would need to be factored in as well that might make this not possible but this is my first stab at it... what do you reckon?

(Edited by Fnkema2)

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GadjanovD·7/29/2019

I do not think they should mix the books. Book 6 should be in Season 6.

Book 5 shows the history of the revolution - so the dealings with the Indians, the atrocities Jamie and Roger found, the scenes b/n Jamie and Roger bonding before the snake episode, the political gatherings...etc...........I am not sure why you would put a ? next to Jocasta's wedding........it should be a whole episode........there is mistery, emotions, the gold (the issue of which is not resolved in book 8 still), the new characters who may become enemies to the Frasers, some intimate scenes the aftermath of which shows Jamie's character in an unusual light....so much more that the happenings of B6 are much better suited for S6.

There is also a lot to show b/n Brianna and Roger, the development of their relationship, his decision to help and become a minister.........then there are Claire's medical experiments........and Brianna's engineering improvements........

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Markruss73·8/3/2019

Book 5 is my least favorite of the books, really, so it makes sense that they will have to take liberties with the scripts. The Gathering is obvious, but needs to be shortened. The Regulators (with Murtagh) and Alamance/Rodger is another obvious. Jocasta’s wedding, for sure, and issues surrounding the gold. I think that the last 25% of the book could make up the bulk of the episodes. Book 6 has so much action that it should be a season of its own and should probably have more episodes.

What do you think?