‘Outlander’ Season 3 Features Jamie-Claire Reunion, Challenges of Rekindling Romance after Separation for Centuries

‘Outlander’ season 3 is set to feature a reunion between Jamie and Claire. The two will face the challenges of rekindling their time travel romance after being separated for centuries.

Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) may be separated by at most 200 years but this will not mean that their love story has come to an end. According to Vulture, Claire will endure an unstable relationship with her modern-day husband Frank (Tobias Menzies) while Jamie may have an avenue to explore other women. They will go on to live their lives in different time lines but may meet again in a bittersweet reunion sooner or later.

According to Philly.com, Heughan teased, "There's a lot of challenges to season 3 -- there's a period of time where Jamie and Claire are apart; he thinks that he's lost her, or at least that she's alive and well but in the future, so what is he living for? What sort of man is he now?... She will eventually return, but they're both older.”

Balfe said, "I think what's going to be most exciting is the reunion between Claire and Jamie and them discovering each other again and falling in love all over again.”

She added, “I think both of them have probably held each other up on a pedestal for 20 years, so in many ways, they're going to have to destroy that image first before they can fall in love with the person right in front of them, and that's going to be really interesting. I love the complexity of that, because you can't be in love with a ghost, and Claire is in many ways in love with Jamie's ghost, as Jamie is in love with her ghost, and that's not the people they are when they see each other again."

In season 2’s finale, entitled “Dragonfly in Amber”, Claire is revealed to be pregnant with Jamie’s child but is forced to separate from him to escape danger following complications during the Battle of Culloden. In the present day, Claire discovers that Jamie has survived the battle and plans to travel through the standing stones to find him.

According to Variety, Balfe talked about filming the final farewell between Claire and Jamie saying, “Claire would fight towards the end and she wouldn’t want to leave… I know she has to go to save her child, but she just wouldn’t want to.”

She added, “When we were filming it, I feel like everyone got so swept up in the moment. It’s so sad. These characters are so much a part of us at this point, it was just heartbreaking – how do you let go, how do you say goodbye to someone? It was just awful. I think some of the crew were all misty-eyed, it was great.”

Meanwhile, Brianna (Sophie Skelton) and Roger (Richard Rankin) were also introduced into the story arc with the possibility of the two becoming the incoming season’s new main characters. Claire was forced to tell Brianna (Sophie Skelton) about her father’s true identity to which the latter resist believing.

‘Outlander’ is a British-American science-fiction and historical fiction television series based on the novels by Diana Gabaldon. Starz renewed the show for a third and fourth season last June 2016.